Wednesday Wanderings

On a cold cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) joins Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) in opposing the abolition of the filibuster.

From FrontpageMag, did President Biden help finance Hamas rocket attacks against Israel?

From Townhall, another Tweet from White House chief of staff Ron Klain ages poorly.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden withholds the annual report on deportations of illegal aliens.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) will run in a newly created district in this year's elections.

From The Federalist, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) owns the January 6th commission, which is why it has failed.

From American Thinker, two doctors explain what's really going on with the coronavirus.

From CNS News, Biden appears to forget what year it is.

From LifeZette, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and podcaster Joe Rogan book on an exodus from Big Tech.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stands up to the left and keeps Florida schools open.  (via LifeZette)

From Newsbusters, as its anniversary approaches, do we need a news glut about last January 6th?

From Canada Free Press, Biden and the laws of human stupidity.

From CTV News, legal immigrants to Canada wait for months to find out if they will become citizens.

From TeleSUR, the election of the president of Chile's constitutional assembly is delayed.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K's Conservative Party is in danger from know-nothing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the town of Marazion in County Cornwall withdraws its bid to become the U.K.'s smallest city.  (When I was in Cornwall in 2002, my tour group passed through Marazion to go to the nearby island of St. Michael's Mount.)

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland reports 40 more coronavirus-related deaths.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian commune of Flanders has an increase in births for the first time in a decade.

From Dutch News, population growth in the Netherlands goes up to pre-coronavirus levels.

From the CPH Post, is Denmark's growing death rate the result of coronavirus infections in nursing homes?

From Free West Media, Sweden issues 85,000 new citizenships.

From ReMix, Poland will acquire new tanks and Patriot missile systems this year.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government approves salary freezes for constitutional officials.

From Hungary Today, Hungary's coronavirus situation during this past December.

From Sputnik International, Kazakhstan declares a state of emergency due to violent protests.

From EuroNews, more on the situation in Kazakhstan.

From Euractiv, still more on the situation in Kazakhstan.

From The Sofia Globe, new rules for entering Bulgaria take effect on January 7th.

From the Greek City Times, a museum in Palermo, Italy returns a small piece of the Parthenon marbles to Greece.

From Balkan Insight, Albania starts investigating the "Pandora Papers" case.

From The Malta Independent, Air Malta is not canceling any routes, but will reduce some flights as bookings plummet.

From Italy24News, Pope Francis rues couples wanting to have dogs and cats but not children.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron claims that he's trying to "[bleep] off" unvaccinated people.

From The North Africa Post, according to a local NGO, Tunisia will freeze government salaries and recruitment for three years.

From In-Cyprus, police in Cyprus fine 21 people and 9 establishments for coronavirus rule violations.

From The961, schools and universities in Lebanon will reopen.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Netherlands defunds a Palestinian organization which Israel had declared to be a terrorist group.

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani official Major General Babar Iftikhar, the border fence between Pakistan and Afghanistan is "to keep people safe, not divide them".  (It would be nice if he could explain this to the current U.S. administration and draw an analogy about our border with Mexico.)

From Pajhwok Afghan News, a Pakistani team is restoring hospitals in Afghanistan.

From ANI, the Indian state of Odisha will impose a night curfew due to the coronavirus.

From New Age, 10 people are killed in election-related violence in the Bangladeshi district of Bogura.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka needs bus drivers.

From the Borneo Post, floods in Malaysia have so far killed 54 people.

From The Straits Times, a second attempt to free a cinereous vulture in Singapore fails.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran has no interest in negotiating another nuclear deal.

From The Stream, where are the alleged "adults" who would be in charge?

From The Daily Signal, Democrats give away their game with their exploitation of January 6th.

From Space War, North Korea fires what is thought to be a ballistic missile into the sea.

From The American Conservative, things that are really worth getting angry about.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris's Tweet that "America is moving again" turns out to be poorly timed.

From BizPac Review, the panel on the Fox News show The Five takes President Biden to the woodshed over his coronavirus-related failures.

From The Daily Wire, both sides have a point in the debate about college football players who opt out of their bowl games.

From the Daily Caller, the Manning family reportedly seeks to buy an NFL team.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Senator Joe Manchin (D) has improved his rating with his West Virginia constituents by opposing President Biden's agenda.

From Newsmax, U.S. private sector jobs increased better than expected this past December.

And from the New York Post, attractive women brag about their "pretty privilege".