Wednesday Whatnot

On a sunny but cool Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Russian President Putin gets his new clothes.

From FrontpageMag, where's Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) on protecting the innocent.

From Townhall, even Vice President Harris's husband does not think that she will be president.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Fairfax County, Virginia school board misleads the Supreme Court to defend its anti-Asian admissions plan at its top high school.

From the Washington Examiner, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warns against minors undergoing transgender surgery.

From The Federalist, the United States has a "Potemkin government", of which President Biden is merely one component.

From American Thinker, the "regime media" is in a quandary in which by exposing Biden they exonerate former President Trump.

From CNS News, the Biden administration is collecting taxes at a faster pace than any other in U.S. history, but they want even more.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, business-hostile Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer claims to support business now that she's running for reelection.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the media is devastated from seeing happy airline passengers without their masks.

From Canada Free Press, is Biden's "stand for Ukraine" motivated by compassion or kickbacks?

From CBC News, Canada's inflation rate reaches 6.7 percent, a 30-year high.

From Global News, the Canadian federal government provides funding for more searches for unmarked graves at a residential school in the province of Nova Scotia.

From CTV News, to what compensation for delayed or canceled flights are travelers entitled under Canadian law?

From TeleSUR, Cuba remembers the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in eugenic Britain, the "gene genie" is out of the bottle.  (The "gene genie" should not be confused with the David Bowie song Jean Genie.)

From the Express, the European Research Council tells 150 scientists based in the U.K. that they must move to a different country if they want to receive their grants.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K.'s Prince Harry claims that he is making sure that Queen Elizabeth is "protected".

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to Brexit minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, the U.K. has no need to follow E.U. rules on car speed limiters.

From the (Irish) Independent, an advertisement for a burger van is banned for joking about missing Irish girl Madeleine McCann.

From the Irish Examiner, libraries in Cork County, Ireland offer book bags to young readers.

From VRT NWS, 1,827 refugee children from Ukraine have been registered in schools in the Belgian commune of Flanders.

From The Brussels Times, in an act of "senseless violence", four teenagers beat a man unconscious in Bruges, Belgium.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at De Standaard.)

From the NL Times, the Dutch brewery Heineken warns that beer is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From Dutch News, coronavirus measures left many Dutch sex workers struggling financially.  (If you read Dutch, read a related story at SOAIDS.)

From Deutsche Welle, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock starts a trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

From Euractiv, according to Baerbock, the delivery of heavy weapons from Germany to Ukraine is no longer "taboo".

From Free West Media, the Berlin Senate Administration tries to hush the large increase in heart complaints and strokes in 2021.

From the CPH Post, the rush to stop using natural gas from Russia hurts both homeowners and electric car drivers in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Poland dismantles monuments to the Soviet Red Army in response to Russia's war in Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, Czech police investigate possible war crimes in Ukraine by gathering testimony from refugees.

From The Slovak Spectator, people in Slovakia will no longer be required to wear FFP2 respirators while indoors.

From Daily News Hungary, the radical party Mi Hazánk seeks to replace not only Hungary's governing coalition but also its left-wing opposition.

From Hungary Today, the Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary visits a refugee center in Budapest and thanks Hungary for its help.

From About Hungary, according to State Secretary Miklós Soltész, has helped hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine.

From ReMix, a second wave of bomb threats causes most malls in Budapest, Hungary to be evacuated.

From EuroNews, imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny urges French voters to support President Emmanuel Macron over right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen.

From Balkan Insight, according to Prime Minister-designate Dritan Abazović, Montenegro's new government will hold elections in 2023.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco renews its solidarity with Africa's Great Lakes countries and calls for cooperation against terrorism.

From The New Arab, Hamas calls for other groups in Gaza to not "independently" launch rockets at Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, a review of a book about the Middle East.

From The Stream, strong arguments to keep "trans ed" out of elementary schools.

From Space War, Finnish parliamentcritters start debating whether to seek NATO membership.

From The Daily Signal, a critical look at critical race theory in American public school classrooms.

From The American Conservative, "the decline and fall of NASCAR".

From The Western Journal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki falsely claim that Republicans have no plan to fight inflation.

From BizPac Review, coronavirus authoritarians panic over the end of mask mandates.

From The Daily Wire, according to a watchdog, congresscritter Kaiali'i Kahele's (D-HI) income from Hawaiian Airlines while pushing bills relating to the aviation industry justifies an ethics investigation.

From the Daily Caller, the NBA's TV ratings boom as LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers are not in the playoffs.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, former President Trump holds the best net favorability rating among Republicans.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL), the CDC never gave any reason to continue mask mandates.

And from the New York Post, based on today's date 4/20, what sort of stoner are you, according to your zodiac sign?