In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote: “If there are rats in the cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly… The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.” In this regard, Donald Trump was the surprise light that exposed the rats gnawing away at America’s foundations since at least the 1980s.
‘I needed security just to give my lectures’
Academic Selina Todd on her experience of campus censorship, and what we should do about it.
The government has announced new measures to tackle the crisis of free speech on campus. Selina Todd is professor of modern history at Oxford University and author of Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth. Todd is a gender-critical feminist, who believes womanhood is a matter of sex, not gender identity. Her campaigning for women’s sex-based rights caught the attention of trans-rights activists and, as a result, she was deplatformed last year from a Women’s Liberation Festival event. spiked caught up with her to find out more.
‘Critical Race Theory’ Costs a Brave Smith College Whistleblower Her Job
A staff member at Smith College, Jody Shaw, resigned her position as a student support coordinator because of the “hostile atmosphere” at the college. It appears that Ms. Shaw ran afoul of critical race theory fanatics who forced her to “participate in racially prejudicial behavior as a condition” of her employment.
As Trump Predicted, Under Biden China Owns the United States
On February 11, Joe Biden announced sanctions on Burma for a recent coup in that nation, also known as Myanmar. “The military must relinquish power they’ve seized and demonstrate respect for the will of the people of Burma as expressed in their November 8 election,” Biden said. For the current occupant of the White House, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, that was something of a departure.
Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute
Pledge your allegiance to “Wakanda Forever” — or else.
A veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired in part because she refused to mimic a salute to Black power from the 2018 comic-book movie “Black Panther” during superintendent meetings.
‘DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY’: Madonna lashes out at shadowy cabal of men attempting to ‘cut off her life force’
Pop icon Madonna has complained that a conniving cadre of scheming men has prevented her from reaching her full potential, but some believe that the obscenely wealthy and successful entertainer may be overreacting.
NY Times Goes on Elitist Rant About ‘Merciless’ Rush’s ‘Indefensible Conduct’
After brutalizing him in its front-page obituary on Thursday, the New York Times took a Trumpian angle on talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh’s passing with reporter Jeremy Peters’ “Political Memo”: “Rush Limbaugh’s Legacy of Venom: As Trump Rose, ‘It All Sounded Familiar’ — Weaponizing conspiracy theories and bigotry long before Donald Trump’s ascent, the radio giant helped usher in the political style that came to dominate the Republican Party.”
The inconvenient truth about these savage gang attacks
GAVIN MORTIMER, a journalist who covers France for the Spectator, has written recently concerning the attack in Paris on fourteen-year-old Yuriy, a white boy. The brutality of Yuriy’s beating by ten youths (knocking the boy’s eyes out of their sockets apparently) caused mounting consternation, especially after a video appeared of the boy being attacked, beaten to a pulp and left for dead in a square in the 15th arrondissement, one of the so-called beaux quartiers of Paris, and exactly where you wouldn’t expect such an attack to take place, especially after the 6pm national curfew. Apparently, criminality thrives while the rest of us race to the supermarket at 5.15 so that we can make it home by 6.
The story of Yuriy, who remains in hospital, revived references to the ‘ensauvagement’ of France, rejected by the usual suspects, who worry about unfairly scapegoating poor people and minorities.
Rex Murphy: The electric snowmobile will save us all. The Liberals have said so
Good to see Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Seamus O’Regan, is back in his office after his sojourn to dear Newfoundland, on behalf of Premier Furey, in the botched provincial election. The election itself was halted, or cancelled, or put on ice — to use a phrase — after the province had, for it, a huge spike in COVID cases. Prior to the — let’s call it a postponement — Mr. O’Regan was out doing the old door-to-door with various Liberal candidates, a sprightly sight for Newfoundlanders weary from lockdowns, February and firing up the woodstove.
Whistleblower: Coca-Cola Uses Antiracist Training That Tells Employees ‘Try To Be Less White’
Coca-Cola has used a training video by antiracist activist Robin DiAngelo that tells employees to “try to be less white,” according to “unwoke activist” Karlyn Borysenko based on information from what she says is a company whistleblower. Borysenko, who is also a psychologist, YouTuber, and creator of Zen Workplace, put a video of the training online. Borysenko often speaks out against critical race theory and corporate race training.
Election pandering Trudeau opened the floodgates – Canada lowers bar for wannabe immigrants who wouldn’t have previously qualified
Canada’s record-setting invitation to immigrants after COVID shortfall an ‘absolute shock’
…However, Toronto immigration lawyer Sergio Karas said trying to meet the immigration target by lowering the bar is a “terrible” way to make policies.
The latest draw unfairly rewards the low scorers, who “took a flyer” and entered the pool, he said, even if they have poor qualifications, poor language skills and poor job prospects while qualified applicants who are still collecting documentation and not yet in the system lose out.
“The draw transforms a well-structured and predictable system into a lottery ticket,” said Karas. “It makes the system look worthless and game-able.”
The excerpt above is the only common sense you’ll find in the Star article.
Just think, both the Liberals and Conservatives could campaign using the same slogan – “A smaller piece of the pie for you!”
We Don’t Serve Your Kind
Today’s blacklisters obsess over the injustice of others so much that they can’t see their own.
“Hey,” the bartender says of C3PO and R2D2. “We don’t serve their kind here.”
Forty-four years later, the Palpatines of the Star Wars empire say the same thing to rebels.
Disney wimps fired Gina Carano over social media for an opinion she expressed on social media. When did we reach the point where the latter rather than the former became unacceptable?
Brother vs. sister: Two of Barry and Honey Sherman’s children in a battle for control of the family empire
I popped my head into Jack Kay’s office at Apotex in the early fall of 2018, looking for a detail to help flesh out what seemed an apocryphal story: That murdered billionaire inventor/businessman Barry Sherman had driven a series of rusty, poorly maintained convertibles. Kay had been generous with his time, tutoring me about pharmaceuticals on Saturday afternoons, bringing me into the world he and Sherman shared for 35 years.
Looking up from what had been Sherman’s desk, Kay, muscled and lean from daily 6 a.m. workouts, was unusually frosty. I had just been down the hall talking to Joanne Mauro, Barry’s executive assistant for 42 years. In addition to Mauro describing the tremendous impact her late boss had on her — “I don’t let anything bother me anymore” — she said Sherman loaned her his car one day and the brake pedal sank to the floor.
Beijing Wants to Sway US Policy Using Climate Change, Experts Warn
The Biden administration should not allow the Chinese regime to use climate change as a bargaining chip to extract concessions in other areas, according to China experts.
The warning comes as the United States formally rejoined the Paris agreement on Feb. 19. President Joe Biden has described climate change as an “existential threat” and vowed to do more to reduce carbon emissions. But analysts are concerned that this may lead the United States to become cozier with the Chinese regime.