Stories For The End Of February

As the year 2023 reaches its one-sixth mark, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden's deception on student loan debt needed to be called out.

From FrontpageMag, the idea that manmade global warming would bring about the end of snow isn't working for southern California.  (How soon before someone attributes the winter weather in that area to manmade climate change?  Or has than already happened?)

From Townhall, residents of East Palestine, Ohio can't get proper health screenings, so will the Biden administration help them?

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Biden's "green energy economy" benefits leftist billionaires.

From the Washington Examiner, don't forget the people who shut down debate about the coronavirus in order to protect China.

From The Federalist, the only thing conspiratorial about the coronavirus lab leak theory is the coordinated effort to dismiss it.

From American Thinker, "scientists" announce that global warming has produced record cold.  (It looks like my questions above have been answered.)

From CNS News, according to a State Department report, the southern border is still vulnerable to being crossed by terrorists.

From NewsBusters, Fox News host Larry Kudlow torches "Bidenomics".

From Canada Free Press, Lodi, California Councilman Shakir Khan is arrested on charges including election fraud.

From TeleSUR, indigenous Peruvians head for their capital city of Lima.

From TCW Defending Freedom, asylum seekers in the U.K. are not facing a "crackdown", but are given amnesty and citizenship.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer needs to learn about mutual exclusivity.

From Free West Media, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and others protest against the construction of bird choppers in Norway.

From EuroNews, Russia claims that a drone crashed near the village of Gubastovo.

From Euractiv, according to wheat producers, a recent surplus of wheat renders the phasing out of biofuels obsolete.

From ReMix, according to a former U.S. Marine serving as a volunteer in Ukraine, front-line Ukrainian soldiers are surviving only four hours while in battle.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Libyan allegedly rapes and robs a 73-year-old woman in Chemnitz, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Radio Lausitz.)

From Balkan Insight, opposition parties in Kosovo and Serbia criticize the plan for normalizing the relations between the two countries.

From The North Africa Post, according to Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouabhi, Sahwaris sequestered in the Tindouf camps controlled by Polisario endure inhumane conditions.

From The New Arab, human traffickers allegedly torture migrant children in detention centers in Libya.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, another group of Iranian students become ill, for which parliamentcritter Abdulali Rahimi Mozafari calls for an investigation.

From IranWire, Iranian authorities are urged to release eight jailed environmentalists.

From Iran International, Iranians become sad and angry over the death of the last surviving Asiatic cheetah cub, who was born in captivity in Iran.

From Dawn, Pakistan's first digital census deals with technical difficulties.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan cuts gasoline prices by 5 rupees per liter.

From Pakistan Today, the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf files a petition to the Pakistani Supreme Court against the acquittals of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N party Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz from corruption charges.

From The Hans India, the Indian Supreme Court dismisses a request to create a commission to rename Indian cities and places current named after foreign invaders.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian security forces in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir send two terrorists to their virgins.

From ANI, a joint operation by Indian federal wildlife authorities and Assam state forest officials, an alleged poacher is arrested and tiger parts are seized.

From India Today, a severe cold wave returns to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh extends its deadline to register for the Hajj.

From New Age, prices of electricity in Bangladesh are increased for the third time since January.

From Gatestone Institute, the new Palestinian terror groups.

From The Stream, "normal" baseball is back, isn't it?

From The Daily Signal, according to a White House memo, federal agencies must ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok from their devices.

From The American Conservative, Florida embraces "Orban" renewal.

From The Western Journal, White House director of the Office of Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms resigns after introducing Vice President Harris to a group of journalism students.

From BizPac Review, Republicans unleash "scorched earth" on Dr. Fauci, who scoffed at the lab leak theory of the coronavirus's origins.

From The Daily Wire, Mississippi bans sex-change operations, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors.

From the Daily Caller, the Idaho Senate rejects a school choice bill over its cost.

From Politico, congresscritters Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal), Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Jim Clyburn (D-SC) have stepped down from leadership positions, but still have considerable influence.  (The article uses the term "bigfooting", which I naturally find interesting.  The story comes via the Daily Caller.  Congresscritter Dan Kildee (D-Mich) calls the situation "almost like having two popes".  In reality, we did have Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, so he may be on to something.)

From the New York Post, according to a lawsuit, a teacher in Port Jefferson Station, New York "forced" a fifth-grade girl to use a male name and male pronouns.

From Breitbart, according to Brazil's National Institution for Space Research, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region has skyrocketed under President Lula da Silva.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, 46 percent of respondents rate the federal government's response to the train wreck in East Palestine a "poor" rating.

And from SFGate, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon a time zone.

