This Week’s News
A Victory for Trump is a victory for…? Part 2 – In another (final?) blow to the “anyone but Trump, please” crowd, former President Donald Trump added to his delegate lead by beating Nikki Haley in New Hampshire picking up 12 delegates to her 9 and increasing his lead to 32 to 17. Unlike DeSantis who dropped out earlier this week after being crushed in Iowa, Haley has decided to remain in the race perhaps in the hopes that Trump is convicted of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 Election or that she can pull off a miracle on Super Tuesday.
Making Anne of Green Gables more diverse – Parks Canada has announced a plan to feature the perspectives of “marginalized communities” not mentioned in the novels at federally administered Anne of Green Gables historic sites. Not to be outdone, an announcement has been made to remake The Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life to make them more diverse. Apparently, it’s much too difficult for these creative geniuses to write something new. If you listen carefully, you might be able to hear the sound of two bombs dropping.
Copyright: Mackingster
Court rules Emergency Powers Act was unlawful – Nearly two years after the Liberal government invoked the Emergency Powers Act, Justice Richard Mosely summed up the court’s ruling that the use of the act was unlawful as the protests did not represent a threat “to the security of Canada that are so serious as to be a national emergency." Even Paul Champ, the lawyer representing residents and businesses in a class action suit against the organizers of the protest agrees with the court ruling. This means that the government violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (for my American readers that’ Canada’s version of the Bill of Rights). The only question is how will this damage the Liberal government? Lol. I’m just kidding, it will have no effect on the government. Recent history has shown that no amount of corruption, graft, or incompetence has had any effect on the behavior of Trudeau and his cronies. And in fact deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, has already indicated that the government will appeal the ruling. All that can be done is to hope that Canadians, who have finally soured on the Liberals, will remain this way until the next election.
What I’m reading
The DEI Rollback – John Sailer over at The Free Press argues that after years of subjecting people to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion indoctrination, legislators, business, and some universities are voluntarily rethinking their positions. Has the tide turned or are these practices still too deeply entrenched for any meaningful progress to be made against compelled speech?
With the announcement by the Canadian government that they have (finally) decided to limit foreign student visas in light of the ongoing housing crisis, I find myself in an immigration frame of mind so I give you two articles from The Liberal Patriot:
Could Immigration Hand the 2024 Election to Trump? – With “Biden is running behind Trump in national polls and in every swing state with the possible exception of Wisconsin,” Ruy Teixeira looks at the “second most important issue to voters,” immigration and the border. Polls currently show that Biden has the worst rating on immigration for any president since ABC News/Washington Post began asking the question in January 2004. With only 18 percent approving of the job he’s doing in this area, Teixeira wonders if the Democrats “dismissive” take on illegal immigration will be just what Trump needs to win in November.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Immigration Mess – John B. Judis sheds some light on why this has become such an important topic to voters and caused such heated debate in Congress noting that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seen encounters with undocumented migrants rising from 526,901 in 2017 to 3,201,144 in 2023, “a six-fold increase.” Of the 3.1 million who attempted to enter through the Southwest border:
600,000 bypassed immediate detection.
565,000 were expelled under Trump’s Title 42 order.
300,000 received parole/temporary immigrant status.
1.5 million were apprehended, promised a court date, and released (often applying for asylum at a later date).
My Podcast Recommendation(s) of the Week
The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie – James Kirchick: “Abolish Speech Codes Entirely”
In the wake of the failure of Harvard President Claudine Gay, former University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews, James Kirchick suggests that “the solution is not to expand the university’s power to punish expression. It’s to abolish speech codes entirely.”