Thursday Tidings

On a Thursday on which I've been a little bit less busy than usual, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Mayor Mini-Mike (NY, NY) showed that money can't buy elections.

From FrontpageMag, the real name of the "comprehensive immigration reform" act.  (If you hear a politician say the word "comprehensive", you should make like Geena Davis in The Fly and "be afraid, be very afraid".)

From Townhall, the Democratic disaster gets more hilarious.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Virginia gun control legislation appears to have resulted in a large increase in gun sales.

From the Washington Examiner, New York State announces a self-quarantine effort against the spread of the coronavirus.

From The Federalist, imperialism in the western hemisphere did not start with the arrival of Europeans.

From American Thinker, it's useful to remember how awful former Vice President Biden can be.

From CNS News, the mortality rate for the new coronavirus is lower than for earlier coronaviruses, but higher than for the seasonal flu.

From LifeZette, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) calls off her presidential campaign.

From NewsBusters, networks hide Biden's latest gaffes.

From Canada Free Press, Biden is a communist, just like Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From CBC News, the rail blockade in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory comes down, but supporters still have their demands.

From TeleSUR, the results of the election in Guyana are not yet in.

From Free West Media, Turkish state television gives migrants a plan to reach France.

From The Greek Reporter, Greece puts out a video showing how Turkey created the border crisis.

From Reuters, Greece promises deportation for migrants who entered illegally after March 1st.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia confirms two cases of the coronavirus.

From Total Croatia News, Nepalese and Filipinos work in Šibenik, Croatia.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia confirms its second coronavirus case, who had contact with the first.

From the Malta Independent, a Somali man accused of raping three Maltese teenagers pleads not guilty.

From ANSA, the Italian cabinet allocates 7.5 billion euros for families and businesses dealing with the coronavirus.

From SwissInfo, a list of 12,000 Nazis who lived Argentina is found in Buenos Aires, many of whom had dealing with the bank current knowns as Credit Suisse.

From El País, the archbishropic of Madrid orders worshipers to avoid kissing a statue of Jesus in the Basilica of Jesus of Medinaceli, due to coronavirus fears.

From RFI, will the coronavirus stop French kissing?

From the Irish Examiner, Fermoy, Ireland will suspend or terminate its twinning agreement with Nowa Dęba, Poland because it has declared itself an "LGBT-Free Zone".

From the Express, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is advised to get rid of the U.K.'s inheritance tax.

From The Conservative Woman, if there's been a disaster for polar bears, show us the evidence.

From Euractiv, E.U. negotiator Michel Barnier sees some "very serious" differences with the U.K. on their future relationship.

From The Brussels Times, Belgian schools and hospitals denounce the spread of misinformation on the coronavirus.

From the NL Times, a suspected jihadist spotted in Amsterdam is linked to 19 murders in Syria.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany pledges 100 million euros in aid for people in the Syrian region of Idlib.

From Polskie Radio, 80 years ago, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the murder of 20,000 Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest.

From Daily News Hungary, an Afghan man is sentenced for raping a Hungarian woman.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Russia Today, talks between Presidents Putin (Russia) and Erdoğan (Turkey) result in an agreement to de-escalate in the Syrian region of Idlib.

From Romania-Insider, interim Health Minister Victor Costache advises Romanians to limit their travel from Italy.

From Novinite, according to the U.S. organization Freedom House, Bulgaria is among the world's most democratic countries.

From EuroNews, why outbreaks of disease often cause racism.

From Morocco World News, Morocco bans the exportation of medical masks.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey deploys 1,000 police at its border with Greece to prevent migrants from turning back.

From In-Cyprus, according to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, four checkpoints on the island's Green Line were not closed because of the coronavirus.

From The Syrian Observer, according to a new report, fighting in northwestern Syria has left some areas uninhabitable.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett orders the closure of Bethlehem due to the coronavirus.

From The Jerusalem Post, Human Rights Watch accepts a donation from a Saudi tycoon for promising to not support LGBT advocacy in the Middle East and northern Africa.

From the Egypt Independent, a museum in Murghada, Egypt shows a "time capsule" of the country's history.

From StepFeed, foreigners can now businesses in 122 sectors in the UAE.

From The New Arab, photos show the area around the Kaaba in Mecca completely deserted.

From Radio Farda, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps blames the U.S. for the coronavirus.

From Dawn, the sixth coronavirus case in Pakistan, which the third case in the province of Sindh, is linked to Iran.

From Khaama Press, in the Afghani province of Kunar, U.S. airstrikes send seven ISIS terrorists to their virgins.

From the Hindustan Times, India and Iran will resume flights to evacuate their citizens from each other's country.

From the Dhaka Tribune, house construction workers find Victorian-era coins in Ullapara, Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy brings in 400 kilos of seized narcotics.

From News Live, in the Indian state of Assam, Hindus donate copies of the Koran to a mosque that had been vandalized.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a policeman in Hamburg, Germany dies after being run over by a Turk.

From Gatestone Institute, "the problem with released jihadhists".

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia respects the Asian Football Confederation's decision to postpone FIFA qualifying matches in view of the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, because of the coronavirus, Thailand cancels a popular full moon party.

From Free Malaysia Today, five key questions about the trial of four suspects accused of involvment in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

From The Mainichi, fraudsters in Maebashi, Japan claim that they can disinfect household pipes from the coronavirus.

From The Stream, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi attributes her freedom to Jesus.

From Fox News, Tito's Vodka reminds customers that vodka is not hand sanitizer.

From the Daily Caller, Congress uses the coronavirus as a political tool.  (Just like they do with other things, you might say.)

From Twitchy, after Senator Fake Cherokee drops out of the presidential race, political commentator Paul Krugman calls the Democrats "super sexist [bleep]s".

And from the New York Post, a dancing pink unicorn removes snow from his driveway.