Rainy Monday Stories

On a day which falls into both kinds which the Carpenters found depressing, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.S. Department of Energy lab investigating the origins of the coronavirus "knows what it's talking about".

From FrontpageMag, we know that President Biden, who grew up as a black Jewish Puerto Rican Catholic, really wanted to be Polish.  (As an American with some Polish heritage, I say nie dziękuję, which means "no thanks".)

From Townhall, here's the advice Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) gave to the CEO of Disney before the company caved into wokeness.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a report, Biden's favorite electric truck is built with metal from a refinery in Brazil that is killing people.

From the Washington Examiner, who is and who isn't lining up to replace Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich)?  (Some Michiganders spell her last name "Stab-me-now".)

From The Federalist, a lawsuit forces Los Angeles County, California to remove 1.2 ineligible voters from its rolls.

From American Thinker, the Georgia witch hunt against former President Trump, which includes a real self-proclaimed witch.  (She doesn't even have to turn anyone into a newt, since Georgia has had its own Newt for a very long time.)

From CNS News, more on the DOE backing the lab leak theory about the coronavirus's origins.

From NewsBusters, the MSNBC show Morning Joe falsely blames the Trump administration for the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio.

From Canada Free Press, pretty words from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will not save Canada.

From TeleSUR, Chile deploys its military on its borders with Peru and Bolivia to prevent the entry of illegal aliens undocumented migrants.

From TCW Defending Freedom, to whom does the data belong?

From Snouts in the Trough, all you landlords, listen up.  (The article's title contains the misspelling "ladlords".)

From Free West Media, Portugal opens its borders to everyone who speaks Portuguese.  (During the 1980s, I had a roommate who spoke Portuguese.  If he's still around and wishes to immigrate to Portugal, that country will take him in.)

From EuroNews, the U.K. and the E.U. make a new agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol.

From Euractiv, according to Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, a deal on normalization with Serbia is possible this year.

From ReMix, a man in Seegräben, Switzerland is told to leave his social housing where he has lived for 15 years to make room for refugees.  (If you read French, read the story at 20 Minutes.  If you read German, read a related story at SRF.)

From Balkan Insight, an Albanian artist stages an exhibition at the prison where he spent 17 years during his country's communist era.

From Morocco World News, when in Morocco, please be kind to cats.

From The North Africa Post, a U.N. rights group calls on Algeria to stop its crackdown on civil society organizations.

From the Libyan Express, the Chinese company Huawei continues to support talented Libyans.

From Hürriyet Daily News, yet another earthquake strikes Türkiye, this one in the province of Malatya with a 5.6 magnitude.  (My spellchecker doesn't yet accept the new spelling "Türkiye".)

From Turkish Minute, about 200 people are briefly detained in İstanbul, Turkey after protesting against the Turkish Red Crescent for selling tents instead of donating them.

From Rûdaw, water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers decrease sharply in southern Iraq.

From Armenpress, according to a report by the Artsakh Ministry of Health, the, Azerbaijani blocking of the road between Artsakh and Armenia has resulted in an increase of diseases.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Artsakh's Foreign Minister, the pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan revived hate and intolerance toward Armenians in Azerbaijan.  (Artsakh, also called Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region of Azerbaijan which has an Armenian-majority population.  It was an autonomous oblast during the soviet era.)

From Azǝrbaican24, Azerbaijan starts an inter-state arbitration against Armenia under the Energy Charter Treaty.  (This is my newest source.  That is indeed an upside-down "e".)

From In-Cyprus, incoming Cypriot President Nikos Christodoiulides reveals his incoming gender-balanced cabinet.

From The Syrian Observer, the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union announces a delegation which will visit Syria and calls for Syria to return to its natural regional and international roles.

From North Press Agency, in the Syrian region of Kobani, Russian and Turkish forces conduct their 128th joint patrol.

From The961, Lebanon central bank Governor Riad Salameh is accused of embezzling up to $500 million dollars and transferring it to Swiss banks.

From Arutz Sheva, knessetcritter Avi Moaz resigns from his position as deputy minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

From The Times Of Israel, according to an analysis column, "chaos reigns" in Netanyahu's Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S. is fatally shot in a terror attack near Qusra, West Bank.

From YNetNews, what names do Israelis give their dogs?

From the Egypt Independent, the first phase of development for the new Egyptian port of Arish is scheduled to be ready later this year.

From Egypt Today, 29 Egyptian orphanages shut down due to more children being adopted.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian cabinet approves a new education policy, in which government-controlled universities will be granted autonomy.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Medical Shariah Advisory Committee considers whether to allow abortion for genetic fetal abnormalities.

From Gulf News, why March 2nd is the new launch date for a mission to the International Space Station led by UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi.

