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Politics Is Getting in the Way of What Makes Cities Great Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:50:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Progressives loves cities, yet refuse to address the degree to which their policies have made urban life a bigger chore than needed. Conservatives depict cities as dystopian hellholes. They delight in highlighting the crime problems, poorly functional school systems, homeless encampments, and other urban problems that seem unsolvable. The message from the former: We should all live in densely packed urban areas, where we can stroll to cafes and stores and take the bus to work, but we can't (or won't) make the streets safer, the schools better or the transit systems less miserable. The message from the latter: Stay away from cities and hole up in placid but uninteresting suburbs. ...
You've Got to Be Kidding: Nussbaum Demands Animals Stop Eating Each Other Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:11:50 by Charles_Byrd
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Sometimes you encounter a proposal that is so daft that you think to yourself, The author cant be serious! In todays column, Id like to discuss an example of this sort that comes from one of the worlds most eminent moral philosophers, Martha C. Nussbaum. In her article, A Peopled Wilderness, appearing in the New York Review of Books, December 8, 2022, Nussbaum suggests that we need to think seriously about curbing predation in nature. It disturbs her that animals eat other animals: this is not how things ought to be. We must be careful in what we try to do to correct this morally bad state of affairs, since through lack of knowledge, we may ...
The tyranny of the majority Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:05:47 by Charles_Byrd
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"Which is better to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?" Rev. Mather Blyes, 1706-1788 Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle Cotton Mather, addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can survive in a democracy. Click for Full Text!
Seared souls: How we abuse our children Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:58:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Since Im going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things need to be said. I must confess that with the way many of my fellow adults behave today, it can make me ashamed to be one. I almost sometimes feel as if I want to apologize to the children for the example the contemporary grown-up world now sets. We often lament, and rightly so, how disrespectful many modern youths are, yet a prerequisite for commanding respect is being respectable. There is little respectable about modern American culture. Click for Full Text!
The Antidote to ‘Toxic’ Masculinity Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:35:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Marine veteran Terry Bagley, a 70-year-old father of five who does housekeeping at a Veterans Affairs hospital, was walking to buy items for Thanksgiving in the Pigtown area of Baltimore, Maryland, on the Tuesday afternoon before the holiday. On his way to the market, a rowhome on the block explodedlikely from a ruptured gas line. Bagley reportedly wasted no time hurrying to the rescue of anyone who might be trapped inside the burning building. Firefighters later found him in the rubble. Bagley, in critical condition, was placed in a medically induced coma. His injuriesincluding a broken pelvis, femur, and handwill require surgery. (A GoFundMe page set up for the Vietnam ...
Restoring Society’s Foundations Isn’t a Lost Cause Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:11:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Were you to peer into my brain in recent months, you would find that a main thought running through it is our countrys desperate need for restoration and repair. Not so much in the physical sense, but in the mental, emotional, and spiritual sensea renewal of the foundations upon which basic life in this country has long been built: faith, family, and education. Its easy to look at the swampy mess that surrounds us, throw up our hands, and bemoan with the Psalmist, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Click for Full Text!
Foundations of Faith Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:37:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Not too long ago, had the sentence I am a woman trapped in a mans body been uttered to anyone to a doctor, a friend, a relative it would have been seen as a psychiatric problem in the one speaking the words. Help, from a psychiatrist or a priest, would have been advised or encouraged. Today, even to suggest any help or guidance is needed let alone to provide such help or guidance is criminal
even when the one saying such words is a child. Click for Full Text!
Woke Joke Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:22:41 by Charles_Byrd
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In these willfully ignorant times, the powers that be seem, in their haste to be politically correct, to forget that America fought its bloodiest war to end human bondage. Almost three-quarters of a million men died, yet the Civil War is being refought with fact-purging propaganda that makes cartoon villains of great American soldiers, while one group of citizens is robbed of their heritage in order to please another. About one year ago I found myself in a car with a New York couple, both guests of an ex-headmaster (sorry, head of school; use of the word headmaster leads one to a woke gulag) of my prep school who was accompanying me to an unveiling of a wall honoring an ...
