Friday Fuss

As the rain falls on the end of the workweek, here are some things going on:

From USA Today, some of Senator Elizabeth Warren's "free college" plans are rather expensive.  (via Twitchy)

From NPR, the Supreme Court of Kansas rules that the state's constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion.  (via The Daily Caller)

From Reason, a new film depicts Satanists as unlikely defenders of the First Amendment.  (Beatles fans will appreciate the director's name.)

From NewsBusters, polled voters call political corruption America's worst crisis.

From The Federalist, an interview with Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah).

From American Thinker, the economic "experts" get it wrong.  (During my first year in college, one professor defined an "expert" as "someone who is more than 25 miles from home and carrying briefcase", or words to that effect.)

From CNS News, the persecution against "Easter worshippers".

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Joe Biden's first presidential campaign interview.

From the Washington Examiner, while President Trump speaks at an NRA meeting, a cell phone appears to fly in his general direction.

From Townhall, Trump promises the NRA that he will oppose the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.

From National Review, the Democrats play "intersectionality roulette".  (My spellchecker objects to "intersectionality".)

From FrontpageMag, why leftists don't want anyone to cry for Notre Dame.

From The Conservative Woman, I think, therefore I am.........in trouble.

From The Guardian, two suspects are arrested in a counter-terrorism operation in Melbourne, Australia.

From the Express, a German economist warns the U.K. to get away when Europe's economic "bomb explodes".

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to eat with U.S. President Trump.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a Ukip candidate defends his own use of racist speech.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Varadkar and U.K. Prime Minister May agree to start new talks concerning Northern Ireland.

From the Irish Examiner, some background on the Stormont powersharing crisis.

From CBC News, an airbnb for LGBTQ travelers calls for a boycott against hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei.

From Global News, Canada is getting more "100 year floods" due to climate change, or are they?

From CTV News, at Wilfred Laurier University, a woman tells Muslim women that their clothes don't make them look Canadian.

From Mexico News Daily, about 1,300 migrants escape from a detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.  (I have one more MND page this month.)

From El País, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is worried that the right and "far right" could join forces.

From France24, some key points of French President Macron's proposed reforms.

From RFI, are "yellow vest" protests still justified?

From VRT NWS, Belgium's Princess Elisabeth tries her hand at fighting fires.

From the NL Times, a Dutch court forbids Amsterdam enforcement officers from striking on King's Day.

From Dutch News, for King's day, bring your umbrella.

From Deutsche Welle, about one in ten E.U. voters support "far right" parties.

From SwissInfo, "zero-waste" shops are on the rise in Switzerland.

From ANSA, Italian President Sergio Mattarella proposes a law expanding the right to self defense.

From the Malta Independent, the Maltese government will change a law under which adopted children will receive Maltese citizenship.

From Morocco World News, a joint Spanish-Moroccan anti-terror operation nabs one in each country.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi meets with world leaders in Beijing.

From The Times Of Israel, the U.S. will donate $500,000 to help restore the tomb of the prophet Nahum.

From The Jerusalem Post, training for a day with Israeli-Arab soldiers.

From Rûdaw, according to one of its generals, the Peshmerga needs to reform in order to fight ISIS.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Brazil detains a FETÖ suspect wanted by Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, prosecutors in Istanbul order another 210 military personnel to be detained over suspected Gülen links.

From Ekathimerini, over 2,600 underage migrants sought asylum in Greece in 2018.

From the Greek Reporter, Greeks mark Holy Friday with processions in which the Epitaphios (Bier of Christ) is carried.  (For Eastern Christians, today is Holy Friday, the equivalent of Good Friday in the West.  This year, Easter for Eastern Christianity occurs a week after the Western Easter.)

From Novinite, Bulgarians travel for Easter weekend.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanian opposition protesters block roads.

From Total Croatia News, the status of the Serb minority impacts the European nature of Croatia.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto objects to Ukraine's new language law.

From Daily News Hungary, a flash flood early warning system will be installed on the Serbia-Hungary border.

From Hungary Today, more on the Ukrainian language law.

From About Hungary, E.U. elites spend over €1.5 billion using migrant credit cards.

From The Slovak Spectator, climate activists protest in Bratislava.  (Since Bratislava is Slovakia's capital, it would most likely contain China's embassy to Slovakia, assuming that the two countries have normal relations.)

From Radio Praha, European "far right" leaders rally in Prague, with "Czexit" supporter Tomio Okamura.

From Radio Poland, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak signs a deal to purchase four anti-submarine helicopters from Italy.

From Russia Today, a Russian gun rights activist is sentenced to time in an American prison.

From Sputnik International, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lays a wreath at a memorial in Vladivostok, Russia.

From The Moscow Times, half of Russia's Orthodox Christians don't know why Easter is celebrated.

From Radio Farda, Iranian imams claim that the country doesn't need oil money, just believe in God and their supreme leader.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, Iranian Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi claims that Western freedom leads to "deviation and scandal".

From Dawn, more families in the Pakistani region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa refuse to have their children vaccinated against polio.

From Pakistan Today, two girls trafficked to the UAE are returned to Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, a Taliban commander is killed by Afghan forces in Zabul province.

From the Hindustan Times, according to Sri Lanka's prime minister, his country may seek Pakistan's help in tracing terrorists.  (via The Express Tribune)

From the Daily Mirror, one of the Sri Lanka church attackers was investigated by Australia in 2014.  (The Daily Mirror is the first Sri Lankan source that I've run across.)

From the Borneo Post, a bomb scare and a suspicious vehicle rattle Sri Lanka.

From Gatestone Institute, how Turkey's democracy went from bad to worse.

From the New York Post, in Brooklyn's Pig Beach, you can eat barbecued alligator.  (If you go swimming in the wrong swamp, the alligator eats you.)

From Fox News, the defense rests in the trial of a Minneapolis police officer who killed a woman as she approached his squad car.

From Channel News Asia, according to his lawyer, a American arrested in Myanmar for growing cannabis had received a permit to do so.

And from Asia One, a man in Hong Kong learns the hard way that he should not reveal spoilers.  (If you read Chinese, read the story at TVBS News.)