Monday, March 22, 2021

Monday Links

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

From National Review, congresscritter Dean Phillips (D-Minn) breaks with Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) on trying to overthrow the victory of new congresscritter Marianne Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa).

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration reboots the Russia hoax to protect the son of the president.

From Townhall, we should understand that some people love the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) takes aim at anti-vaxxers, a group he once embraced.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump claimed that if the 2020 presidential results were reversed, the Democrats would have started a "revolution".  (I don't know if I would agree that the Democrats would have gone that far, but I'm sure that very few Democrats would have accepted a Trump victory in 2020.  For that matter, few of them have accepted his victory in 2016.)

From The Federalist, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem changes her mind on signing a bill to protect women's sports.

From American Thinker, the entire Georgetown basketball team takes a knee and then loses in a blowout.

From CNS News, Trump fires back at DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

From LifeZette, an illegal alien admits that he would "definitely not" have crossed the border if Trump were still president.

From NewsBusters, the editorial board of The Washington Post gets "drunk on climate alarmism".

From Canada Free Press, the Democrat attempt to blame Trump for the border fiasco is starting to turn against them.

From CBC News, Canada sanctions four Chinese officials for human rights abuses in the province of Xinjiang.

From TeleSUR, socialists win 240 out of Bolivia's 336 mayoralties.

From The Conservative Woman, why it matters that the U.K. census confuses sex and gender.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the E.U. committing societal and economic suicide?

From the Express, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon did not break the government's ministerial code, but is still urged to resign.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish President Michael Higgins and his wife Sabina are grateful to receive their first coronavirus vaccinations.

From VRT NWS, students at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium stage yet another lockdown party.

From the NL Times, Prime Minister Mark Rutte will reportedly tell Dutch citizens to avoid traveling until May 9th.

From Deutsche Welle, is Tübingen, Germany a coronavirus role model?

From Free West Media, asylum accommodations in Berlin cost over €1,600 per square meter.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German convert to Islam and a woman accused of being an ISIS terrorist go on trial for allegedly tying up a Yazidi girl and allowing her to die from the heat.  (If you read German, read the story at Süddeutsche Zeitung.)

From the CPH Post, the Danish are the world champs at eating candy.

From Polskie Radio, Polish police find thousands of coronavirus rule violations.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government wants to extend the country's coronavirus state of emergency for 30 more days.

From ReMix, the coronavirus pandemic slows in the Czech Republic, but its hospitals are still "dangerously stretched".

From The Slovak Spectator, 12 churches in Slovakia's Gemer region could receive the European Heritage label.

From Euractiv, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič offers to resign if his critics will do likewise.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary approves a Chinese coronavirus vaccine and an Indian one for emergency use.

From Russia Today, a Russian Soyuz rocket launches 38 satellites from 18 countries into space.

From Romania-Insider, for a cool €450,000, Salbek Castle in the Romanian county of Arad can be yours.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria enters a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

From the Greek Reporter, a look at the Greek War of Independence.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Radman urges the E.U. to "help Bosnia and Herzegovina".

From Balkan Insight, after busting a spy ring, Bulgaria tells two Russian diplomats to get out.

From Total Croatia News, the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic will prevent Easter tourism in Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, the funicular at Ljubljana Castle reopens, but you'll need to prove that you're not infected with the coronavirus in order to ride it.

From the Malta Independent, according to the Gozo Tourism Association, it's still too early to predict what this summer's tourism on the island of Gozo will be like.

From ANSA, Venice, Italy will soon start celebrating its 1,600th anniversary.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland approves the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From France24, France's new coronavirus rules raise questions and satisfy few people.

From EuroNews, thousands of people violate coronavirus restrictions at carnival celebrations in Marseilles, France.

From El País, Spain will welcome visitors from Germany even while restricting in-country travel.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities have detained 911 people during the coronavirus pandemic.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's organic farming sector is expanding.

From The North Africa Post, according to Globaldata, Morocco is edging closer to unlocking its natural gas potential.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey rebuffs criticism from the West over its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.

