There may be no more important fight in the next decade than the reassertion of basic honesty and lawfulness.
America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy.
Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with one another with a sense of trust.
Consider recent corrupt, criminal events and their implication for the future of American culture.
Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England, finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the U.K.
Law Professor Randy Barnett describes the Constitution as “the law that governs those who govern us.” When our government officials violate the constitutional order, they cannot expand citizens’ liberties; instead, they free themselves of legal restraints in order to augment their power to the detriment of the freedoms of the people they represent.
Under the guise of Covid responses, our leaders overthrew our constitutional system of individual rights to increase their power over the citizenry.
The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says.
Search crews found “significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified”, said US Northern Command.
The FBI is examining the items, which the US says were used to spy on sensitive military sites.
It has been just over a year since the European Union launched its Global Gateway infrastructure project to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The Global Gateway project was launched in December 2021. Meanwhile, China’s BRI was launched in 2012 and has spread all over the globe, especially to Africa, Latin America and Asia, where it has gained China vast influence. The Communist Party newspaper China Daily recently claimed that in 2022 alone, China had signed new contracts with BRI countries worth nearly $100 billion.
Lizz Winstead, creator of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, really was not a fan of this year’s Super Bowl commercials. First she melted down over Fox crowning Greg Gutfled “the new king of late night” and on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show she lamented “A hundred million dollar ads with people who are funding anti-abortion garbage” while “we are having bake sales.”
All of Hollywood loves baby killing.
A major Canadian university has stripped former B.C. representative for children and youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of an honorary degree.
In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003.
The school said the decision came following a request from the Indigenous Women’s Collective to revoke such degrees.
On the one-year anniversary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, anticipation is building for the release of the national inquiry’s report into the historic series of events surrounding the powers used to end “Freedom Convoy” Ottawa occupation and Canada-U.S. border blockades.
So far, the occasion is being marked in a muted way on Parliament Hill, where Wellington Street remains closed to vehicle traffic and is devoid of “Freedom Convoy” protesters, a marked change from this time last year when the street was jammed with transport trucks, inflatables, and numerous anti-Trudeau and anti-vaccine signs.
An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.
The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.
Wow what an hysteric.
The Stanislaus County, Calif., Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is running a hilarious advertisement that encourages jilted lovers to get revenge by turning in their wanted ex. The exciting romantic offer is presented by Lts. Dave Mullins and Tom Letras, who go by Dave and Tom in the ad.
It’s been more than 16 years since a left-of-centre candidate won a mayoral election in Toronto, but political organizers on that side of the spectrum believe the circumstances are ripe for a progressive to get into the mayor’s chair.
Mayor John Tory intends to stay in his post at least through Wednesday’s budget meeting at city council, but has said he will resign over what he called a lapse in judgment, a relationship with one of his staff members.
This opens up the prospect of an election for mayor at a yet-to-be-determined date in the coming months.
The fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals along the Ohio-Pennsylvania line last week spewed more harmful pollutants into the air, surface soils and water table than originally reported, fresh data made available Monday suggests.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tagline “everything feels broken” elicits indignant eyerolls and denials from Liberals, but scathing new testimony from Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux adds credibility to the claim.
On Tuesday, Giroux spoke to the Senate Finance Committee, delivering a series of what Politico called “sick burns” to paint a picture of a Liberal government and public service mired in dysfunction and old-fashioned laziness.
Ontario Court of Appeal denies lesser sentences for Indigenous men in meth dealing case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has rejected a father-son meth dealing team’s request for a sentencing reduction based on their Indigenous background, ruling that deterrence comes before consideration of historical oppression for those convicted of serious drug crimes.
The ruling – upholding seven-year jail sentences for both the father and son – is the latest to consider how the particular circumstances of Indigenous offenders should affect everything from sentences to bail to what a jury is permitted to hear about the accused during a trial.
Elon Musk, the libertarian billionaire who drives progressives all over the world crazy, has just written that we live in a disturbing middle ground between Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave Brave New World and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Without mentioning the Nazis and the Soviets, Islamic regimes have problems with books. Erdogan’s Turkey has replaced Shakespeare and Brecht in state theaters with Turkish authors. He also threatened books by William S. Burroughs and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck with censorship. A cache of half a million books was discovered in a hangar in Tehran, including Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus, Homer’s “Iliad”. They were not liked by the Islamic Revolution, which had seized them.
