Links For The End Of February

As a Sunday at the end of February turns into Rainday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the ghost of President Theodore Roosevelt.

From Townhall, congresscritter Peter Meijer (R-Mich) offers an alternative coronavirus relief bill.

From The Washington Free Beacon, for Elon Musk and SpaceX, failure is indeed and option.

From the Washington Examiner, ProFa rioters reportedly vandalize businesses in Portland, Oregon in protest of President Biden's immigration policies.

From American Thinker, Biden gets lost while giving a speech.

From LifeZette, a teacher in Utah wants Republicans to die.

From NewsBusters, even NPR noticed that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) won't talk about Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D-NY) "#MeToo moment".

From Canada Free Press, why is leftism so horribly destructive?

From CBC News, Inuit midwives in the Canadian territory of Nunavut quit after years of alleged mistreatment.

From TeleSUR, over 5.4 million citizens of El Salvador are expected to vote today.

From The Conservative Woman, we trust in God, not scientists.

From the Express, the Brazil variant of the coronavirus is found in the U.K.

From the (Irish) Independent, a monkey escapes from its enclosure at the Dublin Zoo.

From VRT NWS, about 100 people protest China's treatment of the Uyghurs in front of the Chinese embassy in Brussels, Belgium.  (Hopefully, the next time someone wants to put on a climate protest, they will likewise do so in front of the Chinese embassy, since China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.)

From the NL Times, a bird chopper in Germany kills an eagle tagged in De Biesbosch, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, German ministers demand that the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine be used on all adults.

From Polskie Radio, Poland names 45 athletes to its European Indoor Athletics Championship team.

From Radio Prague, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš refuses to resign over the Czech Republic's worsening coronavirus situation.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia reports 1,815 new coronavirus cases.

From Daily News Hungary, will there be a mass demonstration against coronavirus lockdowns in Budapest, Hungary on March 15th?

From Sputnik International, the Russian space agency Roscosmos launches its first Arktika-M satellite.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria conditionally reopens its "green corridors".

From the Greek Reporter, the oldest photograph taken of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

From Total Croatia News, people ask Google how expensive Croatia is.

From Total Slovenia News, the Slovenian olive oil Vanja is named best in the northern hemisphere.

From the Malta Independent, according to Maltese opposition leader Bernard Grech, Prime Minister Robert Abela is trying to "wash his hands" of Malta's previous government.

From EuroNews, archaeologists find an intact ceremonial chariot near the ancient site of Pompeii.

From ReMix, ProFa demonstrators in Austria try to block the deportation of criminal migrants, including convicted rapists.

From SwissInfo, according to a Swiss researcher, the coronavirus pandemic should not be blamed on urban density.

From France24, why French people are suing their government to get social change.

From Free West Media, Muslim youths allegedly lynch a news photographer in Reims, France.

From The Portugal News, a park and ride is coming to Coimbra, Portugal.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's first radio telescope is established in the city of Marrakech.

From Hürriyet Daily News, vaccine teams set out for remote villages in Turkey.

From Rûdaw, Iraq will receive its first delivery of coronavirus vaccines this Monday.

From In-Cyprus, coronavirus measures will be relaxed in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus starting tomorrow.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel does not plan to ease coronavirus restrictions after Purim.

From the Egypt Independent, according to President Abdel al-Sisi, relocating to a new capital marks a "new era" for Egypt's government.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian authorities investigate an alleged killing in the city of Axum.

From the Saudi Gazette, according to Saudi Arabian General Turki Al-Maliki, Iranian generals control the Houthi militia in Yemen.

From The New Arab, almost 100 migrants are rescued off the Libyan coast, but 20 others are still missing.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iran rules out any informal meeting with the E.U. or the U.S. on reviving the nuclear deal.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh will continue the 50 percent attendance policy in its schools.

From Khaama Press, U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad embarks on another trip to Afghanistan and nearby countries.

From the Hindustan Times, police patrolling the Noida Expressway arrest a man transporting 300 kilograms of meat in his SUV.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a cargo ship carrying 800 tons of coal sinks in the Pashur Channel in Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, police in Sri Lanka arrest an "exorcist" in the beating death of a nine-year-old girl.

From Palestinian Media Watch, a Palestinian op-ed accuses Israeli of killing Palestinian prisoners with the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Sabah plans to cull 3,000 pigs to prevent the spread of African swine fever.

From The Mainichi, Kengo Suzuki sets a new men's record in the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's "Cinderella province" of Sistan-Baluchistan is in a rebellious mood.

