Last December, The Hill reported that more Muslim candidates were seeking office as the “Mamdani effect” took hold. Two months ago, the New Arab reported that “across the US, Muslims are running in the 2026 midterms at the federal, state and local levels.” But what these candidates are standing for requires scrutiny. The spotlight is now on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. “Socialist-backed Michigan Senate hopeful calls American politics a ‘disease’ after professing love for US,” by Bonny Chu, Fox News, July 2025, 2026…
Author: Blazingcatfur
Why I’m Writing This Anonymously and What That Says About Free Speech in Britain Today
I have wanted to write for the Daily Sceptic for a long time. It should be a straightforward ambition to fulfil. I have opinions, I support free speech and scepticism, and here is a publication built for exactly that. Instead, my first contribution arrives unsigned. I think the reason why is, in itself, the article.
Ann Widdecombe’s murder has reopened a question that surfaces from time to time: should politicians with ‘unfashionable’ views get extra protection? The investigation continues, so I won’t comment on that, but the fact that the question is even being asked in response to a 78 year-old woman being killed in her own home tells you something regardless of how the investigation concludes. We have been here before. Jo Cox in 2016. David Amess in 2021. A pattern is forming, whatever the final facts of this particular case turn out to be.
Coming soon to a Canada near you!
Peter Navarro: Canada wants free trade — only on its terms
Canada has long cultivated the image of America’s friendly, free-trading neighbor. The reality is less polite.
Behind the maple-leaf branding is a protectionist system that singles out American farmers, distillers, automakers, and workers. Canada demands access to the American market while reserving the right to close its own when competition becomes inconvenient.
‘Hamas sleeper cell terrorist’ is found working at luxury Crete hotel ‘while preparing cruise ship attack’ – as plot to carry out ‘second October 7’ in Europe is foiled
A suspected Hamas operative allegedly worked at a luxury hotel on the Greek island of Crete while preparing for a suspected terror attack targeting an Israeli cruise ship, according to reports.
The 37-year-old Egyptian man of Palestinian origin, identified by the media as Motasem, was arrested by Greek special forces in the tourist resort of Agios Nikolaos during a raid in early June after recently taking a job as an electrician at the hotel.
Greek police discovered chemicals, a precision scale and other specialist equipment used to make bombs inside his apartment in Athens.
Why did Canada give in to the Gordie Howe bridge shakedown?
This is not how completion of the Gordie Howe International Bridge should have ended, with Canada giving in to another U.S. shakedown.
A few days before the bridge’s originally scheduled opening on June 15, U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat, first stated in February, to block the opening of the Canadian-built and financed Windsor-Detroit bridge.
Of course Carney lied … Text of Gordie Howe Bridge deal with U.S. contradicts Carney’s initial description
More … Read the full text of the Gordie Howe Bridge deal: ‘Proposed agreement in principle’
He lies because he can.
Mark Carney on the run. Why is this failure so popular with too many Canadians? https://t.co/Fex6ePNbEw
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) July 22, 2026
Sweden’s Cousin Marriage Ban Undermined by Immigration Loophole
The Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) is reportedly struggling to prevent people from using family reunification rules to bring close relatives into the country, despite Sweden’s new ban on cousin marriage.
The law, which came into force on July 1, prohibits marriage between cousins and certain other close relatives. It is intended to combat forced marriage and reduce the health risks associated with children being born to closely related parents.
ANALYSIS: When accommodation meets public safety — Canada’s kirpan debate
CALGARY — The latest controversy surrounding the kirpan has reared its head as a Sikh man carrying the ceremonial blade — worn by initiated Sikhs as an article of faith — inside a GoodLife Fitness gym in Windsor, Ontario, has reignited the debate that Canada has been having for decades, and it appears no closer to being resolved.
Maybe the kirpan was in the wash with his other outfit?
So now he’s just rocking a regular hunting knife in public and we’re all supposed to pretend that’s fine.
