Quit Complaining

There appears to be little correlation between people’s well-being and how much they complain. Many people who live in the freest and most affluent countries—and who themselves are particularly affluent—complain more than their less affluent fellow citizens and more than people living in poor countries. Similarly, it is impossible to gauge from people’s levels of complaint how much they have actually suffered. Many individuals who have suffered terribly almost never complain, and many who have had it comparatively easy constantly complain. 

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses, pg.25

Stick With the Truth

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him.

Thomas Jefferson (1785)

The Problem With Anti-Gun Laws

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." 

Cesare Beccaria, The Patriot Post email news, 10/27/23.

What the Culture produces

The combination of secularism, higher education, and affluence seems to produce more people who are afraid of emotional pain, and even of marrying and having children.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses, pg. 14

Law or Mob?

Do you want to live under the rule of law or under mob rule? Virtually everyone will say that they want to live under the rule of law. But what people say is not nearly as important as what they do. And what far too many people are doing is moving us closer to mob rule.

Thomas Sowell

LEFTIST College and University Destruction of the Culture

Universities…aim to dismantle the status of luminaries who works celebrate traditional values. For example, in 2016, the English department of the University of Pennsylvania removed its long-standing portrait of William Shakespeare, the greatest English-language writer. The reason  was that Shakespeare was white, European, male, and presumably heterosexual. The portrait was replaced by that of a black lesbian poet (Audre Lorde), who replaced Shakespeare because she was not white, not male, and not heterosexual. In the secular university, considerations of race, gender, and class have replaced considerations of artistic and intellectual excellence.

Education uncoupled from God becomes a false—and therefore dangerous—god. Western universities were founded to pursue truth and excellence. American universities were founded almost exclusively by Christians rooted in the Bible, especially the Torah.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses, pg.73-74

Diversity Is Conformity

In the academic world, diversity means black leftists, white leftists, female leftists, and Hispanic leftists. Demographic diversity conceals ideological conformity.

Thomas Sowell, copied from a “Patriot Post” meme

Use Discretion With Political Leaders

One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires—and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

Thomas Sowell, copied from a “Patriot Post” meme. 

When Accountable to the State Instead of to God

One does not have to believe in God to recognize that as America has become increasingly secular—that is, as God has become smaller and smaller—the state has become bigger and bigger. In order to prevent moral chaos society must inculcate moral accountability in its citizens. And as people hold themselves less accountable for their behavior to God (specifically, the God of the Bible), the more they will be accountable for their behavior to the state. In order to create a free country—and America did become the freest country in world history—America was designed to have people morally accountable to God. This is the reason John Adams, the “father of the Constitution” and the second president of the United States, wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral an religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses, pg.67

Blacks Need to Rethink Their Votes

Public School Failure

In public schools, where character formation should be a paramount concern, children are instead indoctrinated with agendas that extol relativism over absolute truths. This soil of moral ambiguity has proven fertile ground for the growth of attitudes and behaviors that, even a generation ago, would have been universally recognized as disastrous. The elevation of subjectivity over objectivity has left young people unable to differentiate between enduring principles and transient whims, undermining the foundation of democracy itself—educated and morally sound citizens.

The Dissenter, The De-Education of America and the Resulting Judgment of God

Ultimate Manliness

The ultimate manliness is to get married, protect your family, provide for your kids and family, provide a space for them to grow in safety and security, and provide them roles and responsibilities. This is the role of a man; this is what a man does.

Ben Shapiro

Envy

Families MUST Teach Morality

The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.

John Adams (1778)

Importance of Fathers