The root of Ford’s argument is the one once used by Richard Nixon who said: “If the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
The root of Ford’s argument is the one once used by Richard Nixon who said: “If the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
Antifa may claim to oppose fascists, but in their violence, they look a lot like the thing they claim to hate.
This is the moral nihilism of Donald Trump, the alt-right and the white power movement nestled comfortably in its shadow. There is no right and wrong. No moral high ground. No lines that cannot be crossed. There is only the muck through which we all sift and all that matters is who managed to climb to the top of the biggest pile mud.
The insistence by Trump and others that the violence in Charlottesville is the fault of “many sides” is an act of willful ignorance that refuses to acknowledge the racists at the center of the storm
This is a council so marked by internal strife, bumbling, ethical lapses, and general meanness that at the same meeting Caslin made his proclamation, Welland Councillor Paul Grenier made an emotional plea for the end of the toxic politics of the chamber.
By mistaking his seat in the House of Commons for a pulpit from which to preach his naive morality is to demonstrate just how unworthy Mulcair is of leadership.
The cold war between some factions of regional politicians has turned hot, and the lack of self-reflection and sober thinking among their ranks is astonishing.
Niagara’s politics are sick. The symptoms, like a wet cough that bespeaks a serious lung infection, are easy to see. If the proper cure is not administered, the illness will simply get worse and the body will grow ever sicker and weaker.
If math isn’t your thing, that means that 62.4% of citizens who could have voted chose not to. How many of those people, I wonder, have complained about Petrowski in the last week, or about or council as a whole since the 2014 election?
A councillor under investigation by the integrity commissioner has managed to start a process that could kill said investigation by claiming the code of conduct could be – and I swear I am not making this up – unconstitutional.
The Grant Rant 
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