From The New Arab, little is known about what happened to the African elephants which were kept at the UAE's Al-Ain Zoo.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time for some realism about China.

From The Stream, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and "the dark taste for power".

From The Daily Signal, the Equal Protection Project hopes to stop acts of reverse racism.

From The American Conservative, "air heart", pun intended.

From The Western Journal, a man in East Palestine has a "freaky" voice change despite assurances from the EPA that everything is fine.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Mark Levin asks Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) "exactly the right question".

From The Daily Wire, according to the Chief Twit, the media climate and education system are "racist against whites and Asians".

From the Daily Caller, according to The Washington Post, there is not evidence that Trump is to blame for the East Palestine train wreck.

From the New York Post, according to congresscritter James Comer (R-KY), Treasury Department officials are blocking 150 reports about the Biden family's banking.

From Breitbart, "Muhammad" has become the most popular baby name in Galway, Ireland.  (How many cities in Arab countries have significant numbers of young boys named "Sean" or "Patrick"?)

From Newsmax, Republicans call for the Biden administration to declassify documents detailing the origins of the coronavirus.

And from The Babylon Bee, the White House announces that all conspiracy theories are indeed true, except for the one claiming that Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election.

Sunday Stuff

On a mild sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Energy, the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a leak from a lab.

From Townhall, remembering the first attack on the World Trade Center.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about journalism.

From the Washington Examiner, the release of footage from the Capitol riot drives Democrats nuts.

From American Thinker, the release of footage from the Capitol riot drives the mainstream media nuts.

From NewsBusters, Fox News host Howard Kurtz points out media double standards about Republican controversies.

From Canada Free Press, let's go to a dictionary and look up the meanings of some words.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the coronavirus truth commission that we all need.

From Free West Media, illegal immigration into Italy has reached a record high.

From EuroNews, a migrant boat breaks apart off the coast of Crotone, Italy, resulting in at least 33 deaths.

From The New Arab, a cargo ship locks and unloads at the Yemeni port of Hodeidah for the first time since 2016.

From Jewish News Syndicate, two Israeli brothers are shot dead in a terror attack in Huwara, West Bank.

From Gatestone Institute, China crosses a "red line" by supporting Russia's war effort.

From The Stream, a columnist explains why he won't shop at drug stores that have become abortion clinics.

From The American Conservative, bring out the Grand Inquisitor.

From The Western Journal, a legal foundation claims that IRS algorithms have been changed to result in more whites and Asians being targeted for audits.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) may be in trouble for spending almost $20,000 on child care after the 2022 election.

From The Daily Wire, actor Woody Harrelson ridicules coronavirus "drug cartels" and lockdowns on Saturday Night Live.

From the Daily Caller, President Biden's immigration parole program has a "massive" loophole.

From ABC7, the Los Angeles area braces for another winter storm system.  (It never rains in southern....oh wait, it does rain there, and it even snows.  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From Breitbart, several red states consider banning the enforcement of federal gun laws deemed to infringe on gun rights.

From Newsmax, a key inflation measure rises at its fastest rate since last June.

And from the New York Post and the "be careful what you ask for" department, hey Froggy baybeee!

Saturday Links

On a cold Saturday with a small dusting of snow, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg "is not ready for prime time".

From Townhall, the federal government is shooting stray cattle from helicopters in New Mexico's Gila National Forest.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Socialism (I-VT) finally finds a corporate conglomerate which he likes, which happens to be his own publisher.

From the Washington Examiner, two Democratic campaign committees made payments to a group that released the military records of Republican congresscritters.

From The Federalist, in East Palestine, Ohio and everywhere else, President Biden puts America last.

From American Thinker, children should be taught history that's accurate and unbiased.

From NewsBusters, in 2007, the Oscars started off the year of "the Goracle".

From Canada Free Press, the next pandemic is "the epidemic of silence".

From TCW Defending Freedom, fight the takeover by the World Health Organization.

From Free West Media, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock commits to "feminist foreign policy".

From EuroNews, as he opens the French Agricultural Show, President Emmanuel Macron declares the end of "water abundance".

From The North Africa Post, the African Union joins the voices raised against Tunisian President Kais Saied's remarks against migrants in his country.

From The New Arab, more Tunisians are arrested and imprisoned for criticizing President Saied.

From Gatestone Institute, thanks to then-President Obama's nuclear deal, Iran is now a major weapons exporter.

From The Stream, a former astrologer warns against astrology.

From The American Conservative, the real purpose of the Equal Rights Amendment continues to be punishing women.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris reminds us that we're allowed to clap.

From BizPac Review, while being asked whether he will visit East Palestine, Biden recalls a song by Aretha Franklin.

From The Daily Wire, after Scott Adams makes some racially charged remarks, his comic Dilbert gets canceled by several media outlets.

