Tuesday Things

As we get to the day when Wimpie was supposed to repay Popeye for buying him a hamburger, here are some things going on:

From National Review, voting by (male) non-citizens was at one time pretty common.

From Townhall, former gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie (R-VA) reacts to Governor Northam's blackface scandal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senate Democrats wanting to run for president in 2020 vote against providing care to newborns who survive abortion.

From CNS News, a woman who survived an abortion weighs in.

From the Washington Examiner, the ISIS bride from Alabama was a propagandist, not a victim of brainwashing.

From The Federalist, politics and morality are not made superior by endorsements from children.

From American Thinker, journalist Jose Ramos, who once compared President Trump to a "dictator", gets to deal with a real dictator.

From LifeZette, officials from the Trump administration "correct the record" on family separation.

From FrontpageMag, was there any Polish culpability in the Holocaust?  (This is a very touchy subject in Poland.  My own ancestry includes Polish, which is why I decided to learn a bit of the language.)

From Radio Poland, Poland will hold their E.U. elections on May 26th.

From Radio Praha, after traveling for three and a half years and covering 11,500 kilometers, Czech kayaker Jiří Oliva returns home.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian diplomat Zoltan Kovacs, the E.U. has confessed that its polices encourage migration.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's population decreased by 41,300 in 2018.

From Hungary Today, Greenpeace activists place a "clean air" banner on the Liberty Statue in Budapest, Hungary.  (This Liberty Statue is not to be confused with, nor even resembles, the Statue of Liberty in New York, U.S.A.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, tensions about migrations "will only intensify".

From Russia Today, a stabbing victim wanders around a hospital in search of a cigarette, with the knife still in his back.  (Reader discretion is most definitely advised.)

From Sputnik International, Russian missiles get stuck in traffic.  (Don't you hate when that happens?)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Council of Europe urges Albanian opposition MPs to reconsider their resignations.

From Ekathimerini, Greece ran a primary surplus in January.

From the Greek Reporter, even with its own problems, Greece is better off in the Eurozone.

From Total Croatia News, the European Commission declines to have any role in the Slovenia-Croatia border dispute.

From the Malta Independent, 20 migrants leave Malta for Portugal.

From El País, a Catalan separatist, on trial in Madrid, calls the October 2017 independence referendum Europe's biggest exercise in civil disobedience.

From France24, the Council of Europe urges France to discontinue the use of rubber bullets.

From RFI, French authorities will investigate German pensions given to French Nazi collaborators.

From the Express, the U.K. is not ready for a hard Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, British activist Tommy Robinson is kicked off Facebook and Instagram.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the Independent Group of MPs tables an amendment calling for a second Brexit referendum.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will allow ISIS terror suspects back into Ireland.

From VRT NWS, Belgian scientists develop a solar panel that produces hydrogen.

From the NL Times, a Dutch teacher is suspended for insulting the prophet Muhammad.

From Dutch News, a Dutch counter-terrorism chief says that jihadi women and children are a threat.

From Deutsche Welle, neo-Nazis march and carry torches in Nuremburg.

From CBC News, Canada pledges $47 million in aid to Yemen.

From CTV News, a Quebec man faces deportation to Italy due to a 20-year-old conviction.

From Hürriyet Daily News, seven wanted suspected terrorists are captured in Istanbul.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan "slams" E.U. leaders for attending a conference hosted by Egyptian President el-Sisi.

From Rûdaw, women fleeing ISIS and arriving at checkpoints carry guns, laptops, coins and milk.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel will not allow Iran to have a base near its border.

From The Times Of Israel, a teenage Israeli settler is convicted of terror offenses against Palestinians.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority's foreign minister wants a travel ban against Israeli settlers.

From YNetNews, Israel gets ready for a possible invasion of locusts.

From the Egypt Independent, an Egyptian-Swedish archaeological mission finds a pharaonic workshop.  (My spellchecker objects to "pharaonic", but has no problem with "pharaoh".)

From Radio Farda, a majority of the Iranian parliament asks President Rouhani to reject the resignation of their foreign minister.

From Dawn, Indian aircraft allegedly violate the Line of Control in Kashmir.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's army tells India "to get ready for a surprise".

From Pakistan Today, the Indian air force claims to have shot down a "Pakistani drone".

From Khaama Press, Afghani forces raid a Taliban drug stockpile.

From the New York Post, new images show ancient Martian waterways.

And from Breitbart, SCOTUS prepares to decide the fate of a war memorial cross in Bladensburg, Maryland.

UPDATE:  Here are a few more:

From NRL News Today, a Maryland state legislator withdraws his bill which would put unrestricted abortion into the state's constitution.

From The Epoch Times, a woman who assaulted a man wearing a MAGA hat turns out to be an illegal alien, and faces deportation to Brazil.  (To my surprise, the article actually uses the term "illegal alien".)

From KIRO, vandals who had earlier spray painted racial slurs apparently return to apologize.

And from Sky News, you dirty (fat) rat!