It looks like today and tomorrow I will be able to make some full-size posts, and afterwards I'll be busy with stuff related to the Christmas holidays. So today, on a cool foggy Tuesday, are some things going on:
From National Review, there is no constitutional right to homeless encampments.
From FrontpageMag, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign show us that reporters are political operatives.
From Townhall, the left goes nuts because SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch goes on Fox News.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Vox Media fires hundreds of freelance workers due to a law that they themselves had praised.
From the Washington Examiner, a Democrat congresscritter from a very red district supports the impeachment of President Trump.
From The Federalist, the new trade deal with China doesn't do much for the U.S.
From American Thinker, is the Russian collision controversy all Hillary Clinton's fault?
From CNS News, despite the impeachment, President Trump is polling better than any of the top Democratic candidates.
From LifeZette, the rise in the polls by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is good news for Trump. (If you favor Sanders, you're asking for the U.S. to replace its old white male president with an even older white male president.)
From NewsBusters, today's impeachment "cheerleaders" were singing a different tune when Mr. Bill was impeached.
From Canada Free Press, "free stuff" costs a lot.
From CBC News, the Canadian party NDP faces a possible fine for misuing a list of voters.
From Global News, more people in Saskatchewan than ever are speaking French at home.
From CTV News, a small earthquake strikes near Cornwall, Ontario.
From TeleSUR, former Bolivian President Evo Morales blames his ouster on fascists and racists.
From The Portugal News, 11 people are arrested for alleged drug trafficking in Santarém, Portugal.
From El País, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reaches out to nationalist parties for support.
From France24, French unions rally en masse against proposed pensions reforms.
From RFI, for the third day, French unions go "taking it to the street".
From EuroNews, strikes in France results in power outages, school closings, road blockage, and the "crippling" of public transport.
From SwissInfo, poverty in Switzerland increases by 10 percent in one year.
From ANSA, Pope Francis abolishes the pontifical secret in cases of child sex-abuse.
From Free West Media, a member of the "sardine" movement insults Italian politicians Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni.
From the Malta Independent, Malta appoints its first State Advocate. (She has the same last name as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.)
From Malta Today, the Maltese people pick names for a star and an exoplanet.
From Total Slovenia News, Italian neo-fascists put up posters against five Slovenians who were executed by fascists in 1941.
From Total Croatia News, 30 "incredible" discoveries in Croatia in 2019.
From Euractiv, a dialogue mediated by the E.U. fails to the Serbian opposition to drop plans to boycott an upcoming election.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister Duško Marković, Montenegro is committed to fulfilling its obligations under the Europe agenda.
From Ekathimerini, American archaeologists find two 3,500-year-old royal tombs in southern Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, after Brexit, can Greece push for the return of the Elgin marbles?
From Novinite, is there a real chance that Bulgaria could join the U.S. visa-free waiver program?
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarians love their beer.
From Radio Bulgaria, the foreign ministers of Bulgaria and South Korea have a meeting in Madrid, Spain.
From Romania-Insider, U.S. President Trump sends a plaque honoring the heroes of the 1989 Romanian Revolution.
From Russia Today, Russia plans to track near-earth asteroids from a robot-inhabited nuclear-powered base at the moon's south pole.
From Sputnik International, the first test batch of Russian self-propelled Koalitsiya-SV artillery guns is reportedly ready.
From The Moscow Times, Moscow city authorities will equate the incineration of trash with recycling.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, Hungarian native George Soros has failed to enforce his agenda in the U.K. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Hírlap, who interviewed Farage.)
From Daily News Hungary, some crazy Hungarian Christmas traditions.
From Hungary Today, Hungarian President János Áder meets with ethnic Hungarian religious leaders from neighboring countries.
From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Europe needs to cooperate with Asia in order to be competitive.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks living outside Slovakia have a month left to register for the Slovakian elections.
From Radio Prague, Prague city hall wins a "dragged out" case against a local brothel.
From Polskie Radio, Poland commemorates the victims of a 1970 communist massacre.
From the CPH Post, a roundup of news in Denmark, including an evaluation of an au-pair program started in 2015.
From Deutsche Welle, the German government announces plans to step up the fight against right-wing extremism.
From the NL Times, the Dutch people name a star and an exoplanet after Rembrandt and Van Gogh paintings.
From Dutch News, Dutch courts allow farmers to continue their protests, but not to block food distribution centers.
From VRT NWS, food left over from a visit to Belgium by the Sultan of Oman is given to needy people in the city of Leuven.
From Voice Of Europe, in four years, the migrant population of Ghent, Belgium doubles. (The story links to an article in the Flemish-language website Het Nieuwsblad, which appears to be behind a paywall.)
From the Express, according to an E.U. official, a no-deal Brexit is now "almost guaranteed".
From the Evening Standard, the U.K. Border Force brings dozens of suspected migrants ashore from the English Channel.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. faces pressure to return colonial artifacts as France prepares to return artwork taken from Benin.
From the (Irish) Independent, a deportation order against a 10-year-old boy born in Ireland to a Chinese mother is lifted.
From the Irish Examiner, good dog!
From The Conservative Woman, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a "very liberal Conservative".
From The Stream, how much of the story of the three wise men is history, and how much is myth?
From the Daily Caller, a FISA judge blasts the FBI for providing false information about Carter Page.
From Reason, a decade of learning nothing from U.S. interventions overeas.
From CNN, a Russian ship is spotted off the U.S. east coast being operated in an "unsafe manner". (via The Moscow Times)
From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill promises to end street homelessness in five years.
And from The Babylon Bee, California considers taxing a very obvious method of producing carbon dioxide.
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