Seven weeks into the trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, the court still hasn’t heard from all witnesses.
Crown prosecutors decided to stay a bail violation charge against Lich on Oct. 23 in an attempt to limit the scope of the court and reduce ongoing delays in the trial. With the Crown’s argument dragging on nearly twice as long as expected, prosecutors have chosen to drop the bail violation charge to focus on the other charges Lich is facing.
October 7th was a crushing reminder of what happens to unarmed and peaceable civilians (even children) when blood-thirsty animals are on the prowl; it was a sobering moment in which many of us realized that ultimately, the responsibility for our safety and that of our families falls squarely on our shoulders; and it was an unwanted vindication for the American conservatives denigrated as unsophisticated and uneducated rubes who “cling” to firearms, all because we are unrelenting in our defense of a citizen’s right to self-defense.
Certain pro-Palestine protestors are being let off lightly
And lo, the blame game has started. Sir Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, yesterday claimed that his officers don’t have the legal powers they need to crack down on the sort of blatant antisemitism we have seen at recent Gaza demonstrations; Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, says they do.
As the orderlies swing open the heavy doors of the refrigerated containers, a fine mist spreads from the cold interior into the evening warmth.
The mist is quickly followed by the sickening smell of human remains.
“As we call it, this place is the gates of hell,” warns Gilad Bahat, a senior officer in the Israeli police’s investigation and intelligence department.
The liberal media’s fawning over oddball Artemis Langford has revealed the misogyny at the heart of the trans cult.
Imagine it’s 1997 and you are a young, edgy, fun-loving feminist. The world you live in has produced Girl Power, ladette culture and Take Back the Night marches. You and your girlfriends have said ‘Hell No!’ to creepy men and you own your sexual empowerment. Then, a terrible accident befalls you and you fall into a coma. You awake from the coma in 2023 to find that those who call themselves feminists today are defending the rights of predators to enter women’s spaces and are celebrating girls who cut off their breasts and take testosterone. ‘But wait’, you cry, confused from your hospital bed. ‘Aren’t we supposed to be protecting women, and teaching girls that they are fine just the way they are?’ And then you are kicked out of the hospital and denied further medical care for being a transphobe.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been given the ‘South Park’ treatment once again, this time by Seth McFarlane’s Family Guy.
In an episode from the newest series of the cartoon satire which aired on Sunday, main character Peter Griffin compares himself to the royal couple, who stepped down as working members of the British Royal Family in 2020 to move to the US.
Sitting in a bar with his friends as he thinks of ways to retrieve money he is owed, Peter Griffin says he’ll ‘go it alone’ – just like the Sussexes.
The whole world must now see that when Hamas say, “Free Palestine,” it means to eradicate the Jews from Israel by any means, however brutal, however barbaric.
On Saturday morning, at a synagogue in New Jersey, Rabbi Marcus suddenly stopped the prayers and burst into tears. It seemed as if his heart was breaking, because it was. A war had broken out in Israel, he wept; one hundred people dead. Turning on my phone, I saw that the Rabbi was wrong: the numbers were much higher. But numbers don’t tell the whole story.
On Sunday, like many other Israelis, I was on a plane back to Israel in order to join my unit as a reservist of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The reality to which I was shortly to be exposed proved more murderous than anyone could have imagined. I’m not sure that we will ever be able to come to grips with the full horror of what occurred.
According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel. It’s heartening that Americans overwhelmingly support civilization over the Islamofascists of Gaza and Iran.
Then again, “Palestinian Authority” gets 17 percent support, and Hamas has a 14 percent positive rating — which is to say, 14 percent of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14 percent of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, we would probably be concerned.
OTTAWA—Canada is not calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war because the Liberal government does not believe Hamas would respect any pause in hostilities, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday.
“Israel was the victim of a terrorist attack. That threat still exists for them and we’ve acknowledged that they (Israel) under international law have a right to defend themselves,” Blair said on his way to a cabinet meeting.
In other words, Israel won’t listen to us anyways.
High schoolers in Oregon won’t need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such requirements are unnecessary and disproportionately harm students of color.
“At some point … our diploma is going to end up looking a lot more like a participation prize than an actual certificate that shows that someone actually is prepared to go pursue their best future,” former Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan told Fox News.
The Israel-Hamas War has shocked the world on many levels: the brutality of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israeli civilians, the propagation of disinformation by supposedly reputable news outlets, and the overt antisemitism on display in academia, politics and public demonstrations. The concept of decolonization, so fashionable in left-wing circles, has been turned against a people who for over a millennium have been persecuted, stateless, and the victim of racial hatred. Yet today, Jews are being cast as villains, in a manner that would make even Shakespeare blush.
The Toronto constituency office of Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles was vandalized one day after she removed MPP Sarah Jama from caucus over comments she made on social media about the Israel-Hamas war.
The office, located at Bloor Street, was seen defaced with the words “Free Palestine. Blood is on your hands.” Stiles’ photo is covered in what appears to be red paint.
The left eats its own.
.@Dove recently partnered with a BLM and fat activist who made up a hoax about a white woman and destroyed her life.
One of their other recent campaigns is called “The Pits of NY” which features obese people showing off their hairy armpits to address “underarm stigma.” They also… pic.twitter.com/mfK08SQHEU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 23, 2023
Israel shouldn’t wait to invade Gaza City.
The ground phase of Operation Swords of Iron, Israel’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror rampage, seems ready to launch at any time. Israel has already begun to conduct raids — “thunder runs” — deep into enemy territory. The fighting will be difficult, not only because of the complexity of the urban terrain in the Gaza Strip and the presence of millions of civilians but also because of the political objective itself. This is no mere retaliatory raid but rather an all-out offensive in pursuit of what amounts to regime change.
Student and faculty reactions to Hamas’s atrocities demonstrate once and for all the fraud of elite higher education. We must reform our universities—or create new ones.
When I interviewed in 2022 for the job of Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the just-founded University of Austin (UATX), Pano Kanelos, the university’s founding president, asked me what I thought the new institution’s mission was. “To save civilization,” I said. “And here I thought the mission was to save American higher education,” he replied.
Informed observers have known for some time that our universities are broken. But the cheerleading on American campuses for terrorists who unleashed a pogrom of a magnitude and viciousness not seen since the Holocaust has made it clear that the collapse of higher education imperils Western civilization itself. Without real higher education, we would forget the past and stumble blindly into the future. Without universities worthy of the name, there would be no civilization.