From Rûdaw, with much of Iraq in coronavirus lockdown, tourism improves in the region of Kurdistan.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan introduces the new Chief of the General Staff to senior officers.

From In-Cyprus, a French naval frigate docks at the port of Lanarca, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, a documentary tells the story of ISIS terrorists who have settled in Europe as refugees.

From The Times Of Israel, why a win for Prime Minister Netanyahu is Israel's upcoming election would be different.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi instructs the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar to draft a personal status bill about marriage.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, police in Gondar City, Ethiopia arrest two smugglers carrying 599 Turkish-made pistols.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister announces a new initiative to resolve the crisis in Yemen.

From The New Arab, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are not impressed with Saudi Arabia's latest move.

From The Express Tribune, police in Karachi, Pakistan baton-charge and detain protesters outside the Sindh provincial chief minister's house.

From the Hindustan Times, people in the region Braj in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh flout coronavirus regulations while celebrating Laddoo Holi.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a large fire breaks out at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

From NaijaNews, a fake "Islamic cleric" allegedly scams a Nigerian woman of 3.2 million naira.  (The naira is the Nigerian monetary unit, symbolized by the character ₦.)

From Gatestone Institute, children are beheaded in Mozambique.

From The Jakarta Post, Singapore's foreign minister is set to visit Brunei today, with Indonesia and Malayasia next on his travel plans.

From Free Malaysia Today, Orang Alsi in Malaysia stage a dam protest.

From The Mainichi, in Toyama, Japan, the score is police officer - 1, knife-wielding man - 0.

From The Stream, cancel culture goes after the colonial leader who mentored George Washington.

From Axios, congresscritter Henry Cuellar (D-TX) shows pictures from the inside of a crowded Border Patrol tent in Donna, Texas.  (via National Review)

From The American Conservative, Hollywood is obsessed with rewriting American history.

From Fox News, according to a study, low-dose aspirin decreases the chance of coronavirus patients requiring admission to intensive care units.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark), DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is "in over his head".

From The Daily Wire, a school district near Columbus, Ohio spends $134,000 in legal fees for a permit to install gender-neutral bathrooms.

From Newsmax, Senator Socialism (I-VT) and businessman Elon Musk spar about wealth and where to spend it.

From the New York Post, the U.S. government imposes "severe" restrictions on covering the border crisis.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

And from The Babylon Bee, Air Force One is issued a handicapped parking pass.

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Music Break

Now that spring has arrived, it's time for some music.  To start, this is No One Else On Earth by Wynonna Judd, from her 1992 self-titled debut album.  She had previously had success with her mother Naomi as the country duo The Judds.

Sunday Stuff

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

From National Review, what a dean does after a leftist mob targets a law professor who criticizes the Chinese government.

From Townhall, conditions at the southern border contradict HHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's claims about "addressing the humanitarian needs" of unaccompanied minors.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the book We Are Are Gods.

From the Washington Examiner, according to his former spokesman Jason Miller, former President Trump will return to social media with "his own platform".

From American Thinker, President Biden offers free hotel rooms to illegal migrants.

From LifeZette, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson calls out leftists about the serial shooting in Atlanta.

From NewsBusters, illegal migrants tells ABC and NBC that Biden is the reason why they're here.

From Canada Free Press, has a political cult captured America and is it becoming a faux church and state.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador's first presidential debate of the current campaign season is set for tonight.

From The Conservative Woman, "whatever happened to the truth?"

From Free West Media, "youths" savagely beat up an English woman in Bordeaux, France.

From EuroNews, thousands of people in Europe demonstrate against coronavirus restrictions.

From The New Arab, Palestinian health workers roll out coronavirus vaccines.

From Ahval News, the subjects of jihad, martyrdom and Neo-Ottomanism reportedly enter schoolbooks in Turkey.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Facebook bans a gay Iraqi critic of Islam for a picture of himself kissing a man in front of the Kaaba.

