There’s a nasty institutionalised habit of letting leftwing activists get away with the worst of offences. After all, despite forking out nearly a grand in security costs, they wouldn’t even stop the activists from storming the stage.
While visiting DePaul University, Milo Yiannopoulos has been having a spot of bother with some of the natives.
On May 20, there were four separate incidents on Kelowna buses, prompting the local transit union to call for increased protection for bus drivers.
h/t KTR
With today’s news, our Reader Tips selection is dedicated to Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip: It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken. (h/t Marc)
Tips thread open.
The White House and its supporters were set on two goals, one of them trivial, the other terrifying. The trivial objective was to give a failed presidency at least one foreign policy legacy item. That was to be expected, since the Obama administration, in permanent campaign mode since the day the president took office, has presided over the worst American foreign policy in the modern era.
The more stomach-churning objective is that the administration, as it turned out, really believed in its pledges to get America out of the Middle East, and decided early on that the only way to do this was to replace the United States in the region with a duumvirate of Russia and Iran. Here, the JCPOA was part of a huge gamble to transform the region, with nuclear weapons the secondary rather than primary issue. That’s why J Street and others were involved: they were far less concerned with notional Iranian nuclear weapons than they were with advancing President Obama’s Middle East legacy–without having to admit what it was.
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It makes no difference if this or that provision of the deal is ironclad, because the White House never had an intention of enforcing any of it. The JCPOA wasn’t a deal to stop a nuclear weapon, it was part of a plan to further a foreign policy agenda with which very few Americans would agree if it were stated to them clearly and unequivocally.
For those of us who thought the Iran deal didn’t pass the sniff test from the start, it is bitter consolation that all this is coming out now. Sometimes being right isn’t much of a comfort, and this is one of those times. But there’s a far more damaging problem in all this: not only has the United States burned a lot of its credibility in this farce, but so have a fair number of journalists and experts.
I’ve just found out I’m back in Trudeaupia, where they’ve normalized insanity. I think I’ll get out before they make it compulsory. *
A Swedish prosecutor, mirroring the views of human rights groups, once characterized the company as filled with “opportunistic, dictator-hugging businessmen,” a description the company has vigorously denied.
In accepting the $100 million, President Bill Clinton hailed Lundin’s contribution, saying “today’s generous support by the Lundin Group is to be applauded because it demonstrates the potential of this global initiative to capture the imagination and support of the mining sector.”
It wasn’t the first time Clinton consorted with mining moguls. In the waning hours of his presidency in 2001, Clinton pardoned Glencore International mining and oil magnate Marc Rich after his wife, Denise, made generous donations to the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign and his Clinton Library.
Clinton’s pardon erased a 65-count indictment against Rich for trading with Iran against the oil embargo. Rich did the Iranian oil sales while Americans were held captive in the country by the Mullahs.
Related! Terry McAuliffe under FBI investigation for campaign contributions
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It’s a shame the faces are hidden.
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
Take a ride on the Jeep trails of Ouray, Colorado. Your tips are welcome.
(Thanks to the guests who helped out over the weekend!)
In the battle over bathrooms, nondiscrimination ordinances, and the rule of law, we should never overlook the enormous suffering wrought by the sexual radicals.
Although the APA recommends a minimum of one year of “gender counseling” before surgery, this gender therapist gave my daughter the go-ahead to have a bilateral mastectomy after only two sessions.
Many states and professional associations are doing their dead-level best to render it not just unethical but also illegal to counsel teens away from such life-altering mutilations.
How about 454 laws governing towels, 652 regulations for coffee and 91 regulations for showers – and that’s just in the service sector. You won’t believe some of the regulations that suffocate life in Europe.
Part of me hopes the pedestal has crumbled. Then I remember that Trudeau has the media to protect him.
Stars align, Hillary gets the cartoon opponent of her dreams, aaaaaaaand she's losing to himhttps://t.co/MAGL4eNP10
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 22, 2016
Robert Tracinski on socialist Venezuela and the imaginings of John Lennon:
Before you judge Venezuela’s looters, consider what you would do if your children were starving. So much for “no hunger.” What about the “brotherhood of man”? Not only is looting soaring in Venezuela, but so are all forms of crime. It has gotten so far out of control that mobs of vigilantes are burning people alive in the streets over petty thefts. It turns out then when people are starving, there’s not a lot of brotherhood. Instead, they fight like dogs over a bone.
It’s not easy being green. (h/t Bob)
There is much more than a reasonable basis for believing that a President Trump would offer substantial relief from the Obama nightmare on issues of intense concern to conservatives, Republicans and members of the American middle and working classes.
It’s very probable that President Trump would…
My apologies for the slow posting.
We’re spending the weekend on an out of town family visit, and between activities and locking myself out of the blog (password wasn’t saved on this new laptop) I’ve been unable to post until now, (finally got in on Lance’s account) I may get things rectified later today, may not. So, if things remain quiet here — that’s why! Enjoy your weekend!
Kate
Frank Herbert warned us that “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly towards aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern”. We’ve gotten to that point in Canada where the entire function of Government is to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class. Outrageous recent increases in MP expense accounts is a minor example, there is much worse….