Policymakers believe the state, not parents, holds authority over children when it comes to sex and gender issues—but families are pushing back.
A promising revolt has begun in California. Seven school districts there have recently passed parental-notification policies. And not a moment too soon. As many parents are discovering, the local school board is the one place where they can effect positive change in their children’s public schools—if, that is, the state doesn’t find a way to stop them.
A clip of comedian Louis C.K. on the Joe Rogan show has been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) this week in which he goes on and on about how opening up the southern border would be a good thing because Americans shouldn’t have such a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, how poor people in other countries just want what Americans have, and how it’s not fair that we have so much. “It shouldn’t be so great here,” he says. So open the border and let them pour in.
My friend John who lives near Eagle Pass just sent me this from today. I’ve covered the border for roughly 20 years and it’s never been as bad as it has been under the Biden admin. This is Biden’s policy-this is absolutely a dereliction of of duty, Nat Sec, humanitarian disaster pic.twitter.com/FHwOe3u299
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) September 20, 2023
The family of a US man who drowned after driving off a collapsed bridge are claiming that he died because Google failed to update its maps.
Philip Paxson’s family are suing the company over his death, alleging that Google negligently failed to show the bridge had fallen nine years earlier.
Mr Paxson died in September 2022 after attempting to drive over the damaged bridge in Hickory, North Carolina.
A spokesperson for Google said the company was reviewing the allegations.
The case was filed in civil court in Wake County on Tuesday.
On the 18th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror groups are still talking about the need to step up attacks against Israel until the “liberation of all of Palestine,” from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
These groups still see Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip not as a humanitarian gift to allow the Gazans to build the “Singapore of the Middle East,” as former Israeli President Shimon Peres put it, but instead as the beginning of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s 1974 “Ten Point Plan” (also known as the “phased plan”) for the “comprehensive liberation” of all the land stretching “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea” — a euphemism for the elimination of Israel. The Plan essentially states that the Palestinians should take whatever land they are given and use it as a launching pad for getting the rest.
PBS’s Christiane Amanpour welcomed former Vice President Al Gore to her Wednesday program to join her in attacking British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement that he will be delaying certain aspects of the country’s climate initiatives with Gore going so far as to declare young people feel “stabbed in the back.”
Toronto’s ombudsman is launching an investigation into the city’s decision to deny refugee claimants space in city shelters and direct them to federal programs.
Ombudsman Kwame Addo says the investigation will determine whether the city met its obligations to treat the claimants and asylum seekers looking for a shelter bed with fairness, dignity, respect and care.
As if Prince Harry was not insufferable enough.
Prince William is apparently in a snit. His Royal-Whatever-He-Is is miffed. According to Fox News, the heir (not the spare) is pouting because the peasants of the world are taking too long to get on board with whatever climate change policy he favors.
Whatever the outcome of the public inquiry into foreign interference headed by Quebec Court of Appeal Judge Marie-Josée Hogue, the process that led up to it has already been of benefit to Canadians.
Without it, it is difficult to believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would have announced in the House of Commons Monday that Canadian security and intelligence authorities are “actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India” and the fatal shooting of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18.
Rock legend Eric Clapton helped Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raise $2.2 million at a private fundraiser event in Los Angeles on Monday night.
With just six weeks left before amnesty granted under a May 2020 firearms prohibition expires, a Canadian firearm owners’ advocacy group is planning to take the federal government to court.
The injunction, expected to be filed on Friday, comes courtesy of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR,) who say it’s time the Trudeau Liberals stop leaving scores of Canadian gun owners wondering if their collections will be illegal by Halloween.
Bob Ross was an artist who brought painting to the people, his works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half hour with little more than a large bristle brush, a putty knife and plenty of encouragement. It is unlikely he would have envisioned one of his works going up for sale for nearly $10m.
The RCMP is investigating the death of a B.C. man who was a target of Operation Fox Hunt, a Chinese government campaign to pressure expatriates and silence opponents.
Wei Hu, a 57-year-old father of three, lived in a gated $2.8-million property on B.C.’s Harrison Lake. According to a friend, he was a critic of Beijing who left China in 2000.
But even in Canada, he could not escape the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which issued a so-called Red Notice through Interpol seeking his arrest and return to China for supposed financial crimes.
Offed in 2021? The RCMP is only just getting round to this?
No stink will be raised about this of course.
The CSIS leaks happened because Justin wanted to normalize relations with his ChiCom friends.
Trudeau is a danger to our nation’s security.
Poland has announced it will stop supplying weapons to Kyiv amid a row over grain supplies, in a new crack in western support to Ukraine.
Warsaw had been one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies but the trade dispute has thrown the relationship into doubt.
Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s prime minister, said the decision would allow his country to focus on upgrading its military.
Ottawa forecasts 1.4 million international student applications a year by 2027, document shows
The number of foreign students applying to come to Canada each year is forecast by the federal immigration department to rise to 1.4 million by 2027, an internal policy document says, which also raises concerns that such growth is “unsustainable.”
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada forecast the rapid rise in the number of foreign students in a paper last month about establishing a class of “trusted” universities and colleges, which would qualify for faster processing of international student study permits.
Almost one-third of Europeans now vote for populist, far-right or far-left parties, research shows, with wide support for anti-establishment politics surging across the continent in an increasingly problematic challenge to the mainstream.
Analysis by more than 100 political scientists across 31 countries found that in national elections last year a record 32% of European voters cast their ballots for anti-establishment parties, compared with 20% in the early 2000s and 12% in the early 1990s.
The research, led by Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist at the University of Amsterdam, and shared exclusively with the Guardian, also found that about half of anti-establishment voters support far-right parties – and this is the vote share that is increasing most rapidly.
