Monday, February 20, 2023

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.

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