Just two days before the 2016 election, Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton abruptly canceled the two-minute fireworks display that was supposed to accompany her “coronation,” as Millennial mom magazine Romper put it at the time.
Clinton’s sense of presumption — right up until NYPD revealed the Hudson River permit had been pulled — was palpable.
An organization that sends volunteers from Canada — and other parts of the world — to work on Israeli military bases is facing a renewed legal challenge, alleging its recruiting efforts violate a federal law against inciting Canadians to join a foreign army.
The non-profit group Sar-El says it has recruited more than 40,000 volunteers from over 30 countries since the Israel-Hamas war broke out last year — to provide logistical support to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), such as packing supplies and cleaning and repairing equipment.
Best line – “They’re tourists who want to help”
They do not officially serve in the IDF or anywhere near the frontlines, they do menial chores that at worst could be argued frees up soldiers for combat.
The usual suspects are appealing the case. I am fatigued at the thought that I recognize their names.
On a question asking for “the most important issues facing the country today,” inflation topped the list with 39%, followed by immigration (35%), “economy and jobs” (29%), women’s rights (17%) and health care (16%). The Israel-Hamas conflict came in 15th on the list at 6% while antisemitism reached 28th with 2%.
I am a free speech absolutist. I am glad that Samidoun chanted, “Death to Canada,” and “Death to Israel,” on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, because they unmasked themselves despite the keffiyehs hiding their faces.
I do not believe that Canada — or any country or jurisdiction — should have laws to criminalize speech — at all. So, it would be unprincipled and hypocritical were I to suggest that Canada’s growing population of antisemitic terrorist cheerleaders be told to shut up under threat of arrest and imprisonment.
Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and various security agencies after an illegal immigrant entered the state with a rare, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
Governor Jeff Landry joined Murrill on Wednesday to allege U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials shuttled the infected Chinese national around in detention, putting them in contact with at least 200 other detainees and staff.
Is the Liberal rebellion over? What was the outcome? A lot of the people who were in the caucus room don’t really know.
Will Liberal MPs have another internal conversation about whether Justin Trudeau should step down? “Oh, I would think there’s a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth,” Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski said just outside Parliament.
Justin’s vanity demands he prove his naysayers wrong and win the next election and to hell with all of Canada.
The widow of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down in the line of duty warned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz he was not welcome at the funeral because of his treatment of cops — threatening to kick his “ass out” if he dared to show up.
Shannon Owen told Kamala Harris’ running mate that he was not welcome at the services for her husband, Josh Owen, an Iraq veteran and Pope County sheriff’s deputy who was shot and killed while working on his 44th birthday in April 2023.
Watch the moment Shannon Owen, widow of fallen Deputy Josh Owen, tells Gov. Tim Walz not to attend her her husband's funeral: 'Don't come anywhere near my town'
As seen in the new Alpha News documentary "Minnesota v. We the People" https://t.co/pTRU8EYNeS pic.twitter.com/OZLajy1zUT
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) October 24, 2024
That Hurts! But Oh Boy Springsteen is gonna appear with Kamala!
In light of crashing poll numbers, Kamala is pulling out her secret weapon in the final weeks of the campaign:
Bruce Springsteen.
She should ask Hillary Clinton how this strategy worked for her. pic.twitter.com/CUevtcUgRr
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 22, 2024
Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.
Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.
The damage is done. Housing crisis, depressed wages, depressed GDP, inaccessible public services, social strife from incompatible cultures, all this will be Trudeau’s legacy.
It will take years for Canada to dig itself out of the mess Trudeau’s Liberal Party created. I am doubtful it can.
Los Angeles Times Editorials Editor Mariel Garza quit on Wednesday, weeks after the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced it would not endorse any candidate this cycle.
With Election Day two weeks away, Garza took issue with her employer shifting away from the tradition of endorsing presidential candidates. The paper has backed the Democratic candidate since 2008. The Los Angeles Times is the biggest newspaper in Vice President Kamala Harris’s home state of California and endorsed Harris when she ran for the Senate in 2016 and for the office of attorney general before that.
Kamala won’t win her home state, the Dem machine will.
An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his assisted death assessors decided that the most reasonable explanation for his physical decline was a post COVID-19 “vaccination syndrome.”
h/t Mauser
A former girlfriend of second gentleman Doug Emhoff said she was left “embarrassed and humiliated” when he slapped her following an event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in the South of France.
The woman, a New York attorney identified only as “Jane,” told the outlet she was talking to a valet to try to persuade him to give her and Emhoff special treatment when her beau struck.
Did he smack the Nanny around too?
The former Université de Montréal lecturer who participated in a fracas inside Concordia University last Nov. 8, and was recorded calling Jewish women “whores” and told Jewish students to “Go back to Poland,” has been arrested in France for ‘apology of terrorism.’
h/t WC
Donald Trump is going to win the election, America’s top analyst has said.
Nate Silver, the prominent statistician and writer, has said that his “gut” tells him the Republican candidate will be returned to the White House on Nov 5.
“My gut says Donald Trump. And my guess is that it is true for many anxious Democrats,” he wrote in The New York Times.
