Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, Wellesley College students don't reject stereotypes, but reject biology.

From FrontpageMag, the case against former President Trump is legally and morally flawed.

From Townhall, USA Today gives a "Woman of the Year" honor to a transgender Democratic Minnesota state legislator.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how President Biden compares with his recent predecessors when it comes to giving interviews and press conferences.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump, who expected to be arrested yesterday, gets another day's reprieve.

From The Federalist, the House Judiciary Committee finds that the Department of Justice had "no legitimate basis" to label parents as terrorists.

From American Thinker, what Trump needs to consider when criticizing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

From CNS News, a record number of Chinese nationals are illegally crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

From Fox News, a man in California allegedly makes threat against a school and is later caught with two stolen guns.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the unintended consequences of DEI training.

From Canada Free Press, even better than watching liberals eat their words is when they choke on those words.

From TeleSUR, Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez denounces an attempted bomb attack against her.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a writer explains why he does not believe that the coronavirus actually existed.

From EuroNews, from what did the composer Ludwig van Beethoven die?  (I played a lot of his music when I was a Littlefoot taking piano lessons.)

From Euractiv, the German party FDP proposes gasoline price hikes instead of a ban on new cars with internal combustion engines.

From ReMix, Ireland has failed to deport 84 percent of the asylum seekers whose claims it has rejected.

From Balkan Insight, part of the Heliodrom detention camp in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina will be turned into a museum, despite complaints people who were imprisoned there.

From The North Africa Post, the E.U., the U.N., and the African Union call upon Libyan authorities to stop abusing migrants.

From The New Arab, the family of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Said Ferjani calls for sanctions against President Kais Saied.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, people in Iran and other Asian countries celebrate Norouz.

From IranWire, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei slams alleged "enemies" in his Nowruz speech.  ("Nowruz" and "Norouz" are two ways of spelling the word for "new year".)

From Iran International, according to Iranian politician Hossein Marashi, no one can stop most of the dissidents taking to Iran's streets.

From Khaama Press, according to Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, Afghan government forces have destroyed an ISIS hideout in Kabul.

From Hasht-e-Subh, more on celebrating Nawroz.  ("Nawroz" is yet another spelling for the new year festival.)

From the Afghanistan Times, at least 13 people are killed in an earthquake striking in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan claims that another "operation" will take place with the intent of assassinating him.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan releases the first-ever braille transcription of its 1973 constitution.

From Pakistan Today, the Election Commission of Pakistan postpones elections in the province of Punjab until this coming October.

From The Hans India, police in the Indian state of Punjab find a motorcycle used by a fugitive.

From the Hindustan Times, at a high-level meeting, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi advises on coronavirus-appropriate behavior.

From ANI, India's Border Security Force recovers over three kilos of drugs dropped near the city of Amritsar by a drone coming from Pakistan.

From India Today, NCP leader Sharad Pawar calls for a meeting with other Indian opposition party leaders.

From the Dhaka Tribune, in a pilot program, Myanmar will take back 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh.

From New Age, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over 39,365 more houses to homeless and landless families.

From Gatestone Institute, the World Economic Forum and the "crapification" of the U.S. economy.

From The Stream, how redefined marriages deprives children of what's best for them.

From The Daily Signal, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signs a bill to keep males out of female bathrooms.

From The American Conservative, the aforementioned Governor DeSantis goes against the Ukraine war machine.

From The Western Journal, a Trump lawyer gives a "mic-drop" of an answer when asked if Biden is a clone.

From BizPac Review, military doctors promote the idea that children as young as seven years can "consent to gender-affirming" treatment.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduces a bill to stop the creation of a "central bank digital currency".

From the Daily Caller, Cruz plans to also reintroduce a constitutional amendment that keeps the number of Supreme Court justices at nine.

From Breitbart, reviews of the Silicon Valley Bank's internal practices reveal that loans to its insiders tripled before its collapse.  (The article links to one in Bloomberg, which is behind a paywall.)

From Newsmax, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) refuses to speak about Trump.

And from the New York Post, badgers burrow under railroad tracks in the Netherlands, resulting in some cancellations.

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