Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

As the warm weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden's inflation problem is deeper than Russian President Putin.

From FrontpageMag, the media collusion on the story of Joe and Hunter Biden.

From Townhall, a special election in New York State goes "very red".

From The Washington Free Beacon, military veterans injured in terror attacks say that Biden is ignoring their sacrifices.

From the Washington Examiner, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting has been arrested.

From The Federalist, a columnist for The New York Times admits that schools are pushing LGBT ideology on students.

From American Thinker, yes, there is a pedophile problem in government schools.

From CNS News, federal taxes collected through the first half of fiscal 2022 set a record.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, according to a feminist author, men whose wives stay at home are sexist.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, what does White House press secretary Jen Psaki's body language say when she's asked about "Putin's price hike".  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, unlike many other businesses, Egard Watches stands up for women against transgenders in their sports.

From Canada Free Press, for three years, the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter's videos were allowed to stay on YouTube, which banned many others.

From CBC News, the Bank of Canada increases its benchmark interest rate to 1 percent, the highest one-time increase since 2000.

From Global News, according to records, about one third of Canada's Liberal cabinet ministers own rental and/or investment real estate.

From CTV News, a man in Brampton, Ontario, Canada stops someone from stealing his SUV with his child inside.

From TeleSUR, two Bolivian policemen each get 30-year sentences for raping a girl.

From TCW Defending Freedom, destroying one's own country is "a special kind of evil".

From Snouts in the Trough, has the proverbial "smoking gun" been found concerning the alleged leak of the coronavirus from a lab?

From the Express, a woman in Glasgow, Scotland wins her dispute to keep her garden fence up.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Justice Minister David Wolfson resigns after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak are fined over a party at Downing Street.

From the (U.K.) Independent, more on the resignation of David Wolfson.

From the (Irish) Independent, thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland will be housed in tent camps due to space in hotels and homes being used up.

From the Irish Examiner, due to rising population, Ireland might increase the number of dáilcritters in its legislature.  (Since the Irish legislature is called the Dáil, a dáilcritter is the equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From VRT NWS, 189 tenants of social housing in the Belgian commune of Flanders are found to own private property outside of Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium reintroduces its mask mandate.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands holds six more luxury yachts due to sanctions against Russia and Belarus.

From Dutch News, the Dutch bank ABN Amro apologizes for its role in slavery.

From Deutsche Welle, according to an opinion column, Ukraine was wrong to rebuff a planned visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeyer.

From Gatestone Institute, the war in Ukraine and the moral corruption of the German political elite.

From the CPH Post, the Danish interior ministry is likely to rescind the Danish Lutheran Church's right to veto the construction of a bird chopper array.

From Polskie Radio, a team of eye doctors help in Lublin, Poland help Ukrainian refugees who were blinded by bomb explosions.

From ReMix, a poll of Poles indicates that they support their government's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  (Sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge to make the pun.)

From Radio Prague, Czech diplomats return to their country's embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.

From The Slovak Spectator, a church in Nitra, Slovakia is in jeopardy because nearby land was turned into a quarry during the Czechoslovak communist era.

From Daily News Hungary, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony pledges to ban cars from the Pest embankment of the Danube River.  (Budapest was formed by the union of the two cities of Buda, on the west side of the Danube, and Pest, on its east side.  I stayed in the Pest section on a tour in 2000, thus missing the banning of cars from the river bank by 22 years.)

From Hungary Today, Hungary receives 100 billion forint, equivalent to about €3.5 billion, from the E.U. to cope with the wave of refugees from Ukraine.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga, the European Commission's rule of law reports on Hungary and Poland apply double standards.

From Free West Media, the European Parliament calls for a complete renunciation of imported energy from Russia.

From EuroNews, according to investigators, the military drone that crashed in Croatia contained an "explosive substance".

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia arrests a border officer for allegedly taking a bribe.

From Euractiv, right-wing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen sets out her blueprint for government.

From The North Africa Post, the Italian automotive company Fiat will make Topolino electric cars in Morocco.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia is scheduled to deport four Uighurs back to China, possibly tomorrow evening.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an Arab ENT doctor treats victims of a terror attack in Tel Aviv, Israel.

From The Stream, a round-up of news, including a bird bombing President Biden.

From The Daily Signal, California wants to regulate bacon, which is mostly imported from other states.

From The American Conservative, the Biden administration is ready to make the border crisis even worse.  (The article is written by congresscritter Chip Roy (R-TX).)

From The Western Journal, Twitter employees are in panic at the idea of billionaire Elon Musk taking over the company.

From BizPac Review, the White House raises eyebrows with its explanation of what landed on Biden.

From The Daily Wire, Twitter explodes after a student verbally attacks right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.  (I italicize "Twitter" here because it's the name of the platform, while two stories above it's the name of the company, so I don't italicize it there.)

From the Daily Caller, more details come out about the death of football player Dwayne Haskins.

From Breitbart, a highway maintenance crew in Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, Mexico discover three bodies in a rainwater collection pond, believed to be of members of a Texas family.

And from the New York Post, Bidenflation and fuel prices hit sellers on Amazon.

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