From Arutz Sheva, what has anyone done for the Palestinians?

From Gatestone Institute, what can be done about China?

From The Stream, the difference between racial sensitivity on one hand and bowing to wokeism on the other.

From Space War, the Philippine coast guard spots hundreds of Chinese "militia" boats near a disputed reef.

From History News, the Soviet Yakovlev fighter planes of World War II.

From The Daily Wire, a bipartisan group of Senators decry conditions at the facilities holding child migrants and demand that the press given access to the border.

From Newsmax, according to Dr. Moncef Slaoui, 90 percent of President Biden's coronavirus vaccine plan is former President Trump's plan.

And from the New York Post, the FBI publishes a photo of a Capitol riot suspect who resembles actor Rick Moranis.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Stories For The Start Of Spring

As we reach the vernal equinox, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the media don't care about President Biden stumbling on the stairs because he's not former President Trump.  (Internet meme creators, on the other hand, have had a field day.)

From Townhall, Texas starts an investigation of health hazards at some migrant holding facilities.

From The Washington Free Beacon, five Democratic governors are doing a great job.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden's quotes of the week.

From American Thinker, Biden is the "second coming" of Soviet leader Brezhnev.

From LifeZette, according to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), here's little evidence that the shutdowns and masks helped against the coronavirus.

From NewsBusters, an MSNBC host accuses Republicans of blaming Asian Americans for the coronavirus pandemic.

From Canada Free Press, it's time to wake up and stop looking in the wrong direction.

From TeleSUR, a censorship law is used against critics of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

From The Conservative Woman, how to deal with the coronavirus "little Hitlers".

From Free West Media, the mayor of Lapu-Lapu, Philippines takes a "pretend" coronavirus vaccine injection.

From EuroNews, a long-dormant volcano erupts in Iceland.

From Euractiv, according to an opinion column, it's time that the E.U. decides what to do about Turkey.

From Deutsche Welle, Turkey leaves the Council of Europe's accord on violence against women.

From ReMix, a French minister insists on imposing LGBT rights and abortion on Poland.

From The North African Post, the U.N. Human Rights council is urged to investigate the immolation of two Sahraouis by Algerian army personnel.

From The New Arab, Qatar's new minimum monthly wage law takes effect.

From TRT World, French Muslims are angry over a government ban on the halal method of killing chickens.

From Gatestone Institute, should any subject matter be off limits to debate and discussion?

From The Stream, Dr. Jay Richards explains why capitalism is good.

From The Daily Signal, three Republican Senators criticize the Biden administration for prioritizing social justice over working Americans.

From The American Conservative, we should not cross the line to transhumanism.

From Fox News, according to congresscritter Linda Sanchez (D-Cal), it's not "appropriate" for journalists to see the facilities for holding migrant children.

From The Daily Wire, according to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal), then-candidate Biden had plans in 2019 "to create a crisis" at the border.

From Newsmax, an eighth woman comes forward to accuse New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) of sexual harassment.

And from the New York Post, a female roadie recalls her encounters with George Harrison and Iggy Pop.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Friday Phenomena

As the sunshine returns on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden has not yet nominated a chairman for the Food and Drug Administration.

From FrontpageMag, Biden has brought us "white flag supremacy".

From Townhall, in its first foreign policy test with China, team Biden gets "rolled".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the situation at the border has become "a man-made disaster".

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) rejects a move by her fellow Democrats to expel congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

From The Federalist, as unaccompanied alien children flood the border again, former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) "is nowhere to be found".

From American Thinker, what all riots, including those in the U.S. today, have in common.

From CNS News, Franklin Graham points out the irony of Biden calling Russian President Putin a "killer".

From NewsBusters, Politico doesn't like New York mayoral candidate Andrew Wang (D) appearing an "right-wing" Joe Rogan's show.

From Canada Free Press, Dr. Fauci has caught a bad case of politics.

From TeleSUR, 96 Venezuelans stranded in Ecuador return home.

From The Conservative Woman, Prime Minister Boris Johnson sells out the U.K. military.