From The Stream, could an obscure law in Seattle, Washington be the undoing of Big Tech?

From The Daily Signal, why a pastor in Sacramento faithfully confronted Californian Governor Gavin Newsom (D) over the closing of churches.

From The Daily Wire, New York Attorney General Letitia James calls for an investigation of sexual harassment claims against Governor Andrew Cuomo (D).

From Breitbart, Governor Newsom posts a TikTok video of himself and celebrity chef George Lopez in an off-limits restaurant.

From Newsmax, the Senate considers changes to the coronavirus relief bill.

From the New York Post, a crowd in New York City protests a Saturday Night Live joke about Israeli coronavirus vaccine distribution as anti-Semitic.

And from WPVI-TV and the "don't you hate when that happens?" department, a man accidentally shoots himself in a Victoria's Secret store at a mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Saturday Links

On a cool damp Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the House narrowly passes the latest coronavirus relief bill at 2:00 a.m. this morning.

From Townhall, more on the coronavirus bill and its pork.  (Again I admit that the term "pork" might be unfair to pigs.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Ford wants a bankruptcy court to seize its cars currently leased to the NRA.

From the Washington Examiner, liberals taste their first disappointments under President Biden.

From The Federalist, Vox peddles fake news about Dolly Parton.

From American Thinker, the title character from The Cat in the Hat isn't black, which is now a problem.

From LifeZette, Karl Rove looks forward to former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) running for Texas governor.

From NewsBuster, CNN host Brian Stelter's love of censoring is not new.

From Canada Free Press, Fox News keeps sniping at former President Trump.

From The Conservative Woman, Scotland's roadmap out of coronavirus restrictions is even slower than England's.

From Free West Media, France tries to debate Islamo-leftism.

From EuroNews, the Czech Republic imposes its tightest coronavirus restrictions so far due to a surge of the U.K. variant.

From Remix, Romania will not change course with regard to two political prisoners.

From The New Arab, the U.S. releases a report accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but won't sanction him.

From Channel News Asia, according to Foreign Minister Abdul Momen, Bangladesh has "no obligation" to accept Rohingya refugees.

From Gatestone Institute, the danger of appeasing Iran's mullahs.

From The Stream, the new "anti-racism" presents a false dilemma.

From The Daily Wire, Amazon starts banning conservative books.

From Newsmax, some younger U.S. troops are declining coronavirus vaccinations.

From Fox News, a Texas salon owner who was jailed for defying coronavirus lockdown orders speaks at CPAC.

From The American Conservative, regulations and markets are made for man, not the other way around, to paraphrase a certain great Jewish man.

And from the New York Post, for a cool $100,000, you can own the gold statue of former President Trump currently on display at CPAC.

John Kerry In 2015: Cutting U.S. Carbon Emissions Won't Do Enough

Speaking at the 2015 Paris COP-21 climate conference, then-Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that even if the industrial nations all reduced their carbon dioxide emissions to zero, it wouldn't be enough to accomplish anything.  This is because 65 percent of such emissions come from developing countries.  This comes via American Thinker, which quotes from Watts Up With That?, which cites Junk Science, but does not link to any specific article therein.

You can also watch the video directly on YouTube.  Whether Kerry flew on his private jet to the conference is not mentioned.

Friday Fuss

On a cool cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, speaking at CPAC, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) defends his state's record on the coronavirus.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden invites in more illegal aliens.

From Townhall, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) proposes a new meaning for the acronym "GOP".

From The Washington Free Beacon, new Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg uses self-powered transportation.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduces a $15 minimum wage for businesses worth at least $1 billion.

From The Federalist, the Biden administration is unprepared for the border surge.

From American Thinker, who called for the airstrike in Syria?

From CNS News, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) realizes something obvious about President Biden.

From LifeZette, this year's CPAC will be a different sort of Trumpfest.

From NewsBusters, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution "slaps down leftist climate alarmism".

From Canada Free Press, the 90-day fiancé visa.

From TeleSUR, over 3,000 observers will be sent to monitor elections in El Salvador.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s Liberal Democrats are neither.

From Free West Media, LGBT and BLM activists ignore gays who are killed and imprisoned in Africa.

From EuroNews, a Boeing 777 makes an unscheduled landing in Moscow reportedly over an engine issue.

From Euractiv, Italy and Slovenia await a European Commission decision in their dispute over balsamic vinegar.

From ReMix, 131,120 Hungarians have applied for post-Brexit residence in the U.K.

From The New Arab, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the U.S. warned Russia of its airstrikes in Syria several minutes before they were carried out.

