At my table there will always be a place for those who believe in limitations, respect boundaries, cherish particularity, and whose politics are rooted in sentiment rather than ideology. There will always be a place for the spiritual rebel who refuses to war with creation itself.
[driving back from little league game]
*silence*
Me: “Why you so quiet, buddy.”
The boy: “I’m thinking.”
Me: “About what?”
The boy: “Oh, just war.”
*silence*
The National Park Service is removing a statue of William Penn—champion of religious liberty and father of Pennsylvania—at the site of his home in the city he founded… to be more “inclusive.”
Heritage America is being erased.
This is the U.S. House of Representatives under the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson. Democrats are celebrating his total capitulation with no victory for securing our border.
#MTV
Frankly, I’m tired of it. My concern for the rest of the world and its problems dried up somewhere between 8 million illegals entering the country and the $1.2 trillion omnibus. My sympathy now has a radius, which grows smaller by the day.
I refuse to pretend otherwise.
Asking people to care about your foreign squabble is impolite. Asking them to give resources is downright rude. American citizens have been put upon like no one else in history.
I remember, it was “normal” that delivered us 20 years of war, a financial crisis, crushing debt, the hollowing out of our communities, and a sprawling surveillance state.
I’m over normal.
It’s important to note that liberals didn’t win the culture war through persuasion but by routing democracy and upending the American constitutional order.
With the exception of marijuana legalization, every culture war win was brokered by judges, bureaucrats, and special…
Liberals have won the culture war. That's the only conclusion I can come to when looking at 50 years of polling data.
same sex marriage
marijuana
pornography
abortion
extramarital sex
The average American is more permissive today than the average American in 1972.
Jacob Hamblin’s Rules for Dealing with the Indians
1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.
2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.
3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.
4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby…
Some advice for the younger fellas…
You need to know that most men will stumble around aimlessly for a few decades, snatching up opportunities as they drift by, and manage just fine… but at some point they’ll look back and realize they missed out on something big or wonder…
It’s unacceptable to pay trillions of dollars for a healthcare industry that makes us sick, an education system that doesn’t educate, a welfare state that keeps millions poor and paralyzed, a civil service that refuses to serve, a diplomatic corps that sows bitterness and…
It’s hard to believe that after everything we’ve been through with Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are still willing to accuse each other of disloyalty for questioning a foreign war with no clear path to victory.
Some are trying to paint the backlash against higher ed as unhinged populist rage, but they’re wrong. There is resentment toward elite universities, but it’s not so much about envy as a desire for justice.
Ordinary Americans know the value of an elite education. They hear the…
Steve Nikoui yelling “Abbey Gate!” at the top of his lungs was the only sign of humanity in the whole chamber; he stood for his son and spoke for millions.
I made it through several rounds of interviews for a job, and in the final interview I was asked to name a businessperson I admired, and so I said "Elon Musk." My interviewer's tone changed immediately, and try as I might, I could not salvage things.
I did not get the job 😎
How much more evidence do we need that Washington is orchestrating an invasion of this country?
This issue, more than any other, shows Washington’s commitment to national security and the safety and prosperity of its citizens to be a sham, but above all, it exposes the fraud of…
"This is...probably the last time, that we can get government under control before it gets so big that it submerges the individual completely and destroys the dynamism which makes the American system what it is."
—Richard Nixon in his diary (1972)
The dangerous chapter we are living through can be boiled down to this:
After the most destructive century in human history, America’s ruling elite squandered a rare moment of peace to enrich themselves, thereby endangering the very existence of the greatest nation on earth.
The Scots-Irish have saved America countless times and in countless ways since the beginning. It’s hard to find another group that has made a more indelible mark on this country. Here’s to the “other Irish.”
Call me old-fashioned, but this trend of grown men tattling for likes is weird. You’re posting pics of someone’s house, man. Why not just call the guy’s mother or write in your diary and leave it at that?
You better believe it.
Nixon didn’t know how to play poker until he joined the Navy, but after only a few months of playing he amassed a small fortune which he later used to fund his 1946 campaign.
Winner.
@Partisan_O
Nixon while serving in the South Pacific, building a postwar nestegg by beating officers at poker and running a hamburger stand, that's what I look for in a President.
