Wednesday Whatnot

On a rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Biden administration is set to restore funding to Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood.

From FrontpageMag, why the left ignores the killing of an Uber driver who immigrated from Pakistan.

From Townhall, the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota city manager who was fired for calling for due process for a police officer speaks out.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to congresscritter Adam Smith (D-Wash), President Biden is dragging his feet on the defense budget.

From the Washington Examiner, the Justice Department decides against prosecuting the police officer who killed Capitol intruder Ashli Babbitt.  (The officer's identity and whether Babbitt received any verbal warning or command before being shot have still not been reported.)

From The Federalist, for years, The New York Times opined that absentee balloting increased the risk of voting fraud, until then-President Trump agreed with them.

From American Thinker, events in Minnesota show that the Second Amendment matters.

From CNS News, according to a poll, President Biden's highest approval ratings come from people who never attend church.  (Papa Bigfoot had a saying that might apply to pro-abortion Catholics like Biden.  "If he walks into the church, the statues will walk out.")

From LifeZette, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) tries to distance herself from congresscritter Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) call to abolish the police.

From NewsBusters, conservative leaders meet to discuss fighting back against Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, a drug dealer guns down a police officer during a traffic stop.

From TeleSUR, former Bolivian interim President Jeanine Añez has been in jail for a month.

From The Conservative Woman, weasel words and broken promises lead to endless lockdowns.

From Free West Media, while in jail, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny asks for a copy of the Koran.

From EuroNews, Denmark becomes the first country in Europe to abandon the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Euractiv and the "your papers, please" department, the Council of Europe is ready to negotiate on coronavirus travel certificates.

From ReMix, Croatia blocks China from buying the port of Rijeka.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco suspends flights to and from Tunisia as new coronavirus variants emerge.

From The New Arab, Egypt frees a journalist couple from detention.

From Gatestone Institute, is the Biden administration ready to undo the Trump administration's work on Iran, regardless of whether it is good for the world?

From The Stream, the media ignores a domestic terror attack on an ICE facility.

From The Daily Signal, how the U.S. should counter Russian President Putin's threats to Ukraine.

From Space War, President Biden (U.S.) urges President Putin (Russia) to east tensions with Ukraine.

From ITR Economics, an event does not constitute a trend.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) raises a record amount of campaign cash for the northern U.S. in Q1.

From The Daily Wire, the case of a white high school student in Minnesota allegedly sending racist messages to a black student turns out to be a hoax.

From the New York Post, his victims have no tears for recently deceased Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.

From Fox News, Biden decides on a rather unfortunate date for the deadline to bring American troops home from Afghanistan.

And from the Genesius Times, a policewoman in Minneapolis "accidentally" pulls out a hair dryer instead of her gun.