On a Thursday that has been mild enough to allow me to wander around the neighborhood pond, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Governor Glenn Youngkin's (R) efforts to make face masks optional in schools gains in the Virginia Senate.
From FrontpageMag, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claims that the Supreme Court was all white until 1981, apparently having overlooked Justice Thurgood Marshall. (He thus gets the "stupid people" label, either for actually forgetting about Justice Marshall, or for thinking that the American people have forgotten about him and will thus let Schumer get away with his omission.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, the 10 most absurd excuses for Democrats being caught not waring masks.
From the Washington Examiner, President Biden brings checkers to China's game of chess.
From American Thinker, the shooting death of Amir Locke by a SWAT team is a reminder what no-knock police raids are unconstitutional.
From American Thinker, the Capitol Police have been weaponized against Republicans.
From CNS News, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has no problem with free trade with China. (Although it's been 10 years since he ran for president, I still get to use the "Romney" label.)
From LifeZette, former Vice President Pence stands up to former President Trump.
From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Russian President Putin is still using the salami strategy. (via LifeZette)
From NewsBusters, a study shows over 800 cases of Big Tech censorship in the coronavirus debate.
From Canada Free Press, America's "death of love" and "love of death".
From TeleSUR, Brazilian Attorney General Augusto Aras orders the investigation of lawmaker Kim Kataguiri for allegedly advocating Nazism.
From TCW Defending Freedom, Putin's real goal is curbing NATO. (I'm pretty sure that the inclusion of some old Soviet satellite countries and three former Soviet republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - into NATO really gets Putin's goat.)
From Snouts in the Trough, are the U.K.'s chief scientific advisors really left-wing freedom-hating government control freaks? (The article's date is February 8th, but it is also labeled a "Wednesday/Thursday blog", which two days would be today and tomorrow.)
From Free West Media, German Interior Minister Nancy Faesar a massive influx of migrants.
From EuroNews, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary will accept no more NATO troops on its soil.
From Euractiv, the E.U. gets the short stick while China plays the long game.
From ReMix, as the Slovak parliament debates a new defense treaty with the U.S., a hockey game breaks out.
From Balkan Insight, Montenegrins search for an escaped lion cub in the coastal town of Budva. (If you're in Montenegro and tink you taw a putty tat, please let the country's environmental protection officials know.)
From Allah's Willing Executioners, at the Church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, the choir recites the first verse of the Koran.
From The North Africa Post, former Algerian army chief and Defense Minister Khaled Nezzar will stand trial in Switzerland for alleged "war crimes".
From The New Arab, in western Iraq, four people are killed in an explosion of a bomb believed to have been planted by ISIS terrorists.
From Dawn, high-level Pakistani army personnel are briefed about recent incidents in the province of Balochistan.
From The Express Tribune, according to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan wants to have a broad-based and multidimensional relationship with the U.S.
From Pakistan Today, the Election Commission of Pakistan disqualifies Senator Faisal Vawda as a member of the country's National Assembly for concealing his dual nationality.
From NDTV, a court in the Pakistani province of Sindh sentences a Hindu college teacher to life in prison for blasphemy.
From The Hans India, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, a lack of decisive leadership by earlier Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru delaying the "liberation" of Goa. (Goa is a state in modern India. Unlike the rest of the subcontinent, Goa was not colonized by the U.K., but by Portugal, which held onto it until 1961, the rest of India having become independent in 1947. Nehru was the father of Indira Gandhi, who also served as India's prime minister.)
From the Hindustan Times, Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar embarks on a visit to the Philippines and Australia.
From ANI, over 10 million Indian teenagers aged 15 to 18 have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. (The article uses the term "1 crore". In the Indian numbering system a crore equals 10 million.)
From India Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicts that his party will win with "an overwhelming majority" in this year's Indian Assembly elections.
From the Dhaka Tribune, a surprising reason is found for factory fires in Bangladesh.
From New Age, Bangladesh and Greece sign a memorandum of understanding for sending workers from the former to the latter.
From the Colombo Page, the Magistrate's Court in Colombo, Sri Lanka orders the release of a man detained in connection with a hand grenade found in a church in the suburb of Borella.
From the Daily Mirror, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa claims that local and foreign forces are trying to overthrow the Sri Lankan government.
From Raajee, newly elected Maldivian parliamentcritters are sworn in.
From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration and the E.U. go Sergeant Schulz on Iran's increasing persecution of religious minorities.
From The Straits Times, are Singaporeans allowed to travel to Australia?
From Free Malaysia Today, in Shah Alam, Malaysia, what was thought to be the dead body of a girl turns out to be a wax doll.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian Cabinet agrees on subsidies for poultry farmers.
From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam welcomes almost 9,000 foreign tourists under a pilot program started last November.
From The Mainichi, business and education leaders from the U.S. and Europe urge Japan to end its coronavirus-related entry ban.
From The Stream, the coronavirus might be on its way out, but tyranny is contagious.
From The Daily Signal, ineligible labor unions reportedly received over $36 million in coronavirus relief loans.
From Space War, Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to visit Poland after the U.K. promised to send 350 more troops to Poland's border with Belarus. (I hope that he is welcomed with this song.)
From The American Conservative, lightening the load on the truckers.
From The Western Journal, those faulting TV podcaster Joe Rogan for his past use of the N-word will find that it also came out of the mouth of another man named Joe.
From BizPac Review, a Freedom Convoy trucker blasts the left-wing media for being "out to get us", and argues that "maybe that's the cult".
From The Daily Wire, social media "erupts" in response to the Biden administration's plan to hand out crack pipes to achieve "racial equity".
From the Daily Caller, Fox News host Tucker Carlson gives an "epic" monologue about the Biden administration's plan to hand out crack pipes, and gives First Son Hunter Biden a shout-out.
From AP News, Sweden ends coronavirus testing, even for people with symptoms. (via the Daily Caller)
From the New York Post, according to a New York State Supreme Court judge, Governor Kathy Hochul (D) needs to answer a subpoena relating to a cannabis company merger.
From Breitbart, congresscritter Ronny Jackson (R-TX) doubles down on his call for President Biden to get a cognitive test.
From Newsmax, according to Dr. Fauci, the U.S. is leaving the "full-blown" phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
And from the Genesius Times, in a new program, the Biden administration offers $30 million in grants to unload Hunter's crack pipes.
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