From Snouts in the Trough, are you an oikophobe?

From Free West Media, how a way of ending lockdowns is being ignored and criminalized.

From EuroNews, according to Germany's health minister, Europe does not have enough vaccines to prevent a third wave of the coronavirus.

From Euractiv, the Bulgarian prosecutor's office claims to have broken up a Russian spy ring.

From ReMix, according to the vice president of the Hungarian party Fidesz, it left the EPP because it chose mass migration and left-wing values.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgaria and Romania agree to allow third-country NATO air policing in their airspace.

From Balkan Insight, NATO dismisses a warning from Russia about its developing relationship with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria moves to kick Moroccan farmers out of their border area.

From The New Arab, Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have launched a drone attack on Aramco in Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, how Arabs discriminate against the Palestinians.

From The Stream, are there any reasonable Democrats left?

From The Daily Signal, what you should know about Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

From The Daily Wire, the key takeaways from the talks between the U.S. and China.

From Breitbart, police in Manchester, England find 809 rape gang predators.

From the New York Post, then-candidate Biden once mocked then-President Trump about his gingerly walking down a slippery ramp.

And from Newsmax, President Biden has some technical difficulties climbing the stairs up to Air Force One.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, New York's Mr. Bill wants cops to confront people accused of non-criminal "hurtful" conduct.

From FrontpageMag, there really isn't any Biden administration.

From Townhall, the Senate confirms Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary by a narrow vote.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Southern Poverty Law Center keeps a lot of money in accounts outside the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) calls on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to change the department's border policies or resign.

From The Federalist, the Biden administration imposes a media blackout at the southern border.  (This would assume that contrary to the FrontpageMag article above, there indeed is a Biden administration.)

From American Thinker, the ugly consequences of illegal immigration.

From CNS News, according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), the situation at the border is a "total catastrophe".

From LifeZette, a token racial play backfires on California Governor Gavin Newsome (D).

From NewsBusters, the Iowa Senate passes a bill to punish censorship by Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, traveling has become like visiting a leper colony.

From TeleSUR, a group called "Fanton 509" raids a police station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to free some of its members.

From The Conservative Woman, what's the truth about the scare over the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine?

From Free West Media, rioters burn cars and an Aldi store in Blois, France.

From EuroNews, Austria's highest court has enough sense to realize that a cow mask is not a burqa.

From Euractiv, the Slovak parliament discusses a bill to ban sex reassignment surgery.

From ReMix, Poland will impose another coronavirus lockdown.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, is passing the buck the main policy of the Greek government under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis?

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian police seize counterfeit euros and dollars, which are claimed to be party decorations.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco grants the UK Altus Strategies Company new license to explore for silver and copper.

From The New Arab, suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen kill 12 people in the Yemeni province of Abyan.

From Gatestone Institute, the war on police in France.

From The Stream, "immune system 101".

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's border policy is evidence of a lack of planning.

From Space War, North Korea says that it will ignore the U.S. while its "hostile policy" is in place.

From Newsmax, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) debunks critical race theory.

From The Daily Wire, former President Obama calls for "commonsense gun safety laws" after a series of shootings in Atlanta.

From Fox News, a man from Ohio is arrested for allegedly trespassing at the California home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

From the New York Post, after being victimized by hate crimes, Asians exercise their Second Amendment rights.

And from The Peedmont, Civil War reenactors are advised to sanitize their hands between every Confederate kill.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Stories For Saint Patrick's Day

As we celebrate the British guy who was enslaved in Ireland and later preached Christianity there, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a plan for collegiate conservatives.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats defended then-HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo when he was accused of sexual harassment 20 years ago.

From Townhall, amid a massive surge of illegal immigration, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims that the southern border is secure.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the China-backed Confucius Institute tries to avoid scrutiny by rebranding itself.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's border debacle shows the limits of reversing former President Trump's policies.

From The Federalist, the media's fake Trump quotes are just part of its fraudulent narrative about Georgia.