From the Daily Caller, the Republican Party reveals the location and date of its first 2024 presidential primary debate.

From the New York Post, about 60 people protest outside a building in New York City's Chinatown which houses a Chinese police station.  (China has a police station in New York?  Does this mean that the U.S. can open a police station in Shanghai or, better yet, Wuhan?)

From Breitbart, Ukrainian President Zelensky demands that the U.S. keep funding his country's war effort against Russia.

From Newsmax, it's another lie from congresscritter George Santos (R-NY).

And from SFGate, an Andean bear escapes from its enclosure at the St. Louis Zoo - for the second time.

Friday Fuss

As the sun stays around but temperatures go down on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the publisher of Roald Dahl's books relents and allows customers to choose which versions they will use.

From FrontpageMag, systemic racism turns up in East Palestine, Ohio.

From Townhall, according to a chemical expert, the "controlled" burn in East Palestine really wasn't.

From The Washington Free Beacon, some Republican congresscritters want to defund the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency, which allows terrorist groups to store weapons in its facilities.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden is running for reelection in 2024, isn't he?

From The Federalist, how the hate for former President Trump led to the "censorship-industrial complex".

From American Thinker, there's more to Chinese spying than balloons.

From CNS News, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) realizes that Biden "is not just going to suddenly see the light" about the border.

From NewsBusters, the Chinese platform TikTok bans and then restores Independent Women's Forum without any explanation.

From Canada Free Press, how Google and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ganged up on CFP.

From TeleSUR, gang violence claims four lives in Fort-Jacques, Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a left-wing cartel feeds us climate propagranda.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak emulates his predecessor Tony Blair on illegal migrants.  (The article's date is 2/23, but it only came out today and is called a "Friday/weekend blog", so I'll let the date slide.)

From the Greek Reporter, a Greek court sentences former minister Nikos Pappas of SYRIZA to two years in prison.

From Ekathimerini, some possible outcomes of the Greek elections scheduled for this coming April.

From the Greek City Times, a 3,000-year-old olive tree in Vouves, Greece, on the island of Crete, still produces olives.

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian court convicts three former Bosnian Croat fighters for war crimes committed in 1993.

From Total Croatia News, Varazdin County, Croatia will its high school facilities to be used to train foreign workers.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia pledges to keep on supporting Ukraine.

From The Malta Independent, according to Maltese President George Vella, Malta still "stands by Ukraine".

From Malta Today, Ukrainians gather in Valletta, Malta to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of their country.

From ANSA, according to Italian farmers, the drought in Italy drives wild boars into cities.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland increases its aid to Turkey and Syria.

From France24, a look at the situation on the ground in Ukraine.

From RFI, France insists that the G20 condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine "in the strongest term".

From El País, 54,000-year-old flint artifacts found in southern France suggest that modern humans were already shooting arrows when they encountered Neanderthals.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese parliament rejects proposals to reduce or eliminate tolls.

From Free West Media and the "so what else is new?" department, the U.N. Security Council condemns Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank.

From EuroNews, the E.U. does not accept China's peace proposal for Ukraine.

From Euractiv, according to the Financial Action Task Force, Russia has "grossly violated" the global financial system.

From ReMix, almost a million asylum seekers registered in the E.U. in 2022.

From The North Africa Post, the Union of Arab Journalists denounce the European Parliament's efforts to "smear" Morocco.

From The New Arab, Tunisian security forces arrest opposition figure Jawhar Ben Mbarek.

From OpIndia, the High Court of Allahabad, India grants bail to a man accuse of mastermining violence and using children as human shields.

From Gatestone Institute, the earthquake in Turkey unveils the country's many ugly faces.

From The Stream, East Palestine has become a forgotten town.

From The Daily Signal, a Heritage Foundation scholar reveals an "unusual" aspect of a Chinese action on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From The American Conservative, the end of an era for one blogger at TAC.

From The Western Journal, a judge introduces actor Alec Baldwin to the justice system.

From BizPac Review, two years after moving its corporate headquarters to Texas, Tesla opens a new engineering headquarters back in California.

From The Daily Wire, as the Biden administration blames Trump for the train derailment in East Palestine, even the head of the National Transportation Safety Board calls is "misinformation".

From the Daily Caller, according to a Republican primary poll, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outdoes Trump.

From the The Hollywood Reporter, a victim of Harvey Weinstein breaks her silence.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, winter weather leaves about one million Americans without power.

From Newsmax, Ukrainian President Zelensky plans to meet with Chinese President Xi.

And from the New York Post, a study by Harvard brings some good news for blue-collar workers.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) tells St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (D) to "resign or face removal".

