Speaking with CBS News’ Lana Zak Saturday following the acquittal of former President Trump in the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Trump’s attorney Michael van der Veen blasted the media, saying, “You are bloodthirsty for ratings.” At the end of the interview, Van Der Veen simply tore off his microphone and dropped it.
On Friday, Abraham Lincoln’s 221st birthday, a dwindling group of Never Trump Republicans were left to survey the ruins of their once-promising organization, named for the 16th president and seemingly done in by a tide of sex, money, and betrayal scandals that would have made Honest Abe cringe.
The Lincoln Project, which just a month ago was awash in cash and planning an ambitious transformation into a media powerhouse, absorbed its latest gut punch Thursday night in a drama that played out on Twitter. The group’s account tweeted screenshots of private messages from a journalist in an apparent, and shocking, bid to intimidate other reporters and discredit a flurry of damaging stories.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not an easy person to cancel. She has survived the brutal murder of her colleague Theo van Gogh, lived through more than two decades of serious threats to her life and fled more countries than many people have visited. Perhaps it is for these reasons, rather than in spite of them, that she generates such hatred from what used to be called ‘liberal’ quarters.
The Lunar New Year passed in the San Francisco Bay area with fears rising over a series of unprovoked attacks on elderly Asians by black men, but leftists may have found some solace by finding the real perpetrators: white people.
Religions shouldn’t be considered responsible for the misdeeds of their followers, right? That has been the consistent establishment media line on Islam since 9/11, and before that, and it has been enshrined in public policy on both sides of the Atlantic and become axiomatic in the West’s approach to terrorism.
But wait. Issac Bailey is a columnist and a professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina. He writes in Newsweek: “If Christianity can convince so many to follow a man like Trump almost worshipfully—or couldn’t at least help millions discern the unique threat Trump represented—what good is it really?” So now apparently the followers of a religion do reflect on the religion itself – if the religion is Christianity, and the evil follower is Donald Trump.
New Zealand put its largest city into lockdown Sunday — after just one family tested positive for COVID-19.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the three-day lockdown for Auckland after a couple and their daughter tested positive in the nation widely hailed for virtually eliminating the spread of the contagion.
The new community cases make just four in the last three months — with the lockdown the first in New Zealand in six months.
Ministers will fine universities which stifle freedom of speech and tell heritage groups “public funds must never be used for political purposes” in a major new bid to torpedo efforts at rewriting Britain’s history, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
Gavin Williamson, the Education secretary, will announce this week that a ‘Free Speech Champion’ will be given powers to defend free speech and academic freedom on campuses.
Colleges or student bodies that try to cancel, dismiss or demote people over their views will be sanctioned in a major Government escalation on the ‘war on woke’.
Separately, Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has summoned 25 of the UK’s biggest heritage bodies and charities to a summit next week where they will be told “to defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.
OTTAWA—Is it time for the federal government to name an independent review of Canada’s pandemic response?
The prime minister says no, not now, while we’re still in the midst of the crisis; there’ll be time for that later.
Yet, as Canada stares down the emergence of variants, warnings of a third wave and predictions that this is not the last global pandemic to come, figuring out where we went wrong and what we need to fix is a mammoth and pressing task.
It may be one that a minority Parliament — where opposition parties and the government vie to frame ballot questions for the next election, whenever it comes — is ill placed to tackle with the objectivity and impartiality required.
Is it time for Canada to cut the apron strings with the motherland that is Great Britain?
Most of us could go through our daily lives without giving two thoughts to the idea that Canada has ever had anything to do with the United Kingdom, well other than the Queen being on so much of our money.
When the Queen passes there will be an increased momentum to sever ties. The Royal Dysfunctionals have seen to that.
“The toddler suffered from extensive injuries, including deep purple bruising on her abdomen, bruising on her ear, abrasions on her face, bruising down her back, and bruising up and down both legs after her death on January 14, prosecutors told the judge. The coroner ruled that the child died from blunt force trauma, but prosecutors said Ariel had told first responders she believed the girl had drowned from drinking too much water.”
Hollywood celebrities flew into a paroxysm of rage on Saturday after the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Left-wing stars lashed out at the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit, calling them “traitors” and “fascists.”
How do they forget they work in an industry that kowtow’s to Communist China?
Ontario is reporting 981 cases of #COVID19 and over 48,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 209 new cases in Peel, 171 in York Region and 122 in Toronto.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 467,626 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 14, 2021
WARMINGTON: COVID hotels — violation of rights or necessary public safety measure?
It’s a tale of two headlines.
One is the Trudeau government drilling down on forcing returning Canadians into mandated isolation in locked hotels at their own expense. The other is the government being put on notice that doing so allegedly violates every free person’s constitutional rights.
Poet W.B. Yeats came to recognize something precious and profound at center of his this-worldly identity during family vacations in County Sligo: his Irishness. In 1923, at the age of 58, Yeats accepted the Nobel Prize the only way he could — as an Irishman on behalf of Ireland. What motivated the committee was “[Yeats’s] always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.”
The woke Left has come for Odysseus, that hyacinth-haired favorite of Athena, master mariner, foremost of men, and King of Ithaca. Last month, a teacher named Heather Levine bragged on social media that she’d gotten the Odyssey removed from her school’s curriculum. Her effort is part of a larger woke movement called #DisruptTexts.
IN a grim caricature of Christian penance, these are the months we are meant to be taking our punishment in the aftermath of a Christmas feast gifted to us by our rulers. Except there was no Christmas feast. And now Easter too is to be drastically curtailed, with Boris Johnson ‘privately sharing an aspiration to see restrictions begin to ease by Good Friday to allow families some small contact again’.
Ah, but fret ye not at this cancellation of all that we hold most sacred. This latest lockdown, unlike those that went before it, is morally justified apparently.
