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In this scene in the Godfather II, Frankie Pentangeli is about to testify against the Corleones in a Senate hearing. He is buoyant, basking in the attention, until he sees his brother from Sicily walk in. His brother gives him a disapproving look. In that moment he realizes that to testify against the Corleone would mean going against his own family as well, which is a bridge too far. He realizes that his deal with the government is done, and that he is most certainly a dead man. He accepts it with grace and does what he needs to do. At the end of the scene, Tom leans over to the brother and says “La famiglia è tutto,” or “The family is everything.” The family unit is the strongest force in nature. It’s something I don’t want my kids to ever forget.

This is the happiest dog I've seen in my life

Chicago Democrats Just FUMBLED an Entire NFL Team to Indiana. 100 Years of History Gone. Running a City This Badly Isn’t an Accident. Indiana is getting a brand new Bears stadium. And Chicago gets to keep its crime, its taxes, and its $400M taxpayer funded Obama DEI trash can nobody asked for. This is what decades of Democrat mismanagement does. Businesses leave. Teams leave. People leave. They'll blame everyone but themselves. Indiana wins. Chicago loses. Again.

Key states in my family’s history … New York Pennsylvania North Carolina Alabama

Rep. Wesley Hunt: “My entire family is Black, and every single one of us has an ID that allows us to vote. So why do Democrats keep acting like voter ID is some impossible burden?” Thoughts?

Can't go a holiday weekend without this classic.

Reporter: “Should we let non-citizens vote in our elections?” Karen Bass: “We should explore it.” No we shouldn’t. We should actually deport you for suggesting that.

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The Mayor of Charlotte is demanding people stop posting this reminder of the lovely innocent Iryna Zarutska butchered by a savage on Charlotte public transit. He was on probation by a liberal activist judge.

Woke has became Christopher Nolan's Achilles heel.

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Almost nothing they know is the full story. Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled. The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end. Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian. They marched anyway. And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument. The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering. For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass. Then the Greeks were betrayed. A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded. He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came. So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name. The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it. They lost. Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home. Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame. That's the world they lived in. The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws. A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it. We remember 300 of them. There were always more.

First Mother’s Day without my mom. I had a few moments today where I thought “Oh crap, I have to call mom!” only to remember I can’t anymore. Boys, call your mom and make her feel special. Life changes fast.

Have you called your mama today? / Coach Bear Bryant youtu.be/oAiYSVSfhfk?si=kXru… via @YouTube

Don't fall for it again.

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Brain damage from that time he drove his BMW off a clff.