I remember the first time I heard a statement at a public event along the lines of, “This building is located on traditional unceded Aboriginal land.” It was in Australia, and it struck me as disingenuous, simplistic and patronizing. If the people making this statement really felt that badly about the land they (and possibly their forebearers) lived and worked on for generations and ostensibly stole, then they would reasonably choose to give the land back along with all they had built upon it.
‘Let’s be clear, we don’t have blasphemy laws in the UK.’ So said Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary and premier solicitor impersonator, to the BBC earlier this week. Reynolds was pushing back against US vice-president JD Vance, who gave European leaders a very public dressing down at the Munich Security Conference last week for censoring their voters, and Britain for criminalising its Christians. Of course, Reynolds’s denial was about as trustworthy as his CV.
Being poor doesn’t make someone a murderer.
For decades, criminologists have pushed the debunked theory that poverty causes crime. The contents of a recent Brookings Institution report suggest that old habits die hard.
The report’s authors sought to answer a question: Why did homicides increase in 2020 and 2021 and fall in 2023 and 2024? The pandemic-era murder spike, they argued, “was directly connected to local unemployment and school closures in low-income areas.” While parts of this claim were coherent—unemployment and school closures left young males idle and free to act violently—why would the homicide increases have been tied to low-income areas? The authors argue that it was because people who grow up in poor neighborhoods “have fewer opportunities, weaker professional networks, and earn less income than those in other areas.”
Muslim terrorists did not murder the children as collateral damage. Killing children is the point.
“O God, do not be silent; hold not Thy peace, and be not still,” the Chief Rabbi of Israel prayed the words of Psalm 83 over the bodies of two murdered children, their mother and an old man.
Hamas and PLO terrorists had mockingly paraded their coffins to the cheers and jeers of Muslim men, women and children occupying Gaza while upbeat music played, they had mixed up the bodies, locked the boxes and then attached keys that did not work. After inspecting the coffins for explosives, Israel had covered them with its blue and white flag and prayed over them.
Pierre Omidyar isn’t a champion of truth, but a deep state asset working to undermine Trump.
President Trump is under attack.
As I write this, a coalition of influential organizations and individuals is mobilizing to sabotage his second term in office. They are using a multi-pronged strategy of media manipulation and bureaucratic resistance to stall, discredit, and obstruct his presidency at every turn.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa.—Just days after President Trump was sworn in for a second term in January, an ebullient local pastor approached the microphone at the school-board meeting here.
“Wow, what a difference a week makes, huh?” Doug Lamb, of nearby LifeGate Church told the board during the public-comment section. “It’s great to have the new administration in there, and I know that’s gonna be a little bit of your assistance behind you as schools have to make hard decisions like we’re discussing tonight.”
The board had already been conservative, but now it had the momentum of national politics on its side. The “hard decisions” became reality when they voted 8-1 to ban transgender athletes from contact sports and mandate parental permission for name or pronoun changes. A Christian religious-rights law firm, now working with 14 districts in Pennsylvania, helped draft the policies.
Liberals are magicians. Through sleights of hand and by proroguing Parliament, the Liberals could yet win another election with a new leader.
Not so fast, shout defenders of democracy. David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos — both living in Nova Scotia, both lawyers — have asked the Federal Court to weigh in on whether Trudeau’s proroguing of Parliament was legal. Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a non-profit founded by John Carpay, offered up a legal team from Charter Advocates Canada. And on Feb. 13 and 14, Chief Justice Paul Crampton heard arguments for and against prorogation, and committed to rendering a swift decision before the issue becomes moot.
Five years ago, it looked as if the racial and ethnic make-up of America was undergoing an unprecedented shift, with a large drop in the number of people classified as ‘white’.
The US Census Bureau’s 2020 tally showed a 276 percent jump in the number of multiracial people, while the white-only group fell from 72.4 percent of the population to 61.6 percent over that decade.
Now, it seems, this shift had more to do with how federal government demographers classified people than any actual changes in the make-up of the 331,449,281 people recorded in the census.
“Renewable,” “sustainable” energy was supposed to be the salvation of mankind. It promised cheap, unlimited energy more than sufficient to meet all mankind’s present and future needs, and to successfully address the existential threat of global cooling,,,oops. I mean global warming…darn! I mean climate change, yeah, that’s the ticket.
Even before Donald Trump won reelection, however, it was becoming increasingly clear climate change was perhaps history’s most profitable scam—for the scammers—and renewable energy like wind and solar couldn’t meet our current needs, to say nothing of future needs, and was far less reliable and far more expensive than fossil fuels. It was also clear these miraculous sources of energy couldn’t exist without massive government subsidies, which, with electric vehicles, have all been part of the “Green New Deal” climate change scam.
Susan Delacourt: I don’t know if you’ve noticed, Matt, but we are days away from an Ontario election. While it’s dangerous to make predictions in politics these days, you want to take a guess at what we might see when all the votes are tallied Thursday night?
Matt Gurney: You know, I’ll get to your question in a moment. But I have to share something first. Readers will have guessed how Susan and I do these. We message back and forth, clean up the text and then send it to the editors. Do you know what happened, Susan, between you sending the first message and me replying with this one? It’s very funny.
A Vancouver theology school has cancelled a public lecture that was slated for next month by a renowned British historian over his views on Indian Residential Schools and colonialism.
Esteemed ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar — regius professor emeritus of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford — now says he’s “ashamed to be an alumnus” of Regent College, which called off his March 6 lecture.
There’s something about being exposed that causes stupidity; a kneejerk reaction to push back against reality, no matter how obvious. As DOGE and President Donald Trump work to expose and fight government waste, fraud and abuse (how sad is it that they have to FIGHT Democrats to end those things?), more ways in which the federal government has been doing those things is coming to light.
President Donald J. Trump names @dbongino as Deputy Director of the FBI.
Congratulations, Dan! pic.twitter.com/p0sABQCFx3
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 24, 2025
h/t Mauser
Tomorrow’s the day! Jagmeet Singh has officially qualified for his pension.
After years of propping up Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, the NDP leader had a change of heart when it became clear he could vote against the governing party and still secure a hefty paycheque when he turns 65.
Has anyone else experienced Green Hair Dysphoria?
I’m working thru my own hair issues and conflicted about green dye or blue? Shave my head or no? What is my gender? I don’t even know! I need a safe space STAT. pic.twitter.com/1ldj2AhMFZ
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 23, 2025
