Thursday, February 3, 2022

Thursday Links

On a cool rainy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, as the omicron coronavirus variant winds down, President Biden's strategy stays the same.

From FrontpageMag, those who ban books that they disagree with are free speech advocates for books that they agree with.

From Townhall, did young Biden voters really think that their student loans would be forgiven?

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Tim Ryan (D-OH) took thousands of dollars in campaign funds from Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) days after attacking him.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) wants to break up Meta, and gets support from some Republicans.

From The Federalist, we need more "suave" conservatives to call out male bovine waste from the media.

From American Thinker, Biden's policies on oil and gas aren't treason, are they?

From CNS News, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, Biden uses an outdated word.

From LifeZette, Russian President Putin takes advantage of Biden's weakness.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, according to leaked documents, Biden was unprepared for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, bad government results in bad inflation.

From Canada Free Press, is there a risk of a Tiananmen Square coming to Ottawa, Canada?

From TeleSUR, according to a survey, 57 percent of Peruvians support changing their constitution.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is just the latest wrong person to be the U.K.'s prime minister.

From Free West Media, European right-wing parties such as Fidesz (Hungary) and Vox (Spain) set up a joint office in Brussels.

From EuroNews, Northern Ireland's first minister Paul Givan resigns.

From Euractiv, gas flows eastward from Germany to Poland through the Russian Yamal-Europe pipeline.

From ReMix, what happened to Italian center-right politician Matteo Salvini?

From Balkan Insight, police in Kosovo arrest and then release a cameraman who was filming the eviction of a privatized company.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is elected to the African Union's Peace and Security Council.

From The New Arab, as U.S. forces close in, the leader of ISIS blows himself and his family up.

From NBC News, more on the suicide of the ISIS leader.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to acting Chamber of Commerce head Mohammad Younus Mohmand, Afghanistan is moving from a false to a real economy.  (This site showed nothing but a blank page yesterday, but seems to be operating normally today, so I have included one of its articles for today's list.)

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan starts a four-day visit to China.

From The Express Tribune, in the province of Balochistan, Pakistani troops send at least 10 terrorists to their virgins.

From Pakistan Today, the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board is ready to receive two leopard cat cubs confiscated from a man who was allegedly trying to illegal sell them.  (Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan.)

From The Hans India, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled for launch in August.

From the Hindustan Times, up to 27 Muslims are denied entry into a college in the Indian state of Karnataka because they wore hijabs.

From ANI, the Indian Ministry of Education issues advisories about reopening schools, with each state making its final decision.

From India Today, according to Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra, no one should be sent home from school for practicing their religion.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission raises the price of liquefied petroleum gas.

From New Age, Bangladesh extends its coronavirus measures until February 21st.

From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructs Sri Lankan officials to educate farmers on the use of organic fertilizers.

From the Daily Mirror, 480 Sri Lankan army officers and 8,034 other troops are promoted on the country's Independence Day.

From Raajje, Maldivian First Lady Fazna Ahmed inaugurates a dive event in which former military dive instructor Shafraz Naeeem will spend 50 consecutive hour under water.  (This diver thus gets the "badass" label.)

From The Straits Times, a man who acted as lookout during an armed robbery gets two years in jail and six strokes of the cane.

From Free Malaysia Today, over 1,200 Malaysian medical assistant officers get a contract extension.

From the Borneo Post, police in Chuping, Malaysia find 350 kilos of ketum leaves in a car which crashed into a tree, and detain its driver.

From Vietnam Plus, the ancient village of Duong Lam, which is within Hanoi, Vietnam, becomes the first of its kind to be designated a national relic.

From The Mainichi, a group high school students in Hagi, Japan design kimono-style jumpsuits for astronauts on the International Space Station.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden should be ashamed of how he has treated the UAE.

From The Stream, Big Tech won't let us talk about trauma treatment altering sexual attractions.

From The Daily Signal, the Abraham Accords are bringing about some forward steps, and more could follow.

From Space Daily, a new lightweight polymer material produced by MIT chemical engineers is stronger than steel, and the moon will soon get a new crater, thanks to us.

From The American Conservative, how Biden should choose his nominee for the Supreme Court.

From The Western Journal, as Facebook loses users for the first time ever, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg loses billions of dollars.

From BizPac Review, according to congresscritter AOC (D-NY), it's "not really a mystery" why speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) and Congress won't ban themselves from trading stocks.

From The Daily Wire, Pelosi warns American athletes against speaking out or protesting while in China for the Winter Olympics.  (I didn't realize that her job description included that sort of thing.  The story links to an article by Bloomberg, which is warning me that my "monthly limit of free content is about to expire".  This is rather dismaying, since the current month has been around for only three days.)

From the Daily Caller, the White House slams the U.S. Postal Service's decision to buy more gasoline-powered vehicles.

From the New York Post, rescue workers in northern Morocco dig for a second straight day to rescue a young boy trapped in a well.  (Yesterday, I linked an article from Morocco World News about this event.  A similar incident happened in the U.S. in 1987 involving an 18-month-old girl named Jessica McClure who fell down a well in Midland, Texas.)

From Breitbart, New Jersey state Senator and former trucker Ed Durr, who defeated the state Senate president in an election last year, expresses his support for the Canadian "Freedom Convoy".

From Newsmax, a Democrat-led panel of the Virginia state Senate kills two pieces of education-related legislation sought by Governor Glenn Youngkin (R), including one restricting CRT.

And from the Genesius Times, racist Canadian truck drivers break store windows, loot the stores, and set cars on fire.

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