Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

On an unseasonably warm Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden has contempt for the "rules-based order".

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration intends to dump 16,000 Afghan "translators" into Loudoun County, Virginia, most of whom don't speak English.  (For those who don't speak English, how were they employable as "translators"?  If they instead worked for our NATO allies and spoke one of their languages, wouldn't it make more sense for those respective countries to take them in?)

From Townhall, congresscritter and "Squad" member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) will give a response to Biden's upcoming State of the Union speech.

From The Washington Free Beacon, at a "made in America" event, Biden touts a Chinese-backed company.

From the Washington Examiner, the Interior Department delays its oil and gas leasing program after a court rules against the Biden administration's "social cost" tool.

From The Federalist, inflation is caused by our insane deficit spending.

From American Thinker, should Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico be worried?

From CNS News, Colombia decriminalizes abortion through the sixth month of pregnancy, which critics call "savagery".

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, in 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) was right about Russia.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, former President Trump and Russian President Putin are "driven by similar demons".  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is half right about the media.

From Canada Free Press, the new "AR-15 for kids" has the left "shooting intellectual blanks".

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan government supports Russia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "what's in a name" regarding businesses in the U.K.?  (One business discussed in the article is named Albatross Builders, which reminds the author of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  It reminds me of the instrumental hit from the early Fleetwood Mac.)

From Snouts in the Trough, is western Europe governed by "snivelling, spoilt, self-indulgent narcissistic brats"?

From Russia Today, Russia responds to the U.K.'s comment about the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade.

From Sputnik International, U.S. President Biden orders sanctions on certain Nord Stream 2 officials.

From The Moscow Times, some unfounded claims made by the aforementioned President Putin.

From ReMix, what if Russia cuts off the gas it supplies to Poland?

From EuroNews, Ukraine approves a state of emergency.

From Romania-Insider, according to Defense Minister Vasile Dîncu, Romania can take in 500,000 refugees from Ukraine.

From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, Bulgaria is in solidarity with possible E.U. sanctions against Russia.

From The Sofia Globe, a third district drops out of Bulgaria's coronavirus "dark red zone".

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian naval warships conduct exercises in the Black Sea.

From the Greek Reporter and the "accidental archaeology" department, a man in Thessaloniki, Greece finds two Roman-era marble heads in his apartment.

From Ekathimerini, as tensions rise over Ukraine, Greece makes plans for acquiring more natural gas.

From the Greek City Times, the agony of the 100,000 ethnic Greeks in Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, leaders of different faiths in Kosovo unite to oppose same-sex marriage.

From Euractiv, the end of Russia's defense of Kosovo.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian parliament is urged to recognize the Holodomor in Soviet-era Ukraine as genocide.  (The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Ukraine lasting from 1932 to 1933, in which about 3.5 million people died of starvation.)

From Total Croatia News, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša will visit Ukraine for two days starting tomorrow.

From The Slovenia Times, military barracks in the Slovenian cities of Ljubljana and Maribor will be renovated.

From The Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela will forego campaigning tomorrow to attend an E.U. meeting on Ukraine.

From Malta Today, Abela shrugs off criticism of €100 checks.

From ANSA, according to Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Italy will not extend its coronavirus state of emergency.

From Swissinfo, Swiss-made Pilatus aircraft were reportedly used in attacks in Afghanistan.  (These planes are named after a mountain in Switzerland.)

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to start his reelection campaign in the city of Marseille.

From RFI, does France's use of nuclear power guarantee its energy independence?

From Free West Media, France's top-ranked male tennis player suffers health problems after getting a coronavirus vaccine booster shot.

From El País, Volkswagen could lose $155 million due to a fire on a cargo ship carrying its vehicles.

From The Portugal News, workers for the Lisbon, Portugal Metro plan a new strike.

From The North Africa Post, the Canadian province of Quebec is hiring nurses trained in Morocco.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, "stand in solidarity" with the Ukrainian people.

From Mission Network News, Muslim extremists kill a Christian pastor in Southeast Asia.

From Gatestone Institute, why Arabs don't trust the Biden administration.

From The Stream, why Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood loves condoms.

From The American Conservative, "the stoner nation".

From Sino Daily, the Taiwanese government condemns Russia over its actions toward Ukraine, but China calls Taiwan a different issue.

From Space War, how Ukraine is "torn between Russia and the West".

From The Daily Signal, according to Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), the "media need to start showing up" regarding the evidence of spying on candidate and then-President Trump.

From The Western Journal, when asked if he has underestimated President Putin (Russia), President Biden (U.S.) doesn't have an answer.

From BizPac Review, a jailed Freedom Convoy trucker likens Ottawa, Canada police to the "Keystone Cops".

From The Daily Wire, in 2021, the U.S. had its second-best year for gun sales.

From the Daily Caller, Twitter claims to have "accidentally" suspended Ukrainian accounts that were tracking Russian troop movements.

From the New York Post, discontinuing post-game handshakes because of Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard's actions would be absurd.

From Breitbart, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) points out that having a margarita, as suggested by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, will not cure Bidenflation.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice will end a Trump-era program that focused on threats from China.

And from the Genesius Times, whom do you regard as the bigger threat to America, Putin or Biden?

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