Wednesday Links - Part 1

On a sunny but cold Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the shooters at a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey have been linked to the Black Hebrew Israelite group.  (As the article mentions, other Black Hebrew Israelites harassed a group of high school students from Covington, Kentucky who had attended the March for Life.)

From FrontpageMag, House Democrats push "baseless" articles of impeachment.

From Townhall, it's now clear that the Steele Dossier was "malarkey".

From The Washington Free Beacon, there really was a gender gap among people working for former Vice President Biden when he as a Senator (D-Del).

From the Washington Examiner, U.K. politician Nigel Farage has some advice for President Trump.

From The Federalist, the Inspector General's report did not even come close to debunking the idea of bias in the FBI.

From American Thinker, a strong sword is of no use against a scimitar if it is not taken out of its sheath.

From CNS News, the House Democrats "don't want to know the truth".

From NewsBusters, how dare they......yes, they did.

From Canada Free Press, the articles of impeachment against Trump are a manifestation of his predecessor's "fundamental transformation of America".

From CBC News, Canadian parliamentcritters don't seem to want to find out what went wrong in Afghanistan.

From Global News, Canadians spent $908 million on legal cannabis in one year.

From CTV News, the family of a Canadian man detained in Egypt asks Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne for help.

From TeleSUR, how dare Brazil's president criticize the Time person of the year.

From The Portugal News, eight young illegal immigrants are arrested on a beach in the Portuguese region of Algarve.

From El País, prison authorities in Catalonia recommend "ordinary regime" for imprisoned Catalan separatist leaders.

From France24, the French government unveils a new pension reform plan, but the strikers keep on striking.

From RFI, France bans the sale of 36 products containing glyphosate.

From SwissInfo, an attempt by the Green Party to get seat in the seven-member executive Swiss executive branch fails.

From ANSA, Marta Cartabia becomes the first woman to be elected president of Italy's Constitutional Court.

From the Malta Independent, according to an editorial, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is "the Grinch who stole Christmas".

From Malta Today, according to an editorial, Malta has been destabilized by corruption, not by protests.

From Total Slovenia News, the E.U. Court of Justice rules that the maritime border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia is outside its jurisdiction.

From Total Croatia News, a NATO aviation training center is established at the Zemunik barracks near Zadar, Croatia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusoğlu, Turkey can perform joint drillings with Libya.

From Ekathimerini, the U.N. receives a letter from Greece on the agreement between Turkey and Libya.

From the Greek Reporter, a shipwreck from the time of Jesus is discovered in the Ionian Sea near the Greek island of Kefallonia.

From Novinite, Bulgaria suspends its diplomatic missions in Yemen.

From The Sofia Globe, under a proposed change, anyone wishing to receive Bulgarian citizenship would have to declare the countries where they lived for the previous 10 years.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences regards the Macedonian language as a dialect of Bulgarian.  (In a similar debate, Flemish,  spoken in parts of Belgium, is either a dialect of Dutch or a language closely related to Dutch,)

From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis strips people who have criminal convictions of their state decorations.

From Russia Today, a bomb plot by a supporter of radical Ukrainian nationalists is foiled in Murmansk, Russia.

From Sputnik International, the world's first systematized cholesteric liquid crystal structures are made in Russia.

From The Moscow Times, a Siberian shaman who wanted to banish Russian President Putin in barred from leaving his home town.

From Euractiv, is Ukraine's president targeting his predecessor?

From Daily News Hungary, about 10,000 tons of plastic and other waste are removed from the River Tisza at the Kisköre dam.

From Hungary Today, according to the president of the Hungarian Atlantic Council, Hungary is a "committed NATO member".

From About Hungary, Justice Minister Judit Varga "slams" the E.U. Article 7 hearings against Hungary.

From The Slovak Spectator, two men are charged with the murder of a young Serb in Bratislava, Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, the local council of the Prague district of Řeporyje plans to build a memorial to the Russian troops who liberated the city from Nazi Germany.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński, Russia views the West as an enemy.

From the CPH Post, police in Denmark foil a terror threat.

From Deutsche Welle, the German military is set to use rabbis as chaplains.

From Free West Media, the number of asylum seekers in Germany exceeds the population of Munich.

From the NL Times, a nine-year-old Dutch university student will move to the U.S. due to a conflict with his Dutch school.  (Yes, you read that right.  This guy is just nine years old.)

From Dutch News, the number of children attending Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands has risen 60 percent in 10 years.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at de Volkskrant.)

From VRT NWS, the Free University of Brussels will stop its cooperation with the Confucius Institute.

From EuroNews, new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen thinks that Europe can become the "world's first climate-neutral continent".

From the Express, how a "clean break Brexit" will benefit the U.K.

From the Evening Standard, according to U.K. Prime Minister Johnson, the U.K. election "could not be tighter".

From the Independent, a prison unit for terrorists is closed four days after the London Bridge terror attack.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish ISIS bride Lisa Smith is kept in custody as a book of evidence on her is completed.

From The Conservative Woman, British bishops don't understand the anti-Christian philosophy behind the LGBT agenda.

From The Stream, "what is Judaism?"

From Accuracy in Media, now that the Inspector General's findings on the Steele Dossier have been revealed, the media "has a lot to answer for".

From the Daily Caller, a transgender contributor to The New York Times faults conservatives for not understand the allegedly "queer" aspects of the movie Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.

From Reason, The New York Times misreports President Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism.

From the New York Post, the Vilnius, Lithuania airport puts up a Christmas tree made of items confiscated from passengers.

And from Pro Football Talks, when the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers play this coming Sunday, a trio of brothers will play in the same game for the first time since 1927.  (They all played for Virginia Tech a few years back.)