I feel compelled to discuss the first story in some detail. The Guardian asks why sex scandals aren't sticking to President Trump like they did with President Clinton. Let me try to answer. First, a quote from the article:
Did not Bill Clinton get impeached not so long ago, over an extramarital affair? And has not Trump’s conduct – which has been tied to a second payment before the election to a former Playboy model – been just as egregious, if not worse?
To directly answer the first question, Clinton was not impeached for having an extramarital affair. He was impeached for perjury (for lying under oath about the affair) and obstruction of justice. This point seems to be lost on The Guardian, as the words "perjury", "obstruction", "justice" and "oath" do not turn up in the article when I use my browser's "find" function. As for Trump's conduct being at least as bad as Clinton's, that might be a matter of opinion, depending on how many affairs makes one man's conduct worse than the other's, and if I recall correctly, Mr. Bill seemed to have had quite a few. (The article comes via HotAir.)
Continuing with the things going on:
From The New York Times, an "allahu akbar" breaks out at a church in the Russian region of Dagestan. (This comes via Fox News, who link other sources.)
From the Sunday Express, Russian security forces kill a terrorist ringleader in the northern Caucasus.
From Breitbart Video, Rush Limbaugh proposes an amnesty deal for illegal aliens. (via American Lookout)
From Townhall, seven things we can do to stop school shootings.
From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli pilot who was injured when he was shot down over Syria has been released from the hospital. (H/T Gadi Adelman for the Tweet)
From Yahoo News, the Saudi Arabian government will allow women to open a business without the permission of a male guardian.
From Voice Of Europe, according to a Swedish politician, his country is already having "small civil wars". (The story also appears in the Hungarian site Magyar Hirlap, so if you read Hungarian, read it there.)
From Bloomberg, as he faces reelection, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban "warns of Europe's demise".
From Reuters, Orban calls for an "anti-migrant alliance".
From Flanders News, the Belgian government has recovered a record amount of money in the battle against social fraud.
From Deutsche Welle, delegates at the Munich Security Conference discuss how to stop post-caliphate jihadis.
From Sputnik International, at the Munich Security Conference, leaders don't agree on how to make Europe safer. (I could offer a few suggestions, but that could be part of a different post.)
From France24, accused rapist Tariq Ramadan is hospitalized in France.
From Gatestone Institute, "looking for ways out of the maze" which is Syria. (Instead of maze, you could say "cluster[bleep]".)
From the Anchorage Daily News, a large "weird-looking" fish washes ashore in Haines, Alaska.
From the Liverpool Echo, some relatively unknown "weird diseases".
And from the New York Post, farts on a plane cause an emergency landing.
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