From American Thinker, the old idea that "we are all immigrants" is not exactly true.

From CNS News, Trump's take on rising gas prices.

From LifeZette, Biden dumps illegal aliens on the mayor of Huachuca, Arizona.

From NewsBusters, an MSNBC host admits that Biden is not allowing media to see the children at the southern border.

From Canada Free Press, to stand for America, fight against "caravan Joe".

From CTV News, experts warn of a third wave of the coronavirus in Canada.

From TeleSUR, Colombia confirms that more children are being recruited as soldiers by drug trafficking organizations.

From The Conservative Woman, the left is bitten by its own repression beast.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Downing Street will not say whether U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson regrets his past sexist comments.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German court gives two Syria migrants probation for raping the 15-year-old girl who was giving them lessons in German.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Eastern coronavirus vaccines have saved the lives of many Hungarians and Serbs.

From Free West Media, a Latvian media "influencer" is canceled after a comment about homosexuality.

From The Moscow Times, Russia bans insulting World War II veterans.

From Radio Bulgaria, a 47-year-old man from Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria dies after being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the Greek City Times, according to Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis, Greece will open for all tourists on May 14th.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, members of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina continue their visit to Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia reportedly rejected more asylum seekers in 2020 than in 2019.

From ReMix, while meeting in Vienna, four E.U. leaders call for more equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines.

From Euractiv, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vetoes a bill to decriminalize euthanasia after the country's Constitutional Court declares it unconstitutional.

From EuroNews, the European Commission proposes a "Green Pass" for free movement within the E.U. during the coronavirus pandemic.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company OCP will continue selling fertilizer to American farmers.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Knesset okays electronic bracelets for people returning to Israel from abroad.

From The New Arab, Tunisian President Kais Saied visits Libya for talks with interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.

From Dawn, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asks National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to "immediately" create a committee for electoral reforms.

From The Hans India, a leader in India's Congress Party is shot dead in the district of Chhatarpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden must deal with Turkey very carefully.

From The Stream, Big Brother, I mean, Big Tech is watching you.

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Greg Murphy (R-NC) proposes sending the National Guardsmen now at the Capitol to the southern border.

From Space War, top U.S. officials arrive in Seoul, South Korea with North Korea and China on the agenda.

From The American Conservative, Washington's negative fixation with Russia.

From Fox News, former congresscritter Charlie Rangel (D-NY) defends Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY).

From Breitbart, having wrongly accused the U.K. of banning the export of coronavirus vaccines, the E.U. bans the export of coronavirus vaccines.

From Newsmax, the IRS plans to extend this year's tax filing deadline to May 15th or 17th.

From the New York Post, a man in LaGrange, New York pleads guilty to possessing seven live sharks.

And from CNN, North Korea denounces the K-pop industry as "slave-like exploitation".

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Tuesday Links

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

From National Review, despite his talk of "unity", President Biden seems to have no gratitude for anything positive inherited from former President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, the Democrats besiege federalism.

From Townhall, Biden's border czar admits that the Mexican drug cartels and human smugglers are adapting faster than we are.

From The Washington Free Beacon and the "be careful what you ask for" department, the ACLU asks the Supreme Court to end male-only military draft registration.

From the Washington Examiner, why we haven't seen any photos from inside the federal migrant holding facilities.

From The Federalist, the Democrats cannot legitimately claim that the migrant crisis is Trump's fault.

From American Thinker, say "hi" to President Cloward and Vice President Piven.

From CNS News, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) suggests that Biden brings Air Force 1 to the southern border.

From LifeZette, Trump criticizes The Washington Post for now-corrected story accusing him of tampering with the Georgia elections.

From NewsBusters, a CNN reporters presses the Biden White House on the border situation.

From Canada Free Press, if ProFa is not real, who burnt those businesses to the ground?

From Global News, Canada allows the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to be used on people aged 65 and up.

From TeleSUR, in protest of increased gas prices and tolls, truck drivers block highways in Peru.

From The Conservative Woman, stories about coronavirus variants cannot be used to keep people oppressed.

