Tag: mandates

The Great Awakening

Commentary INDEPENDENCE, Missouri—The half-circle of 13 chairs that framed the statue of President Harry Truman in the heart of the historic Independence Square this past fall was placed there in the days after 13 American soldiers were killed in the attack on the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in late August. The flags on either side…


A Salute to Our Truckers

Commentary Canada is a magnificent country! But our land can also be treacherous because of its unforgiving weather, bad roads, and vast distances between villages, towns, and cities. I was born and raised a 10-hour drive from the closest next big city, Montreal. Ten hours of sinuous roads and, in winter, driving conditions that didn’t…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Feb. 14)

President Joe Biden spoke with Ukraine’s president. He said the U.S. will respond swiftly and decisively to more aggression from Russia. And the Pentagon confirmed that some U.S. troops are leaving Ukraine as tensions rise. Canadians’ protest against virus mandates and restrictions gain steam in the capital over the weekend, while Canadian police clear a…


They Are Still Defending Lockdowns

Commentary Fifteen years ago, writers schooled in computer science began to imagine various totalitarian schemes for pandemic control. Experienced public health officials in 2006 warned that this would lead to disaster. Donald Henderson, for example, went through the whole list of possible restrictions, shooting them down one by one. Still, a decade and a half later,…


Thousands Pour Into Ottawa Amplifying the Voice of Protest Around the Capital

OTTAWA—The center of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, was flooded by thousands of protesters on Feb. 12 demanding an end to COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. Many more joined the ongoing trucker-led protest with the arrival of the weekend. Numbers grew from the night of Feb. 11 into the next morning as supporters seemingly poured into the city. Greater…


Report From Canada: The Regime Is Lying About the Truckers

Commentary  Canadian truck drivers are continuing their protest against the government’s COVID/vaccine mandates. The protest was triggered by the federal government’s November mandate that truck drivers must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 15 or they would be subject to mandatory testing and quarantine requirements when entering Canada. It is worth noting that on Jan. 12, various government…


Democrats’ Recent Rejection of COVID Insanity Will Not Save Them This Fall

Commentary As we race toward this fall’s midterm elections, it is obvious to even cursory observers of our political landscape that Democrats are in for a shellacking. As of this writing, both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have job approval ratings that are underwater by double-digit margins. Even more ominous, the RealClearPolitics…


Trucker Protests the Tipping Point of Frustration With Two Years of Botched Pandemic Responses

Commentary With the ongoing trucker protests that have rocked Ottawa and several other Canadian cities and jurisdictions, it is reasonable to say that we’ve reached the peak of the politicization of this pandemic. Something like this was bound to happen. The support the protest has garnered is clearly a product of frustrations that have reached…


Reparations for the Business Victims of Lockdowns

Commentary With pandemic controls gradually ending, many people have called for some kind of justice to be realized: investigations on the origin and implementation of lockdowns and mandates, punishment for the perpetrators, and compensation for the victims. How wonderful it would be! And yet I tend to agree with Clarence Darrow who wrote that the state has…


The Chants of the Freedom Convoy

Commentary There’s something happening both with the Freedom Convoy movement in Canada and the mass protests in Europe. A whole group of people have been feeling ignored and unheard—with several years of constant lockdowns, restrictions, and finally: vaccine mandates and passports. And then they woke up. What started as just whispers on social media, largely…