From CNN, the U.K. Supreme Court rules that "ISIS bride" Shamima Begum cannot return to the country to appeal the revocation of her citizenship.

From Gatestone Institute, is the U.S. arming China?

From The Stream, a campus Christian group fights back against a legal attack from atheists.

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. food system does not need to be transformed.

From Space War, U.S. military leaders and industry executives will attend a summit on hypersonic weapons.  (Is this something from the "military industrial complex" that we sometimes hear about?)

From The American Conservative, "ahistorical fictions".

From Fox News, speaking at CPAC, New Jersey gym owner Ian Smith slams his state government's "massive double standard" on coronavirus shutdowns.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Kevin McCarty (R-Cal) condemns an effort by Democrats to de-platform Newsmax, Fox News and OANN.

And from the New York Post, a "seafood bandit" targets supermarkets in Connecticut.

Thursday Links

On a sunny and cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why is the coronavirus vaccine backlog increasing again?

From FrontpageMag, President Biden's term is pretty much former President Obama's third term.

From Townhall, the latest payoff in the coronavirus "relief" bill.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden faces the first major test of his foreign policy in Georgia.  (That's the Georgia of Joseph Stalin, not the Georgia of Jimmy Carter and Newt Gingrich.)

From the Washington Examiner, what you should know about the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From The Federalist, how the "Equality Act" attacks freedom and other things.

From American Thinker, former President Trump awaits his appearance at CPAC.

From CNS News, a transgender person nominated for a HHS position won't say if minors should be deciding about changing sex.

From LifeZette, HHS secretarial nominee Xavier Becerra can't name any restriction on abortion that he would support.

From NewsBusters, Cal Thomas explains Rush Limbaugh.

From Canada Free Press, Trump's appearance at CPAC could be a comeback.

From TeleSUR, the Bolivian parliament calls on health workers to stop their strike.

From The Conservative Woman, the climate "fact-checkers" who aren't.

From Free West Media, according to a study, young women in Europe avoid certain places to avoid being harassed or sexually assaulted.

From EuroNews, Paris and other areas in France face more possible coronavirus restrictions.

From Euractiv, harassment and violence in Europe are reportedly more frequent than indicated by official data.

From ReMix, Hungary is the only E.U. country that regulates ad revenue for tech giants.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From The New Arab, dozens of protesters are injured in Nasiriyah, Iraq.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, a man in Perth, Australia pleads guilty to killing his wife, who was allegedly forced to marry him.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Berlin bans an Islamist group known as "Tauhid Berlin".

From Dawn, a man allegedly honor kills his daughter in Lahore, Pakistan.

From Gatestone Institute, predictions from 1921 about Muslim life in 2021.

From The Stream, more about the "Equality Act".

From The American Conservative, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D) other crisis.

From HistoryNet, the fastest flight made by a manned aircraft.

From The Daily Signal, the fact-checkers leave Governor Cuomo and President Biden alone.

From Breitbart, congresscritters Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Marie Newman (D-IL) stage a feud on their hall.

From The Daily Wire, a U.S. attorney fired by Biden will be allowed to continue investigating alleged corruption by Democrats in Chicago.

From the New York Post, White House press secretary Jen Psaki distances Biden from his past assessment that Cuomo is the "gold standard" of coronavirus management.

And from the Genesius Times, in an effort to be less white, Coca Cola unveils a new logo.

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UPDATE:  It looks like I have to add one more.

From Newsmax, Mr. Potato Head is dropping the "Mr." and going gender-neutral.

Wednesday Whatnot

As the mild weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a court permanently blocks President Biden's 100-day deportation memorandum.

From FrontpageMag, America should be very afraid of the incoming Democrats.

From Townhall, one woman crusades for the truth.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) shows off his hypocrisy.

From the Washington Examiner, 14 Republicans want answers from the FBI on congresscritter Eric Swalwell's (D-Cal) relationship with a Chinese spy.

From The Federalist, Biden's foreign policy is a replay of that of his old boss.

From American Thinker, as more people illegally cross the border, White House press secretary Jen "Circle Back" Psaki and the media redefine the facilities housing migrant children.

From CNS News, House impeachment managers pose for a Tweeted photo less than six feet from each other.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Lauren Boebert (R-Col) goes after pork barrel spending.  (I can see where the term "pork barrel spending" might be unfair to pigs.)

From NewsBusters, CBS gives 55 seconds to a story about the Biden administration reopening a detention center for underage migrants, called "kids in cages" during the Trump presidency.

From Canada Free Press, what may have caused Tiger Woods's vehicle accident.

From CTV News, 10,000 coronavirus vaccinations are booked in the Canadian province of Alberta despite a website crash.

From TeleSUR, Argentina starts vaccinating education workers against the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, when diversity means "not you".

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is accused of misleading parliamentcritters on funding for transportation in northern England.

From Free West Media, the German state subsidizes left-wing extremist groups.

From EuroNews, a German court convicts a former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's secret police of facilitating the torture of prisoners.

From the Daily Mail, a court in Celle, Germany convicts a former imam of being a member of ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, the coronavirus has triggered a new wave of anti-Semitism in Germany.

From ReMix, according to a survey, 73 percent of Poles would not accept a coronavirus vaccine made in Russia or China.

From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban meets scientists to discuss the coronavirus.

From The Moscow Times, for the first time, a female Jehovah's Witness is sentenced to prison for membership in a banned organization.  (What is this "freedom of association" you speak of?)

From Euractiv, Ukraine starts its coronavirus vaccination program with a vaccine made in India.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarians abroad send home less money in 2020 than they did in 2019.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Slovenian President Borut Pahor meets with party leaders.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo authorities detain agriculture agency officials for alleged bribery and theft.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's goal is to fully reopen by April.

From The New Arab, Syrian activists welcome the above-mentioned conviction of a former secret police officer.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's National Command and Operation Centre lifts a ban on commercial activities due to a decrease in coronavirus cases.

From The Hans India, the 136 people missing due to the collapsed glacier and resulting flash flood in the Indian state of Uttarakhand are presumed dead.

From the Premium Times, 10 people are killed and 60 others injured in an attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

From The Stream, is pork barrel spending really the cure for the coronavirus?

From Independent Women's Voice, is Disney+ now cancelling The Muppets?

From Space War, a North Korean defector swims southward for hours without being detected.

From The Daily Signal, the above mentioned congresscritter Lauren Boebert explains her conversion to the right.

From Newsmax, Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) will vote against the coronavirus relief bill because of its "measly" amount for vaccine distribution.

From the New York Post, according to several medical experts, Tiger Woods has "zero chance" of playing in this year's Masters tournament.

And from 12 On Your Side, a Virginia prison employee claims to have been fired on suspicion of smuggling after a body scanner detected her tampon.

Tuesday Links

On a sunny and fairly mild Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why the Keystone pipeline is actually good for America.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden rationalizes China's human rights abuses against the Uyghurs.  (Many Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, are being held in detention camps in northwestern China.  Biden's predecessor was accused of Islamophobia for far less.)

From Townhall, Democrat congresscritters send a letter demanding that cable and big tech platforms ban right-leaning media.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats see infighting over minimum wage, border control and student debt.

From the Washington Examiner, on January 6th, police evacuated two congressional buildings because of a pipe bomb discovered at the nearby RNC headquarters, not because of trespassers.

From The Federalist, stop the "Christian nationalist" smear.

From American Thinker, on the Pennsylvania election case, the Supreme Court "goes full Nicaragua".

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Don Young (R-AK), anyone who thinks that fossil fuels can be immediately cut off "is smoking pot".

From LifeZette, the nomination of Neera Tanden to head the Office of Management and Budget is "sinking fast".

From NewsBusters, Amazon bans a book that criticizes transgender ideology.

From Canada Free Press, Black History Month forgets that George Washington freed his slaves.

From Global News, police in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada find a seal and deliver it safely to a river.

From TeleSUR, El Salvador will hold parliamentary elections this coming Sunday.

From The Conservative Woman, will coronavirus lockdown protests start in the U.K.?

From Snouts in the Trough, the "global warming" scammers.

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson is "very optimistic" that the U.K. could end its coronavirus restrictions on June 21st.  (Although apparently no one in the U.K. wants to call Boris "the Spider", I like to call him that because of the song Boris The Spider by The Who, the first ever written by bassist John Entwistle.)

From the Irish Examiner, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Ireland will continue its Level 5 coronavirus lockdown until April 5th.

From The Brussels Times, yet another grenade is found in Antwerp, Belgium.

From Dutch News, according to Dutch politician Thierry Baudet, the Nuremburg trials after World War II were illegitimate.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From Hungary Today, Hungarians disagree about the benefits of a "vaccine passport".

From Sputnik International, Ukrainians are reportedly "disappointed" by U.S. President Biden's lack of action against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.  (Don't the Ukrainians realize that Biden has a problem only with pipelines in North America?  Perhaps they might remember his son Hunter getting a lucrative job with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, despite having neither experience in the gas production business nor any knowledge of the Ukrainian language.)

From The Sofia Globe, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov assures Bulgarians on the supply of coronavirus vaccines.

From Ekathimerini, Donkey Hotels awaits a tourism rebound in Greece.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Foreign Ministers Bujar Osmani (North Macedonia) and Jean-Ives Le Drian (France) meet in Paris.

From Balkan Insight, the U.S. lists Albanian judge Adrian Dvorani as an "anti-corruption champion".

From Malta Today, according to Malta's animal welfare czar, people convicted of animal cruelty should be banned from owning animals.

From EuroNews, a landslide in Camogli, Italy causes 200 coffins to fall into the Ligurian Sea.

From RFI, France is told that its climate laws are insufficient to meet its climate goals.

From Free West Media, Génération Identitaire member Thaïs d'Escufon responds to the French government's intention to dissolve the group.

From Euractiv, the European Commission warns six E.U. countries over their border restrictions.  (The Commission appears to be concerned with "disruptions to free movement", but probably has no problem with coronavirus lockdowns, which also disrupt free movement.)

From ReMix, pro-migration activists sue the E.U. border agency Frontex.

From Turkish Minute, in four years, Turkish authorities have detained or arrested 219 mothers and pregnant women over alleged links to the Gülen movement.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli cabinet approves a nighttime curfew over the Purim holiday.

From Egypt Today, Egyptians over the age of 40 can start registering for coronavirus vaccination starting on February 28th.

From The New Arab, a Syrian chemical weapons expert was allegedly "on CIA payroll for years".

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's National Assembly passes a bill against the corporal punishment of children.

From India Today, another radio-collared leopard is released into India's Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

From the Daily Mirror, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka accuses former President Maithripala Sirisena of negligence.

From The Straits Times, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong calls for international cooperation to ensure that all countries have access to coronavirus vaccines.

From the Borneo Post, when driving in Malaysia, do not modify your vehicle's exhaust pipe.

From Vietnam Plus, two Vietnamese women are among candidates to referee the 2023 Women's World Cup.

From Gatestone Institute, the duped generation who support BDS.

From The Stream, the denial of the evil which is communism.

From The Daily Signal, teachers in Oregon adopt "woke" math.

From Military History Matters, a review of a book on Hitler's V-1 and V-2 rockets.

From The Daily Wire, health Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra waffles on a question about his opposition to a ban on late-term abortions.

From Newsmax, New Jersey ends arrests and pending prosecutions for marijuana possession.

From Fox News, golfer Tiger Woods is seriously injured in a car crash in Los Angeles.

From the New York Post, accused sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell offers to give up her U.K. and French citizenships if she is granted bail.

And from The Guardian, a woman in Gosnells, Australia is attacked by a man wielding a flame thrower and who had a swastika painted on his forehead.

Monday Mania

On a Monday on which snow and graupel have turned to rain, here are some things going on:

From National Review, who would want to harass Catholic nuns?

From FrontpageMag, President Biden cripples enforcement of immigration law.

From Townhall, Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissent from the Supreme Court's decision not to hear two election cases involving Pennsylvania.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal), who claims to be against gerrymandering, funnels money to a Democrat gerrymandering group.

From the Washington Examiner, despite Democrat control of the Senate, Biden's cabinet is still mostly empty.

From The Federalist, by offering amnesty to illegal aliens currently in the U.S., Democrats set up a huge immigration crisis.

From American Thinker, New York's Mr. Bill's attempt to get at former President Trump by shutting skating rinks managed by the Trump organization blows up in his face.

From CNS News, the U.N. Human Rights Council shows its selective concern.

From LifeZette, White House press secretary Jen Psaki won't answer if Biden still thinks that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is still the "gold standard for leadership".

From NewsBusters, YouTube censors a Newsmax interview with Trump.

From Canada Free Press, a Biden administration official denied a request from Texas to fire up more fossil fuel electric generators.

From CBC News, a fireball is seen over central Canada.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan troops find a spy selling information to Colombia.

From The Conservative Woman, should Prince Harry and Meghan Markle be called nothing more than "Mr." and "Mrs."?

From the Express, the U.K. House of Commons considers requiring proof of coronavirus vaccination in order for people to enter pubs.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish gardaí will continue highly visible patrols around beauty spots.

From VRT NWS, about a third of the people invited to receive a coronavirus vaccination at a center in Veurne, Belgium don't show up.

From Euractiv, Belgian Catholics contest a 15-person limit for attending services at the "cavernous" Brussels basilica.