From Snouts in the Trough, the author of SitT chooses the subject of his next book.

From the Evening Standard, according to Welsh Secretary Simon Hart, asylum seekers will be moved out of military barracks in Wales.

From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin urges the Irish people to avoid gathering for St. Patrick's Day.

From The Brussels Times, virologist Marc Van Ranst explains Belgium's decision to continue using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Dutch News, Dutch Home Affairs Minister Kajsa Ollongren changes the rules for counting postal votes.

From EuroNews, will Dutch voters choose change during the current pandemic?

From ReMix, Slovakia's government crisis deepens as the Freedom and Solidarity party asks for the resignation of Prime Minister Igor Matovič.

From Hungary Today, despite coronavirus closures, Hungarians did not stay home.  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Portfolio.)

From Euractiv, Hungary and Poland win a court case against the European Commission about turnover taxes.

From Sputnik International, Twitter is given a month to comply with Russian law or get banned.

From The Sofia Globe, 27 of Bulgaria's 28 districts are coronavirus "red zones".

From Ekathimerini, Pantheion University calls for a return to classroom teaching and learning.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša attends a meeting on coronavirus vaccines in Vienna.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina signs an agreement with Turkey to construct a highway from Sarajevo, B&H to Belgrade, Serbia.

From Malta Today, Malta's two fishing coops disagree on a renewable tuna quota for small boats.

From RFI, a new coronavirus variant is identified in the French region of Brittany.

From Free West Media, illegal migrants on the Spanish island of Tenerife turn violent.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco takes part in the U.S. military exercise Obangame Express.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish jewelers are irked at plans to require them to deposit 500 grams of gold with state-run banks as a "security".

From The Times Of Israel and the "Jews in space" department, Israel will launch three satellites into earth orbit, each of which will use one gram of fuel per day.

From Egypt Today, Palestinian factions sign a "pact of honor" in Cairo, Egypt.

From The New Arab, Libya's Government of National Accord hands power over to the new Government of National Unity.

From IranWire, the Iranian Bowling Billiards and Boules Federation "panics" as an Iranian plays snooker against an Israeli.

From Pakistan Today, the Sindh provincial cabinet decides to engage private hospitals and labs for mass coronavirus vaccination.

From India Today, according to a report by IQAir, New Delhi, India is the world's most polluted capital city.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's ambassador to Myanmar decides to quit after just two weeks on the job.

From Gatestone Institute, yes, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are terrorists, and backed by Iran.

From The Straits Times, 20 more anti-coup protesters are killed in Myanmar.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia reports 1,063 new coronavirus cases, the lowest daily number so far this year.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese officials hail their country's cooperation with Russia on national defense and security.

From The Stream, how to keep "progressives" from taking us to the end of Western civilization.

From Space War, the U.S. and Japan warn China about "coercion and destabilising behaviour".  (My spellchecker doesn't like the British spelling of those last two words, but to quote the article accurately, I must spell them that way.)

From The American Conservative, no, the U.S. should not intervene on behalf of rebels in Syria.

From The Daily Signal, former President Trump, not current President Biden, deserves credit for the progress against the coronavirus.

From the New York Post, JetBlue considers moving some jobs from New York City to Florida.

From Newsmax, the reboot of the platform Parler is cast as a fight for free speech.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), the border situation is a crisis, both humanitarian and of national security.

From The Daily Wire, Moderna starts administering its coronavirus vaccine to children.

From Fox News, the Hubble Space Telescope's science operations and camera are back online after a "software error".

And from the Genesius Times, lobotomies and other ways to celebrate the first anniversary of "15 days to flatten the curve".

Monday, March 15, 2021

Links For The Ides Of March

On the 15th of March, as you're observing the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar or listening to the band named after today's date, here are some things going on:

From National Review, two men are charged with assaulting Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, but the cause of his death remains unknown.

From FrontpageMag, the Zionist Organization of America points out the errors about Israel in former President Obama's book A Promised Land.

