Do You Have Enemies?

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Victor Hugo

For Sure

It is better to listen to wise people who reprimand you than to fools who sing your praises.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

Culture Fails To Teach For Marriage

And though some people deliberately reject marriage and children, many men and women would like to get married and have kids but are struggling to pair off. Our culture does not teach men and women how to find, let alone how to be, good husbands and wives. Rather, it sometimes seems that, as Lutheran pastor Hans Fiene put it, “[O]ur culture teaches young men to be losers and young women to be narcissists.” Harsh, but perhaps fair. 

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

Choose: Opportunity or Victimhood

Unlike most civilizations, Western civilization, in general, and America, in particular, offers everyone the opportunity to succeed and improve their lot. However, creating a victim narrative/grift is far easier than recognizing that reality and doing the hard work necessary to overcome challenges and succeed.

Vince Coyner, “As Christianity Dies In The West, The West Dies, Too”

LEFTISTs -- Green and Victimhood

Today’s environmentalists have the luxury of pushing for “green” energy only because actual, functional sources of energy exist to allow the grift to continue. They can pretend their preferred energy sources are “green” only because leftist governments and media ignore reality. Like leaders of other cults, they command their followers to ignore what’s right in front of them. Whether it be child slaves in the Congo, trillions of wasted dollars, “green” equipment that can’t be recycled, or infrastructure that doesn’t provide the promised energy, nothing can move them from their green mantras.

At the same time, the victim mindset that has taken hold because leftists have no more understanding of human nature than communist philosophers do. Life is unfair. There always was and always will be inequality. It doesn’t matter if it was the Roman Empire, the Han Dynasty, the Soviet Union, or America today; inequality has always existed, and different groups were/are disproportionately represented in the various classes.

Vince Coyner, “As Christianity Dies In The West, The West Dies, Too”

So Very True, Unfortunately

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain 

Where Evil Will Come From

 The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

C.S. Lewis.

You End Up With What You Make or Vote For

 

Freedom is NOT Abortion

Tyranny vs Freedom

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Make A Decision!

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart American aviator (1897-1937)

Modern Education is Lacking

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like “arraigned," "curried" and "exculpate" meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

Thomas Sowell

The LEFT Redistributes Rather Than Creates Wealth

Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.

Thomas Sowell

Children With Parents Do Best

A raft of research demonstrates the sexual experimentation on the part of parents is strongly correlated to negative outcomes for the children, such as crime and substance abuse, whereas the children most likely to succeed as adults are those who grow up with mother and father.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.313.

What's Essential to Moral Order

 

Civics Lesson

 

Government MUST Obey the Constitution

None of our problems are beyond our constitutional order’s power to solve. What is it we need, after all? We need a Congress that acts like a legislature rather than a company of moralizing performance artists. We need a president who acts like a responsible chief executive rather than a drunken king. We need a judiciary that acts impartially in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the land rather than in a partisan manner. And we need to disperse the political power that is now concentrated in the hands of the Washington establishment.

In short, the solution to our problems is not to scrap or transcend the Constitution, but to start obeying and applying it again. Under that document, “We the People” already possess every power we need to reestablish majority rule, minority rights, democratic accountability, equal justice under law, and national sovereignty.

Kevin D. Roberts, Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, Imprimis, October 2024

We Need to Overrule the LEFT

With few exceptions, the Left as we know it today has rejected populism out of hand, embracing instead Big Government, Big Business, Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Ag, Big Media, and Big Entertainment. For the most part, today’s Left is hard at work fortifying the power these institutions wield against the rigors of democratic accountability.

Thus the only hope for a sustainable, democratically legitimate populist reform movement today is on the Right. The question is whether the leaders of the movement can harness the highly negative energy from which the populism emerges and channel it toward a coherent, positive politics of national renewal and reform.

Kevin D. Roberts, Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, Imprimis, October 2024

A Prodigal Son

When a prodigal son wants to follow his appetites, or the latest fashion in idols, he tells himself that he has made a careful evaluation of everything when he is in reality just going along with the crowd. At such time, the last thing he wants to listen to is wise counsel.

Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth

The Only Foundation

Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

John Adams, 21 June 1776