While on vacation, we tend to sleep in. But there we were at the crack of dawn, trekking to the beach, drawn to the promise of new life. Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:31:54 by Charles_Byrd
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A few nights ago, my mother-in-law stopped by to drop something off. As a fellow Christmas enthusiast, she was quite excited that we had a YouTube video of a fireplace playing on our television. I began to share how I discovered it, which brought me to the story of one Christmas in college. A Christmas Eve where I found myself alone in front of my TV, on a channel that was broadcasting a fireplace scene, wishing for a family for Christmas. Click for Full Text!
Save the Baby Humans, Too! Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:29:51 by Charles_Byrd
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While on vacation, we tend to sleep in. But there we were at the crack of dawn, trekking to the beach, drawn to the promise of new life. Click for Full Text!
Editorial: California still violates the Constitution on bail Post Date: 2022-12-08 21:34:42 by Charles_Byrd
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The purpose of bail is to get people out of jail. There continues to be broad misunderstanding of that basic principle among Californians generally, and blatant violation of it knowing or otherwise among police and judges. The right to bail under the state and federal constitutions routinely gets stood on its head, so that instead of being used to get people out of jail, bail is misused to keep people in. Click for Full Text!
It’s Time to Remove “Public” From Public Broadcasting Post Date: 2022-12-08 21:22:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Im a consumer of public broadcasting. Im currently subscribing to Passport, PBSs streaming app, so I can catch up on all the Ken Burns documentaries. And I used to enjoy NPR news and other programming: the longform, in depth reporting on a range of topics, the absence of talking head shouting matches, and a Prairie Home Companion before Garrison Keillor retired, especially his News from Lake Wobegon monologues. Admittedly, my taste is probably conditioned by my Swedish upbringing with subdued news reporting and other programming limited to two public TV and three public radio channels (it has long since changed to a more American model with cable and, more ...
How to replace the welfare state Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:27:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The American people donated a record $3.1 billion for charities this past week, proving once again they are the most charitable people on Earth, despite the inflation that is making it difficult for millions of families to make ends meet. Thank you, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow legal counterfeiters. For more than three decades I have been advocating that individuals receive a tax credit, instead of tax deduction for every dollar donated to a 501(c) 3 organization that provides nonprofit services such as education, healthcare, food banks, pregnancy crisis counselling, etc. Click for Full Text!
Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won’t give it back. Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:11:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Rebuilding his post-prison life drug offenses derailed the young Jerry Johnson he attempted a 50 percent increase of his North Carolina trucking firm, from two semi-trucks, nine and 16 years old, to three. Learning of a used-truck auction in Arizona, he assembled from his savings and from relatives $39,500 in cash, and flew there in August 2020. Click for Full Text!
A Tribute to the U.S. Marine Corps Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:01:46 by Charles_Byrd
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A recent United States Marine Corps recruitment advertisement tells us: When there are battles to win for Americas future, there is one constant: Marines. Despite the advert being a minute-long, propagandizing call to imperial action, this line rings true. And it highlights why we are morally obligated to support Bring Our Troops Home. Click for Full Text!
“You can’t … you’re not capable … you can only succeed if ….” Post Date: 2022-12-03 06:29:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Our society is indeed broken. Women are capable, beautiful, incredible creations. But what is ringing so loudly in their ears? You cant
youre not capable
you can only succeed if
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The Woke Chokehold Post Date: 2022-12-03 06:18:52 by Charles_Byrd
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One of the most astonishing things about the woke is their high boredom threshold. They seem to have the same thoughts about the same subjects, expressed in the same language, all their waking lives. They never tire or let their vigilance down. They look at Raphael or Botticelli and see only social injustice. They are terrible bores. The explanation of their persistence, which resembles that of flies on a corpse, is that truth, which holds no interest for them, is not their object, but power, the cynosure of every ambitious mediocritys eyes. To change the metaphor slightly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum or, in the case of the museums, the philistines. Click for Full Text!
Why do Democrats refuse to treat abortion survivors? A dead baby was always the point. How you got there was just details. Post Date: 2022-12-03 06:14:26 by Charles_Byrd
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Richard John Neuhauss quote from the April 1988 edition of Commentary magazine may be the single most prescient explanation of how contemporary bioethics went off the rail (and took us with it) as you will ever read. Fr. Neuhaus, whom I was proud to interview and call a friend, cautioned that there are political, legal, and moral resources to resist scenarios of the worse inevitably coming to the worst, only to observe just two paragraphs later, All that said, we are nonetheless witnessing the return of eugenics. Sometimes the intersection of eugenics and abortion is so obvious that only the only reason we dont evaluate on the union is ...
