Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

 Cole's Note - Facebook is Censoring this post as being from a US news source.  I find it an excellent Column and would recommend it as a column of the day: The 51st State or the 14th Colony—or Something Else? Photo: PJ Media.com by David Solway - PJ Media  | 8:17 PM on March 12, 2025 So much fuss and bother has been made on both sides of the border over Donald Trump’s presumed intention to annex Canada as the 51st state that people seem to have forgotten that the issue goes back at least as far as an October 21, 1774 Congressional “Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec.” So much fuss and bother has been made on both sides of the border over Donald Trump’s presumed intention to annex Canada as the 51st state that people seem to have forgotten that the issue goes back at least as far as an October 21, 1774 Congressional “Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec.”  As Mark Anderson in his archival "The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: Americ...

Annus horribilis Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase, meaning "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year". As usual, this cartoon nails it. My year has been like this. Stuck in March of 2020 under lockdown due to hygiene socialism. The year 2020 was when all levels of government, politicians, media, academics, companies and social media went insane. Future historians will shake their heads at the madness that came from the fall of Journalism. It has been replaced with the dumpster fire of the "Woke revolution" sensitivity and the Cancel Culture of the Internet Mob.  The loss of credibility of all levels of government and mainstream media and the outright suppression of opposing viewpoints have been the hallmarks of this past Annus Horribilis. On the plus side - I finally got the first flu shot on May 4 - and now I’m scheduled for the second on August 4 - yeah.  I probably get a bunch of anti-vaxxers calling me an id...