Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Wednesday Whatnot

As the sunny and mild weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, British author Douglas Murray wins a libel suit against the Guardian Media Group.

From FrontpageMag, our Constitutional rights and freedoms are more important than manners and civility.

From Townhall, the inflation rate declines during President Trump's first full month back in office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration terminates $20 billion in grants awarded under then-President Biden to eight environmental groups.

From the Washington Examiner, the Trump administration gets ready to face Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers over where his case will be heard.

From The Federalist, the coronavirus taught Americans that they shouldn't trust their government.

From American Thinker, Democrat congresscritters audition for the role of Trump's worst adversary.

From MRCTV, one of my Senators calls on his fellow Democrats to come up with a plan.

From NewsBusters, in 32 days, the big three networks spend less than five minutes reporting on the taxpayer savings from DOGE.

From Canada Free Press, exposing the dangers of Canadian Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney to the unsuspecting Western world.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when the U.K. Royal Navy produced and sailed the Dreadnought.

From EuroNews, the E.U. retaliates against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.  (My spellchecker rejects the British spelling "aluminium", which the article uses.)

From Free West Media, the U.S.-proposed ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia has no "sweeteners" for Russia.

From ReMix, Ukraine admits that its drones attacked a pipeline conveying Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Intercity Express train in Germany is evacuated because an Afghan man known to police threatened the crew with a knife.  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From Balkan Insight, Romanian "far-right" parties present new presidential candidates after Călin Georgescu's candidacy is rejected by the country's Constitutional Court.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is elected to the presidency of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa.

From The New Arab, can talks bring about a lasting truce at the Israel-Lebanon border?

From the Independent, at least 1,200 civilians have been killed in the targeting of Alawites in Syria's coastal region.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, according to the Iranian government, a UAE delegate has delivered a letter from U.S. President Trump to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.

From The Jerusalem Post, terrorists who hijacked a train in Pakistan claim to have killed 50 hostages.

From The Hans India, Rajasthan state Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma announces plans to hire 26,000 government workers and a poverty free village scheme.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian sabhacritter Naresh Mhaske demands the destruction of the grave of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb.

From ANI, police in Delhi, India arrest 11 people from Bangladesh for allegedly illegally residing in the city.  (In other words, Indian police act like ICE.)

From India Today, the Indian Ministry of Defense signs a 2,906 crore rupee contract with Bharat Electronics Limited to produce a movable radar system.  (A crore is a number in the Indian numbering system equal to 10 million.  If I've done the math correctly, 2,906 crore equals 29,060 million or 29.06 billion.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, police in Dhaka, Bangladesh block doctors from marching toward the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health building.  (What is this "right to peaceably assemble" you speak of?)

From New Age, police in Dhaka sue anti-rape protesters, but they keep on protesting.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan parliamentcritter Sujith Sanjaya Perera proposes that the government pay people who capture toque monkeys.

From the Colombo Gazette, Sri Lankan politician Rehan Jayawickreme returns to politics to support his party's candidates in local elections.

From Raajje, Malé City, Maldives Deputy Mayor Ahmed Nareesh resigns.  (Malé City is the capital of the Maldives.)

From the Bangkok Post, police in Bangkok, Thailand arrest a man for allegedly making "zombie pods".

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. needs a "Manhattan Project" for fusion energy.  (GI posted a similar article by the same author on February 11th.)

From Radio Free Asia, Indonesia and Vietnam plan to ratify a treaty demarcating their respective exclusive economic zones in the South China Sea.

From The Stream, a Canadian conservative journalist schools a liberal podcaster in an open debate.

From The Daily Signal, the Senate confirms former congresscritter Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore) as secretary of labor, thus completing Trump's cabinet.

From The American Conservative, the principles of congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From The Western Journal, Senator Jean Shaheen (D-NH) announces that she will not run for reelection in 2026.

From BizPac Review, actress Rosie O'Donnell puts her money where her mouth is and leaves the U.S., moving to Ireland.

From The Daily Wire, a previously deported illegal alien is charged with allegedly shooting a man in front of his seven-year-old daughter.  (For those who think that more gun laws will lessen gun crime, please note that's already a crime for an illegal alien to possess a gun.)

From the Daily Caller, how Energy Secretary Chris Wright plans to help the U.S. climb out of the energy "hole" dug by the Biden administration.

From the New York Post, foul-mouthed anti-Israel protesters disrupt a "peace" event at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

From Breitbart, left-wing parties lose in Greenland's election.

From Newsmax, the captain of the Portuguese-flagged cargo ship Solong, which collided with the U.S. tanker Stena Immaculate, is reportedly a Russian national.

And from the Genesius Times, the Department of Education tries to fire half of its employees, but ends up with even more employees due to Common Core math.

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