From FrontpageMag, the destruction of meritocracy has deadly consequences.

From Townhall, put your pronouns out of the reach of sunlight.

From The Washington Free Beacon, no, the railroad regulations discontinued by the Trump administration would not have prevented the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

From the Washington Examiner, California state Democrat lawmakers want at least one gender-neutral bathroom in every school.

From The Federalist, a professor banned from a Christian University for calling out racism negotiates his return.

From American Thinker, why the 2020 election was impossible to verify.

From CNS News, scenes from former President Trump's visit to East Palestine flood social media.

From NewsBusters, media networks ignore First Son Hunter Biden's refusal to submit documents requested by Congress.

From Canada Free Press, wearing nail polish does not make you a better baseball player.

From TeleSUR, Cubans want Guantanamo Bay back.  (Would that include any terrorists still being held there?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, Brexit has saved the U.K. from the E.U.'s "cynical" ban on palm oil.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, three Syrians are arrested for allegedly damaging graves in four German cemeteries.  (If you read German, read the story at Freilich.)

From Polskie Radio, Polish authorities indict a Russian man for allegedly spying for Russia.

From Radio Prague, when it comes to baseball, the Czech Republic is a "small country" with "big dreams".

From The Slovak Spectator, according to a poll, journalists in Slovakia continue to be threatened.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the war in Ukraine will only have losers.

From Hungary Today, American swimmer Michael Phelps salutes Hungarian swimmer Zalán Sárkány after the latter swims to a record time in a team event at the University of Arizona.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From About Hungary, Hungarian President Katalin Novák tells a meeting of the Bucharest Nine that creating and preserving peace must be a top priority.  (The Bucharest Nine, also called the Bucharest Format, is an organization founded in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and other actions.)

From ReMix, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban warns that Russia can neither win in Ukraine nor be cornered.

From Russia Today, according to Russian Permanent Representative to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia, relations between Russia and the E.U. "no longer exist".

From Sputnik International, the E.U. fails to agree on any new sanctions against Russia, but will try again tomorrow.

From The Moscow Times, as Russia marks the anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine, residents of Moscow shrug.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian road company CNAIR seeks to keep the Transfăgărăşan road, which goes over the Carpathian Mountains, open for longer periods.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Wall-Street.)

From Novinite, the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense rejects an appeal from the E.U. for more ammunition for Ukraine.

From The Sofia Globe, according to a poll, 49 percent of Bulgarians are against adopting the euro, while 36 percent are in favor of it.

From Radio Bulgaria, according to President Rumen Radev, Bulgaria's caretaker government has brought inflation under control.

From Free West Media, French President Macron considers withdrawing Russian President Putin's Legion of Honor Award.

From Balkan Insight, the North Macedonian parliamentary opposition delays a reshuffle by the governing coalition.

From EuroNews, because the level of Italy's Lake Garda has been lowered by drought, tourists ride bikes to the islet of San Biagio.

From Euractiv, the European Commission bans the Chinese app TikTok from devices used by its workers.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kais Saied scapegoats migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

From The New Arab, students from sub-Saharan Africa who are legally present in Tunisia live in fear due to President Kais's speech.

From Gatestone Institute, rehabilitating a war criminal like Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not an option.

From The Stream, President Biden's policy is "migrants first, Americans last".

From The Daily Signal, for college admissions, let's use ability and skill instead of racial preferences.

From The American Conservative, we know that she's a witch, because she says so herself.

From The Western Journal, things get weird when a reporter tries to interview Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

From BizPac Review, anti-capitalists can often be conspiracy theorists.

From The Daily Wire, ABC host Joy Behar blames residents of East Palestine for the rail disaster because they voted for Trump.

From the Daily Caller, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, "partisan prosecutors" are trying to stop Trump from running in 2024.

From the New York Post, singer Adam Levine claims that a classic car dealer sold him a fake 1971 Maserati.  (Did it go 185?)

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Pete Buttigieg finally visits East Palestine.

From Newsmax, Harvey Weinstein gets 16 more years in prison.

And from the Genesius Times, Biden announces that he's running in 2024 for president of Ukraine.

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, why the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio is becoming a bigger story.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden wrongly claims that Republicans want to "sunset" certain entitlement programs.

From Townhall, how Democrats collapsed in Florida.

From The Washington Free Beacon, during the 2020 presidential campaign, then-candidate Biden warned that South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg was not ready for a "big boy job".

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defends her comment calling for a "national divorce".  (I believe that such a split could never realistically happen.  One reason is the desire by the left to control people's lives.  If the U.S. could somehow be divided into two separate countries, one governed by right-wing policies and the other by left-wing policies, this would remove a great number of people from control by the latter, something which the left would never tolerate.)

