Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cloudy and mild Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, how Ron DeSantis (R-FL) got it right and other governors didn't.

From FrontpageMag, should Western Christians keep on appeasing Islam?

From Townhall, a look at the left-wing large and secretive social media army for the 2022 elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, pressure mounts on Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to resign over his ties to a racist beach club.

From the Washington Examiner, the Federal Elections Commission fines former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the DNC over the discredited "dossier" used to smear then-candidate Trump.

From The Federalist, the recent attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia are only the latest in "a decades-long smear campaign", and are very hypocritical.

From American Thinker, former President Trump gets another win, but it really doesn't mean much.

From CNS News, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation will be called "bipartisan" because of one Republican Senator's favorable vote.  (It will be "bipartisan" in way not too different from the "infrastructure" bill, for which 19 Republican Senators and 13 Republican congresscritters voted in favor.)

From LifeZette, alleged Russian asset Pavel Fuks escapes from Ukraine to the UAE.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, actor Jim Carrey says that he was "sickened" by what happened at the Oscars.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, White House reporters refuse to ask White House communications director Kate Bedingfield anything about Hunter Biden.

From Canada Free Press, Marxists are normalizing crime and too many Americans are letting them get away with doing so.

From TeleSUR, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission is satisfied with a report on the concealment of information on the assassination of 43 students in 2014.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how some British people defied death threats and spoke out against the insanity of Net Zero.

From Snouts in the Trough, the Australian government admits that coronavirus vaccines can kill.

From Free West Media, the Hungarian government shuns have a "united" front against Russia.

From EuroNews, Poland says nie to oil imports from Russia.  (The Polish word nie is like the Russian word nyet, but without the final "t".)

From Euractiv, humanitarian aid from the Red Cross can't reach Ukrainian cities where fighting continues.

From ReMix, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "lashes out" at Hungary ahead of its national elections.

From Balkan Insight, ethnic Albanians in Serbia's Presevo Valley fear that their voting rights are being undermined.

From Morocco World News, Morocco calls for structural reforms and peace in the Sahara and Sahel regions of northern Africa.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. government expresses concern over the democratic trajectory in Tunisia.

From the Libyan Express, a U.N. report shows the human rights violations in Libya against detainees and migrants.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a new edition of the book Suleiman the Magnificent is published.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish opposition parliamentcritters criticize a bill from Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party which would increase the penalties for violence against women.  (As far as I can tell, the Turkish parliament is not debating the definition of "woman".)

From Rûdaw, for the third straight time, the Iraqi parliament fails to elect a president for Iraq.

From Armenpress, the Armenian National Assembly will respond to Azerbaijan's declaring Russian dumacritter Mikhail Delyagin to be internationally wanted.  (Since the Russian legislature is called the Duma, its members are dumacritters, which is the equivalent of U.S. congresscritters.)

From Public Radio Of ArmeniaPresident of the European Council Charles Michel is expected to meet with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan next week.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus will send its second batch of humanitarian aid to Ukraine on April 5th.

From The Syrian Observer, Russian soldiers fighting in Syria are reportedly being prepared to be redeployed to Ukraine.

From The961, the female Lebanese judo champion was reportedly forced to lose a match in order to avoid going against an Israeli opponent.

From Arutz Sheva, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tells Israelis licensed to carry guns to do so.

From The Times Of Israel, the terrorist who killed five people in Bnei Brak, Israel had served 30 months in prison for an attempted suicide bombing.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Jews dread the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a surge of violence.

From YNetNews, Palestinian workers are caught on camera illegally entering Israel through a breached fence.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt introduces amendments to its real estate registration law.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi hosts Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Al-Burhan for discussions.

From the Sudan Tribune, according to Sudan's acting Foreign Minister Ali Sadiq, UNITAMS should focus on Sudan's transition instead of politics.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the national defense forces of Ethiopia and Kenya agree to cooperate on security issues.

From the Saudi Gazette, according to Chairman Mohammad Bin Abdullah Elkuwaiz of the Board of Trustees of Saudi Arabia's Financial Academy, over 17,000 trainees have benefitted from its programs.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, women are barred from a soccer match in Mashhad, Iran, even though they had bought tickets, which results in outrage.

From IranWire, will FIFA suspend Iranian soccer in response to the exclusion of ticket-holding women from the match at Mashhad?

From Iran International, according to political observers, President Ebrahim Raisi is unable to reform Iran's economy.

From Khaama Press, Uzbekistan starts constructing a railway which is planned to go through Kabul, Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Voice of America launches a direct-to-home 24/7 television channel for Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, the Afghan government will soon start issuing passports.

From Samaa, a teenager in Lahore, Pakistan allegedly kills his mother for talking to men on the phone.

From OpIndia, a terrorist wearing a burqa throws a gasoline bomb at a CRPF camp in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From The Tribune, a former journalist is among two terrorists sent to their virgins by security forces in Rainawari, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Arab media "blasts" the reported U.S. plan to remove Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its terror list.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Fatah Movement praises the terrorist who carried out the aforementioned attack in Bnei Brak, Israel.  (The last 5 links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration is harming U.S. interests, according to Arabs.

From The Stream, the Democratic Party is systematically and intentionally attacking Christianity.

From HistoryNet, a Vietnam-era B-52's latest mission is a 1,400-mile road trip from Arizona to Oklahoma.

From Space War, Russia's pledge to deescalate around Kyiv, Ukraine is met with skepticism.  (The article uses the spelling "scepticism", to which my spellchecker objects.)

From ITR Economics, a look at how the war in Ukraine has increased inflation in the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's lies about his proposed budget.

From The American Conservative, Finnish parliamentcritter Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola win their hate speech trial by a unanimous vote of the court.

From The Western Journal, did Biden just get thrown under the bus by his own White House chief of staff?

From BizPac Review, Palm Springs, Californian starts a guaranteed income plan for non-binary and transgender residents.

From The Daily Wire, a group of Republican congresscritters introduce a resolution to recognize University of Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant as the true NCAA 500-meter champion.

From the Daily Caller, three U.S. oil companies decline an invitation from Democrat congresscritters to testify at a hearing about whether the industry has done enough to reduce prices.

From the New York Post, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) "blasts" calls by Democrats for the aforementioned Justice Thomas to resign or to recuse himself as "bullying".

From Breitbart, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) calls for an investigation of possible ties between Russia and environmental groups.

From Newsmax, nine people are charged with civil rights offenses after allegedly blocking access to a reproductive health center in Washington, D.C.

And from The Sun, how to fold a shirt in three seconds.  (via the New York Post)

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