From the NL Times, hundreds of people illegally party at Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

From Deutsche Welle, day care centers and elementary schools reopen in 10 German states.

From Free West Media, ProFa attacks an AfD candidate in Schorndorf, Germany.

From the CPH Post, dust from the Sahara arrives in Denmark.

From EuroNews, Sweden charges a man with selling industrial information to a Russian diplomat.

From Polskie Radio, Polish customs authorities confiscate 1.8 million packs of cigarettes.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government approves two variants of a new electoral law.

From The Slovak Spectator, go swinging in Oščadnica, Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian parliament passes a law to extend the country's coronavirus measures.

From ReMix, pro-family policies in Hungary have almost doubled the country's marriage rate.

From Russia Today, according to Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, civil servants should not weigh more than 100 kilograms.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's Iasi Airport will be expanded.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Economica.)

From Novinite, what will change when eco-stickers are required for vehicles in Bulgaria?

From the Greek Reporter, protesters clash with police in Thessaloniki, Greece over an education bill.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, miners in Romania continue their strike.

From Balkan Insight, hospitals in Kosovo take in patients from Albania.

From Total Croatia News, tips for visiting Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2021.  (Yours truly went there in 2007.)

From Total Slovenia News, how to safely hike in Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, a U.N. report connects Malta with an operation to supply weapons to Libyan rebel commander Khalifa Hifter.

From ANSA, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and a Carabiniere are killed in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss parliamentary committee will discuss a possible effort to decolonize the country's museums.

From France24, Europeans go on coronavirus breaks.

From El País, Spain's governing coalition endures internal strife.

From The Portugal News, when in Portugal, don't use your phone while driving.

From Morocco World News, the Polisario Front marches children in a military parade.

From Hürriyet Daily News, people in Turkey continue to violate the country's coronavirus curfew.

From Rûdaw, the Kurdistan Region criticizes the Iraqi government's rapid push to close camps for displaced people.

From Armenpress, Armenian and Artsakh representatives meet to discuss emergency prevention.

From In-Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus gets a dog park.

From The Syrian Observer, a coronavirus vaccination drive will soon start in the Syrian region of Idleb.

From The Jerusalem Post, witness testimony in the trial of Prime Minister Netanyahu will start after Israel's next elections.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian health ministry warns of a third wave of the coronavirus.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the U.S. stops former President Trump's dam aid freeze.

From the Saudi Gazette, more women in Saudi Arabia are joining the country's civil service.

From The New Arab, the view from Gaza on the Palestinian elections.

From IranWire, tales of forbidden love between Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran.

From Dawn, Baloch protesters end their sit-in in Islamabad, Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan agrees to meet them.

From NBC News, four women who ran empowerment workshops in Pakistan are killed while passing through the town of Mirali.

From Khaama Press, negotiators for the Afghan government and the Taliban meet in Doha, Qatar.

From ANI, India's Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully launches a VL-SRSAM missile.

From OpIndia and the "you can't make this up" department, an online petition requests that Islamabad, Pakistan change its name to Islamagood.

From the Dhaka Tribune, local pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh push for the production of generic coronavirus vaccines.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan committee to study the report on the Easter Sunday terror attacks is given a "wide ranging mandate".

From Coconuts KL, according to Malaysian parliamentcritter Mukhriz Mahathir, a government statement that polygamy is for sexually active men is a reason why Islam is misunderstood.

From The Jakarta Post, the Bank Mandiri distributes aid to flood victims in the greater Jakarta area.

From Free Malaysia Today, a Malayan tiger is found with gunshot wounds and is taken for treatment.

From The Mainichi, a court rules against welfare cuts in the Japanese prefecture of Osaka.

From Gatestone Institute, why Iran considers U.S. President Biden to be weak.

From The Stream, don't hold your breath waiting to learn the full story of the Capitol breach.

From The Daily Signal, the appointment of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to Secretary of Health and Human Services is a threat to crisis pregnancy centers.

From The American Conservative, the looming insurgency in Ethiopia.

From Newsmax, the White House calls for a moment of silence to mark 500,000 coronavirus-related deaths.

From The Daily Wire, according to an opinion column, the problem with the coronavirus wasn't Dr. Fauci, but the politicians "hiding behind him", and Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) home is besieged by protesters and a mariachi band.

From the New York Post, TV host Meghan McCain is no fan of Dr. Fauci.

And from The Babylon Bee, National Beverage Corporation's LaCroix division tells its employees to be more white.

