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The left is back — and millennials are leading the way. “Socialism” was the most searched word on the Merriam-Webster website in 2015, and a 2016 poll showed that 43 percent of Iowa Democrats described themselves as “socialists.” Despite the setback of President Trump’s electoral victory, the left continues to grow. Publications like the magazine Jacobin, launched by millennial Bhaskar Sunkara, now reach more than 1 million website visitors each month.

But the millennial left is not a return to the New Left of the 1960s — the student radicals, hippies and Yippies who raised hell in their efforts to end the Vietnam War and change American culture to make it less racist and sexist and more authentic. Rather it invokes the ideas of the Old Left of the 1930s — the militant labor unions, socialists and even communists who, in the context of the worst economic depression in American history, sought a genuine alternative to capitalism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/20/the-millennial-lefts-war-against-liberalism/?utm_term=.97d6b7705de8

The term socialist has been thrown around quite a bit in the past few years. Not since the cold war has the term garnered so much attention in the press and from politicians. But when you look at countries who actually have a socialist economic structure, you can see some similarities to the United States – but there are some really stark differences.

Below, you will see some of the most socialistic nations in the world today:

Despite popular myths, there is very little connection between economic performance and welfare expenditure. Many of the countries on this list are proof of that, such as Denmark and Finland. Even though both countries are more socialistic than America, the workforce remains stronger.

As a Conservative columnist on the internet, I get my share of Liberal Trolls. They just seem to come out of the woodwork, as if they have some sort of ant-like antennae that tingles when a Conservative is using facts, analysis, and insight to put the Progressive ideology to shame. Then they swarm, using ad hominem attacks and cries of “It’s Bush’s fault!” as if that shields their leaders from taking any blame for their actions.

I have tried to discover what makes a Liberal Troll tick. Or more appropriately – what makes a Liberal Troll like a tick. My conclusions will haunt you.

At the heart of any Liberal Troll “position” is an intellectual dishonesty that defies logic. They will stake out a position that they know can be overrun by facts, and they insist that they are right. Sometimes they’ll even admit their wrong with their words and yet hold fast to their position with their thinking.

https://clashdaily.com/2014/04/disturbing-inside-mind-liberal-troll/

The George Soros Trolls:

https://www.teapartycommunity.com/blog/3759/how-to-recognize-a-liberal-troll/

In this month’s issue of Personality and Individual Differences, a study was published that confirms what we all suspected: Internet trolls are horrible people.

Let’s start by getting our definitions straight: An Internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, in fact, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

What kind of person would do this? Some Canadian researchers decided to find out.

They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior. They were looking for evidence that linked trolling with the “Dark Tetrad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists

heir mission has nothing to do with national security, fighting terrorism, and catching criminals. Their mission is to distort public opinion and s

Transgender politics have taken Americans by surprise, and caught some lawmakers off guard.

Just a few short years ago, not many could have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women’s access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina.

But transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us—children—and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.

As explained in my 2016 peer reviewed article, “Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of Debate,” professionals who dare to question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy will find themselves maligned and out of a job.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/03/im-pediatrician-transgender-ideology-infiltrated-field-produced-large-scale-child-abuse/

“Chemical castration and the surgical mutilation of children is not ‘therapy’”

Doctors and mental health professionals are speaking out against the promotion of sex changes as a legitimate therapy for children confused about their gender identity, while states are making it illegal for them to seek help with a talk therapist.

Church Militant spoke with Dr. Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACP), who has seen the effects of transgender ideology firsthand. Cretella says “the transition-affirming protocol is child abuse.”

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/top-pediatrician-claiming-transitioning-children-is-child-abuse

Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s Executive Vice President, told the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday that politicians and the media are exploiting the Florida school shooting to expand gun control and ultimately abolish the second amendment, striking a defiant tone in his first public remarks since the mass shooting that killed 17 people and reignited the gun control debate in the U.S. to a fever pitch.

“As usual, the opportunists waited not one second to exploit tragedy for political gain,” LaPierre said during CPAC, the annual gathering of conservative activists and Republican leaders in National Harbor, Md. “Chris Murphy, Nancy Pelosi, and more, cheered on by the national media, eager to blame the NRA and call for more government control.”

http://time.com/5169511/nra-wayne-lapierre-cpac-speech/

Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians.

A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong.

The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.

“The interpretation of the coding of the p

President Trump

has said he’ll only sign an immigration deal that cancels the diversity visa lottery program, which allows people from countries with very low immigration rates to the United States to apply for the opportunity to apply for a visa.

The U.S. receives 10 to 20 million applications each year from countries with low rates of migration to the United States. Of those applicants, 100,000 are chosen at random to be selected for a pool of 50,000 green cards.

The people who win the lottery are vetted in the same way as immigrants applying for work, travel or student visas, with successful applicants getting legal permanent residency.

http://thehill.com/latino/370879-what-is-the-diversity-visa-lottery

Trump proposed four pillars of immigration reform that include a pathway to citizenship for almost 1.8 million illegal immigrants — known as ‘Dreamers’ — who were brought in the US by their parents at a young age, border security, ending the visa lottery programme and limiting family-based migration.

