Thursday Tidings

As the cool cloudy weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to investigates then-Vice President Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents.

From FrontpageMag, Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) California is "free", but not in the right ways.

From Townhall, the Democrats have a "bottomless" abortion sickness.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's restrictions on investment in China come with a "batteries not included" exception.

From the Washington Examiner, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) appoints former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (R) to replace former Senator Ben Sasse (R) in the Senate.

From The Federalist, when it comes to allegedly mishandling classified documents, Biden is "out of excuses".

From American Thinker, the media are already making such excuses for Biden.

From CNS News, classified documents are found in a garage at Biden's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, but not at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach.

From NewsBusters, an opinion writer at The Washington Post admits that the Republican congressional rebels were right about something.

From Canada Free Press, the Chief Twit shows that political bias infests mainstream reporting on Twitter.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Maduro calls 2022 "a year of fulfilled goals".

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Ukrainian military has the challenge of learning how to work the British Challenger 2 tank.  (As that noted tactician David Byrne once asked, "How do I work this?")

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s National Health Service comes up with a maternity gender inclusion program.

From Free West Media, Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag will apparently not face any consequences for concealing her membership in the WHO's Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.

From EuroNews, Spain drops sedition charges against former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont.

From Euractiv, Sweden announces the discovery of the largest deposit of rare earth metal oxides in Europe.

From ReMix, Germany's Green party decides that race and gender are more important than education and experience.

From Balkan Insight, how an obscure Croat became a music maker to the stars.

From The North Africa Post, a U.K. think tank warns that if Algerian army Chief of Staff General Saïd Chengriha does not change, he will be removed.

From The New Arab, Egyptians struggle with increasing prices on basic commodities.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian terror groups recruit minors for terror operations, and then condemn Israeli forces for shooting "innocent children".

From The Stream, is anyone surprised that the Joker got pregnant?

From The Daily Signal, Facebook admitted to the White House that they were suppressing "often-true content" on coronavirus vaccines, and not just misinformation.

From The American Conservative, only one Democrat votes for a bill that would ban post-birth abortions.

From BizPac Review, Illinois sheriffs refuse to enforce the state's new gun law, to which Governor JB Pritzger (D) sounds off.

From The Daily Wire, the computer issues that grounded planes nationwide exposed the FAA's "woke garbage".

From the Daily Caller, the Baldwin County, Alabama school district mandates that counselors "affirm" the preferred gender identity of students.

From CNN, American naval veteran Taylor Dudley is released from detention in Russia.  (Note to self:  If you ever visit Poland again, self, don't go wandering northward into the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.  The story comes via the Daily Caller.)

From the New York Post, according to Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal), new congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) has "a long way to go to earn trust".

From Breitbart, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) claims that her crime plan is "working", but the statistics show otherwise.

And from Newsmax, the House votes to block oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve from going to China.