Canadian truckers blocking thoroughfares to protest COVID-19 mandates have not backed down despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of unprecedented authority to clear protests throughout the country.
The Police Chief in Ottowa, Peter Sloly, resigned from his position as of Tuesday, with criticisms of both his dealings with the trucker convoy as well as accusations he was a bully and volatile.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told conservative website Daily Signal he's all for anti-vaccine trucker convoys to "clog up" metro areas across the U.S. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been well aware that truckers could soon embark for Washington, D.C. Still, this weekend, a more immediate threat could be a convoy headed to the Super Bowl in California.
The federal government doled out nearly a billion dollars in stimulus payments to prison inmates in 2021 under President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, according to IRS records obtained by the Washington Examiner.
I do try not to get angry when government actors confirm my belief that they are lowly human beings not worthy of respect. With age and experience, most people eventually come face to face with enough instances of injustice or straight-up barbarity in the world to understand that life is no bed of roses wherein the righteous triumph effortlessly over the wicked.