“Tonight I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, to protect our citizens, of every background, colour and creed,” President Trump said.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/merit-based-citizenship-end-to-visa-lottery-in-new-immigration-plan-says-donald-trump-in-state-of-th-1806645

Authorities say a good Samaritan with a handgun thwarted a savage attack on a police officer in Utah.

Derek Meyer told Salt Lake City Fox affiliate KSTU-TV that he was driving on Main Street in Springville, about 50 miles from Salt Lake City, when he spotted police lights — and a man walloping a police officer.

The incident happened about 2 p.m. on Friday, police said. An officer on patrol saw a pair of feet dangling out of a bin for Tabitha’s Way, a food pantry that hosts a clothing recycling program.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/04/he-bought-a-gun-to-protect-his-family-then-he-saw-someone-beating-up-a-cop/?utm_term=.d065a2503775

Law enforcement officials in New Mexico are praising a man who stepped in to save a mother and her daughter after the woman’s estranged husband rammed her car and began shooting at them.

Albuquerque Police say that 66-year-old Qian Ming intentionally crashed into the woman’s vehicle on Sunday and then opened fire, hitting his daughter in the shoulder, KRQE News 13 reported.

Officer Simon Drobik says that a 34-year-old good Samaritan, who is not being named since he has not been charged with a crime, saw the attack unfold and intervened.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/27365/police-good-g

In Canada, there are 3 levels of government. Each level of government has different responsibilities.

https://settlement.org/ontario/immigration-citizenship/canadian-government/canadian-political-system/what-is-canada-s-political-system/

Wednesday’s move was called a “betrayal” by the NDP, who accused Justin Trudeau of lying to progressive voters when he made electoral reform a central promise in the 2015 election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau abandoned his promise to reform Canada’s electoral system on Wednesday, claiming no consensus has been found on an alternative system.

Only two months after recommitting to electoral reform, Trudeau told newly appointed Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould that replacing the first-past-the-post system was no longer on the table.

“Rather than keep his word to the millions of Canadians who voted for him and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who engaged in good faith … over this question of how to strengthen and broaden our democracy, Mr. Trudeau chose today instead to spit in their face,” New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen told reporters.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/01/trudeau-drops-pledge-to-reform-canadas-electoral-system-in-his-first-term.html

Trudeau’s actions in government have not lived up to expectations, and Canadians are taking notice. A recent poll has shown the Liberal government’s approval rating dropping a staggering nine points to 42 per cent, from a November poll which had Liberal support at 51 per cent.

Trudeau, once elected, released a document titled Open and Accountable Government, which detailed the ways in which the Liberal government would operate and maintain transparency. Trudeau is quoted in a news release as saying “We will uphold the highest standards of integrity and impartiality both in our public and private affairs.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/luke-rebello/justin-trudeau-broken-promises_b_13900284.html

Canadians cannot rely on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for even remotely accurate information about the state of federal finances.

His wildly inconsistent and contradictory statements about government deficits before, during and after the 2015 election illustrate the point.

In 2014, Trudeau made

Canada’s federal deficit could be much higher than Justin Trudeau’s government projected, according to a new report from Toronto Dominion Bank.

TD Bank says it could be as high as $34 billion, roughly $5 billion higher than the Liberal government budgeted for in March, thanks to weak economic growth.

“Recall that the government built in a $6-billion annual cushion into its numbers to protect against unforeseen events,” read the report, released Thursday. “This allotted cushion is poised to be absorbed, and then some.”

Canada expected to run bigger deficit than Trudeau budgeted: TD Bank

JUSTIN Trudeau’s troubled trip to India has gone from bad to worse thanks to a relentless and exaggerated wardrobe of traditional garments which have been slammed as “embarrassing” by critics during his state visit.

Throughout his eight-day trip, the Canadian PM and his family have posed for innumerable photo-ops with their hands in prayer and clothes in extravagance.

Their wardrobes, which initially came across as respectful and culturally appropriate, have now come under fire as a major fashion faux pas.

Indian politician Omar Abdullah took to Twitter with a collage of the Trudeau family touching their hands and bowing their heads, as the namaste gesture dictates.

He wrote: “Is it just me or is this choreographed cuteness all just a bit much now? Also FYI, we Indians don’t dress like this every day, sir, not even in Bollywood.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/922823/justin-trudeau-embarrassing-canada-wearing-indian-wedding-outfit

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the Liberal plan to “reintegrate” Canadians who return to the country after fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

“These are people who got on a plane to fight for ISIS and watched as our allied soldiers were burned to death in a cage. These are people who got on a plane to go to fight for an organization that sells women and girls into slavery. These are people who left Canada to fight for a group of people who push homosexuals off buildings just for being gay,” Scheer told the House of Commons Monday.

“Can the Prime Minister explain to the House exactly what a program or reintegration service would look like for the people who commit these kinds of atrocities?”

