As we reach the end of the year's shortest month, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Russian President Putin "gets more than he bargained for" in his invasion of Ukraine.
From FrontpageMag, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not World War II or III, but more like World War I.
From Townhall, how some liberals are sprinkling the coronavirus into their praise of the Ukrainian people.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Con) faces ethics complaints over his stock trades.
From the Washington Examiner, the invasion of Ukraine has not been good for Russia's economy.
From The Federalist and the "don't hold your breath" department, people who voted for candidate Biden owe the rest of their fellow Americans an apology.
From American Thinker, "an American in Iraq" finds the place different from what he expected.
From CNS News, according to Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova, her country is ready for peace talks, but not surrender.
From LifeZette, an update on the war in Ukraine.
From NewsBusters, the hosts of CBS Mornings tells Senator Chris Coons (D-Del) that they want a quick confirmation for SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
From Canada Free Press, liberals want to destroy God, sin and judgment.
From CBC News, the Canadian province of Ontario is set to introduced legislation that would give gig workers a $15/hour minimum wage.
From Global News, Ontario extends its anti-blockade police powers for two more weeks.
From CTV News, according to Premier Doug Ford, Ontario is not far away from dropping its mask mandates. (Looks like I've picked on one province for a hat trick.)
From TeleSUR, according to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, media coverage of migration out of his country encourages an invasion of his country.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the coronavirus lockdown enforcers have gotten away with it.
From the Express, U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will hit 3 million Russian firms with sanctions.
From the Evening Standard, the energy company Shell exits from its joint ventures with the Russian oil company Gazprom.
From the (U.K.) Independent, a man is charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found near Biggar, Scotland in 2005.
From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish take off their masks.
From the Irish Examiner, an Irish garda is assaulted and doused with gasoline in a "vicious" and "disturbing" attack.
From VRT NWS, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo convenes his inner cabinet to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
From The Brussels Times, permits are granted for the construction of a gas-fired power plant in Manage, Belgium, in the commune of Wallonia. (Belgium is divided into three communes. These are Wallonia, which is French-speaking; Flanders, which is Flemish-speaking; and the city of Brussels, which is officially bilingual. Flemish is either a dialect of Dutch or a language similar to Dutch, depending on which lingual school you wish to believe. If you read French, read the story at RTBF.)
From the NL Times, 50 asylum seekers from Ukraine arrive in the Netherlands.
From Dutch News, the Dutch party Volt expels parliamentcritter Nilüfer Gündoğan.
From Deutsche Welle, Russia's invasion of Ukraine results in "major" German policy changes.
From Free West Media, German politicians appear determined to wreck their country's economy.
From the CPH Post, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen confirms that Denmark will send anti-tank missiles to the Ukrainian army.
From Polskie Radio, the Polish army will reportedly acquire more high-tech drones.
From Radio Prague, Czech volunteers create a centralized website to help Ukraine.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia closes its airspace to Russian planes, but has not yet decided on whether to expel Russian diplomats.
From Daily News Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary will not send soldiers or weapons into Ukraine.
From Hungary Today, Hungary will allow refugees from Ukraine to use passenger trains free of charge from the city of Záhony to the capital Budapest. (I you read German, read the story at Ungarn Heute. If you read Hungarian, read the Hungarian railway's announcement.)
From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary has not objected to sanctions against Russia.
From EuroNews, according to the Ukrainian navy, the border guards on Zmiinyi Island are still alive and have been "captured by the Russian occupiers".
From Euractiv, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša gets a suspended sentence for an "insulting" Tweet which he posted in 2016.
From Balkan Insight, volunteers from Croatia head to Ukraine. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Dnevnik and related stories at Dnevnik, Vecernji List and RTL.)
From The North Africa Post, Royal Air Maroc flights to evacuated Moroccans from Ukraine will reserve some seats for Mauritanian students.
From The New Arab, Syrians from the Golan Heights protest in Nazareth, Israel over a plan to build bird choppers in their area.
From i24 News, the Taliban bans people from leaving Afghanistan as they conduct a security sweep.
From OpIndia, the Ad-din Sakina Medical College in Bangladesh requires all female students, including non-Muslim women, to wear the hijab.
From Al Jazeera, a video published by the National Guard of Ukraine appears to show members of a far-right volunteer unit coating bullets with pig fat for use against Chechens.
From AP News, in Somaliland, FGM "cutters" go door to door due to the coronavirus. (Somaliland is a breakaway region in Somalia, roughly corresponding to the part of that country which was once colonized bv the U.K.)
From the Daily Trust, Islamic State of West African Province terrorists kill at least 25 people in the Nigerian village of Sabon-Gari. (The last 5 stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)
From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden should reverse his decision to oppose the EastMed gas pipeline.
From The Stream, an interactive exhibit on the Shroud of Turin will be featured at the Museum of the Bible, but is the Shroud authentic?
From Space War, the U.K. lets in more refugees from Ukraine and rejects Russia's nuclear threat.
From Space Daily, how to catch an object tumbling through space.
From The American Conservative, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) prepares himself for the national stage.
From The Daily Signal, according to national security expert KT McFarland, President Putin won't stop with Ukraine.
From RedState, the government's guide to surviving a nuclear explosion includes coronavirus precautions.
From The Western Journal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki points out that the Biden administration will double down on its policies favoring renewable energy and against oil.
From BizPac Review, Florida Democrats beg the aforementioned Governor DeSantis for a comment in Ukraine, which backfires.
From The Daily Wire, Biden returns the White House after spending the weekend in Delaware and ignores questions about a possible nuclear threat.
From the Daily Caller, as the fences are restored around the Capitol ahead of Biden's SOTU speech, Humvees are deployed.
From the New York Post, Hunter Biden's best friend Devon Archer is sentenced to more than a year in prison for his role in a plot to defraud a Native American tribe.
From Breitbart, according to a poll, Democrats have lost their historic advantage in handling education.
From Newsmax, according to a poll, over half of Americans view Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) negatively.
And from The Babylon Bee, Biden cancels hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson because we already know her race and gender. (I understand that according to some people, she shares both traits with God.)
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