On a cool partly cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, voters are apparently not allowed to see the medical records of the candidates.
From FrontpageMag, some Democrats meet secretly with Iran's foreign minister.
From Townhall, according to Senator Socialism's press secretary, asking for his medical records is like asking to see President Obama's birth certificate.
From The Washington Free Beacon, according to the man with an Obama-inspired tingle in his leg, Senator Socialism (I-VT) could carry only one state in November.
From the Washington Examiner, the campaign of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) puts out a video claiming support from former Vice President Joe Biden.
From The Federalist, a letter demanding the resignation of Attorney General William Barr comes from leftists claiming to be "bipartisan". (I've come to realize that the left-wing definition of "bipartisanship" is the act by the right of giving into demands from the left.)
From American Thinker, an op-ed in the The Washington Post calls for "elites" to have more say in nominating presidential candidates. (Would the Democrat superdelegates be part of the "elite"?)
From CNS News, according to a poll, Senator Socialism is doing very well in the Nevada caucus.
From LifeZette, left-wing activist Chelsea Handler asks people to notice the "color" of the criminals pardoned by President Trump, and gets some surprising answers.
From NewsBusters, The New York Times shows its double standards on pardons from Presidents Trump and Obama.
From Canada Free Press, Senator Socialism is not as honest as his reputation would suggest.
From CBC News, Canada's Via Rail temporarily lays off nearly 1,000 workers because of the blockades.
From Global News, Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who oppose the construction of a gas pipeline through their tribe's territory, head to Ontario to meet with Mohawk supporters.
From CTV News, an 18-year-old Canadian girl returns to the pub in Cambridge, England where she was born and drinks her first legal pint.
From TeleSUR, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies votes to increase the maximum prison sentence for femicide.
From The Mainchi, over 400 passengers disembark from the cruise ship Diamond Princess, quarantined off Yokohama, Japan.
From the Borneo Post, four fishing trawlers anchored in the Malaysian territory of Labuan thought to be "ghost ships" are merely waiting for repairs.
From Free Malaysia Today, according to Islamic authorities in Malaysia, muftis cannot enforce a minimum age for marriage.
From The Straits Times, South Korea reports 20 new cases of coronavirus infection.
From The Jakarta Post, the coronavirus has cut China's carbon dioxide emissions.
From the Daily Mirror, police nab members of a notorious gang in southern Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, a Chinese woman who contracted the coronavirus is released from a hospital in Sri Lanka.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Brac University in Bangladesh holds a seminar to dispel common myths about the coronavirus.
From The Hans India, Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir send three terrorists to their virgins.
From the Hindustan Times, while in India, U.S. President Trump hints at a big trade deal. (Will the trade deal be "yuge"?)
From ANI, a Yemeni citizen is arrested in India for overstaying his visa, and is found to have an illegal Indian passport and a false voter ID. (While some people use the euphemism "undocumented" for illegal aliens, the correct term in some cases would be "falsely documented".)
From India Today, as an IndiGo flight from Delhi to Jeddah was taxiing for takeoff, a man tries to enter the cockpit, which results in he and four others being removed from the plane.
From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces storm the Taliban's "largest hideouts" in the province of Ghazni.
From Dawn, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, a "just and lasting" solution to the dispute over Kashmir is needed for peace in southern Asia.
From The Express Tribune, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan sentences three men to death for their roles in a bombing in the border town of Wagah, in which 50 people were killed.
From Pakistan Today, according to an aide to Pakistan's prime minister, the country has no confirmed case of novel coronavirus infection.
From Radio Farda, Iran's first vice-president claims to be unaware alleged torture of an imprisoned environmentalist.
From IranWire, the families of eight environmentalists jailed in Iran don't expect justice.
From StepFeed, at a soccer game in Istanbul, a dog shows off his ball-handling skills.
From The New Arab, Egypt starts building a concrete wall along its border with Gaza. (Will Egypt make Gaza pay for it?)
From Hürriyet Daily News, a bookstore in Istanbul spends its profits helping stray animals.
From Turkish Minute, President Recep Erdoğan calls the 2013 Gezi Park protests a "heinous attack" on Turkey.
From Rûdaw, a sinkhole containing the bodies of 1,000 victims of ISIS is found in the Iraqi region of Tal Afar.
From In-Cyprus, a fugitive financier with Cypriot nationality originally from Malaysia may have been in Wuhan, China.
From The Syrian Observer, a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of 6,000 people opposed to the Syrian government is in a military zone northeast of Damascus.
From Arutz Sheva, U.S. congresscritter Mike Johnson (R-LA) visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (The article identifies him with "IL", which stand for "Illinois", but the only Mike Johnson in Congress that I can find is from Louisiana.)
From The Times Of Israel, Islamic Jihad snipers fire at IDF soldiers on the Gaza border.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel prepares for the return of 12 people from the cruise ship quarantined in Japan.
From YNetNews, "how Hamas extorts Israel through attrition".
From the Egypt Independent, a Chinese national in Egypt tests negative for the coronavirus.
From Egypt Today, the Al-Azhar Observatory prohibits the "skull breaker" game.
From Morocco World News, a German filmmaker faces 20 years in prison in Morocco for allegedly illegally possessing a flare gun.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany allegedly sexually abuses an 11-year-old girl.
From Gatestone Institute, a U.K. court rules against sharia marriages.
From The Stream, an open letter to LGBTQ+ people.
From the New York Post, Bloomberg appears to have been rather fond of Trump back in 2016. (Warning: the page includes a video which starts with a very long non-skipable ad.)
From Reason, America's two-party system remains strong even as the two parties melt down.
From Fox News, everything you wanted to know about the trial and case of Harvey Weinstein.
From the Daily Caller, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) says that she'd never malign her competition, right after maligning her Republican challengers.
And from The Peedmont, a man in Richmond, Virginia makes a fortune after discovering a previously untapped deposit of beard oil.
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