Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Stories For The Ides Of March

On the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar, as you eat your Caesar salad (which is not named after the famous Roman or anyone in his family, but after the Italian immigrant and restauranteur Caesar Cardini), here are some things going on:

From National Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) versus Disney is the strongest signal that he will run for president in 2024, no matter what former President Trump does.

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration sends the "20th 9/11 hijacker" from GITMO to Saudi Arabia for "mental health" treatment.

From Townhall, USA Today announces its "Women Of The Year" awards, one recipient thereof being a woman in the Caitlyn Jenner sense.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) helped President Biden to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, but is now campaigning on U.S. energy independent.

From the Washington Examiner, the attitude of Democrat congresscritters about executive orders seems to depend on who's making them.

From The Federalist, two years after the coronavirus lockdowns, the West's troubles are not ending but just beginning.

From American Thinker, the lessons that should have been learned from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, but weren't.

From CNS News, the terrorist group in charge of Afghanistan has trouble maintaining pressure on another terrorist group in that country.

From LifeZette, Russian media talking heads call for the public executions of Ukrainians.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, according to TV host Bill Maher, the media has been wrong about the coronavirus many times.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, how do you like the New World Order?  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to right-wing commentator Brent Bozell, the news media are too arrogant to admit when they're wrong.

From Canada Free Press, Biden doesn't care if Ukraine wins the war.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador expects to make lots of money this year by producing oil.

From TCW Defending Freedom, as seen from a man fired from Radio LBC for questioning the wisdom of booster shots, how government actions on the coronavirus echo the war on terror.

From Free West Media, according to Ukrainian parliamentcritter Ilya Kiva, President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to a hospital was faked.

From EuroNews, the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark is vandalized again.

From Euractiv, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia make a surprise visit to Kyiv.

From ReMix, police arrest two migrants who had Ukrainian passports for allegedly raping a female refugee from Ukraine in Düsseldorf, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, in a closing statement at the trial of the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans' Organisation accuses the court at The Hague of selective justice.

From Gatestone Institute, has Russia been sending money to Western environmentalists?

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company Sound Energy signs an agreement under which it will be able to connect to the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline.

From The New Arab, pilgrims from Gaza go to Mecca to perform an Umrah.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan challenges the media, economists and opposition parties to debate the performance of his government.

From The Express Tribune, according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, not even a million people can prevent the upcoming no-confidence vote from taking place.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf, India's "dismissive" stance on its accidentally fired missile is "worrisome".

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with the stakeholders of "Operation Ganga" under which about 23,000 Indians and 147 others were evacuated from Ukraine.

From the Hindustan Times, as the U.N. meets about Islamophobia, Indian representative T.S. Tirumurti asks about phobias against Hindus and Sikhs.

From ANI, the governor of the Indian state of Goa is urged to not include MLAs facing criminal charges into his cabinet.

From India Today, the Indian state of Kerala plans to promote itself as the ideal destination for wedding tourism.

From OpIndia, Islamists target a transwoman who converted from Islam to Hinduism.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh records zero deaths from the coronavirus in a single 24-hour period, the first since last December 9th.

From New Age, high schools and colleges in Bangladesh have gone back to normal after two years.

From Raajje, according to Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid, the Maldivian government is committed to work with the Commonwealth "to deliver a common future".

From The Straits Times, experts call for Singaporean authorities to relax the country's travel restrictions.

From Free Malaysia Today, parliamentcritter Kasthuri Patto asks why foreign soccer players can become naturalized Malaysian citizens in 5 years while children born in Malaysia are denied citizenship.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Fisheries Department finds alleged porcine DNA contamination of squid rings to be greatly exaggerated.

From Vietnam Plus, Hanoi, Vietnam will reopen its public spaces on March 18th.

From The Mainichi, a 78-year-old Japanese man who grew up on the island of Sakhalin and later moved to Ukraine has reached Poland and plans to fly back to Japan.  (Japan took the southern half of Sakhalin from the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.  The USSR took it back toward the end of World War II.  If my math is correct, the man would have been born in 1943 or 1944, during which southern Sakhalin was Japanese territory.)

From The Stream, a "dirty dozen list" of mainstream entities that perpetuate sexual exploitation.

From The Daily Signal, the University of Texas receives an overdue pushback from its insistence on critical race theory and ideological conformity.

From The American Conservative, what makes a person protest in front of the house of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesdays?

From The Western Journal, the woke mob turns against director Jane Campion.

From BizPac Review, a conservative reporter promises legal action after allegedly being roughed up by a staffer for gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) and by a cop.

From The Daily Wire, the Catholic diocese in the Mexican state of Sinaloa makes restrictions on pro-choice politicians.

From the Daily Caller, police in Florida arrest a mother and her 14-year-old daughter after a "kill list" is found on the teenager's phone.

From the New York Post, Customs and Border Protection agents apprehend 123 Haitian migrants after their sailboat runs aground off the Florida Keys.

From Breitbart, Russia imposes sanctions on President Biden, his son Hunter, and other American politicians including former First Lady/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

From Newsmax, Trump weighs in on the Russian sanctions against Biden.

From CNBCoil prices decrease from their recent high.  (via Newsmax)

And from The Babylon Bee, Adam and Eve tell God that Vladimir Putin made them eat the forbidden fruit.

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