Sunday Stories

As a slight thaw occurs on a Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Mike Pence reportedly declines to appear at CPAC.

From Townhall, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) lists the "disastrous" policies implemented by President Biden during his first month in office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab kept its NIH funding despite a crackdown under then-President Trump.

From the Washington Examiner, new congresscritter Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is becoming the Republican most loathed by the Democrats.

From American Thinker, Biden's first 30 days are as bad as had been feared.

From CNS News, the Conference of Catholic Bishops comes out against Biden's "equality act".

From NewsBusters, ABC host Jon Karl refuses to admit that Biden is beholden to teachers unions.

From Canada Free Press, Rush Limbaugh is attacked post mortem for being a "right thinker".

From The Conservative Woman, if you thought that the culture war is bad enough, here's "the reality war".

From Free West Media, a Dutch broadcast about a mosque in Trappes, France causes a commotion in France.

From EuroNews, the U.K. government says that it intends to vaccinate every adult against the coronavirus by the end of July.

From ReMix, President Emmanuel Macron proposes sending a portion of France's coronavirus vaccines to Africa.

From The New Arab, a dead fin whale washes up on an Israeli beach.

From Gatestone Institute, how Turkey has ravaged Cyprus.

From Pulse, a mosque in Ho, Ghana is closed to prevent violence from a dispute over who should be the chief imam in the region of Volta.

From MalayMail, police in Malaysia investigate a non-Muslim man who allegedly got a Muslim woman to apostatize.

From The Stream, the female fighters who took on ISIS and won.

From Fox News, according to Dr. Fauci, the U.S. will have over 600 million doses of coronavirus vaccines by this coming July.

From The Daily Wire, according to recently fired Disney actress Gina Carano, "everyone is afraid of losing their job".

From the New York Post, Saturday Night Live draws flak for an "anti-Semitic" joke about Israel's coronavirus vaccine rollout.

From Breitbart, SNL still hasn't depicted President Biden or Vice President Harris in any sketch.

And from Newsmax, former President Trump will speak at CPAC, his first appearance since leaving office.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, President Biden declares a major disaster for Texas.

From Townhall, Texas Democrats warn Biden about his immigration policies.

From The Washington Free Beacon, is former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) California's next Arnold Schwarzenegger?

From the Washington Examiner, what happened in Texas is "a wakeup call for the power grid".

From The Federalist, PolitiFact doesn't like their fact-check being fact-checked.

From American Thinker, the "China class" and its opposition to President Trump.

From CNS News, according to Trump, Iran will try to drive a hard bargain for Biden.

From NewsBusters, five apologies owed by Hollywood to the American people.

From Canada Free Press, are Democrats emerging as the party of hate and vengeance?

From CTV News, nine Algonquin First Nations in the Canadian province of Quebec reject a land project in which another Algonquin group would build a suburb of Ottawa.  (The Canadian capital of Ottawa is in the province of Ontario, but borders Quebec.)

From The Conservative Woman, the inconvenient truth about violent gang attacks in Paris.

From Snouts in the Trough, predictions about climate disasters have been "farcically-wrong" for a long time.

From the (U.K.) Independent, fishermen in the U.K. want the right to shoot beavers.

From EuroNews, Dutch Senators pass a new coronavirus curfew.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian refugee allegedly kills two patients at a psychiatric hospital in Lüneburg, Germany.

From About Hungary, Hungary reports 2,995 new cases of the coronavirus.

From ReMix, two Belarusian journalists working for the Polish media company Belsat are sentenced to two years in a penal colony for filming protests against President Lukashenko.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Moscow Times, a Moscow court upholds a prison term for Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.

From Radio Bulgaria, more Bulgarians want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Free West Media, a migrant from Sudan reportedly kills the manager of an asylum center in Pau, France.

From Ahval, the minbar in a mosque in Irzincan, Turkey becomes a meme.  (A minbar is the Islamic equivalent of a pulpit, and should most definitely not be confused with a minibar.)

From The New Arab, Iraqi security forces kill five ISIS terrorists in a clash, but lose two of their own.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz alleges election rigging.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian military commanders discuss further disengagement in the territory of Ladakh.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden cannot allow the Taliban to destroy former President Trump's efforts at peace in Afghanistan.

From The Stream, The New York Times finally learns about unintended consequences.

From The American Conservative, "on writing around censors".

From the New York Post, Republican congresscritters blast the $1.9 billion coronavirus aid bill from Democrat congresscritters as a "liberal wish list".

From Newsmax, a space station supply ship is named after Katherine Johnson, the mathematician featured in the movie Hidden Figures.

