Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Tuesday Tidings

On a sunny but cold Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden's latest tax folly.

From FrontpageMag, there's no justice for Christian women in Egypt.

From Townhall, a recent poll about Hunter Biden's laptop shows why the left-wing media censored the story in 2020.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how one left-wing prosecutor paved the way for a shooting spree on the East Coast.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden's proposed "billionaire minimum income tax" faces obstacles in Congress ahead of the midterm elections.

From The Federalist, can former President Trump win his lawsuit against former Secretary of State/Senator (D-NY) Hillary Clinton and the DNC?

From American Thinker, has Biden ever been competent?

From CNS News, Republicans in some states "even the score on girls' sports".

From LifeZette, a school district in Wisconsin hates parents.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, actor Will Smith breaks his silence on his slap of comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, economist Paul Krugman of The New York Times still doesn't "understand what the [bleep] has been going on" with inflation.

From Canada Free Press, arrest the real Russian stooge, whose first name is Hillary.

From TeleSUR, researchers in Ecuador discover two new species of "glass frog".  (Kermit will surely be pleased with this development.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, author J.K. Rowling is "Hitlered" by the BBC.  (Is "Hitler" now a verb?)

From Snouts in the Trough, when one member of the African-American Philosophers Society strikes another.

From City A.M., U.K. parliamentcritter Imran Ahmad Khan (Conservative-Wakefield, West Yorkshire) goes on trial for alleged sexual assault against a then-teenage boy.

From ReMix, Hungary's governing Fidesz-Christian Democrat coalition has a five percent lead in the polls over the joint six-party opposition with elections a week away.

From Russia Today, Russia expels 10 diplomats from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in retaliation for the three countries expelling Russian diplomats.

From Sputnik International, Biden appears to admit that U.S. troops trained Ukrainian troops in Poland.

From The Moscow Times, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands expel dozens of Russian diplomats.

From EuroNews, peace talks between Russia and Ukraine make their "most meaningful progress" so far.

From Romania-Insider, Romania depends on Russian energy less than the E.U. average, but still for a significant amount.

From Novinite, a Bulgarian education platform provides books in Ukrainian for refugee children from Ukraine.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Defense Minister Dragomir Zakov, Bulgaria's multinational battle group is expected to be ready in two months.

From Radio Bulgaria, in just one day, 2,800 more Ukrainians seek protection in Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Guinean refugee Saidu Kamara, who faces deportation.

From Ekathimerini, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls the U.S. naval base at Souda Bay on the Greek island of Crete an "important spot on the global map".

From the Greek City Times, Greece becomes the most popular travel destination for Serbs in 2022.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian parliamentcritter Alqi Bllako is wanted for allegedly accepting bribes.

From Total Croatia News, Economy Minister Tomislav Ćorić expects fuel prices in Croatia to decrease next week.

From Total Slovenia News, a large forest fire continues to burn near Preddvor, Slovenia.

From The Slovenia Times, Prime Minister Janez Janša (Slovenia) and Andrej Plenković (Croatia) discuss cooperation on gas and nuclear energy.

From The Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela holds meetings with his closest advisors ahead of forming his newest cabinet.

From Malta Today, Malta's Labour Party vacate their parliamentary seats in the country's 9th district, giving candidate Rebecca Buttigieg a seat.  (I don't know if she's related to a certain member of the U.S. cabinet.)

From ANSA, a man is arrested for allegedly murdering his ex-girlfriend, whose chopped-up body was found in bags.

From SwissInfo, sales of Swiss chocolate increased in 2021 after declining in 2020.

From France24, who are French "far-right" presidential candidate Éric Zemmour's supporters?

From RFI, hunters in France seize the country's upcoming election as an opportunity to defend their cause.

From Free West Media, according to a survey, over half of the French people believe at least one of Russia's claims about the origin of the war in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, French presidential candidates agree on raising the threshold for France's inheritance tax, but differ by how much it should be raised.

From El País, why Russia failed to secure a quick victory in its invasion of Ukraine.

From The Portugal News, are the Portuguese ready for a four-day work week?

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. commends Moroccan King Mohammed VI's "ambitious reform" agenda.

From The New Arab, according to a Saudi diplomat, Saudi Arabia wants "serious steps" from the Houthi rebels in Yemen on a potential prisoner exchange.

From Union of Catholic Asian News, Indonesia's top Muslim clerical body tells Islamic groups to respect non-Muslims during Ramadan.

From Gatestone Institute, is the U.S. pretending that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization?

From The Stream, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) fires a pastor appointed to serve on his educational policy panel because of her biblical beliefs.  (What is this "prohibition on religious tests for public office" that you speak of?)

From HistoryNet, Bob Hope's daughter writes a book about his letters and experiences in World War II.

From ITR Economics, economic forecasts during wartime.

From Space War, how Germany, shaken by the war in Ukraine, plans to rebuild its military.

From The Daily Signal, another possible unconstitutional tax on wealth.

From The American Conservative, "the Bush-Biden doctrine".  (In this case, "Bush" does not refer to President Bush the Elder, who used the phrase "new world order" before President Biden did, but to President Bush the Younger, a.k.a. "Dubya".)

From The Western Journal, Republican Senators accuse the White House of a "cover-up" as new details about SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are discovered.

From BizPac Review, right-wing journalist Jesse Watters realizes that the slap from Will Smith to Chris Rock at the Oscars was the first time that he has seen the media "cover black-on-black" crime.

From The Daily Wire, actress Whoopi Goldberg has a "whopper" of an excuse for why the Oscars show let Smith stay after he slapped Rock.

From the Daily Caller, comedian Alex Stein attends a city council meeting in Plano, Texas wearing a women's swimsuit and swim cap while claiming to be transgender.

From the New York Post, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) extends proxy voting for her fellow congresscritters despite the coronavirus pandemic winding down.

From Breitbart, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slams left-wingers lying about the recently-passed parental rights bill.

From Newsmax, a woman accused to stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook agrees to stay away from him for three years.

And from The U.S. Sun, a woman gives her husband a cake to celebrate an operation which he underwent.  (via the New York Post)

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