Mitch Wolfe, a graduate of Harvard University, is the author of "Trump: How He Captured The Trump White House", which he wrote and had published prior to the election. (available on Why Trump Was Right to Withdraw American Troops from Northern Syria
Two Words. Vietnam Quagmire. I was fortunate to study the Vietnam War in the 70s during my time at Harvard. The United States entered into Vietnam with a simplistic and mostly ignorant view of Vietnam and Communist China. The argument for doubling down on fighting on behalf of South Vietnam was that if South Vietnam fell, Communism would triumph. Americans and their leaders are ethnocentric. They are ignorant of most other lands and cultures. That was true in the 70s. That is still true about Americans and their leaders vis a vis the Mideast in general and Syria, in particular, today.
- Monday, October 21, 2019
John McCallum did not resign, he was fired by Trudeau for being caught doing Trudeau's bidding.
For Trudeau and the Liberals, it is all about winning this upcoming election and turning Asian-Ontario swing ridings to the Liberals and retaining existing Asian-dominated Liberal ridings.
Historically, the party of the American president loses in the subsequent midterms. The reasons are usually obvious and predictable. Typically, the supporters of the party of the president become complacent and do not get out and vote for their local Congressional candidates with the same enthusiasm and commitment as they did for their president, two years previously.
In the 1990s, Warren self-described herself as a "woman of color". There is a 1997 Fordham Law Review article in which Warren is described as Harvard's Law faculty, first woman of color. The footnote at the end of the article, because law review articles are rigorously researched and fact-checked for accuracy, refers to a conversation had with the news director of Harvard Law School, in August 1996, which confirms in Harvard Law's view that Warren is a woman of color.
One of my Harvard classmates raised some interesting questions as to the handling of the allegations raised by Professor Ford against Justice Kavanaugh. I tend to agree with a recent Wall Street Journal editorial which argues that recent events support the view that justice in America has been turned on its head.
Canadian Foreign Minister and chief NAFTA negotiator Chrystia Freeland once again undiplomatically thumbed her nose at U.S. President Trump, the U.S. negotiating team and GOP leaders who had wanted a trilateral NAFTA 2.0 deal with Mexico and Canada in principle by the end of September.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to invoke section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, (Charter) the “notwithstanding clause”, is a declaration of war on out of control, unelected, unaccountable, rogue liberal activist judges who have misused, misapplied and distorted the Charter to make law on the fly, for their own ideological+ partisan personal purposes.
Trump is not the bully here. Stop blaming Trump for being Trump and standing up for America's interests. That is what American presidents do. The problem lies once again with Trudeau's arrogance and incompetence. The delay in Canada reaching a NAFTA deal with the U.S. and the foreseeable imposition of U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada is all Trudeau's fault. Trudeau could have avoided this situation months ago
During a recent speech in Saint-Jean-sur- Richelieu Prime Minister Trudeau publicly verbally bashed an elderly female Quebec senior. This brave woman had the temerity to ask Trudeau, when will his government pay back the $146 million dollars of Quebec taxpayer money that have been incurred to support Trudeau’s illegal immigrants who have entered Quebec illegally across the Quebec border from the United States.
There is clear evidence that Muslim Faisal Hussain, ( aged 29) who shot fifteen people on the Danforth, killing two innocent girls, Juliana Kozis (age 10) and Reese Fallon (age 18), and injured thirteen other innocent people, was neither seriously mentally ill, nor that he had acted alone. (Also see Saturday’s 1st off-the-mark breaking story by William Kay, ‘
The American economy is over 10 times greater than the Canadian economy. 80% of Canada's exports rely upon the American market. The US economy is booming. The Canadian economy is declining fast and heading into the toilet.
Who says Ontario politics is boring? Noooo-body!
Take for example- this wacky Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race.
Meanwhile back at the US Congressional investigation of the fake collusion between Trump and Russian oligarchs, it now has been revealed that Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic head of the Congressional investigation of the Trump/Russian collusion was secretly "colluding" with a known and sketchy Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, through Oleg's paid American agent/lobbyist Adam Waldman in March 2017.
The winds of change seem to be blowing in Doug Ford’s favor. The Ontario people have experienced 15 years of McGuinty-led then Wynne-led Ontario Liberal corruption, scandal, fiscal mismanagement+ incompetence. The mighty province of Ontario has gone from being an anchor of Confederation and a “have” province, to a “have-not” province.
The King is Dead- Long Live the New Princess Caroline Mulroney.
Politics is a dirty, dirty, dirty, zero-sum, winner take all business. Or to paraphrase my favorite cynical political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, “Ontario Conservative politics since the Harris era, is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”.
I just love watching and reading liberal Washington Post and New York Times columnists rant and rave over what they perceive to be a racist and white supremacist president.
