“The bill underlines how Canadians are not immune to the populism and concerns about immigration that have affected the United States, France, Britain and other Western countries.
France has banned Muslim head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols at state schools. Denmark has barred judges from wearing head scarves, crucifixes, Jewish skull caps and turbans in courtrooms.”
Some have characterized the failed Russian collusion charges as an attempted coup. If so it was a very particular American type of coup involving only the law and vindicating the law because it failed for lack of evidence.
Any counterstroke must at least be similarly restricted . It must use only the law, advance only through investigation. It must be restricted to individuals, and like Mueller’s stand or fall on the evidence.
The damage of the last two years was real but it’s important to realize that it was limited by the fire curtains of the law and the constitution. It kept people sane where the flames of madness was all about. Far from being a hundred year old document nobody reads any more the constitution saved the ship.
“I think we need to find the truth,” he told Washington Secrets. He said the goal would be to stop similar faulty investigations into future administrations, “Democratic or Republican.”
Rove by contrast urges Trump to move on.
Avenatti too broke to afford a lawyer, resorts to public defender.
Trump orders a plan to defend against electronic pulse attacks. Venezuela’s outages are an example of how devastating losing the power grid can be.
Maddow ratings drop. How could they have been so sure of something that didn’t materialize?
Were their sources wrong or were they trapped in an echo chamber?
Looks like events are coming to a head as Rubio warns Maduro is preparing his counterstrike.
It can’t go on. Maduro holds out hope of load management and blames snipers for the blackouts.
Says Bernie. All or it won’t work.
Maduro censors what little remains of Venezuelan internet.
Sad that it had to come true.
Rand Paul urges look at Obama’s role in collusion hoax.
He wants the origins of the probe released with the Mueller report.
“Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has concluded that there was no criminal collusion, the question arises: When during their exhaustive 22-month investigation did prosecutors realize they had no case?
I put it at no later than the end of 2017. I suspect it was in the early autumn.”
Mike Lee fits right into the prevailing mood.
SPLC
“It was a top-down organization controlled by an incompetent and venal leadership.”
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