It's hard to believe, but this year has reached the last day of its first quarter. On a warm cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, President Biden offers a weak defense budget.
From FrontpageMag, America's Founding Fathers would have been appalled at the idea of legislators for life. (The Founders put minimum age requirements for the presidency and both chambers of Congress into the Constitution. Too bad they didn't put in any maximum age limits.)
From Townhall, 10 quotes from Vice President Harris.
From The Washington Free Beacon, who Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) used $4 million in federal funds to dismantle a jail in Atlanta.
From the Washington Examiner, according to Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R), Americans know that Biden is to blame for high gasoline prices.
From The Federalist, Democrats and their media enablers overlook sex crimes against children to protect SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
From American Thinker, were you better off with then-President Trump?
From CNS News, the Biden administration plans to allow all American citizens to place an "X" gender marker on their passports.
From LifeZette, social ills are cured by business, not government.
From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, the original anthem kneeler returns to football. (via LifeZette)
From NewsBusters, a look at Presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Biden.
From Canada Free Press, Democrats weaponize government policies and drive the U.S. toward dystopia.
From TeleSUR, the Salvadorian government passes new anti-gang laws.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the real threat to Jews is not the Russian president but the American one.
From Archbishop Cranmer, the Daily Mail censors an image of Mohammed.
From Free West Media, according to a survey, the political demands of right-wing presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are approved by a majority of the French people.
From ReMix, only candidate Zemmour promises to stop the so-called "Great Replacement".
From EuroNews, will Russian President Putin cut off natural gas to Europe if the gas is not paid for in rubles? (The article uses the spelling "roubles", to which my spellchecker objects.)
From Euractiv, it's halftime for France's presidency of the E.U. Council.
From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria blames Russian spies for its tensions with North Macedonia. (Is this Bulgaria's version of "Russian collusion"?)
From The North Africa Post, an armed group besieges a government building in Tripoli, Libya.
From The New Arab, how long with this year's Ramadan fasts last?
From The Express Tribune, Imran Khan promises to "not resign and fight till the last ball".
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's National Assembly adjourns the debate over the no-confidence motion.
From The Hans India, the Indian state of Maharashtra lifts all of its coronavirus restrictions.
From the Hindustan Times, India's electricity shortage in March was the worst since the coal crisis of this past October.
From ANI, police in Margram, West Bengal, India seize pistols and ammunition while investigating a murder.
From India Today, police arrest a woman accused of throwing a gasoline bomb at a CRFP camp in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (This would be a follow-up to the story from OpIndia what was linked in yesterday's post.)
From the Blitz, the rise of radical Islamic militancy in the Indian state of West Bengal.
From the Dhaka Tribune, two Bangladeshi men are released from custody in Libya after being arrested for allegedly taking pictures without permission.
From New Age, a two-day conference on genocide begins in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankans protest in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence and tell him to "go home". (Since it's his private residence, wouldn't that mean that he already is at home?)
From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lankan Power Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, plans to disconnect electricity were done through essential feeders.
From Raajje, Maldivian Vice President Faisal Naseem concludes his official visit to the UAE.
From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinians tell their kids that those who murder Israelis are heroes.
From Tempo(dot)Co, Jakarta, Indonesia deploys over 2,000 police officers to maintain order during Ramadan. (As you may have noticed, I no longer link stories from The Jakarta Post. This is because it was getting increasingly more difficult to find articles there that were published on the day on which I blogged, pertained to Indonesia, and were not behind a paywall. I thus welcome the chance to link from another Indonesian site.)
From The Atlantic, why an ISIS propagandist from Australia left Islam.
From Gatestone Institute, China increases its influence in the Pacific.
From The Straits Times, Singaporeans and Malaysians rejoice because their mutual border has finally reopened.
From Free Malaysia Today, houses of worship in Malaysia are ready to welcome worshipers back.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government allocates RM150 million to develop the state of Sarawak into a food security hub. (Since the Malaysian ringit is equivalent to about $0.24, this would be about $36 million.)
From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese Communist Party's Inspection Commission holds its 13th meeting.
From the Taipei Times, Taiwan's National Development Council unveils a "carbon neutral" road map.
From The Mainichi, the Japanese Foreign Ministry will change how official documents will spell the name of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
From The Stream, how church and state got entangled after the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
From ITR Economics, have we learned anything from the auto industry's woes?
From Space Daily, South Korea shows its northern neighbor that it, too, can test-fire rockets.
From Terra Daily, President David Panuelo of the Federated States of Micronesia urges the Solomon Islands to rethink its security pact with China.
From The Daily Signal, young women are closing the so-called "gender pay gap", and what it means.
From The American Conservative, when it comes to nuclear energy, "the big guy" could learn something from "Boris the spider".
From The Western Journal, U.S. inflation hits another 40-year high.
From BizPac Review, the Health and Human Services department gives Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood another $256.6 million for "family planning" services.
From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), sanctions against Russia and China have accomplished nothing.
From the Daily Caller, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) promises to declare an "invasion" and deploy troops on the state's southern border.
From the New York Post, Sir Paul McCartney asks Starbucks to stop charging extra for its plant-based milk alternatives at its U.S. locations.
From Breitbart, The Washington Post admits that Hunter Biden profited from a Chinese energy deal.
From Newsmax, the Pentagon is unclear about whether Russia's 40-mile-long military convoy still exists.
And from the Genesius Times, the island formerly belonging to the late Jeffrey Epstein is sold to a wealthy Middle Eastern businessman named Haadid Nahkil Muhssef.