If “anything can be a weapon” is the new standard, then why are law-abiding Canadians still banned from carrying… pic.twitter.com/5EgMBQ2tzs
— JayGen er (@JayGenXer) July 22, 2026
More … Windsor gym apologizes after Sikh man ordered to leave over ceremonial kirpan
The DSA’s Ideal Voter Is Exactly Who You’d Expect
While we’ve previously covered that the voting bloc driving the socialist surge in places like New York City is largely made up of wealthy, white, college-educated voters, statistician Nate Silver has narrowed that group down even further.
In a new analysis, Silver found that voters most likely to be sympathetic to Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates are highly educated and have relatively low incomes. In other words, the sweet spot is not just college-educated voters, but college-educated voters who have managed to pair credentialed grievance with economic disappointment.
Michael Barutciski: Gruesome beheading attempt in Belfast a warning against fast-track asylum processes
Canadians who are worried about their immigration system should be paying attention to our closest historical partners. They’ve made many of the same errors we have in allowing porous borders, and their experiences offer a warning about the problems Canada can expect if we do not correct course.
Too late …
🚨BREAKING BOMBSHELL
President of the CBSA union
REVEALS that Canada lets in refugees
via AN APP on their phone due to understaffing
No physical interaction EVER occurs. They land and click a few buttons and walk INTO CANADA and get MONEY! …. 10% dont even USE THE APP! pic.twitter.com/reDEQyOCLn
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) November 19, 2025
WTF?
Meet Dina Nina.
A trans woman living in poverty, she is running for Wisconsin state assembly and says that she is the Republican’s WORST NIGHTMARE! pic.twitter.com/5RH5a7zSse
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 22, 2026
Prepare for Trump’s Midterm Surprise
Renewed and increasingly intense exchanges of missile and air strikes between the U.S. and Iran may escalate further. As reported in past editions of The American Spectator, the IRGC under its most fanatical and dangerous chieftain, Ahmed Vahidi, is now clearly in charge of Iran. Diplomatic front men staging the kabuki theater negotiations in Pakistan to squeeze concessions from President Trump are shelved until further notice.
WTF?
Man shot and killed by police at Westview Shopping Centre in North Vancouver
Slow Motion Video plus another angle of the shooting today in North Vancouver, BC. pic.twitter.com/VINfojyRsZ
— Vancity Vice (@VanCityVice) July 22, 2026
Canada’s Next National Security Battle Will Be Fought Through Money, Not Missiles
Canadians have traditionally viewed national security through the familiar lens of spies, cyberattacks, military threats and terrorism. We imagine foreign adversaries stealing secrets, infiltrating government institutions or launching sophisticated cyber campaigns against critical infrastructure.
Those threats are real.
Expect More Terroristic Actions Against ICE
“ICE off our streets!” read the sign on a small wagon belonging to the man accused of firebombing 26 Federal Plaza in New York City yesterday, using what appeared to be a makeshift incendiary device consisting of gasoline and fireworks. He was also armed with numerous other weapons, including knives, a machete, and airsoft rifles, and has had prior encounters with federal authorities, officials said, without elaborating. While sole responsibility for the deed lies with the individual who carried it out, this latest act of anti-ICE terrorism is not shocking given the escalating rhetorical attacks against the immigration enforcement agency, including those coming from New York’s City Hall.
Footage has re-emerged showing Andrew Arrabaca, the man accused of the anti-ICE arson terror attack in Manhattan, at a 2025 protest wearing a Luigi hat with a pro-Palestine symbol. He repeatedly calls a Jewish man the n-word. pic.twitter.com/KenS0KuEmA
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 22, 2026
There is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring him
Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 – yes, that tariff act, aka the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the law that famously turned a stock market crash into a worldwide depression – authorizes the President of the United States to impose tariffs on imports from foreign countries that impose “any unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country,” or that otherwise discriminate “against the commerce of the United States.” The tariff can be anything up to 50 per cent.