From Townhall, the celebrities who should be jailed under California Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) coronavirus restrictions.

From The Washington Free Beacon, faculty at Cornell University push back against a partnership with China.

From the Washington Examiner, BLM activists take the stage at the Grammys and demand "justice" from President Biden.

From The Federalist, the U.S. military has become an attack machine against Biden's opponents.

From American Thinker, our economic problems are not caused by the top one percent.

From CNS News, according to my governor, coronavirus vaccine hesitancy among Republicans is not entirely the fault of former President Trump.

From LifeZette, while the military targets right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, it loses simulated war games to China.

From NewsBusters, evening newscasts say nothing about ProFa violence in Portland, Oregon.

From Canada Free Press, where the Democrat victory in the 2020 election leaves the free West.

From CBC News, the Canadian government and the Quebec provincial government will invest $100 million in an electric vehicle battery maker.

From TeleSUR, Cuba's only legal political party starts debates ahead of its eighth summit.

From The Conservative Woman, the police at a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everhard in London "were trying to enforce a rotten law".

From the Express, crowds gather outside the Houses of Parliament in London in protest of a policing bill.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish authorities arrest a "recruiter and account controller" of a fraud operation.

From VRT NWS, an 88-year-old filing station attendant in Herentals, Belgium decides to retire.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands suspends using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to investigate blood clots.

From Free West Media, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders tells Prime Minister Mark Rutte that the three largest parties in the Netherlands should form a coalition.

From Deutsche Welle, elections in German states deepen the troubles of Chancellor Merkel's party the CDU.

From the CPH Post, some schools and department stores in Denmark are allowed to reopen.

From Gatestone Institute, Denmark bans the foreign funding of mosques.

From Polskie Radio, Poland imposes coronavirus lockdowns in two provinces as case numbers soar.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš sets a goal for April of 100,000 coronavirus vaccinations per day.

From ReMix, Poland prepares a response to the European Parliament's "LGBTIQ freedom zone".

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak Labor Minister Milan Krajniak resigns.

From Daily News Hungary, on today's date in 1848, Hungarians stated a War of Independence against Austria.

From Russia Today, according to a Kremlin spokesman, Russia and Belarus "have a brotherly bond".

From Romania-Insider, Romania will keep "mild" coronavirus restrictions for 30 more days.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Profit(dot)ro.)

From Novinite, actress Maria Bakalova becomes the first Bulgarian to be nominated for an Oscar.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece will keep using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonian authorities detain businessman Orce Kamcev due to a suspected risk that he might try to flee the country.

From Total Croatia News, a Croat whom you don't want to mess with opens a gym for kids.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, a human trafficking and prostitution ring, whose victims were mostly from the Dominican Republic, is busted in Šentilj, Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, according to Maltese Energy Minister Miriam Dalli, measures to help businesses to get back on their feet are coming soon.

From ANSA, half of Italy is a coronavirus red zone.

From EuroNews, the Vatican decrees that it cannot bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin".

From SwissInfo, the company Lonza opens a site in Visp, Switzerland at which the active ingredient of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine can be made.

From France24, France suspends using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From El País, why Spain's National Library covered up the theft of work by Galileo.

From The Portugal News, Portugal will keep its land and river border controls until April 5th.

From Euractiv, Portugal is optimistic about reforms to its Common Agricultural Policy.

From Morocco World News, Morocco awards a U.K. mining company three licenses to explore for minerals.

From The North Africa Post, the new Libyan government is sworn in before parliament in the city of Tobruk.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to experts, the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey might start to decline in May.

From Rûdaw, protesters block roads in Erbil, Iraq.

From Armenpress, French intellectuals call on their government to mediate in talks for the release of Armenian POWs.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot Health Ministry forbids restaurants from playing music that makes people want to dance.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad could be prosecuted and stripped of her U.K. citizenship.

From Arutz Sheva, the head of the Yesha Council and a candidate for chairman of the Palestinian Authority jointly call for Israel to vaccinate Palestinians against the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian and French naval forces conduct a joint exercise in the Red Sea.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Sudan rejects a four-way dam mediation.

