The “longshoreman philosopher” Eric Hoffer once observed, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” This course of corruption has been ubiquitous in U.S. history, but especially characterized the postwar period. In contemporary times, the post-Cold War period, it is accelerating and now reaching terminal velocity.
My hometown is in the news every day. I hear it on the radio, see it on television and read about it in print. It’s never good. Dearborn, Mich., is now known as the place where protesters chant “Death to Israel, Death to America.” It’s the city that President Biden is reportedly trying to placate ahead of the election as he cobbles together a Mideast policy that doesn’t undermine our Israeli ally.
It wasn’t always like this. When I was growing up between the 1950s and 1970s, Dearborn was known for Ford Motor Co., then the second biggest carmaker in the world, whose headquarters was four miles away from my family’s house. Its iconic brand of vehicles synonymous with American car culture—the muscular Mustang, the stylish Thunderbird, the rugged F-150 truck—defined our radiant town.
Canada stands with Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday, living up to the Trudeau government’s tradition of empty rhetoric and meaningless bromides.
Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been spouting such banality since the horrendous Oct. 7 massacre.
GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth testified in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the RCMP has raided one of his properties, but said it was not related to the ArriveCan app.
Firth’s two-person Ottawa IT firm is the main contractor behind the controversial pandemic-era program.
The goal of Budget 2024(opens in a new tab) was simple enough: Put out the raging fire in the dumpster this government has become.
Will it work before the election? Probably not.
A Hail Mary rehash of the greatest hits from the government’s three-week travelling pony-show, the budget takes aim at reversing the party’s popularity plunge in the under-40 set.
Students walked out of Nebo School District in Utah to protest the school for allowing "furries" to t*rrorize other students.
Students claim that the furries bite them, bark at them, and pounce on them without repercussion. However, if they defend themselves in any way, they get… pic.twitter.com/3FUiAo8efk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2024
A transgender military chaplain who was celebrated by the Canadian Armed Forces on ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ has been disciplined for making an inappropriate comment or request of another individual, according to the Department of National Defence.
Captain Beatrice Gale, was celebrated by the Department of National Defence (DND) in a video released in 2023 that discusses the chaplain’s gender transition.
What a sick joke.
How many of you are queer and poly with two husbands and a blended family? pic.twitter.com/lhdmXd3fXY
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 17, 2024
UFOs are no laughing matter on Capitol Hill. Beyond alleging the existence of surreptitious government programs to retrieve and reverse-engineer exotic craft of “non-human” origin, Congress mandated that the Department of Defense document and report any UFO incidents “associated with military nuclear assets, including strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships.”
Just out today Ross Coulthart addresses the persistent UAP issue at Langley air base with civilian video. Includes a good interview with former naval aviator and UAP witness Ryan Graves.
Thucydides famously wrote that wars are produced by fear, honor, and interest.
The great historian Victor Davis Hanson titled his book on World War II The Second World Wars because the conflicts that evolved into that global war began as separate wars: Japan versus China; Italy versus Ethiopia; Japan versus Soviet Russia; Soviet Russia and Germany versus Poland; Soviet Russia versus Finland; England and France versus Germany; Italy versus France; Germany versus Soviet Russia; Japan versus the United States and England; and Germany and Italy versus the United States. Similarly, in 1912 fighting broke out in the Balkans; then Austria-Hungary went to war against Serbia; Germany declared war on Russia; Russia waged war on Austria-Hungary; Germany attacked Belgium and France, and England declared war on Germany. Later, Italy and the United States joined the war. Those conflicts also evolved into a global war waged on five continents, on the high seas, and in the air.
We are constantly being told that solar and wind are now the cheapest forms of electricity. Yet governments around the world felt they had to spend US$1.8 trillion on the green transition last year.
Wind and solar only produce power when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. When they are not, electricity from these sources is infinitely expensive and back-ups are needed. This is why fossil fuels still account for two-thirds of global electricity and why, on current trends, we are a century away from eliminating their use in electricity generation.
On February 9, 2024, Imam Sheikh Abdul Salam Zoud at the Masjid As-Sunnah Lakemba in Sydney, Australia, made the following live-streamed pronouncement:
“There is no solution other than Jihad which continues until Judgement Day. The Prophet Muhammad, the Righteous Caliphs – none of them conquered the world by peaceful means. They conquered it through Jihad. The goal of Jihad for the sake of Allah is not to kill people and take over their lands. Rather, the goal of Jihad is to remove obstacles before the spreading and rule of Islam.”
It’s clear the Liberal budget, brought down on Tuesday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, is all about trying to get voters to love them again.
However, the highest-spending budget in Canadian history — one that dishes out some $ 37.1 billion in added goodies for several key voting groups — could easily put voters off the governing Liberals, rather than buying them love.
Dan Rather tweeted “I am humbled and honored to share some exciting news. A lot of very talented people have produced a documentary about this reporter’s life.” A puff piece movie honoring Rather with actors wasn’t enough. Now there’s a gushy Rather “nonfiction” film.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action suit that alleges 16 pharmaceutical companies misled people regarding the safety and addictive nature of opioids.
People who have been diagnosed with opioid use disorder in Quebec since 1996 may be covered by the lawsuit.
Some of the respondents are the same companies that produce the opioids purchased by federally and provincially funded safer supply programs
