Michelle Obama Does Not Sound Well

Perhaps a frothy bubble bath, a spot of tea, and a cushy robe would help poor Michelle Obama work through her past traumas, like being married to former president Barack Obama and having to pay for food while living at the White House.

Instead, she has been working out her imagined hardships in public interviews and podcasts, like a public therapy session nobody asked for.

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This is Why Modern Police Are So Useless at Fighting Crime

What is the purpose of the state? Increasingly, it appears to be to secure something called ‘equality’. But we long ago moved past the point at which this was achieved through formal equality in the sense of everybody being equal before the law. What we now seem to expect is to experience equality in what I have previously called the ‘sibling’ sense: everybody loved equally by the benign parent, yet at the same time rivalrous with one another, seeking to be the one who is ever-so-slightly more loved than the rest.

The result of this is a grotesquely fake, cloying and sentimental governing style which apes a simpering maternalism while achieving something more like bad therapy. It coaxes, it reassures, it purports to nurture and support, in a manner that is transparently false and patronisingly obvious. And there is I think nowhere in the Western world where this style is more finessed or pronounced than Scotland, land of my fathers, where I spent the last two days speaking at an event.

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Brussels Gets Serious—About Pets, Not Borders

The European Parliament has decided that all dogs and cats must be registered with a microchip to make them easier to track. Because of course, in a continent where it’s impossible to know how many people enter through its external borders each day—let alone where they come from—it seems only logical that the real issue of security and welfare lies in finding out whether your pet was purchased five or ten years ago, or which other animal it has mated with.

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Amy Hamm: The rabbit rescue that refused to be cancelled for alleged transphobia

It’s June: the western world’s Holy Month of Pride, and, as such, we must all be on our best behaviour so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of gender activists — you know, the ones that occupy the latter half of the expanding LGBTQ2S+ acronym.

Unfortunately, the United Kingdom’s Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue somehow missed this memo. The registered charity drew the ire of Irish comedian and transgender rights activist Aidan Comerford this week, following an online attack by anonymous activists whose work caught Comerford’s attention. Comerford, whose X bio notes that he “generally tweets about what transphobia looks like,” astutely observed that the charity was committing the cardinal sin of following unapproved social media accounts on X.

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What’s missing in Canada’s defence budget math

What does 2% of GDP for defence mean for Canada?

Compared to most NATO partners, Canada does not calculate its defence spending accurately, since it fails to include some defence-related components.

For instance, the RCMP budget along with the Canadian Coast Guard should be considered defence expenses and be included in the 2% calculations. Most NATO nations include police and coast guard expenses in their calculations of defence spending.


This is interesting Canada is not taking advantage of common NATO member budget expenditures in calculating the 2% spend requirement.

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Former Nickelodeon Star JoJo Siwa Felt Pressured by LGBTQ Mob to Come Out as a Lesbian at 17

Jojo Siwa, the former Dance Moms star and pop sensation, says she came out as lesbian at 17-years-old after initially identifying sexually as a pansexual due, in part, from “pressure” from the LGBTQIAA+ community.

“When I came out at 17, I said, ‘I’m pansexual, because I don’t care [about gender].’ But then I kind of boxed myself in and I said, ‘I’m a lesbian.’ And I think I did that because of the pressure,” Siwa said in a recent interview with the Daily Mail.

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A Little Late Given He’s Dead … RCMP identifies mystery man in bomb-testing near Duncan before 1985 Air India explosion

BANTRY, Ireland — Police in British Columbia have finally identified the mysterious man who helped test a bomb on Vancouver Island a few weeks before the Air India bombing on June 23, 1985.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner David Teboul told Postmedia that the previously unidentified suspect in the mass murder case recently died without ever facing charges. He said he couldn’t release the name of the man due to privacy laws even though the suspect is now dead.

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Syria: Muslim suicide bomber attacks Church 25 killed and over 80 wounded

h/t Patti Jo

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Sex predator can stay because home country can’t treat his mental illness

A dangerous sexual predator has been allowed to stay in the UK after claiming his home country could not treat his mental illness.

An immigration tribunal backed the Bangladeshi man’s claims that he should be allowed to stay in the UK despite his convictions for a violent sexual assault on a stranger when he was 17.

The Metropolitan Police also provided evidence that he had carried out further sexual offences in the decade since the assault even though he had not been convicted of them.

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Canada has put up with Khalistani terrorists for long enough

Monday, June 23, marks the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 — the deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history, and the most lethal act of aviation terrorism in the world prior to 9/11. The bombing left 329 people dead, including 268 Canadians. The investigation into the attack is still “active and ongoing,” and is considered “one of the most complex domestic terrorism investigations” undertaken by the RCMP.

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