On Monday’s The View, the liberal hosts were more upset at Sen. Ron Johnson [R-WI] making incendiary statements about Black Lives Matter and the “fictitious” Antifa, than they were by scandal-plagued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refusing to resign.
Some days ago, CNN’s Brian Stelter proclaimed that Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News host, is now the “new” Donald Trump. The comparison makes essentially no sense whatsoever, as Tucker and Trump not only disagree on policy, but their styles and the way in which they engage are also completely different.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted Tuesday that he’s “worried” about being recalled from office as organizers prepare to submit petitions to place his political fate on the special-election ballot.
“Am I worried about it? Of course, I’m worried about it,” Mr. Newsom said on ABC’s “The View.” “The nature of these things, the up-or-down question, the zero-sum nature of the question is challenging, it’s vexing.”
A large explosion was reported in Ontario, California on Tuesday. Witnesses say the blast was related to a stockpile of fireworks.
Dramatic video posted to social media showed the moment of the explosion.
A house filled with a giant stash of fireworks has exploded in a neighborhood in Ontario, shattering windows in nearby homes and causing shaking throughout parts of California.
Three large blasts erupted Tuesday afternoon from a property in the area of Fern Avenue and Francis Street reducing it to rubble and filling the air with clouds of thick smoke before fireworks started firing into the air.
On Monday, CNN host Don Lemon lectured the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian denominations on The View, declaring — as if he had been given direct inspiration from God — that the traditional definition of marriage is “not what God is about.” He suggested that racial segregation and other forms of segregation are ultimately responsible for Christians’ supposedly backward definition of marriage.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that the United States is on pace to experience the highest number of illegal border crossings in 20 years. He also admitted that the situation is “difficult” but again stopped short of calling it a “crisis” and insisted that the situation is under control.
We now have the final-final-final Grammy ratings and what we find is yet another catastrophe for the entertainment industry. Just two weeks after the Golden Globes hit an all-time low by losing 62 percent of its viewers, the Grammys lost 53 percent. Only 8.8 million people were interested in watching The Worst People In The World celebrate themselves. This is a jaw-dropping collapse from 18.7 million over last year and 19.9 million in 2019.
A hopeful sign of the entertainment industries’ continued decline.
Canadian girl, 4, freed from Syrian detention camp
The Canadian government says it provided consular services to a four-year-old girl recently freed from an Islamic State detention camp in northeastern Syria, but did not organize her exit from the camp.
“This story was one where the family themselves took the initiative to bring the daughter to Canada. The mother remains in Syria. She’s now with, I believe, an aunt or a relative,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a press conference today.
“The federal government facilitated the travel documents but this was something that was done by the family involved.”
Anyone who signed up for ISIS did so knowing they were joining a murder cult. No mercy. As far as I am concerned we are not responsible for their spawn.
US President Joe Biden has good reason to regret his hasty decision to remove the terrorist designation applied to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after they responded to his act of benevolence by unleashing a fresh wave of attacks in the Middle East.
The Houthis and their Iranian backers are primarily responsible for starting Yemen’s long and bitter civil war after they overthrew the democratically-elected government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in 2014.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax of $170 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will cost more than 200,000 Canadian jobs and $1,800 annually in less income for the average worker, according to a study by the Fraser Institute.
The study — Estimated Impacts of a $170 Carbon Tax in Canada — by Ross McKitrick and Elmira Aliakbari, also concludes Trudeau’s carbon tax will cause a 2.1% drop in Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
…A pool of eligible local citizens has been called to appear by Hennepin County in Minnesota. From them, a jury of 12 and four alternates will be selected. It could take weeks.
Although it is highly unlikely potential jurors will have no prior knowledge of the case – George Floyd’s death in May last year in Minneapolis inspired weeks of global protests – they will be questioned to determine whether they will be able to judge Derek Chauvin fairly.
The prosecution and defence can both ask Judge Peter Cahill to dismiss a potential juror “for cause” if they perceive bias. The prosecution can also dismiss nine potential jurors – and the defence team 15 – without giving any reason, although this can be objected to.
It was maybe an hour or so into the Kielburger brothers’ testimony on Monday when Nathaniel Erskine-Smith finally cut to the heart of the matter. The Liberal MP, in his mild and polite way, absolutely skewered the Kielburgers over the heartbreaking story shared by U.S. journalist Reed Cowan. Cowan had donated to WE Charity, and helped raise a sum reportedly running into the millions. Cowan was told by WE that the funds had gone to the construction of a school in Kenya, and that a plaque honouring Cowan’s late son Wesley had been put up in his honour. The problem is that the plaque was later taken down and replaced by another plaque, honouring another donor, which Cowan discovered on a subsequent visit.
It’s difficult to like the Kielbugger boys.
Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado.
One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children.
More than 2,500 people have been killed and 700,000 have fled their homes since an Islamist insurgency began in 2017.
The militants have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.
