Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's "curious" agnosticism about the definition of "woman".

From FrontpageMag, Florida intends to stop the sexualization of children.

From Townhall, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) stumps Judge Brown Jackson with one question.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) sidesteps his own ban on taking money from corporate PACs.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's war on domestic oil production goes to Wall Street.

From The Federalist, did The New York Times admit that Biden is corrupt so that the Democrats can get rid of him?

From American Thinker, Democrats go even crazier with their claim that men can be women.

From CNS News, according to a business and economics professor, we can't escape "lunchflation".

From LifeZette, "Ukraine has the home field advantage".

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Russian President Putin starts new Soviet-style purges.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to a poll, Americans are rejecting the media spin on inflation.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "sting of spite" against pastor Artur Pawlowski.

From TeleSUR, Bolivians observe the 143rd anniversary of the Battle of Calama against Chile.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the sin of imposing lockdowns cannot be forgiven until U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson performs penance.

From Snouts in the Trough, democracy is exceptionally rare and should therefore be cherished.

From Free West Media, Hungarian swimmer Réka György, whose NCAA school is Virginia Tech, dismisses the recent victory of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.  (The article calls Thomas "transsexual", but I regard the term as incorrect since he has not undergone sex change surgery.  The term "transgender" is broader and includes people who are biologically one gender and believe or feel that they're really the other.)

From Russia Today, a shell from Ukraine explodes in the Russian region of Belgorod.

From Sputnik International, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the current Russophobia is a "verdict" on Western civilization.  (Can't he realize that the invasion of Ukraine just might be turning people against Russia?)

From The Moscow Times, for the first time in four weeks, the Russian stock market resumes trading.

From EuroNews, according to NATO, between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, the E.U. allows up to €400,000 in government aid for companies impacted by the war in Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, Presidents Klaus Iohannis (Romania) and Andrzej Duda (Poland) urge a "new strategy" for NATO.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Bursa.)

From Novinite, NATO confirms the deployment of a battalion in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

From The Sofia Globe, a demonstration in solidarity with Ukraine will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, the temporary protection status and rights granted by Bulgaria and other countries toward refugees from Ukraine.

From the Greek Reporter, the ancient Greek underwater city of Pavlopetri.

From Ekathimerini, according to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Greece stands with the Greek diaspora in Ukraine.

From the Greek City Times, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanks Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias for being the first European official planning to lead a humanitarian mission to the city of Mariupol.

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro refuses to extradite Ukrainian far-rightist Rizvan Babayev to Russia.

From Total Croatia News, according to Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, 9,357 Ukrainian refugees are in Croatia, with their accommodations and costs to be resolved.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian owners of hotels, hostels and tourist apartment offer accommodations for about 600 refugees from Ukraine.

From The Slovenia Times, after being in service for 42 years, a police helicopter is retired to the Slovenian Police Museum.

From The Malta Independent, Maltese opposition leader Bernard Grech accuses Prime Minister Robert Abela of "trying to buy votes".

From Malta Today, police conducting a raid in Ħal Far, Malta seize a kilo of she-don't-lie and €50,000 in cash, and arrest three suspects for alleged drug trafficking.

From ANSA, according to Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Italy must talk to China and persuade it to not support Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

From SwissInfo, Swiss people take Ukrainian refugees into their homes.

From France24, French "far-right" presidential candidate Éric Zemmour faces a lawsuit for allegedly denying the Nazi deportation of French homosexuals during World War II.

From RFI, French companies Leroy Merlin, Auchan and Decathlon come under fire for continuing to operate in Russia.

From ReMix, Zemmour promises, if elected president, to create a "Ministry for Remigration" and  to deport a million foreigners.

From El País, according to an opinion column, NATO can help Ukraine win the war against Russia without doing any of the fighting.

From The Portugal News, Portugal extends its coronavirus state of alert.

From The North Africa Post, if you're an oil tanker, transiting the Suez Canal is gonna cost ya more for a while, pilgrim.

From The New Arab, the unlikely prospect of presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya.

From Gatestone Institute, the revolutionary ways in which "dark money" affects elections.

From The Stream, when black and white are reversed.

From The Daily Signal, while the aforementioned SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson denies any connection to critical race theory, her record says otherwise.

From The American Conservative, President Biden's own goals.  (I believe that the term "own goals" is a metaphor derived from soccer.)

From the eponymous site of Jonathan Turley, judicial methodology is not the same things as judicial philosophy.

From The Western Journal, while Twitter suspends The Babylon Bee for calling a man a man, The Onion has received no punitive action for calling Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) a "pedophile".

From BizPac, yes, they are indeed coming for your kids.

From The Daily Wire, according to The View host Sara Haines, SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett deserved a religious test, even though they're unconstitutional.

From the Daily Caller, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) explains why he hasn't kicked congresscritters Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) out of the Republican conference.

From Breitbart, "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones deletes her Tweet claiming that tipping at restaurants has its roots in slavery.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Fred Keller (R-PA) demands answers from the FAA as to why it's blocking news outlets from using drones near the U.S.-Mexico border.

And from the New York Post, a taxi driver who led cops on a chase in Alabama and Tennessee says that she "didn't feel like stopping".

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