What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people? A country.
What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? International diplomatic recognition.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state after the war. The State Department has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more diplomatic doubletalk.
A controversial NPR article has triggered a heated debate
New federal regulations are forcing museums across the US to scrap their exhibits on Native American history and culture.
At the end of January, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City announced that it would be closing two of its major Native American displays. Navigating the legal maze required to obtain consent from indigenous tribes had made maintaining the exhibits virtually impossible.
The biggest mistake we make is in believing that we are in a so-called ‘culture war.’ The phrase ‘culture war’ assumes that both sides have rival cultures they are battling to defend and promote. However, the enemies of civilisation, of life, and love, have no culture. If anything, their aim is not only to destroy the great cultural and spiritual achievements of the West, but to lay waste to anything that transcends the diabolical and obscene. Culture presupposes beauty, order, and tranquillity. It assumes those moral and spiritual values upon which harmony and holiness depend. In word, rite, song, and ritual; it idealises what William Blake termed “the human form divine.” In our “brave new world,” however, the human form is considered neither divine nor worthy of reverence or respect. It has been reduced to what Roger Scruton called its “animal essentials”—a purely natural object that can be remade in the image and likeness of anything but God. Put simply, the only ‘culture’ that is on offer is that of death and desecration, of defilement and the demonic.
A woman has slammed police officers for watching Netflix and lifting dumbbells in her home for almost four hours after they were told to ‘chill’ while she was missing in the woods.
Abbygail Lawton, 21, from Wigan, was in the midst of a mental health crisis when ambulance services raised the alarm about her welfare, calling in the police for backup.
Greater Manchester Police officers searched her home to confirm the young woman was not there before making themselves comfy, sitting on her sofa with their feet up while scrolling through Ms Lawton’s TV trying to find a series of Come Dine with Me to watch.
Why aren’t the students and professors who demand trigger warnings for discussions of rape in literature at the forefront of those denouncing Hamas’s atrocities?
About ten years ago, when I was a young assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College and new to academia, I was taken by surprise when one of my students complained about an assigned text—Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Specifically, her concern was about Ovid’s lack of sensitivity on the subject of rape. The Metamorphoses is a poetic compendium of ancient Greek and Roman myths; one of its common motifs is male gods erotically pursuing females. I was particularly surprised by the student’s comment because Ovid’s elegant and witty text is remarkably sympathetic to the female characters. But I knew that Mawrters are famous for the intensity of their beliefs; it makes sense for students at a women’s college to feel so strongly about violence against women.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province won’t be making gender identity policy changes similar to Alberta’s.
While his government has already said it would not follow Alberta’s announced restrictions on medical transitioning for minors, his office confirmed he is also ruling out Alberta’s other measures, such as requiring schools to inform parents about pronoun and name changes at school.
What a jackass.
KFAR AZA, Israel — They were childhood sweethearts. They’d been together since they were 16, when they met in high school, in Ashdod. On Oct. 7, 2023, they were murdered here in this old-style kibbutz, built more than 70 years ago in a grove of eucalyptus and tamarisk trees.
If the premier of Alberta has a preference in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, she’s not sharing it publicly.
At a news conference during a trip to Washington, D.C., Danielle Smith pointed to different difficulties in dealing with either a Democrat or a Republican.
When asked whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump would be better for her province, she replied: “I think there’s challenges with both.”
Both candidates have protectionist policies, Smith said.
She’ll hate Biden More.
The family of three Canadian men says they were taken from their home in the Gaza Strip during an overnight raid by Israeli forces, as Ottawa confirms it is aware of reports that a citizen has gone missing.
Yasmeen Elagha told The Canadian Press from Chicago that her uncle and two American-born cousins are missing.
Ahmed Alagha was born in Canada, Ms. Elagha said, and lived in Toronto with his American-born sons Borak, 18, and Hashem, 20, before they moved to Gaza in the mid-2000s.
As Canadian as Maple Syrup they is!
Teacher gets emotional discussing how proud she is that 8-year-olds correct other students on her gender and pronouns. pic.twitter.com/MmqRgclJzo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 8, 2024
The southeastern Ontario city of Belleville has declared a state of emergency after a rash of overdoses over a 24-hour period that prompted warnings from police this week.
Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis says the declaration on behalf of city council was made because of the growing addiction, mental health and homelessness crisis in the city and its impact on emergency services.
Ellis says municipal services are close to a breaking point and he is calling for support from provincial and federal governments.
All of Canada is suffering a death of despair under the Trudeau government.
Someone out there will know how to answer this deeply thought-provoking question. pic.twitter.com/ueCcYSUlmE
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 8, 2024
Special counsel Robert Hur‘s report on his 15-month investigation into President Joe Biden‘s mishandling of classified documents includes damning assessments of the president’s mental acuity amid concerns about his age before November’s election.
In his nearly 400-page report, Hur provides details regarding his decision not to prosecute Biden criminally, unlike former President Donald Trump, such as the likelihood that a jury would sympathize with him and that he could not remember, “even within several years,” when his son Beau Biden died, among other important dates.
Devastating report; classified documents investigation yields telling evidence of 81 year-old Joe Biden's serious memory problems. 25th Amendment territory. https://t.co/MjpKFvZ5Fn pic.twitter.com/ab4PkQVQiE
— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 8, 2024
