Saturday, February 12, 2022

Links For Lincoln's Birthday

On a cool cloudy Saturday, falling on the anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Canadian police move to clear protesting truckers from the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, Michigan, U.S. and Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

From Townhall, according to TV host Bill Maher, Canadian truckers are "not wrong" to be "[bleep]ed off".

From The Washington Free Beacon, although a police officer heroically stops a gunman on the University of Chicago campus, demands to defund the police continue.

From the Washington Examiner, the natural gas industry tells President Biden encourage more gas production in order to avoid an energy crisis like the one now happening in Europe.

From The Federalist, why Lincoln still towers over his modern critics.

From American Thinker, the left doesn't always like green energy.

From CNS News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns Russia that an invasion of Ukraine "would result in a resolute, massive, and united transatlantic response.

From LifeZette, don't bet against Hillary Clinton running for president in 2024, and former Vice President Mike Pence is acting like he will run in 2024.

From NewsBusters, left-wing former TV host Jon Stewart's chickens come home to roost.

From Canada Free Press, "let's roll Canada" leads the way against communism.

From TeleSUR, people in the Dominican Republic call for a strike against high food prices.

From TCW Defending Freedom, you don't have to be Anglican or even Christian to be welcomed at the Church of England's General Synod.

From Free West Media, France's new riot police unit violently repress an anti-vaccine march in Paris.

From EuroNews, the Italian government approves a reform under which politicians will not be allowed move directly into the country's justice system and vice versa.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan embassy in Kiev urges Moroccans in Ukraine to get out.

From The New Arab, six people are killed by Syrian government shelling in the region of Idlib.

From RepublicWorld, Indian parliamentcritter Rubina Khanum warns that anyone "touching our hijab" will lose his hands.

From The Tribune, a student in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir gets an almost perfect score on the Plus II exams is trolled after her picture appears on social media without a hijab.

From Gatestone Institute, does free speech exist in the U.K.?

From The Stream, what should be done about China?

From Space War, the Russian navy launches major drills in the Black Sea.

From The American Conservative, a review of the HBO series Raised By Wolves.  (It appears that we are no longer dancing with wolves, but are being raised by them.)

From the Post Millennial, seven times when the Biden administration called for censorship.

From The Western Journal, after Biden has difficulty identifying the country from which the U.S. withdrew, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) imagines him calling out numbers in Bingo.

From BizPac Review, after a navy admiral claims that First Lady Jill Biden disrupted an Afghanistan evacuation effort, her presidential husband responds.

From The Daily Wire, journalist Glenn Greenwald lays into "censorship culture", recalling evangelist Pat Robertson and then-senatorial wife Tipper Gore.

From the Daily Caller, Los Angeles is accused of hiding its homelessness crisis for Super Bowl weekend.

From Breitbart, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Mayor Mike Bradley accuses the Freedom Convoy truckers of "economic terrorism".

From Newsmax, according to a monitoring firm, there are few signs of any trucker protest taking place around the Super Bowl.  (In my opinion, truckers should leave the Super Bowl alone, because the game and the NFL are not the cause of the problems we Americans are now facing.)

And from the New York Postdozens of yellow-headed blackbirds mysteriously crash to their deaths in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Heraldo De Chihuahua.)

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