Classical Liberal | UChicago & Oxford | Texan | Husband & Father | GWOT | Christian

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Your freedom arrives as an unalienable gift from your Creator, not a grant of privilege from your government.
This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.
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Beyond the din of voices calling for division are the quiet efforts of normal people, living together in a world that has enough hate and not enough love.
SMALL-TOWN TEXAS SIGHTS! So while relaxing out by the lake and observing different activities and thinking and praying, I noticed a couple of young black guys walk up on a deck behind the convention center. A man was there fishing off of the deck. The next thing I know he’s conversing with them and then he goes and grabs a couple of additional poles and starts showing them how to fish! Once again it made me proud to be a Texan!
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God is the greatest artist.
More video of the blue, striated shelf cloud in southeast Iowa this morning ahead of a potential tornado outbreak.
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This last line hits with a clarity rarely seen; a potent combination of winsome poetry and repulsive truth. "The bureaucrat is merely the caretaker of a fire he did not light, slowly convincing himself the ashes are more important than the flame."
Bureaucracy is the natural state of dying institutions. The only antidote is a constant supply of men willing to break things in order to save them. Left unchecked, bureaucracy always forgets the mission and falls in love with the machinery. The bureaucrat is merely the caretaker of a fire he did not light, slowly convincing himself the ashes are more important than the flame.
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Tick tock, tick tock the pendulum swings and with it brings the change that only time can wrought.
The British Isles are beginning to remember what every civilization eventually remembers: A government that cannot protect its people eventually loses the moral authority to govern them. Everything that follows is just the timetable.
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Main character syndrome. AKA grandiose narcissistic personality disorder.
This lady walked out of the restaurant because they were playing the national anthem. She says she doesn’t feel safe anywhere there’s an American flag or where the national anthem is being played. She believes that someone in the crowd is going to hurt her or, even worse, take her life.
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In the den of ideologues, inquiry is deemed evil.
The marketplace of ideas matters most in higher ed, which is probably why it’s so hated there. Free speech helps us discover truth, but it also reveals what people really think. And sometimes, the wrong ideas are the most important ones to know about.
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“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” — George Orwell
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Before 1904, every autumn in the Appalachian mountains came with a harvest that cost nothing and fed everything... One in four trees in the forest was an American chestnut. Families gathered them by the bushel from the cabin door — roasting them, drying them, grinding them into meal, feeding them to the hogs that would carry the family through winter. The timber built barns, fence rails, and cradles. The tannin cured leather. Nothing on the hillside went to waste. Then a blight arrived from imported nursery stock in New York City, and within a single generation, four billion trees were dead. The harvest that Appalachian families had counted on for centuries was simply gone. No warning. No replacement. Just absence where abundance had always been. The American chestnut blight arrived in the United States around 1904 and spread at roughly fifty miles a year across the eastern forest. By 1950, an estimated four billion trees were functionally gone. The American Chestnut Foundation has spent decades crossing blight-resistant stock in hopes of bringing them back — and the first truly resistant saplings are being planted in these mountains right now. © Smokey Mountain Blue #drthehistories
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Fearful about your future, about being replaced by the AI we asked you to train? Here, have some Pringles.
JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.
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Ahhh, yes, that pesky 14th Amendment and its inconvenient guarantee of 'equal protection under the law', thereby limiting the government from discriminating (read as: favoring some) based on race.
JUST IN: Trump administration moves to challenge a first-in-the-nation reparations program for Black residents in Evanston, Illinois.
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We are at that point in time (again) when the English must come to America to actually be free.
Dallas, USA, has been covered in St. Georges flags for the World Cup. Unlike in Britain, they won't be removed!
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Religious discrimination is alive and well in Germany - fueled by cowardice and appeasement, the German government would rather silence the truth than confront evil.
In Berlin dürfen nur Moslems in der Öffentlichkeit beten. Polizist: "Sind Sie Muslim?" Mann: "Nein...?" Polizist: "Sind Sie Christ?" Mann: "Ja." Polizist: "Dann dürfen sie hier nicht beten oder die Bibel lesen"
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Good advice , Spike.
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“Make the cake.” “Design the website.” “Say the pronouns.” “Wear the hat.” The consequences may vary depending on whether these edicts come from government or big business. But the courage they require from faithful Christians is the same. Thank God for the courageous ones.
Three Giants pitchers wore Bible verses on their Pride Night caps during Friday’s game. MLB has since issued a warning to them.
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France, the UK, Canada, and 11 others banned kids from social media at nearly the same time, with nearly the same law. If your government actually answered to you, its laws wouldn't arrive on the same schedule as thirteen others.
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Close. Our culture is built on a deep suspicion of power and authority; we unleash the individual by constraining the government. As a result, ambition reigns where politicians don't.
The more I travel around America, the more I understand why this country produces so many massive companies, athletes and entertainers. The culture feels built around ambition.
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The lifting force of truth and context.
The child labor argument against capitalism gets the story backwards. Children worked on farms, in homes, and in family trades long before factories existed. The real enemy was poverty.  The reason many children stopped working was that their societies became rich enough for school to replace survival labor.
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These are called Cicadas, and they form the soundtrack of every summer memory for a childhood in Texas.
Does anyone know what this noise I can hear in Texas is?
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Accurate
don’t know how to explain Texas properly… It feels like America turned up to maximum settings.
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In your mind and in your heart, in your words and in your deeds.
Put god first
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