Clown singing Pinball Wizard to the tune of Folsom Prison Blues
When I run everything, this is the only sort of thing I will allow on TV.
Warren
My five-year-old take on Syria
I still stand by most of it. Link here. Snippets: It is far easier to get into a war than to get out of one. As the civilized world reflects…
Trudeau takes the right stand on Syria
I’m bewildered as to why Trump gave the Syrians advance warning that he was going to bomb Syria. But I’m delighted Trudeau has said exactly the right thing, in precisely…
Wag the dog, etc.
Trump has been condemned by Russia, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and a number of American neo-Nazi groups. That's about as good as it gets. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 7, 2017
I take back the credit I gave to Trump
So. This Pentagon statement. Read it. I take back the credit I gave Trump below. Why? Because he gave the Syrians and Russians a head’s up. Seriously. He hit a…
Syria strike: It is possible to despise Trump (as I do)
…but to support this action (as I do). And Russians who may have been on the ground there, in harm’s way? Volenti non fit injuria, as we lawyers say. 50…
At the OLP Toronto-Danforth fundraiser, before WWIII broke out
L to R: some guy off the street, Tom Axworthy, Dorothy Davey, Marty Goldfarb, Dennis Mills.
Highly-scientific poll™: bombs away
.@realDonaldTrump's #Russiagate isn't going away. He will therefore soon… — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 6, 2017
The Conservative Party is no longer the party of Harper
…and, for them, that spells disaster. Snippet from next week’s column below. And comments are open! If the 2016-2017 Conservative leadership race is to be remembered for anything at all,…
ISIS, punk rock and the Hot Nasties
They’re all connected. Seriously. So, there’s these two guys, profiled last week in the Washington Post: Lucas Chapman, left, and Brace Belden, U.S. volunteers with the People’s Protection Units, or…
Manifest brevity
You'd be forgiven for thinking the United States is not a serious country anymore. #USPolitics pic.twitter.com/cEYtHdEbaz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 5, 2017
Trump declares war on his allies
Get a load of this. Visitors planning getaways to the U.S. might have to relinquish their cell phone contacts and passwords under new ‘extreme vetting’ procedures being developed by the…
Allies in hate: Soldiers of Odin and the Jewish Defence League
The Soldiers of Odin is a rapidly-growing far-Right anti-refugee, anti-immigrant racist organization now found across Canada. Experts call them a terror group. More on them here and here. The Jewish…
The universe realigns: by-elections, (sort of) discussed and (kind of) analyzed
So: The Liberal vote was down in Markham, and the Tory vote was up. Liberals won big in Ottawa-Vanier, which is the safest Liberal seat in the galaxy. But it…
April 4, MLK
Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972, in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and…
This week’s column: are you gay?
“Are you gay?” It was 1983 or so, and my Carleton journalism professor, Roger Bird, had asked me if I was gay. I was surprised. “Is that an issue?” I…
The only good advice I can ever give you
Half the success in an office environment is never hitting "reply all." — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 3, 2017
What should Wynne and the OLP do?
Following the latest poll – showing the Ontario Liberal Party in third place for months, and behind the PCs in Toronto – I asked folks for their comments. I received…
Their dishonest “president”
Quite the Los Angeles Times editorial, the first in a series. Read it here. It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue…