Domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists, the study shows.
Four Police-Related Deaths and the Importance of Context
The world is focused on three police-related deaths: the killing of George Floyd by former Officer Derek Chauvin; the shooting of Daunte Wright by former Officer Kim Potter; and the shooting of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old in Chicago, by Officer Eric Stillman. There is a fourth death that has not received comparable attention: Police Officer Darian Jarrott was murdered in cold blood by a career criminal, Omar Felix Cueva, whose car the officer stopped and politely asked for identification.
These four cases taken together, demonstrate the considerable disparity among cases involving police-related deaths. Each case presents different facts, different legal considerations, different moral conclusions, and different lessons to be learned. Let us consider them each separately, as they deserve.
They really do want your children …
Children being paraded across the stage urging them to pose at a Los Angeles drag club in the middle of the night.
NEW – Children being paraded across the stage urging them to pose at a Los Angeles drag club in the middle of the night. pic.twitter.com/4p4MGu1PvW
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) April 19, 2021
Traffic jammed as Ottawa police set up checkpoints at Quebec border
Traffic was backed up on the bridges connecting Ottawa and Gatineau Monday morning as police began enforcing new pandemic travel restrictions.
The morning rush hour slowed to a crawl as vehicles waited in lineups at Ottawa police check points set up at midnight to restrict the movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists from Quebec.
Minneapolis becomes fortress ahead of verdict in George Floyd trial
Minneapolis looks like a military fortress ahead of the George Floyd murder trial verdict — with fears heightened by a drive-by shooting targeting some of the thousands of National Guard members trying to protect the city.
The Minnesota city had already dramatically increased security ahead of the trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin — ramping it up even further following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb just 10 miles from where Floyd was killed.
Legal Insurrection has live coverage of the closing arguments.
Ontario reports 4,447 new Covid cases … Hydroxychloroquine Heresy! Lockdowns a waste of time say docs!
Ontario reports more than 4,400 new COVID-19 cases today as virus-related hospitalizations surpass 2,200
Ontario is reporting more than 4,400 new COVID-19 cases today as virus-related hospitalizations surpass 2,200 in the province.
Provincial health officials are reporting 4,447 new infections today, up from 4,250 on Sunday but down from the record 4,812 cases confirmed on Friday.
The rolling seven-day average of new infections is now 4,345, up from 3,767 one week ago, and 2,757 two weeks earlier.
LEVY: Three prominent docs call lockdowns a waste of time
They’ve been called “witch doctors” and “snake oil salesmen” for daring to go against the prevailing “group think” about lockdowns and to challenge the “preening camera hungry” medical experts who don’t represent the experience of clinicians and nurses on the front lines of the COVID battle.
But in a lengthy Zoom interview this past week, Paul Elias Alexander, Howard Tenenbaum and Harvey Risch — all PhDs working out of prominent universities — told me flat-out that lockdowns are a complete waste of time.
Marjorie Taylor Greene To Introduce Resolution To Expel Maxine Waters From Congress
As a sitting United States Congresswoman @MaxineWaters threatened a jury demanding a guilty verdict and threatened violence if Chauvin is found not guilty. This is also an abuse of power.
Federal budget to commit more than $2B for child care, deficit not to exceed $400B: source
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the Liberal government’s first budget in two years on Monday, laying out more than $2 billion for a national child-care program while keeping the federal deficit for the past year under the $400 billion mark, CBC News has learned.
A senior government source who spoke to CBC News Sunday — on the condition they not be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the subject — said unlike the way some programs have been announced in past budgets, the forthcoming child-care announcement will not be about striking expert panels, undertaking further study or be entirely subject to negotiations with the provinces.
Federal budget to include digital and luxury levies, but no wealth tax, sources say
OTTAWA — Canada’s first budget in two years, to be presented to parliament on Monday, proposes a sales tax for online platforms and e-commerce warehouses, a digital services tax for Web giants and a luxury tax on items like yachts, government sources familiar with the document said.
It will not include a wealth tax, a levy sought by the opposition New Democrats. Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s budget will need the support of at least one opposition group to pass.
A tax on lux vehicles? I predict an exodus of drug dealers. But at least some parking spots will be freed up in city housing projects.
I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated
I am a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan. Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding it is to help young people explore the truth and beauty of mathematics. I love my work.
As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students. But right now, my school is asking me to embrace “antiracism” training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.
Unhinged Cuomo: White Kids Need to Be Killed for Gun/Police Reform
After putting on a ridiculous voice and suggesting people who supported police believed “comply or die,” Cuomo’s eyes became wild and manic as he described what was needed for reform to happen.
“And you know what the answer is. You really do. You don’t like it, I don’t like it, it scares me,” he told his audience while throwing up his hands. “Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change. Your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed.”
Majority of Canadians say election during COVID-19 would be unsafe, unfair: poll
That sentiment is highest among Liberals who responded to the poll, with nearly two-thirds on average expressing doubts about a pandemic election.
Racial Justice Riots: Calling Evil Good and Good Evil
I’ve been watching the Atlantic Crossing miniseries on PBS Masterpiece. It tells the story of the Norwegian royal family during World War II. I couldn’t help being especially moved by the first episode, in which the Norwegians, secure in their geopolitical obscurity and history of neutrality, keep telling each other — with feigned confidence — that no one has ever attacked a neutral country, and the British would never allow a German invasion. Then suddenly the Germans are there, and they find themselves on the run — their faces reflecting the stunned realization that the things that could never happen have happened, and their lives have been altered forever.
There are those who will call me paranoid, but when I see people marching in the streets of my community, promoting an ideology that makes race a moral category, I see a parallel. When I see store windows broken, people singled out and bullied for their political views, and books banned, when I hear that criticism of the government must be muzzled due to a national emergency, I see a parallel. When I’m told that passion, not reason, must guide our policies, I see more than a parallel.
House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
The legislation is among those radical proposals the Democrats introduced in Biden’s first 100 days include: packing the Supreme Court, amnesty, reparations, federalized elections, D.C. statehood, and banning the Electoral College.
Enough with the coronavirus hysteria
At this point in the pandemic, there is more good news than bad. Yet, our leading health officials are doing everything they can to convince the public otherwise.