Thursday Links

On a Thursday which is the second last day of 2021, here are things going on:

From National Review, 2022 might see a settling of accounts for President Biden and the Democrats.

From FrontpageMag, meet Christine Grady, a.k.a. Mrs. Anthony Fauci.

From Townhall, the left-wing elite have a new narrative on the coronavirus after Biden failed to shut it down.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a nominee for Man of the Year is Biden chief of staff Ron Klain.

From the Washington Examiner, cracks form in the case against the alleged would-be kidnappers of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From The Federalist, the top 11 movies of 2021.

From American Thinker, what the word "green" in the term "green energy" really means.

From CNS News, the economic record of then-President Trump looks better every day.

From LifeZette, Biden's first year as president has been a disaster.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, the man who joked "Let's go, Brandon" on Biden's Santa-tracker call might run for office.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the top 10 tangles between reporter Peter Doocy and White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

From Canada Free Press, "joker Joe" Biden becomes a "mask-wearing beach boy".  (That term might be unfair to Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and the late Dennis and Carl Wilson.)

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan Congress will debate reform in front of the country's Supreme Court.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "Beneath Doghampton Pier", which will be continued.

From Free West Media, a warming Arctic Ocean could give Europe another "little ice age".

From EuroNews, how bad are the U.K.'s labor shortages?

From Euractiv, Belgium makes a U-turn and allows cinemas and theaters to reopen.

From ReMix, Cyprus calls on the rest of the E.U. to accept illegal migrants from its camps.

From Balkan Insight, the OSCE's mission in Kosovo condemns the desecration of tombstones in a Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the Serb-majority town of Gračanica.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian authorities arrests alleged associates of the terror group Boko Haram.

From The New Arab, Bahrain appoints its first ambassador to Syria in a decade.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel reports almost 4,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day.

From Republic World, Pakistan has reportedly failed in its counter-terror obligations and hosts anti-India groups.  (RW is an Indian site, which in this article reports on Pakistan.  When this happens, or when a Pakistani site reports on India, some amount of NaCl might be justified.)

From Gatestone Institute, some American academics work for China.

From The Stream, why have hundreds of highly trained athletes died unexpectedly in 2021?

From The Daily Signal, how prosecutors who go rouge deny justice.

From Sino Daily, China warns that the U.S. will "face an unbearable price" over its actions toward Taiwan.

From The American Conservative, the new orthodoxy in public schools.

From The Western Journal, Dr. Fauci pulls down the biggest federal paycheck ever.

From BizPac Review, former professor Dr. Carol Swain accuses "1619 Project" founder Nikole Hannah-Jones of making "creative fiction".

From The Daily Wire, days after Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) defends congresscritters being allowed to buy stocks, she and her husband buy millions worth of call options for stocks.

From the Daily Caller, Apple temporarily closes an iphone factory near Chennai, India due to substandard working and living conditions, and worms in food.

From Breitbart, the Border Patrol apprehended about 1.9 millions of people illegally crossing the southern U.S. border in 2021, and estimates about 500,000 "got aways".

From Newsmax, the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges is bad news for the U.K.'s Prince Andrew.

And from the New York Post, an explosion in a coal silo sends shockwaves across Baltimore, Maryland.