Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp military education to be “patriotic,” blares a terrified Dec. 15 Politico article by Juan Perez Jr.
“Pete Hegseth has pushed for years to steep American education in patriotic principles and Christian theology — and he could implement that vision for thousands of military families,” the article opens.
Donald Trump was mostly correct in his recent social media post on Syria, in which he argued in block capitals: “This is not our fight. Let it play out.” The United States “should have nothing to do with” Syria’s mess, at least in a military sense. Leaving US forces there, whether or not Bashar al-Assad’s fall ends the civil war, is pointless and dangerous.
But the question remains whether the President-elect, this time around, will enact foreign policies consistent with his sensible rhetoric. His record on Syria, after all, is typically unpredictable. As president, he famously announced in 2018 that he was pulling out troops.
Democrats, the media, and even some Republicans counsel against pardoning J6ers. They’re wrong.
Since Donald Trump’s decisive victory in last month’s presidential elections, the Democrats and their corporate media partners have insisted that it would be a grave mistake for him to pardon the J6 “insurrectionists.” To do so, they tell us, would be an unprecedented abuse of the clemency powers granted to presidents under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Inevitably, various “news” outlets have commissioned polls purporting to show how unpopular these pardons would be with the public. Recently, for example, Newsweek reported on a Monmouth poll allegedly confirming the proposition that a majority of Americans do not support pardons for the J6 prisoners.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is seen as Canada’s best option in dealing with an incoming Trump administration and progressive voters might be moving from the Liberals to the NDP, a new Ipsos poll suggests.
Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News and released Tuesday shows Liberal support has dropped five points, down to 21 per cent, since September and is now tied with the New Democratic Party, which saw its own share increase by five per cent in the same period.
The Asif William Rahman case reveals that no matter how outwardly assimilated a devout Muslim may appear, their ultimate allegiance to Islamic Sharia and the global ummah undermines the U.S. Constitution, making their presence in America’s most sensitive institutions a dangerous threat to national security.
A prolific historian eschews subtlety assessing Lindbergh and mollycoddles the hypercautious Roosevelt.
Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism. Since then, Democrats have lobbed charges of fascism against Republicans, the latest being Donald Trump.
So, one wonders at the timing of two books this year. On September 24, came the latest of thirty books by history professor H.W. Brands, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, which followed the June 4, release of Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh — and the Battle to Save Democracy by former director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Paul M. Sparrow.
If past performance indicates future results, then Canadians need to be worried about the Trudeau government handling the Trump tariff threat properly.
Many Canadians will remember that we went through the tariff issue with Trump in his first term and it didn’t go well.
Trudeau is less popular than Trump in Canada so don’t be surprised if Junior goes scorched earth on us.
On Monday, Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will present her much-delayed fall economic statement just in time for the holidays. And the government has promised that it will address the issue that preoccupied politicians this week: how to respond to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to impose potentially devastating 25 percent tariffs on exports to the United States from Canada and Mexico unless the two nations tighten their borders.
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.
Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.
Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations.
An idea whose time has come?
Canada is lurching toward a trade war with the United States unlike any it has endured before. While President-elect Donald Trump threatens tariffs as high as 25% on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Trudeau appears determined to inflame the situation by implying American bigotry is the reason Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. Trudeau has treated the situation seriously enough to travel to meet Trump in person on short notice, but the meeting doesn’t appear to have been productive.
The silence over the Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bomb incident is deafening. The radio silence on what we’ve been assured are “viable” pipe bombs planted outside the DNC and near the RNC on J6 continued in the Inspector General’s report when he offered only a few treacly paragraphs on the issue. Keeping the pipe bomb issue on the DL raises the spidey senses of those who believe that the pipe bomb incidents, far from being a J6 sideshow, were a planned diversion by — who, exactly? — to stop the Electoral College counting when Republican senators were to be offering proof of shady ballot counting and calling for an audit of the 2020 election.
Talk to anyone who has had to seek medical treatment in the United States and the first question is usually: were you insured? And, if they say yes: how much did you have to pay anyway?
The American healthcare industry, worth $4.5 trillion, is the country’s largest private employer and makes up more than 17 per cent of the economy. It is also the source of a frustration so deep and widespread that when Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the insurer UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on a busy New York street last week, the public reaction was strikingly divided.
When Donald Trump sat with world leaders in Paris last weekend to marvel at the restored Notre Dame cathedral, armed Islamist fighters in Syria were in jeeps on the road to Damascus finalising the fall of the Assad regime.
In this split screen moment of global news, the US president-elect, seated between the French first couple, still had an eye on the stunning turn of events in the Middle East.
“Syria is a mess, but is not our friend,” he posted the same day on his Truth Social network.
Donald Trump waited just three weeks after his election victory last month to restart one of his favourite hobbies during his first administration: trolling Justin Trudeau.
On Nov 26, he pledged to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on Canada, alongside Mexico the US’s largest trading partner, unless the country agreed to crack down on border security.
Cue panic in Ottawa. Mr Trudeau was at Mar-a-Lago three days later to discuss the issue with the president-elect and put on a brave face to tell the media the two men had an “excellent conversation”.
A New Yorker-turned-ISIS recruiter nicknamed “Umm Nuteella” faces up to 70 years in prison after an appeals court tossed her initial “shockingly low” 48-month sentence for boosting the terror organization.
Sinmyah Ceasar, 29, allegedly continued to chat with terrorist contacts — and even solicited money to help an ISIS supporter — while she was out on supervised release following her release from lockup, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.
