Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden gives a disgraceful speech about voting rights.

From FrontpageMag, Vice President Harris presents a moment recalling President Carter.

From Townhall, according to Dr. Fauci, "just about everybody" will be infected with the omicron coronavirus variant.

From The Washington Free Beacon, 110 Republican lawmakers call on the Biden administration to call off nuclear talks with Iran.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, a majority of voters support keeping the filibuster.

From The FederalistEducation Secretary Miguel Cardona requesting an NSBA letter about parents supposedly being domestic terrorists takes a page from the Russia collusion hoax playbook.

From American Thinker, do we Americans no longer deserve our Constitution?

From CNS News, according to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), the voting bills being considered in Congress are about partisan power, not voting rights.

From LifeZette, "don't confuse good teachers with teachers unions".

From NewsBusters, new Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Kristie Canegallo has a left-wing pro-censorship past.

From Canada Free Press, Dr. Fauci outs himself testifying before Congress.

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Lula de Silva leads in the polls for this year's presidential election.

From TCW Defending Freedom, as more illegal migrants cross the English Channel to the U.K., more of them are age-fakers.

From EuroNews and the "rules are for the little people" department, after admitting that he attended a party during a coronavirus lockdown, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is told to resign.

From Free West Media, a record number of Germans demonstrate against forced coronavirus vaccination.

From the Greek Reporter, a shipwreck off the Greek island of Lefkada is a "monument to the tragedy of migration".

From Ekathimerini, Greece extends its coronavirus measures to January 23rd.

From The Greek City Times, The Times of London now favors the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece.  (The article contains a link to the story in TToL, but you'll have to subscribe in order to read it.)

From Balkan Insight, the Bulgarian government investigates alleged threats to journalists, activists and politicians.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian island of Obonjan needs workers.

From Total Slovenia News, 10 percent of primary students and 16 percent of secondary students in Slovenia are self-isolating due to the coronavirus.

From The Slovenia Times, the mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia and his two sons are acquitted in a tax evasion case.

From The Malta Independent, unions in Malta are angry at rumors that coronavirus vaccination will be made mandatory for certain sectors.

From Malta Today, Malta's Nationalist Party wants mandatory coronavirus vaccine pass rules to be scrapped.

From ANSA, two men are detained for alleged involvement in sexual assaults against women on New Year's Eve in the Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy.

From Italy24News, two Italian parties sink an amendment to coronavirus legislation.

From SwissInfo, the coronavirus pandemic doesn't stop Swiss universities from being popular with international students.

From France24, unions are set to go on a "historic" strike over France's coronavirus rules for schools.

From RFI, French Senators rejects ID checks at restaurants in a debate over coronavirus vaccine passes.

From Euractiv, French parliamentcritters call for more transparency and press unity in the battle against Big Tech.

From ReMix, the French government shuts down another mosque for allegedly supporting Islamic extremism.

From E.U. Observer, French President Emmanuel Macron launches a debate over jihad and blasphemy.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a defendant on trial for alleged helping to plan the Paris terror attacks claims not to be a radical.  (If you read German, read the story at Tapfer im NirgendwoAWE does not link to any French-language sources.)

From El País, why marijuana plantations are proliferating in southern Spain.

From The Portugal News, Loulé, Portugal cancels its Carnival parade due to the coronavirus.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Egypt settle their trade dispute.

From The New Arab, Israeli forces detain Bedouins protesting against land seizures.

From Coconuts Jakarta, an Islamic school teacher in the Indonesian province of West Java on trial for rape faces some severe punishments.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden's budget priorities and the threat from China.

From The Stream, the big guy goes down to Georgia looking for some elections to steal.

From The Daily Signal, why requiring IDs for voters makes sense.

From The American Conservative, why declaring America's mission in Iraq "non-combat" is "a distinction without a difference".

From The Western Journal, Biden lies to Dr. King's family about his role in the civil rights movement.

From BizPac Review, Tom Friedman of The New York Times proposes that Biden boots Vice President Harris as his 2024 running mate and replaces her with congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY).

From The Daily Wire, everything that Biden has said about the omicron coronavirus variant is wrong.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Ken McCarthy (R-Cal) raised a record $11.7 million during the fourth quarter of 2021.

From the New York Post, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calls Biden's voting rights speech "profoundly unpresidential".

From Breitbart, Biden judicial nominee Andre Mathis has had his driver's license suspended three times.

From Newsmax, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) supports a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

And from Fox News, scoring in NFL games makes its biggest decrease in over 40 years.

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