Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

On a rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs (D) refuses to name any restrictions on abortion that she will support.  (Sometimes we hear that our rights have limits.  If so, and there is indeed a right to abortion, what are the limits on that right?)

From FrontpageMag, the White House alters a transcript to clean up yet another gaffe from President Biden.

From Townhall, the left demands that we all "conform or else".

From The Washington Free Beacon, an expected migrant surge may push the DHS to lower its security standards at the border.

From the Washington Examiner, a wind developer admits that its turbine blades have killed 135 bald and golden eagles.  (When I refer to wind turbines as "bird choppers", I do so for a reason.)

From The Federalist, six ways in which new board member Elon Musk could actually improve Twitter.

From American Thinker, New York City Mayor Eric Adam's policy of "say whatever you want" apparently does not apply to the city's workers.

From CNS News, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Americans vaccinated and boosted against the coronavirus may have to get a second booster shot soon and a third one in the fall.

From LifeZette, American mothers say "no" to Disney World.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the White House can't define the word "woman", but its website sure uses a lot of gender pronouns.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, if you go to a professional baseball game, you can get Frito-Lay's new snack "Cracker Jill".  (There's no tie-in with the First Lady, in case anyone is wondering.)

From Canada Free Press, former President Obama gives President Biden a heave-ho.

From TeleSUR, Peruvians in the cities of Lima and Callao reject their government's curfew.

From TCW Defending Freedom, 8 simple questions for the U.K.'s coronavirus inquiry.

From Free West Media, rumors allege that Western military advisors are trapped in Mariupol, Ukraine.

From EuroNews, according to European Council President Charles Michel, the E.U. should offer asylum to Russian soldiers who desert from the war in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, Poland vetoes an E.U. directive that would have established a minimum 15 percent tax rate for multinational corporations.

From ReMix, the Czech Republic sends tanks and fighting vehicles to Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, a Romanian lawyer dies when his car catches fire after he rams the gates at the Russian embassy in Bucharest.

From The North Africa Post, if you want to get some dates, go to Morocco.

From The New Arab, ahead of Tunisia's upcoming elections, President Kais Saied changes the country's voting system.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration has sent nearly $1 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.

From Dawn, how to solve Pakistan's current political crisis.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser seeks four names each from Prime Minister Imran Khan and opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif for a committee to name a new caretaker prime minister.

From Pakistan Today, a resolution condemning foreign interference in Pakistan's internal affairs is submitted to the Sindh provincial Assembly.

From The Hans India, India's Bharatiya Janata Party celebrates its 42nd Foundation Day.

From the Hindustan Times, the high court of Jammu and Kashmir tells the territory's government to identify all illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

From ANI, according to India's Health Ministry, evidence does not suggest that the XE coronavirus variant is in the country.

From India Today, Telangana State Minister KT Rama Rao accuses the Hharatiya Janata Party of misleading India over rising fuel prices.

From OpIndia, in the Indian state of Karnataka, a 22-year-old man is stabbed to death, reportedly for not speaking Urdu.

From The Times Of India, a Muslim cleric in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly "issuing" a death fatwa against a doctor.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh moves fast to avoid losing potatoes.

From New Age, students suffer as Bangladesh's cluster-based admissions system for public universities becomes a cluster[bleep].

From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appoints a team of economic experts to advise on Sri Lanka's debt crisis.

From the Daily Mirror, why was a large stock of diesel fuel sent to a station in Ambatale, Sri Lanka instead of  being sold to CEYPETCO customers.  (My spellchecker has no problem with "CEYPETCO".)

From Raajje, the Maldive Islands and Bangladesh discuss cooperation in the education and health sectors.

From Union Of Catholic Asia News, Indonesia sentences a hardline Muslim to three years in prison for terror offenses.

From Tempo(dot)Co, President Joko Widodo denounces discussions of postponing Indonesia's 2024 elections.

From The Straits Times, people in Malaysia at least 80 years old can get a second coronavirus vaccine booster shot by walking into any vaccination center.

From Free Malaysia Today, four divers from Europe go missing off the coast of the Malaysian state of Johor.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government again postpones the tabling of a bill against "party-hopping".

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong pays a working visit to the province of Quang Ninh.

From the Taipei Times, the U.S. approves the sale of $95 million worth of weapons to Taiwan.

From The Mainichi, a company in Osaka, Japan is reprimanded for its false "drink miso soup to lose weight" ad.

From The Stream, the Biden recession is on its way.

From The Daily Signal, despite opposition from Democrats, South Carolina passes a bill to keep males out of female sports.

From The American Conservative, building American foreign policy up from chaos.

From The Western Journal, the film Rigged shows how then-Facebook (now-Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg allegedly enabled election fraud in 2020.

From BizPac Review, Substack tells employees leaving Twitter over the addition of Elon Musk to its board that they're not wanted.

From The Daily Wire, officials euthanize the fox that bit congresscritter Ami Bera (D-Cal) and eight others on Capitol Hill.

From the New York Post, a Ukrainian woman writes her family's information on her daughter's back, in case she is killed and her daughter is thus orphaned.

From Breitbart, yes, the Democrats want to groom your children.

From Newsmax, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo catch the coronavirus.

From Axios, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) will lead a bipartisan delegation to visit Poland and its border with Ukraine.  (via Newsmax)

And from the Daily Caller, the Atlanta Braves are selling a hamburger for $151, which comes with a replica World Series ring, with an upgrade to a real WS ring for $25,000.

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