From The Federalist, the media still insist that the George Floyd riots of 2020 were "mostly peaceful".

From American Thinker, a history of black Americans and the 2nd Amendment.

From CNS News, in 1997, then-Senator Biden (D-Del) scoffed at the idea that expanding NATO eastward would push Russia closer to China or Iran.

From NewsBusters, two-time NCAA football champion Georgia is snubbed by the White House for the second straight year.

From Canada Free Press, a professor at Yale suggests that suicide is the best option for the elderly.

From CBC News, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Canadian federal government is working on closing the Roxham Road border crossing to stop the influx of illegal irregular migrants.  (Roxham Road runs from the state of New York to the province of Quebec, but is interrupted at the border, where migrants have to walk across.)

From Global News, inflation in Canada appears to be coming down, except at grocery stores.

From CTV News, the Canadian military says that it has tracked and stopped Chinese attempts to surveil its Arctic waters.

From TeleSUR, rescuers are still looking for 57 people missing due to landslides caused by heavy rain in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

From TCW Defending Freedom, possible parallels between "Davos, Davros, Doctor Who and the WHO".

From Snouts in the Trough, what will the next Scottish "empress" do?

From Free West Media, a U.K. counter-terrorism program warns against the works of Tolkien and Shakespeare.  (Would my high school senior English class have been flagged for reading Macbeth?)

From the Express, a boxing match between Brexit-supporting U.K. Tory parliamentcritter Lee Anderson and Remainer protester Steve Bray has been set up.

From the Evening Standard, ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses her appeal to have her U.K. citizenship reinstated.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, it is not "racist or bigoted" to acknowledge the pressures caused by migrants arriving in the U.K. illegally.

From the (Irish) Independent, the two co-leaders of the Irish party Social Democrats both resign.

From the Irish Examiner, a turtle believed to have come from Florida in the U.S. is found in Ireland's County Mayo and is currently being looked after at Dingle Oceanworld.

From VRT NWS, refugees and asylum seekers work as plasters and roofers in Belgium, because Belgians allegedly don't want those jobs.

From The Brussels Times, 37 defendants will go on trial for allegedly smuggling 1.9 tonnes of she-don't-lie into Belgium.

From the NL Times, the Dutch cities of Tilburg and Breda will start selling regulated cannabis this fall.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Dutch News, Dutch judges and prosecutors threaten to strike over working conditions.

From Deutsche Welle, the German Federal Constitutional Court partly sides with the party Alternative for Germany in a funding case.

From ReMix, over a third of Ukrainians currently in Germany want to return home after the war ends.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German man of Turkish origin allegedly stabs a five-year-old girl to death in Berlin.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From the CPH Post, Danes turn against virtual reality.

From EuroNews, a Spanish teacher at a private secondary school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France is stabbed by a student while teaching a class and later dies.

From Euractiv, according to a former Russian diplomat, there will be peace in Ukraine only without President Putin.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia's entry into the eurozone brings a large increase in counterfeit euro notes.

From The North Africa Post, the NGO Horizons Sans Frontières calls on Moroccan King Mohammed's help to save people expelled by Algeria and stranded in the Sahara.

From The New Arab, over 200 planes carry quake-related aid to government-held areas of Syria.

From LatestLy, a picture allegedly showing an imam kissing a dog's paw is not genuine.

From Barron's, Spanish police arrest the father of two women who were killed by family members in Gujrat, Pakistan.

From Health Policy Watch, increasingly brutal attacks by Islamist rebels against civilians negatively affects mental health in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  (The last three links and the story from AWE above come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, has the U.S. Supreme Court given up on finding the person who leaked the draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson?

From The Stream, in praise of the transgender center whistleblower and other reports from the front line of the sexual revolution.

From The Daily Wire, the Senate should reject the nomination of radical left-winger Gigi Sohn to head the FCC.

From The American Conservative, against the presidential candidacy of former South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R).

From The Western Journal, the day of reckoning for the U.S. government is closer than previously estimated.

From BizPac Review, former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) repeats her advice to Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) that he steps aside, and makes a pitch to be former President Trump's running mate in 2024.  (I recall that she didn't help all that much when she was the late Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) running mate in 2008.)

From The Daily Wire, Biden is the most Polish-Jewish-Black-Puerto Rican-Greek-Irish-Catholic president in the history of the U.S.  (Or is he Bideno, or maybe Bidenski?)

From the Daily Caller, Biden reportedly still hasn't made a decision to run for reelection in 2024.

