Friday, February 9, 2024

Friday Fuss

On a sunny and mild Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, how a dispute over whom to nominate for president at the Democratic National Convention would work.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden has a new nickname.

From Townhall, my former governor (R) decides to run for Senator.

From The Washington Free Beacon, ICE director Patrick Lechleitner admits that "sanctuary jurisdictions" are inherently unsafe.

From the Washington Examiner, Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on Biden draws flak from Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), and from Vice President Harris.

From The Federalist, Democrats greatly understate the number of classified documents found at Biden's home.

From American Thinker, the border crisis resembles the plot of a movie made in 1959.

From MRCTV, hate for cops taints a new crime drama from NBC.

From NewsBusters, the left-wing media have known about Biden's mental state for years, and here are some reciepts.

From Canada Free Press, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson turns the table on the fake news media with his interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

From TeleSUR, Chile holds a state funeral in the capital city of Santiago for former President Sebastian Piñera.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. parliamentcritters welcome migrant thugs and later ironically demand to be protected from them.

From Voice Of Europe, Czechs go to Poland to buy cigarettes in bulk.  (If you read Czech, read the story at Novinky.)

From ReMix, Hungary considers buying several small modular nuclear reactors.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Világgazdaság.)

From EuroNews, in their interview, Putin tells Carlson that the U.S. should stop sending weapons to Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, the OTP Group agrees to sell its share of OTP Bank Romania to Banca Transilvania.  (It looks like RI is no longer requiring a subscription to read its articles.  If you read Romanian, read Banca Transilvania's news statement.)

From the Greek Reporter, why did the Greek language predominate in the (Eastern Roman) Byzantine Empire?

From Ekathimerini, the Greek legislature is expected to vote on judicial reforms this coming March.

From the Greek City Times, free guided tours will soon return to Athens, Greece.

From Balkan Insight, a rift over elections widens in the Macedonian party Alliance for Albanians.

From the Sarajevo Times, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina orders 30-day detentions for two suspects accused of money laundering.  (This source replaces FENA, which put its English-language articles behind a subscription requirement.)

From Total Croatia News, more cruise ships visited Croatia in 2023.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From The Slovenia Times, 72 karst caves are discovered during the construction of a rail line between the Slovenian city of Koper and and village of Divača.

From The Malta Independent, a Maltese man is arrested in connection with the sale of illegal malware.

From Malta Today, according to the Malta Business Bureau, carbon-neutrality targets place stress on Maltese businesses.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledges help for farmers currently protesting with their tractors.

From SwissInfo, an Iranian asylum seeker wields an axe and takes 15 people hostage on a Swiss train, which becomes his last mistake.

From France24, former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who fought to abolish the death penalty, dies at age 95.

From RFI, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal completes his new government, including the removal of Amélie Oudéa-Castera from being education minister.

From The Portugal News, the Court of Justice of the European Union rules that Portugal's import tax on cars is illegal.

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian government begs Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez to visit Algiers in an effort to mend relations between the two countries.

From The New Arab, Jordanian authorities arrest an activist for making pro-Palestine media posts.

From The Times Of Israel, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's accounts on Facebook and Instagram are removed, months after he praised Hamas's attack on Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a poll held in 16 Arab countries, 89 percent of Arabs oppose recognizing Israel.

From The Statesman, two people are killed and three others critically injured when a mob attacks burns a police station in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.

From Open Doors, members of the Islamic extremist group Allied Democratic Forces kidnap a pastor and his wife and kill their two children while attacking a church in Bayeti, Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

From Jewish News Syndicate, rewarding Hamas's October 7th attack with a "Palestinian" state.  (The last five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, "a quick look at the 21st century, so far".

From The Stream, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood's "virginity" video shows that they're good at what a certain Austrian painter was good at.

From The Daily Signal, beware the "wolf in sheep's clothing" in civics education.

From The American Conservative, Biden has now experienced the "survival of the unfittest".

From The Western Journal, left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson points out a key detail in the 14th Amendment that could keep former President Trump on the ballot.

From BizPac Review, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) "perfectly" and concisely sums up Biden's confusion.

From The Daily Wire, a group of South Korean Christians disrupts an anti-Israel protest at Harvard University.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Adam Smith (D-WA) admits that President Biden is facing a "challenge".

From Breitbart, according to former White House doctor and current congresscritter Ronny Jackson (R-TX), it's time to be "thinking about" invoking the 25th Amendment due to Biden's mental state.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Michael Waltz (R-FL), the special counsel's report on Biden shows that "there's two tiers of justice" at the DOJ.

And from the New York Post, NFL MVP voter Aaron Schatz responds to an attack from sports writer Stephen A. Smith with lyrics from singer/songwriter Taylor Swift.  (I want to add the labels "Medical", "Music" and "Sports" to this post, but Blogger won't let me use more than 20.)

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