From Fox News, how will NASA engineers pilot the first helicopter on Mars?

And from the Genesius Times, in an effort to reach out to Trump supporters, Biden tries a new hairdo.

Friday Phenomena

On a Friday slightly milder than the previous day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a watchdog report links 1,000 deaths to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D) nursing home coronavirus policy.

From FrontpageMag, lying about former President Obama.

From Townhall, California Governor Gavin Newsome (D) has his own nursing home scandal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Orthodox Jews slam Amazon Prime's new regulations.

From the Washington Examiner, who would be the Republican nominee for California governor if Newsome is recalled?

From The Federalist, the playing politics by the Biden administration on school openings is alienating parents, even left-wing parents.

From American Thinker, supporters of then-President Trump may have fallen into a trap on January 6th.

From CNS News, President Biden makes three "concessions" to the Iranian government.

From LifeZette, as the left attacks the recently departed Rush Limbaugh, his friendship with Elton John is worth recalling.

From NewsBusters, a look at some of the hate that the left had for Limbaugh.

From Canada Free Press, right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson and congresscritter AOC's (D) googly eyes.

From Global News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces an extension of Canada's coronavirus benefits.

From TeleSUR, Colombian scientists and indigenous people plan to conduct a census of condors.

From the Evening Standard, police in the London district of Tottenham seize 2.1 tonnes of she-don't-lie.

From EuroNews, according to Buckingham Palace, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not return to their former royal duties.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, it's "too early to advise" if staycations will be allowed in Ireland this summer.

From The Brussels Times, according to Belgian virologist Steven Van Gucht, there is no need to worry about the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Dutch News, according to Health Minister Hugo de Jonge, any change to coronavirus rules in the Netherlands will be "cautious".

From Free West Media, one out of every five unaccompanied minor refugees in Cologne, Germany is missing.

From ReMix, Polish and American sign a contract to mine the moon.

From Hungary Today, according to Prime Minister Orban, if Hungary can fend off a third wave of the coronavirus, the country can be reopened.

From Sputnik International, some diplomats at the Spanish embassy in Russia receive Russia's first coronavirus vaccine.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov calls for "green corridors" for people wanting coronavirus vaccinations.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece protests a Turkish hydrographic survey in the Aegean Sea.

From Euractiv, Greek artists and athletes come forward to report sexual harassment.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Serbian Orthodox Church elects a new patriarch.

From Balkan Insight, the Albania "capo" behind a pipeline for sending she-don't-lie into Europe.

From Malta Today, according to a standards commissioner, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela did not violate ethics rules when he removed his mask to talk to journalists.

From RFI, summer events in France will be limited to a maximum of 5,000 participants.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Council of State rules that President Erdoğan's palace in Ankara is illegal.

From The Times Of Israel, the coronavirus pandemic in Israel ebbs to its lowest positive rate in almost two months.

From Egypt Today, a humpback whale is found dead on a beach on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

From The New Arab, Israeli police arrest four Palestinians for allegedly throwing snow at a Jewish settler.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan plans to make his first visit to Sri Lanka on February 23rd.

From The Hans India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates projects in the Indian state of Kerala.

From The Times Of India, Modi warns that many terrorists are "highly educated and highly skilled".

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan cabinet seeks more details about a renewable energy project.

From IOL, a Muslim school principal appears in court in Wynberg, South Africa on sexual assault charges.

From The Straits Times, Singapore will keep its coronavirus restrictions in place for a few weeks after the Chinese New Year.

From the Borneo Post, in a decision involving the website Malaysiakini, Malaysia's Federal Court acknowledges freedom of speech, but urges people to be polite online.

From Vietnam Plus, works starts to provide power to the first metro line in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. is facilitating a victory for Hamas in the Palestinian elections.

From The Stream, Rush Limbaugh and "the voice of the heartland".

From SmallBizDaily, four services your business should have in case of disaster.

From Terra Daily, ISIS claims to have killed four Tunisian soldiers.

From The Daily Signal, some stories and perspective from a friend of Rush Limbaugh.

From Breitbart, the U.N. asks the UAE for proof that missing Princess Latifa is still alive.

From Fox News, Meghan McCain calls for the media to cover Democrat scandals like the cover Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) trip to Cancun.

From The Daily Wire, according to a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the U.S. will reach herd immunity against the coronavirus by April.

From Newsmax, South Carolina's new abortion law is suspended a day after it is passed.

And from the New York Post, for a cool $5 million, you can have John Travolta's 22-bedroom house in Maine.