From the New York Times, a Polish woman named Julia Faustina claims to be the same person as Madeleine McCann, a British girl who was abducted at age 3 in 2007 while on vacation with her family in Portugal.  (This story reminds me of a woman named Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Russian Princess Anastasia, which claim was disproven by mitochondrial DNA analysis.  In an interesting parallel, Faustina has lived in Poland and Germany, while Anderson was born in a former part of Germany which is now in Poland, and later lived elsewhere in Germany.)

From Breitbart, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving terrorism and Twitter.

From Newsmax, California's budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year is $7 billion more predicted last month by Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

And from Sky News, a mysterious metal ball washes up on a Japanese beach.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, President Biden's China shop has too much bull.

From FrontpageMag, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper can't stop lying when it comes to the story of Hunter Biden's laptop.

From Townhall, something might be very wrong about the photo op with Presidents Biden (U.S.) and Zelensky (Ukraine).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Princeton University's "antiracism" apparently doesn't apply to racism against Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, while talking with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Biden comes up with his own Polish joke.

From The Federalist, the left-wing hypocrisy of left-wingers who accuse others of banning books.

From American Thinker, where are the toxicologists who could be headed for East Palestine, Ohio?

From CNS News, according to former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Biden's policy is "Ukraine first, Ohio last".  (Can I find any more ex-DNIs to pick on?)

From NewsBusters, TV host Stephen Colbert and Senator Socialism (I-VT) suggest that capitalism is to blame for the East Palestine train derailment.

From Canada Free Press, WEF advisor Yuval Noah Harari allegedly wants to abolish free will.

From TeleSUR, a wildfire explodes in the mountains of Cuba.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the censorship against author Roald Dahl "is an attack on reality itself".

From Free West Media, demonstrations against German support for Ukraine are staged in Munich, Germany.

From ReMix, poor and elderly tenants in Lörrach, Germany are forced from their apartments to make room for migrants.

From EuroNews, five major taboos broken by the E.U. during the year of war in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, integrated pest management, which uses biological products, gains ground in Poland.

From Balkan Insight, the Bulgarian Supreme Court votes 28-21 to prevent transgendered people from changing their documents.  (Do I understand the numbers correctly, in that the court has 49 judges?)

From The North Africa Post, terrorists kill 51 soldiers in Burkina Faso.

From The New Arab, Hamas's Anti-Narcotics Police Department seizes 50,000 Captagon pills smuggled into the Gaza Strip and blames Israel.

From Organiser, the Indian Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband issues a fatwa against shaving.

From UnHerd, "the acceptable face of radical Islam".

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians celebrate the murder of Jews.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe asks for alternative proposals for economic growth to be presented to the IMF.

From the Daily Mirror, five people are arrested for allegedly breaking into the Indian visa application center in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, the Maldive Islands holds its first strategic dialogue with the U.K.

From The Straits Times, two teenagers are held under Singapore's Internal Security Act.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Russians and Ukrainians get along peacefully on the Indonesian island of Bali.

From Free Malaysia Today, two Malaysian parliamentcritters get into a shouting match over a speech from King Abdullah.

From the Borneo Post, electric vehicles gain popularity in the Malaysian state of Sabah.

From Vietnam Plus, the last functional internet cable connecting Vietnam to the rest of the world has some technical difficulties.

From the Taipei Times, according to President Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan has plans for more military exchanges with the U.S.

From The Korea Herald, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol approves a motion to arrest opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.

From The Mainichi, Japanese shoe repairers call an attached leather patch a "Charles patch" in honor of the U.K.'s new king.

From The Stream, a gun control strategy which is stupid, unless there's an ulterior motive.

From The Daily Signal, according to Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd (R), election integrity is a major priority for the state.

From The American Conservative, it's about time for some serious populism.

From The Western Journal, after Air Force One lands at Warsaw's Chopin Airport, someone falls down the stairs, but it's not Biden.

From BizPac Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) takes his own stand on Russia.

From The Daily Wire, an office manager in East Palestine recounts the train wreck and subsequent chemical burning.

From the Daily Caller, a nutrition product company recalls 145,000 cans of baby food over possible bacteria contamination.

From Breitbart, according to a rights watchdog based in Vienna, Austria, vandalism and arson against Christian churches in France and Germany have spiked in recent weeks.

From Newsmax, the EPA orders Norfolk Southern to clean up the site of its derailed train in East Palestine.

And from the New York Post, could cigarette-style labels warning about eating meat be coming to food stores?

Stuff For Presidents Day

As we take a day off to remember George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon, John Tyler, "Mr. Bill" Clinton, two Roosevelts, two John Adamses, two George Bushes, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a host of others, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy needs ammunition, not a visit from U.S. President Biden.

From FrontpageMag, the new leader of the terror group Al Qaeda is a puppet of Iran.

From Townhall, here's Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) gave the 41,000 hours of footage from the Capitol riot.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a "dirty dozen" rules from TWFB for thriving in the D.C. swamp.

