Adventurer. Learner. Wife. Mom. Writer. Teacher. Christian. Political observer. Long-form book reviewer. Texan for liberty, free markets, & limited gov't.

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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes." C. S. Lewis
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Tim Keller was truly a gift to the world.
If you live long enough or accomplish something that leads some people to regard you as a 'great man' or 'great woman'--you will laugh and laugh at the ludicrousness of it. Or I should say I hope you will laugh at it. Otherwise it will eat you alive.
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“The human race began in poverty, so there’s no mysterious explanation as to why some people are poor. The question is why have some people gotten prosperous.” - Thomas Sowell
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He opposes billionaires, you guys.
I wish my wXfe looked at me the way Zohran Mamdani and Alex Soros look at each other 🥰🇵🇸
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Thank God his grasp of me is not dependent on my grasp of him.
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"Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil." -- Ephesians 5:15-16
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When child mortality was higher, parents did not become indifferent to their children.
Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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Rubio/Vance, Vance/Rubio — these seem most likely. 👆🏻 Vance/Kennedy, Vance/Sanders, Rubio/Sanders — these seem most interesting. 🧐
My personal preference for 2028 would be Rubio, but if Vance is the guy I'm fine with that. A Rubio/DeSantis ticket would be REALLY interesting. What do you think? ⬇️
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Replying to @LeadingReport
Wait, so housing supply went up while demand went down, and prices fell. If only there were an economic principle that describes this kind of relationship.
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Will all the men line the streets wearing blue do you think???? No. No they will not.
Not seeing a lot of men show up at the courthouse with signs sympathizing with Caleb Flynn…
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100% feel this way. Nearly all cursing we hear in society is not out of necessity for deep and rare emphasis, but springs out of small imaginations and limited vocabulary.
“Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?" -Theodore Roosevelt I’ve thought about this a lot lately as I see more and more public figures using profanity to make a point. It seems like they’re trying to demonstrate passion or attract a younger audience. Whatever the case, I think it lessens the impact of what they’re trying to say. There is a time and a place for profanity and it isn’t in public or in professional conversation. It is indeed the “parlance of the fool.”
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People who locked in a mortgage at 2% in 2021
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It’s gonna be a great 2026 JFK conference season! Looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces!
Replying to @_JessConnell
Looking forward to seeing you both in Dallas! @coachd8117 #JFK
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Grateful to be back publishing JFK interviews!! Today— Robert Groden gives the backstory for Larry Flynt’s #JFK #Murder printing of The LA Free Press. NOTE: Larry Flynt & wife believed this edition was the reason for the shooting that crippled him. piped.video/sbCgCZP0bpY?is=-y-z…
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Childcare is work. Teaching children is work. Cooking is work. Cleaning is work. Driving people around is work. Managing schedules is work. Taking care of babies is work. Managing a household is work. But somehow, and for some reason if we combine all of these things into just one woman, if we combine all of these jobs to one woman, to just one house, with children who live there and call her Mom, then people suddenly start asking, “What does she even do all day?” You’d never ask this of any of those professions. It is only mothers at home that have this extra burden of proof, that somehow we need to justify extra hard that we indeed are productive members of society, that we indeed work hard, that we indeed do things all day long. The only difference in all of this is that women at home do this work for the people they love, instead of for people who pay her, and that should make the work more valuable, not less.
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Nothing united about the "United" Nations. They can't even stand to hear what their opponents have to say. They have to walk out. How do you deal with people who are not even willing to listen ?
I’ve watched people walk out of the UN all week and I keep thinking the same thing: then what the hell is the point of the United Nations? You don’t have to agree. You don’t have to like what’s being said. But if countries can’t even sit in the same damn room and listen to each other, what exactly are we paying for? I’m tired of watching our tax dollars disappear into institutions that seem increasingly incapable of doing the very thing they were created to do. Wars everywhere. Countries refusing to listen to each other. Delegates walking out when they don’t like the speaker. And we call this the UNITED Nations? At some point you stop fixing something that clearly isn’t working. Dismantle it. Keep whatever actually serves a purpose and build something better. Because whatever the hell this is, it isn’t “united.” #ENDtheUN
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Our memorial windowpane to author Elizabeth Gaskell was dedicated #onthisday in 2010. Gaskell is best remembered for her novels Cranford, North and South, and Mary Barton. Her friend Charles Dickens helped bring her writing to a wider audience by publishing her work in his magazine, Household Words.
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Maybe some of Gen Z’s workplace awkwardness isn’t entitlement. Maybe they missed the years when people normally learn how to act around each other. @allie__voss makes a pretty interesting case.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a prolific thinker & mother) rejected ideas that would cast women all as demons, or all as saints -- We should too. It would NOT inherently be better to have women leaders. What matters is the person. Rotten men or rotten women make rotten leaders.
Obama: "If you put women in charge of every government for two years... I have a strong belief that things would be better. I'm confident about that."
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Remember, James Copenhaver wasn't just a shooting survivor. Amazingly, he took the below video of the would-be assassin running on the AGR rooftop before the attack. Jim told me his son later discovered this footage when going through the father's phone in the hospital.
Replying to @unboundedlife1
A video from James Copenhaver, one of the victims critically wounded in the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump, shows a figure moving across the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building just minutes before gunfire rang out at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Couldn’t be more obvious Like RFKJ said, “they dispensed with the convention and instead anointed a queen” - but the electorate wasn’t stupid enough to fall for her weird word salad, venn-diagram-loving, wine mom nothingisms.
Every time you hear Kamala Harris talk, you realize once again why she lost an electoral landslide, every swing state, and the popular vote.
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