Thursday, March 21, 2024

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, Hong Kong boosts its program of repression with a new security law.

From FrontpageMag, the West suffers from civilizational masochism.  (Some might call it "oikophobia".)

From Townhall, another state fights back against DEI.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a complaint against the University of Wisconsin alleges misconduct by its DEI czar.

From the Washington Examiner, Ridgely, Maryland suspends its entire police force.

From The Federalist, everything that Democratic Senators lied about during their hearing on abortion and in vitro fertilization.

From American Thinker, how many illegal aliens do the Democrats need in order to destroy this country?

From MRCTV, the left-wing media can't let go of former President Trump's out of context "bloodbath" remark.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, the media loved interviewing Trump's competitors in 2020, but not President Biden's rivals for 2024.

From Canada Free Press, the Nashville, Tennessee police department drop standards to satisfy an imaginary quota.  (The dirty little secret of affirmative action based on race or sex is the lowered standards for the preferred groups.)

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accepts the presidential nomination of an 11-party coalition known as the Simon Bolivar Great Patriotic Pole.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. undergoes an assault on free speech.

From EuroNews, the Irish government comes under fire for its treatment of illegal migrants asylum seekers.

From Voice Of Europe, according to a survey, three quarters of Germans do not trust the defense capabilities of the German military.  (If you read German, read the survey at Focus.)

From ReMix, Czech Conservative Party leader Jan Kubalcíc proposes requiring citizens to pass a knowledge test before being allowed to vote.  (I believe that similar tests were once required in the southern U.S.)

From the Greek Reporter, the top 10 monuments to see at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.  (I visited the Acropolis during my trip to Greece in 1999.)

From Ekathimerini, the collapse of a road in Athens reveals a tunnel used in a bank heist in 1992.

From the Greek City Times, Greece continues to be a prominent destination for asylum seekers.

From Balkan Insight, as negotiations to form a coalition government appear to reach a dead end, Bulgaria moves closer to having snap elections.

From the Sarajevo Times, it's time for the E.U. to start accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Total Croatia News, alcohol consumption in Croatia continues to be a concern.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia declares Russian diplomat Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Lemeshev persona non grata.

From The Malta Independent, Project Green collects 30 tonnes of waste from four locations in Malta.

From Malta Today, according to the Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), Malta has implemented only 4 of its 23 recommendations.

From ANSA, according to judges in Palermo, Italy, alleged deals between the mafia and three-time former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were never proven.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss canton of Newchâtel plans to introduce a fast-track for asylum.

From France24, the French Senate rejects a proposed free trade deal between the E.U. and Canada.

From RFI, according to the French education ministry, at least 30 schools in and around Paris have been sent threatening messages and videos showing beheadings.

From The Portugal News, the Ria Formosa navigation channels in the Portuguese region of Algarve will be dredged.

From The North Africa Post, at an event in New York City, the International Network of Liberal Women denounce the violations of women's rights in the Tindouf camps run by the group Polisario.

From The New Arab, according to the U.N., Sudan is experiencing one of the "worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory".

From Arise News, at least 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a bank in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

From Arutz Sheva, what does Islam have to say about what happened on October 7th?

From Gatestone Institute, Senator Chuck Schumer threatens Israel with sanctions if it does not allow Hamas to keep existing.

From The Stream, a Canadian acquitted of "hate speech" is forced to undergo a second trial.  (What is this "prohibition on double jeopardy" you speak of?)

From The Daily Signal, the more that the federal government borrows, the more that interest rates increase, and the more we pay for mortgages, credit cards, and student loans.

From The American Conservative, so far, Trump's coattails have been "yuge".

From The Western Journal, more on my former governor trying to become my next senator.

From BizPac Review, the platform Google changes its definition of "bloodbath".

From The Daily Wire, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki calls independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a "huge, huge problem" for Biden's chances of being reelected.  (President George Bush the Elder, who allegedly lost more votes to independent candidate Ross Perot than Democrat candidate Bill Clinton did in 1992, is unavailable for comment.)

From the Daily Caller, a group of Republican congresscritters demands transparency from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra about thousands of lost unaccompanied migrant children.

From the New York Post, for a cool $60 million, you can have eye care mogul Massimo Musa's mansion in Delray Beach, Florida.

From Breitbart, London has become the most antisemitic capital city in the West.

From Newsmax, 78,000 more American government workers can get their student loans canceled.

And from SFGate, Oakland, California is drowning in abandoned vehicles.

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