Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

On a warm sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden is again blowing it on the coronavirus.

From FrontpageMag, nationalism can be good or bad.

From Townhall, another type of crime is on the rise.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Con) claims to not own any stocks, but his portfolio might show otherwise.

From the Washington Examiner, due to inflation, the Federal Reserve announces its first rate increase in years.

From The Federalist, Biden weakens the border as illegal entries and cartel unrest both increase.

From American Thinker, what if the coronavirus vaccines really aren't?

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) falsely claims that Biden "has not increased the national debt".

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, for the second year in a row, the Biden administration cancels July 4th fireworks at Mount Rushmore.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) versus Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) are a "dumpster match".  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a review of a book about The New York Times has not always been against history's dictators.

From Canada Free Press, why doesn't Biden care if Ukraine wins?

Form CBC News, Canada will end its coronavirus tests for people entering the country.

From Global News, Canada bans Belarusian planes from its airspace.

From CTV News, according to a poll, 80 percent of Canadians support admitting an unlimited number of Ukrainian refugees.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso partially vetoes an abortion law.

From TCW Defending Freedom, due to hypocrisy and hysteria, U.K. children are banned from learning Russian.  (The sign in the article's picture translates to "Russian language".  The second word ЯЗЫК means "language" and is cognate with the Polish word język.)

From the Express, U.K. citizens are given a travel advisory.

From the Evening Standard, Iran releases dual citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, allowing them to return to the U.K.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes to the Gulf states to ask them to produce more oil.  (In other words, he's acting like Biden.)

From the (Irish) Independent, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary denies that his airline increased prices for Ukrainian refugees.

From the Irish Examiner, Ukrainian Ambassador to Ireland Gerasko Larysa complains about the high prices of flights from Poland to Dublin.

From VRT NWS, dust from the Sahara reaches Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, summer vacation for French-speaking students in Belgium gets shorter by two weeks.

From the NL Times, election posters in Bemmel, Netherlands are vandalized with Nazi symbols and other graffiti.

From Dutch News, more Dutch drivers are switching to electric cars.

From Deutsche Welle, why Germany is choosing the U.S.-made F-35 stealth fighter jet.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, after being raped in Düsseldorf, Germany allegedly by a Tunisian and a Nigerian, a female Ukrainian refugee flees to Poland.  (If you read German, read the story at Wochenblick.)

From ReMix, left-wing German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser unveils a 10-point plan to fight "right-wing extremism".

From the CPH Post, Denmark will sign an extradition agreement with the UAE.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda calls for international help amid the influx of refugees from Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala returns from Kyiv and indicates that Ukraine needs more humanitarian aid and weapons.

From The Slovak Spectator, unlike his Czech, Polish and Slovenian counterparts, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger did not go to Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police and volunteers help unite a family of Ukrainian refugees.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Hungary Today, Hungarian radical right-winger György Budaházy is sentenced to 17 years in prison for terrorist activities.

From About Hungary, Prime Minister Orban greets his fellow Hungarians on the anniversary of the revolution of 1848-1849.

From Free West Media, Russia plans to leave the Council of Europe.

From EuroNews, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine is "fighting for the values of Europe".

From Euractiv, French presidential candidates are divided on giving the island of Corsica autonomy.

From Balkan Insight, a famous Albanian singer is among people arrested in Rome for allegedly trafficking drugs.

From The North African Post, Moroccan authorities arrest five suspected extremists affiliated with ISIS.

From The New Arab, more on the dust from the Sahara.

From Michael Smith News, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan convinces the U.N. to designate March 15th as "International Combat Islamophobia Day".

From the HuffPost, more on the aforementioned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe being released from Iran.

From OpIndia, Hindu residents allegedly threatened by Muslims plan to sell their homes in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.

From Gatestone Institute, Arabs give U.S. President Biden a final warning about Iran and its terrorist proxies.

From The Stream, banality, evil, and the aforementioned Senator Romney.  (This blog's "Romney" label keeps on going, 10 years after he ran for president.)

From The Daily Signal, Russia wrongly escapes being suspended from Interpol.

From HistoryNet, did General Westmoreland have a logical strategy in the Vietnam War?

From The American Conservative, civilian control of the federal bureaucracy should be asserted.

From The Western Journal, Biden gives us some more gaffes.

From BizPac Review, businessman Peter Schiff asks if the aforementioned President Zelensky owns a suit.  (Peter Schiff should not be confused with congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal), but with either man, Schiff happens.)

From The Daily Wire, Biden announces a new $800 million aid package for Ukraine.

From the Daily Caller, American consumer spending slows "dramatically" due to inflation and gas prices.

From the New York Post, a Tweet from Vice President Harris mistakenly suggests that Ukraine is a member of NATO.

From Breitbart, according to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), Biden "refuses to stand up to the wokers" with his energy policy.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Americans on both sides of the aisle strongly support sanctions against Russia.

And from Space War, North Korea's latest suspected attempt at launching a missile appears to have experienced some major technical difficulties.

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