"There is something morally repulsive about modern activistic theories which deny contemplation and recognize nothing but struggle. For them not a single moment has value in itself, but it is only a means for what follows." -Nicolas Berdyaev

Regarding the unrest in France. Macron wanted to stop Le Pen so badly that he sacrificed his own party seats to bring in Melenchon, so that the hard Left could stop Le Pen. It's the kind of logic, that even at face value, amounts to letting in Alien so he can fight Predator. Or admitting Jason so he can checkmate Freddy. A desperate gamble to stop the 'Fascists'. What Macron didn't figure was what happens when one of them monsters wins and casts its baleful glance around the blood-soaked room and sees only you? Uh-oh.

80% of socialism involves calling things by different names in a misguided attempt to change reality. The other 20% consists of imprisoning and murdering anyone who disagrees with their renaming projects.

“'There’s an old word,' the Consul continued, 'that nicely applies to men like you: traitors. There’s nothing new about it. We’ve had bishop-traitors, general-traitors, minister-traitors, intellectual-traitors, and just plain traitors. As it shrinks, the West produces this type of man in ever greater abundance.'" - Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints

“A person should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture everyday of their life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” … Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” —Jordan Peterson

That's hilarious 😂

Muslim turnout in 2024 was about 80% of registered Muslim voters. Christian turnout was about 56% of voting-age Christian adults. The gap is not Muslims outvoting Christians. It is millions of Christians who could vote and do not.

One misunderstanding about Emily Dickinson is that she was a frail shut-in who hid her poems in a drawer. She corresponded widely with other writers and poets, knew her neighbors well, and was known as a poet in her time despite publishing only a few poems in newspapers. She distributed her poems through correspondence. She wanted to be read. She was DIY before DIY. Another misunderstanding, popular in academia, is that she was a lesbian with a smoldering, unrequited passion for her sister-in-law, but there is no proof of that. Literate people in the 19th century wrote to each other with an affection that sounds strange, intense, even infatuated today. Her letters are not evidence that she was a lesbian. And yet another misunderstanding is that her best-known poems, the ones anthologized and shared on social media, are representative of her entire body of work. Many of those poems have been sanitized and stripped of their power. Editors have made them look more like normal "verse" by changing the punctuation to conform to convention and running spell check. Her work was complex in every way, from her syntax and strange rhymes to her rich diction and subject choices (death, nature, psychological anguish, religious doubt, and love). She was a powerhouse of a poet, not a dainty versifier who never got any sunlight.

My Ten-Gallon Troubadours and I are hitting the recording studio later this month to begin recording an EP of honky Tonk heartbreak songs. Here’s just a small snippet of our original song “Heaven Knows”.

Nothing to see here. . .

I promise you this isn't complicated, although many would like to pretend it is: There is a rampant Jew hatred running through academia, gov't, and both major political parties. You either condemn it - no matter who engages in it, or you're a moral coward and a liar.

Not a single society in history has ever gotten better because of Muslims. Not a single one.

Your heavenly Father has never once lost sight of you, not for a single moment.

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." — H.L. Mencken

We the People need to impose both terms limits and a balanced requirement on Congress via Article V of the Constitution!

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) “Autumn Cornfield” October 1, 1950.

To call leftwing politicians idiots or wasters is to underestimate the sheer level of malice and destruction involved in their policies.

“Free Palestine” means destroy Europe, America, and Japan, conquer them, and Islamize them.

Americans — a confession from Japan you were never meant to hear. We are terrified of fascism. Not the version in your textbooks. The version that lives inside us. In 1941, no dictator dragged the Japanese people into the dark. We dragged each other. Neighbor watched neighbor. Mothers reported their own sons. One doubtful word at the fish market and the police came in the night. The village went silent. That silence lasted four years and killed millions. That is how a free nation dies. Not with jackboots. With whispers. And right now — the same silence is being built again in Japan. Not by the right. By the Left. They throw our gates open. Strangers pour in by the millions — Muslims, Africans, people who will never bow to our dead. And when a Japanese grandmother dares to say, "wait — slow down — let us think," she is dragged into the public square and branded a fascist. A racist. A monster. Hear me clearly: in our country, "racist" is no longer a moral word. It is a muzzle. A weapon. A silencer pressed to the mouth of every citizen who still loves Japan. If we fall, Beijing feasts. Moscow carves the atlas. The lights of the free world blink out — Tokyo first. Seoul next. Washington within a generation. So I come to you — Americans. The one nation on earth that still salutes its own flag without flinching. Do not let the Democrats take your country again. Do not let your patriots be shamed into silence. When America stands, the free world stands. From one wandering samurai in Tokyo, to every patriot across your fifty states — You are not alone. You are the wall. Stand.

A news story about the massive reammunitioning of Hezbollah. Many readers reflexively think of non-European combatants as primitive, poor, downtrodden opponents. Barefoot warriors against the arrogant power of the West. But the reality is that even the proxies of Iran had more firepower than most European nations. Since October 7, 2023, Hamas and other militants in Gaza launched over 14,000 rockets at Israel, at least 5,000 of them during the October 7 attack alone. Hezbollah had an estimated 150,000 rockets and missiles in its arsenal before the war. The Houthis unleashed upwards of 220 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones at Israel, not counting Saudi Arabia. Iran itself had so many ballistic missiles, drones and cruise devices that Emmanuel Macron declared it impossible to open the Strait of Hormuz. The Gulf nations have felt the IRGC's wrath so great was its armory even in decline. Which European country the UK, France, Italy and Germany -- alone or altogether -- could have mustered such an armamentarium or withstood it? Whoever's side you are on, there is no denying that even the proxies were playing in the major leagues and the multilaterals were in the peanut gallery. foxnews.com/world/hezbollah-…