Thursday Links

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

From National Review, a Russian general is reportedly "very depressed over" the invasion of Ukraine.

From FrontpageMag, modern-day brown shirts violate violate free speech rights at Yale Law School.

From Townhall, former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) points out the absurdity of President Biden's SCOTUS nomination.

From the Washington Examiner, vetoes by GOP governors of transgender athlete bills shows why voters have turned to former President Trump.

From The Federalist, if SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson can't define the word "woman", how can she decide sex discrimination cases?

From American Thinker, whatever happened to the convoy of truckers headed to D.C.?

From CNS News, Iranian women ask why the U.N. is placing their oppressor on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is supposed to promote gender equality.  (I wonder if this commission has a definition for the word "woman".)

From LifeZette, Judge Brown Jackson is hiding her past views.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Trump can't get over his 2020 election loss.  (via LifeZette)

From the Objectivist, according to financial guru Dave Ramsey, high gas prices are 100 percent Biden's fault.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to a study, the media are not blaming Biden for high gas prices.

From Canada Free Press, masking children for two years has harmed their ability to communicate and their IQs.

From TeleSUR, as Prince William and Princess Kate visit Jamaica, some of its citizens demand reparations for the slavery under British colonial rule.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the coronavirus has made us forget how democracy works.

From Free West Media, at a solidarity with Ukraine concert, left-wing activists indulge in primitive verbal abuse.

From EuroNews, President Volodymyr Zelensky demands that NATO give Ukraine 1 percent of its weapons.

From Euractiv, the European Commission announces actions for countries that take in refugees.

From ReMix, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary must defend its national interests and not be dragged into war.

From Balkan Insight, the Kosovo Judicial Council suspends a judge who attended a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German man is given 7 months in prison for criticizing political Islam.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?  If you read German, read the story at PI News.)

From Morocco World News, the U.S. transfers to interceptor boats to the Royal Moroccan Navy.

From The North Africa Post, the International Energy Agency supports Morocco's decarbonization plan.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish government urges the U.S. to supply F-35 fighter jets and Patriot missile defense systems "without preconditions".

From Turkish Minute, Protestant pastors have decided to leave Turkey due to de facto entry bans and intelligence reports calling them "security risks".

From Rûdaw, after four years, 730 police officers from Mosul, Iraq detained by ISIS are still missing.

From Armenpress, the Azerbaijani army in the region of Artsakh has suspended its movements, but has not returned to its original positions.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, peacekeepers in Artsakh keep their positions while negotiations continue.

From In-Cyprus, police in Cyprus book nine people in 24 hours for alleged coronavirus rule violations.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is reportedly preparing to visit Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

From The961, the U.S. Agency for International Development pledges $64 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli bus driver who shot a knife-wielding terrorist in self-defense recalls the incident.

From The Times Of Israel, according to an advisor for the aforementioned President Zelensky, Jerusalem is a "priority venue" for talks between Ukraine and Russia.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel postpones easing its coronavirus restrictions for another month.

From YNetNews, Israeli security forces thwart the largest-ever attempt at arms smuggling on the Lebanese border, and a 97-year old Ukrainian woman who fought the Nazis during World War II and survived the Holocaust immigrates to Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi comments on the suicide of two girls done in response to fabricated photos of them.

From Egypt Today, al-Sisi visits students at Egypt's police academy.

From the Sudan Tribune, South Sudanese Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol goes on a fact-finding mission to the region of Abyei.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government declares a humanitarian truce in the region of Tigray, to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid.

From the Saudi Gazette, the public transport company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia announces free shuttle transport for visitors to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

From The New Arab, why peace talks over the war in Yemen sponsored by the Gulf Cooperation Council are bound to fail.

From IranWire, a thousand Baha'is in Iran await their jail summonses.

From Iran International, according to parliamentcritter Massoud Pezeshkian, many Iranian academics want to leave the country.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban deny reshuffling their interim cabinet.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, American actress Angelina Jolie raises her voice in support of Afghan girls denied an education.

From the Afghanistan Times, banning girls from attending school for grades 7 through 12 results in a strong outcry.

From The Rakyat Post, a Muslim preacher uses a Justin Bieber concert to guilt trip people into attending his religious class.

From the Taipei Times, the musician's quarter in Kabul, Afghanistan goes silent.

From Gatestone Institute, China is coming closer to dominating Southeast Asia.

From The Stream, some questions which the aforementioned SCOTUS nominee Brown Jackson should answer, but won't.

From The Daily Signal, more on Republican governors blocking efforts to prevent men from dominating women's sports.

From The American Conservative, it's tempting to mock Brown Jackson's response to the question "what is a woman?", but from a left-wing perspective, it's not an easy one to answer.

From Politico, the January 6th Inquisition Committee seeks contempt charges against former Trump White House aids Dan Scavino Jr. and Peter Navarro.

From The Western Journal, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) forces Brown Jackson to admit the right of same-sex couples to marry each other is not in the Constitution.

From BizPac Review, right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson responds his ban on Twitter, alleging that it wants everyone to "repeat a lie".

From The Daily Wire, a whaling ship that sunk in the Gulf of Mexico in 1836 has been found.

From the Daily Caller, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) reminds the Austin Independent School District that providing sex education to students without parental consent is against the law.

From the New York Post, the daughter of a Russian government spokesman complains about sanctions imposed by the U.S.

From Breitbart, the U.K. records its largest-ever drop in living standards.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL), Judge Brown Jackson is not answering important questions.

And from the Genesius Times, a leftist exchanges his "Coexist" bumper sticker with one that says "Kill every Russian now!".