The government revealed in late 2015 that some 180 individuals “with a nexus to Canada” had joined Islamic terrorist groups overseas, and an additional 60 had come back to Canada, according to a report by CBC’s Evan Dyer.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-sparks-outrage-with-plan-to-reintegrate-isis-terrorists-into-canada

Conservative MP Andrew Scheer has scored a major upset in the federal leadership race, beating out front-runner Maxime Bernier to take the helm of the party.

Canadians Right to self defense

The Right To Keep And Bear Arms In Canada

Gun control is people control

Opposition House Leader Candice Bergen has joined growing chorus of outrage at the Liberals banning employers from receiving student summer job grants if they don’t sign an “attestation” that they agree with abortion and transgender “rights.”

“What the Liberals are doing here is terrifying. No tax payers $ if you don’t believe/act the way the government dictates. Sounds more like China than Canada. Thought/ belief control by the State, in its worst form. What’s next for these organizations? Charitable status denied?”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-imposing-thought-control-through-pro-abortion-oath-opposition

Check the short video clip above of Gary, a CBC Kids puppet, getting a hug from Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ever so cute, right? Gag me! Can you imagine the reaction of the liberal media if former PM Stephen Harper had talked to and hugged a puppet? They would have said, and rightly so, that it was childish and an example of a self-promoting narcissist. And, they would have been right.

Our current Prime Minister is 45 years old, 46 in December 2017. He has 3 children of his own. Yet, he comes across as a self-absorbed, conceited man-child, or at the very least, a man-teen.

Yet, dare complain about that or anything else the man does or doesn’t do and the liberal mainstream media get their shirts in a knot, calling such complaints “conservative bias”.

PM Trudeau’s narcissism an embarrassment for many Canadians

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, is a man with a vision for his country. What remains unknown, however, is whether or not Canadians share this vision.

Thus far in his tenure, Trudeau has been far more explicit about what he does not want for Canada than he has been regarding the kind of nation he envisions for our future.

http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/04/justin-trudeau-and-dismantling-of-canadian-identity.html

Odd as it may sound, one of the more pernicious ideas to arise in the post-Cold War world is the notion that ideas themselves do not matter. From identity politics – your ethnicity, skin colour and gender matter more than the content of your brain – to the popular academic theories that assume people are more influenced by “structures” than by their own character or lack thereof, ideas have been downgraded as responsible for much of anything.

https://www.c2cjournal.ca/2016/03/justin-trudeaus-big-idea-ideas-and-history-dont-matter/

Justin Trudeau, one-time dramatic arts teacher and current Canadian Prime Minister, has been on a cross-country odyssey of late, holding town halls and fielding questions from Joe Public. The frank, open, and revealing format has revealed several things about Trudeau, including

Vancouver posts record month as home prices rocket higher

Canadian home prices rose in February, driven by a surge in the already-strong Vancouver market, data showed on Monday in the latest sign of a growing divide in the country’s real estate sectors.

Prices gained 0.6 percent from January, according to data from the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, the largest increase for the month of February since the 2008-09 recession.

Compared to a year ago, prices were up 6.5 percent, making for the largest annual increase since January 2012. The index measures price changes for repeat sales of single-family homes.

Although prices climbed on a monthly basis in six of the 11 metropolitan areas covered in the survey, it was the 3.2 percent jump in Vancouver that lifted the overall index, the report said.

Price fluctuations in the other markets essentially canceled each other out, the report said.

It was the fourteenth month in a row that prices in Vancouver have gained, while the region’s Real Estate Board said it was the highest selling February on record.

http://www.bnn.ca/News/2016/3/14/Canadian-home-prices-rise-in-February-boosted-by-Vancouver.aspx

How can dogmatic pro-choicers reconcile their defence of woman’s right to choose, but not of a girl’s right to live?

There is something about aborting a fetus because she is a girl, as opposed to aborting a fetus for any of the other innumerable reasons women decide to terminate a pregnancy, that makes many people — including the staunchest of pro-choice advocates — acutely uncomfortable. Part of it, I think, has to do with the way that we think of the fetus. It is much harder to think of that baby as just a clump of cells when we know that she has a sex — something we obviously can’t ignore when we’re talking about sex-selective abortion.

But more than that, I think what distinguishes sex-selective abortion from abortion for nearly any other reason is that it is driven entirely by who that child is, or will become. Usually when we talk about abortion, the focus is the woman and her choices. In Canada, women can choose to terminate a pregnancy for any reason: some feel they are too young, or too old, or not suitably financially secure, or would prefer to focus on their careers, or simply don’t feel like having a child or being pregnant — now or ever. In all these cases, the woman’s quality of life is the deciding factor, not the baby’s, and there is some consensus that it’s better to end the pregnancy than bring an unwanted child to term. In cases of sex-selective abortion, the decision has nothing to do with the mother’s quality of life, and everything to do with who the mother wants that child to be.

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/robyn-urback-how-can-dogmatic-pro-choicers-reconcile-their-defence-of-womans-right-to-choose-but-not-of-a-girls-right-to-live

Prostitutes divided as France bans paying for sex

French MPs on Tuesday approved a new law that proponents say will protect sex workers by shifting the burden of the offense onto clients, but some pr