Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cool rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, abortion extremism by Democrats will have consequences.

From FrontpageMag, is Europe getting its nerve back?

From Townhall, according to a 2018 report, Russia gave money to anti-fuel climate activists.  (If so, wouldn't that be a form of Russian collusion?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Twitter bans a video on which a reporter for The New York Times slams his younger colleagues who kept "going on about their trauma" from the Capitol riot.

From the Washington Examiner, despite President Putin's denials, Russia admits drafting people to fight in Ukraine.

From The Federalist, President Biden doesn't want $4.00 per gallon gas, but wants the price even higher.

From American Thinker, Biden wages a "war with prices".

From CNS News, according to Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar was right to call an unborn baby a "baby".

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Vice President Harris has more problems with the trucker convoy than she does with violence by ProFa and BLM.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Biden's decision about the Keystone XL pipeline was "almost treason".  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, author J.K. Rowling again defends herself from the "trans mob".

From TeleSUR, 2,432 people run for seats in the Colombian Congress.  (The Colombian legislature not only has the same name as that of the U.S., but its two chambers also have the same respective names.  This means, of course, that their legislators can all be called "congresscritters".)

From TCW Defending Freedom, this year's "Hitler" is.... (You'll have to click on the link to find out.)

From Snouts in the Trough, whatever you do, don't look down!

From Free West Media, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer suddenly backtracks on neutrality.

From EuroNews, while visiting Przemyśl, Poland, Italian right-wing politician Matteo Salvini gets confronted for his pro-Russia views.  (The city's name is similar to the Polish word przemysł, which means "industry".)

From Euractiv, due to threats involving the supply of natural gas from Russia, Germany reactivates its coal-fired power plants.

From ReMix, the U.S. rejects an offer from Poland to have its MiG-29 fighter jets moved to an airbase in Germany for use to aid Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, how the "Kosovo precedent" influenced Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, victims of the group Polisario call on the U.N. to address alleged abuses in the Tindouf camps.

From The New Arab, Jordanian authorities detain to journalists for alleged "cybercrime".

From Dawn, police in Peshawar, Pakistan claim to have killed a "main handler" and two accomplices of a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a Shia mosque.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry urges National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to call a session on a no-trust vote on Prime Minister Imran Khan.

From Pakistan Today, Imran Khan calls Pakistan Peoples Party co-leader Asif Ali Zardari his "next target".

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to visit the state of Gujarat for two days starting on March 11th.

From the Hindustan Times, India's National Medical Commission removes the upper age limit for taking the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test.

From ANI, five people are arrested for alleged fraud relating to medical school admissions in Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

From India Today, vote counting in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur starts at 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning.  (As I type this, it's already after 2:00 a.m. on Thursday in India, which precedes Greenwich time by 5 hours and 30 minutes.)

From NDTV, in Karachi, Pakistan, a member of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed who was involved in a hijacking in 1999 is sent to his virgins.

From NewsTrack, a video shows a teacher in the Indian state of Maharashtra praising the late terrorist Osama bin Laden.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the channel Russia Today disappears from all broadcast platforms in Bangladesh.

From New Age, 10 Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists are sent to jail.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka restricts the import of 367 non-essential items in an effort to manage its economy.

From the Daily Mirror, the New York-based company New Fortress Energy will continue its plans for a liquefied natural gas project in Sri Lanka.

From RaajjeMinister of Higher Education Dr. Ibrahim Hassan meets with Maldivian students who returned from Ukraine.

From The Straits Times, a Singaporean man and his Ukrainian wife leave Kyiv.

From Free Malaysia Today, palm oil from Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation is still not welcome in the U.S.

From the Borneo Post, the deputy minister of the Malaysian state of Sarawak tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Vietnam Plus, the next flight returning Vietnamese people from Ukraine is scheduled to arrive in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport tomorrow.

From The Mainichi, be sure to clean up after your dog in Yamagata, Japan.

From Gatestone Institute, will Russia's invasion of Ukraine be the next defeat for U.S. President Biden?

From The Stream, more about the reporter for The New York Times admitting that the left overreacted to the Capitol riot.

From The American Conservative, are the Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations?

From The Daily Signal, eight ways in which the latest omnibus spending bill is a mistake.

From The Western Journal, a White House official news release blows up in Biden's face.

From BizPac Review, British media personality Piers Morgan is back.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) says that he will force the Senate to vote on a $2.5 billion sale of arms to Egypt that was authorized by the Biden administration.

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, most Americans are more hawkish toward Russia than Biden is.

From Breitbart, the Democrat spending package leaves out green cards Afghans brought into the U.S. since last August.

From The Hill, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) indicates that he is leaning toward voting "no" on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, as gas prices rise, governors and state lawmakers call for suspending the gas tax.

And from the New York Post, pictures from today's Russian invasion of Ukraine resemble some from World War II.

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