From The New Arab, Jordanians protest across their country after six coronavirus patients die due to a shortage of oxygen at a state hospital.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh tightens its coronavirus restrictions until April 15th.

From ANI, according to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, no parliament should discuss laws passed by other parliaments.  (The Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Indian parliament.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, oil prices in Bangladesh increase again.  (This is not about petroleum, but various types of vegetable oil.)

From the Colombo Page, according to Trade Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena, Sri Lanka will import rice if there is a shortage.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian immigration officers will be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian police identify a person behind a video allegedly instigating people against the recent judicial decision to allow non-Muslims to use the word "Allah".

From the Malay Mail, an unemployed man in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is fined for insulting Islam on Facebook.

From The Mainichi, the bones of a Japanese American who died after hiking from the Manzanar internment camp to the Sierra Nevada are reinterred in Santa Monica, California.

From The Stream, coronavirus hypocrisy at President Biden's White House.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Biden lectures about following rules while allowing thousand of coronavirus-positive illegal aliens to stream into the U.S.  (via LifeZette)

From ITR Economics, keep calm and keep drilling.

From SmallBizDaily, spending from people staying at home reportedly keeps increasing.

From Military History Matters, a lost letter from World War II finally reaches the family of its intended recipient.

From The American Conservative, why it's urgent to reopen schools now.

From CBS News, a "bug" on Twitter locks the accounts of users who mention "Memphis".  (via Breitbart)

From Newsmax, LGBTQ Catholics are "stung" by the Vatican's ruling on same-sex unions.

From Breitbart, actress Natalie Portman rewrites classic fairy tales to make them "gender neutral".  (Naturally, I would expect her to object to my use of the gendered term "actress".)

From the New York Post, a man is arrested for allegedly selling drugs out of a daycare center on Long Island.

And from The Babylon Bee, new M1 Abrams tanks will come equipped with diaper changing tables.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Stories For Pi Day

As the calendar hits 3/14 in salute of the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the noted capitalist Adam Smith was an opponent of slavery.

From Townhall, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) recognizes that there's a "humanitarian crisis" at the border, but her arguments miss some points.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Canadian professor Jordan Peterson's book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life.

From the Washington Examiner, New York's Mr. Bill calls for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign.

From The Federalist, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams (D) accuses Republicans to trying to bring back Jim Crow, to which TV host Chuck Todd says nothing.  (Perhaps she doesn't realize that Jim Crow was a Democrat.)

From American Thinker, comparing the successes of President Polk and President Trump.

From LifeZette, everyone is in the establishment, it's just a matter of which one.

From NewsBusters, NBC's Meet the Press blames Trump for Cuomo's refusal to resign.

From Canada Free Press, do foreigners have an actual right to become U.S. citizens?

From TeleSUR, Chile has vaccinated 25 percent of its population against the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, of mole hunts and goose eggs.

From Free West Media, riots break out in Liège, Belgium after a BLM demonstration.

From EuroNews, according to exit polls, Chancellor Angela Merkel's party appears to have lost elections in two German states.

From ReMix, according to Polish MEPs, the European Parliament's "LGBTIQ freedom zone" resolution is unnecessary and includes false information.

From The New Arab, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 388,642 people have been killed in a decade of war in Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, the game that led Iran to a historic impasse.

From The Stream, opposing a mandatory coronavirus "vaccine".

From Space War, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sees U.S. ties to Asian countries as a deterrent against China.

From Fox News, according to Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, President Biden's silence on New York Governor Cuomo becomes "more conspicuous" as more Democrats call for Cuomo to resign.

From The Daily Wire, left-wing host Bill Maher denounces wokeness.

From The Daily Signal, BLM threatens our schools.

From the New York Post, according to Dr. Fauci, a coronavirus vaccine endorsement from former President Trump would be a "game-changer".

And from Gateway Pundit, for your safety, please do not climb onto police cars.