The Evil of the Political Left Is Rooted in Their Exploitation of Tragedies Post Date: 2022-12-02 18:14:27 by Charles_Byrd
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What is the root of all evil? Money? No, not really. Money is just a tool, like a hammer, a wrench or even a gun. When I think of evil I dont envision a handgun or a rifle or a big pile of hundred dollar bills. Instead, I see nightly news talking heads spreading disinformation and fear. I see mobs of over-emotional and ignorant activists setting fire to buildings, tearing things down because they dont know how to build anything useful and new. And above it all, I see a small group of elites hovering, licking their chops as they fantasize about the potential power that can be gained from exploiting the chaos. The willingness to destroy and cause suffering for personal benefit is ...
Are you connecting the pandemic dots yet? Post Date: 2022-11-24 07:42:13 by A K A Stone
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Do a mental flyover of the COVID pandemic, and youll see these dots I mention. In mid-March 2020, we got the gift of a 5-alarm virus, one that nobody had noticed during its first four to six months of spread. The terror of COVID began when it was suddenly hyped as dire and deadly. From nothing, it came to dominate all the news. Nobody was more quoted than Doctors Fauci and Birx. The race to spread gasoline on the fire had begun. But there was always a method to the madness. Remember the shortage of ventilators? The governors who housed COVID- infected in nursing homes with the elderly? We created the pandemic to sustain the panic, with specific aims in mindaims that the COVID ...
My friend who’s a San Francisco detective just told me Paul Pelosi won’t hand over video footage and they believe he was engaged in gay sex Post Date: 2022-10-30 18:07:19 by A K A Stone
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My friend whos a San Francisco detective just told me Paul Pelosi wont hand over video footage and they believe he was engaged in gay sex He isnt directly working on this case so I cant confirm reliability Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj · 2h Just talked to him again and he said nothing adds up but nobody in the police department dares say anything against Pelosi I have lots of friends in SFPD but unfortunately they are mostly a bunch of cowards
The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning. Post Date: 2022-10-30 18:02:58 by A K A Stone
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As SF's gay bars closed at 2 am, two gay men met in a bar and went home together. Happens every night in the City by the Bay. Except one of these two men, was married to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I might disappear for telling you the truth. If I do, you'll all know why. But here's what really happened early Friday morning in San Francisco. IMHO--in my humble opinion. Update: This story has gained a lot of interest. Our response to some of the comments is posted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/SMObserved/status/1586810108209614848? s=20&t=Jp0BkfhPzMIk0O7DiaX6Wg According to SFPD "RP [Reporting Person] stated that there's a male in the home and that he's going ...
WAYNE ROOT: BIDEN IS NOT IN CHARGE. HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT’S HAPPENING. Post Date: 2022-10-03 08:48:00 by A K A Stone
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Our country is being destroyed. Its clearly a purposeful communist attack upon America from a thousand different directions. But the President isnt Biden. He is just the figurehead/puppet. The real president is Obama. This is clearly the third term of Obama. His fingerprints are everywhere. No president can legally serve three terms. Hence the need for a figurehead. Biden is just a DDD- a dummy with dementia and diapers. He says whatever is written on cue cards and signs whatever paper is put in front of him. That allows Obama to run the country from the shadows. As long as they feed Biden his baby food, change his diapers and allow him to sniff little girls ...
Mortgage Rates Explode and Housing Crash Imminent - With Scott Walters and The Economic Ninja Post Date: 2022-06-19 22:58:55 by A K A Stone
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“2000 Mules” Not The Slam Dunk I Thought it Would Be Post Date: 2022-05-10 03:15:39 by Deckard
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2000 Mules Not The Slam Dunk I Thought it Would Be Posted on May 9, 2022 by actionbill I watched the movie again last night, this time more critically and here are a few take-aways. Its not quite as persuasive as I first thought. Dont get me wrong
I was impressed with the methodology used, geotracking phones, video of mules stuffing drop-boxes, etc. All of that was compelling but there needed to be more of that in the film. One interesting thing here: Some areas pointed cameras in random directions, entirely missing all activity near the boxes. In other cases, officials claimed there was no video to share, even though the law dictates that ...
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