Whenever a politician insists on the phrase “Let me be clear,” the one thing anyone within earshot can be assured of is that clarity will be in very short supply. The only phrase that foretells an even foggier utterance is the worrying assurance that a politician is being “absolutely clear.”
When Tim Walz met with supporters at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, campaign office on Wednesday, a Harris–Walz staffer instructed reporters to “not disrupt” him when an impertinent one in their ranks dared ask a question.
“Walz is not taking questions from the media while here,” Fox43’s Alyssa Kratz reported. “We were also not allowed to put microphones up by Gov. Walz while he was speaking.”
Microphones nevertheless picked up that Walz addressed local Democrats in English and not Mandarin Chinese.
Zakaria Amara would like to be forgiven.
Forgiven by Canadians. By Muslims. By his family. Even by the men he conspired with to commit atrocities.
“I ask the Canadian public to forgive me for betraying their trust and welcoming arms,” he wrote in a newly released, self-published book.
American-Turkish human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, succumbed to her wounds on Friday after being shot in the head by Israeli forces during a weekly protest against settlement expansions in the West Bank, according to Palestinian Authority-run news outlet Wafa.
During the weekly protest in Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, IDF soldiers opened fire at the protesters using live ammunition, the report noted. Eygi was subsequently critically wounded in the head. The 26 years old activist was evacuated to Rafida Hospital in Nablus, where she later died.
h/t Patti Jo
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Durham College student accused of threatening to start school shooting
The days leading up to a new academic year at a university are typically filled with a mix of excitement and anticipation for both faculty and students alike. Yet this year, it brought trepidation and even fear for many in the Jewish community. At my own university, faculty attended training sessions on coping with potential classroom intruders, including tips for de-escalation strategies and detailed security procedures. Students normally thinking about orientation programming were instead forced to ask themselves difficult questions about whether to conceal their religious or political beliefs, for fear of risking backlash or ostracization from fellow students and even faculty.
I don’t know that there is much hope for our universities.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a radio interview on Thursday that anti-Israel protesters are “speaking out for all the right reasons” and that more pressure should be applied to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state.
The Michigan NPR station WCMU asked the governor of Minnesota how a Harris-Walz administration would break from the Biden administration handling the Israel-Hamas war.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents have infiltrated Wealth One Bank of Canada and coerced shareholders.
The news comes just two months after a special committee confirmed there are 11 spies on Parliament Hill who have worked for or cooperated with CCP operatives.
The Liberal Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.
Canada’s embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost his key left-wing coalition partner as he continues to maintain his minority government in the nation’s parliament.
Trudeau’s political future now suffers an unexpected blow that may prove fatal. As a layer of political security is stripped away, his government becomes increasingly fragile.
New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh surprised Canadians on Sept. 4 by announcing on X that his party would withdraw from the governing coalition with Trudeau’s Liberals.
A brief note in reaction to the important — but long predicted, by Andy McCarthy among others — news out of Manhattan: Judge Juan Merchan has moved the sentencing of Donald Trump in his state-level conviction, previously scheduled for September 18, to November 26, after the election (“if necessary” — Trump’s legal team has filed a motion to set aside the verdict altogether that the court must first rule on the week before this hearing). Trump’s fans can take solace, and even people who loathe the man should take the philosophical view and thank God that we avoided having a ten-ton political depth charge explode directly underneath America’s political hull again this election cycle. (To the Democrats, I can say only this: If you thought sentencing Trump to prison on charges most people believe to be entirely political would help you, you are wrong, and you misunderstand the suburbanite voters you thought it would shake off the fence. You did not want that to happen with a month and a half to go until Election Day, believe me.)
WASHINGTON—In January 2023, a representative claiming to work with a European finance professional named Eduard Grigoriann shared instructions with a popular U.S. conservative media influencer to start a new YouTube channel.
“Find a personality that could serve as the face of the channel,” Grigoriann’s representative said. “For the right candidate we’re willing to pay around $1-2 million per year.”
The representative was a fictitious persona, as was Grigoriann, U.S. prosecutors said this week. They were fake identities being secretly operated by two Russian nationals seeking to advance Moscow’s desires to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.
The culture war against the past is depriving us of a future.
In my new book, The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight For Its History, I argue that unless we retrieve our historical memory, we are doomed to a state of cultural paralysis.
This act of retrieval won’t be easy. Our historical memory is under sustained assault by a significant swathe of our cultural elites. While many involved in this culture war appear to be focussed on controlling the way we speak and think in the here and now, their main mission is to render toxic the legacy of Western civilisation. This ceaseless attack on our history threatens to distort society’s memory of the past and create a state of historical amnesia.
How is it that our country turned into some kind of theme park spook ride, a cheesy-looking haunted house of programmed frights, howling holograms, phantoms with their hair on fire, doors slamming open on glimpses of hell, ill-winds and foul odors, climaxing in a tableau vivant of death-in-life neverending?
I’m sure that this will surprise you, but you can choose to be sane. How? You take care of your business conscientiously; you steer in the direction of what is true and away from what is false; you find purpose in your existence by discovering your talents and using them in ways that do not bring harm to other people; you seek the company of kindred spirits. . . love the one you’re with. . . work hard so you can rest easy. . . express your gratitude for being here. That’s a start.
In recent days, various Israeli former captives of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip have gone public in the Israeli media with their ordeal, and their reportage is uniform. Every one of their different captors comes across as a psychopathic bully. Being kidnapped and becoming a hostage to Muslims means more than just loss of freedom; it means constant, 24-7 abuse, punishment physical and psychological, in particular, endless humiliation.