From the Washington Examiner, the dilemma posed by Senator John Fetterman (D-PA).  (The WE has not put this article behind a paywall, which I thought they were doing with all their articles.  Perhaps they relented, or maybe I'm being allowed to see a number of articles without subscribing.)

From The Federalist, my former governor's coronavirus rules prove that he is not a "small government" Republican.

From American Thinker, the two presidents who most inspired today's holiday are also the most hated by the woke.

From CNS News, according to congresscritters Mike McCaul (R-TX) and Mike Turner (R-OH), American support for Ukraine "is still very strong".

From NewsBusters, a self-identified "trans dyke" horror fiction author threatens to slit author J.K. Rowling's throat.

From Canada Free Press, willfully neglecting the American people.

From TeleSUR, the Carnival "returns in full force" to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a £85,000 per year "non-job" tells you all you need to know about what's wrong with the U.K.'s government apparatus.

From Snouts in the Trough, destroy the coronavirus vaccination doubters.

From Free West Media, European People's Party President Manfred Weber tells Italian Senator Silvio Berlusconi that "support for Ukraine is not optional".  (Berlusconi is also a three-time former Italian Prime Minister.)

From EuroNews, how European orchards are adapting to warmer winters.  (Bear in mind that both warmer winters and colder winters are attributed to climate change.)

From Euractiv, more on Biden's visit to Ukraine.

From ReMix, the Irish rallying against immigration is a battle in a culture war.  (The immigration wave into Europe is said by some to be an atonement for European colonization of other parts of the world.  This would not apply to Ireland because it was never a colonial power, but instead was the victim of colonization by the British.  In other words, Ireland is getting an insult added to injury.)

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian police arrest suspected human traffickers believed responsible for the deaths of 18 migrants in a truck.  (Among the many reasons why opposing illegal migration and human smuggling is not racist is the danger to the migrants themselves, who are often mistreated and/or endangered by the smugglers.)

From The North Africa Post, the African Union asserts a "zero tolerance" policy toward unconstitutional change in government.

From The New Arab, another earthquake strikes Syria and Turkey.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian authorities arrest a policemen for allegedly killing a Kurdish man.

From IranWire, how Iranian authorities inflict eye injuries.

From Iran International, Iran's foreign minister is fuming over being snubbed by the Munich Security Conference.

From Khaama Press, the Afghan government plans to turn military bases into economic zones.

From Hasht e Subh, Taliban troops and Pakistani forces clash at the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, China could become Afghanistan's second largest trading partner.

From Dawn, the Lahore High Court grants former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan protective bail in a case involving alleged rioting and terror my members of his party.

From The Express Tribune, at the aforementioned Munich Security Conference, Pakistan gets "positive signals" from China and Saudi Arabia.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, the aforementioned Imran Kahn incited his party members to attack the Lahore High Court.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets relief teams and praises their efforts in earthquake-stricken Turkey and Syria.

From the Hindustan Times, an Indian Army medical team returns from Turkey.

From ANI, the world's longest river cruise ship Ganga Vilas reaches Guwahati, India.  (Guwahati is in the state of Assam and is situated along the Brahmaputra River, a tributary of the Ganga, a.k.a. Ganges.)

From India Today, Sri Lankans allegedly attack and rob fishermen from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

From the Dhaka Tribune, four years after a fire Chawkbazar area of Dhaka, Bangladesh that killed 71 people, the people believed responsible have yet to be tried.

From New Age, over 20 people, including a police officer, are injured in a clash between medical college students and rickshaw drivers in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

From Gatestone Institute, the "newswashing" of U.K. ISIS bride Shamima Begum.

From The Stream, former President Jimmy Carter "doesn't own a seaside mansion".

From The Daily Signal, reflections on the American character of George Washington.

From The American Conservative, "make America grunge again".

From The Western Journal, as Americans struggle to afford their necessities, President Biden talks about surprise "resort fees" at hotels.

From BizPac Review, author Salman Rushdie and actor Brian Cox decry the "absurd censorship" of children's books written by Roald Dahl.

From The Daily Wire, investigator James O'Keefe resigns from Project Veritas, which he founded.

From the Daily Caller, Toronto Blue Jays Manager John Schneider saves a woman from choking and then downs a cold one.

From the New York Post, a woman confesses her "addiction" to botox.

From Breitbart, according to the latest from "Twitter Files", Senator Angus King (I-ME) accused Americans of being "suspicious" for various reasons that could be called "suspicious".

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene, "we need a national divorce".

And from The Babylon Bee, First Son Hunter Biden asks his father the president to pick up his paycheck while he's in Kyiv, Ukraine.