In 2019, if you would told me that within a year churches would be shuttered, beaches closed, and citizens forbidden from attending funerals, followed by nationwide riots, vaccine mandates, mass mail-in ballots, and the greatest wealth transfer in American history... all for a…
It’s spiteful, yes, but also clarifying and completely in character. There’s no such thing as “neutral” institutions; the time to put that nonsense to bed was yesterday. Let’s take this rare moment of candor to plan, prepare, and build.
It’s starting to look like Buta Biberaj, the Soros-backed Commonwealth’s Attorney of Loudon County, deliberately destroyed 200 years of county history on her way out of office—an act so spiteful and childish it boggles the mind.
@7NewsDC
🚨We’ve learned new information on what may have happened to the missing portraits and photos that were last seen when Buta Biberaj was Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney.
This corrupt and feckless president is walking the nation into a constitutional crisis.
It's very simple. The Biden Administration has abandoned its basic constitutional responsibility to the American people by refusing to execute and enforce the law, thereby allowing millions…
Forcing ordinary Americans to take a strident position on a foreign event has always been a favorite manipulation tactic of our ruling elite.
You don’t have to take the bait.
It bears repeating:
If this were a serious country, every lawmaker and government official presiding over the collapse of our southern border would be severely punished and barred from ever holding public office again.
A 1966 poll found that among Yale students only 10% favored withdrawal from Vietnam. When the Johnson Administration restricted draft deferments the following year, however, support for withdrawal surged, and the anti-war movement at Yale ballooned.
It's often overlooked that in…
*thinking to myself*
“She doesn’t want me to fix it, she just wants me to validate her feelings… she doesn’t want me to fix it, she just wants me to validate her feelings… she doesn’t want me to fix it…”
You’re mad about an interview, I’m mad that no one in our government has even tried to explain why other countries’ borders are worth defending when our own is not…
Red America—from the South to the Heartland to the Intermountain West, and all the places in between—needs to see itself as a distinct polity... a sanctuary, a bastion of freedom, the custodian of our most ancient rights and privileges, a nation within a nation.
🚨Breaking News: The Oklahoma GOP has passed a resolution saying they condemn James Lankford for his work on the bipartisan border security package. The letter stated, “Until Senator Lankford ceases from these actions the Oklahoma Republican Party will cease all support for him.”
Every decent father lives for these moments. All the long days and sleepless nights melt away, forgotten forever, and you just know… you were born for this… to be your boy’s dad.
You get a little piece of heaven.
The story of the 20th century is how the American people were slowly pushed outside the political arena, their ancient rights and privileges outsourced to an anointed caste of academics, activists, bureaucrats, and judges.
“Our democracy.”
America is a fortress: oceans east and west, weak neighbors north and south, an armed population, and the most merciless terrain on planet earth.
But it’s a blessing and a curse.
Even with the Mexican Border War within living memory, Americans have no concept of being invaded…
For each of the past 5 months, there have been 16.2 encounters per agent. And it's been trending up this whole administration.
Completely overwhelmed. No wonder they're coming up with desperate solutions like putting them in public schools and into volunteers' houses.
It's incredible to me that such intelligent people can live with this glaring contradiction staring them in the face.
The so-called nativist pushback forced disparate groups, most notably German Americans, to quickly abandon their attachments to the Old World and assimilate into…
Extremely funny to see someone suggest that immigrants in the early 20th century "shared our culture" as if there wasn't massive nativist pushback during that time against the Italians, Jews, Poles, etc... for being supposedly unwilling to assimilate and not sharing WASP culture.
I’ve taken to reading fiction as an escape, and the effect on my mind and soul has been instantaneous and profound. There’s something magical about this kind of writing. Don’t sleep on it.
According to his colleagues, Steve Baker, the Blaze journalist arrested by the FBI today, was informed of his indictment the very same day he was scheduled to meet with two Capitol Police whistleblowers.
Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Jan. 1, but the Pentagon didn't notify POTUS or the deputy defense secretary until days later. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs was notified on Jan. 2 but failed inform the White House, and many high-ranking defense officials only learned of…
If the Rufo-Cuban exchange tells us anything, it’s that the success of DEI hinges on lies, ignorance, and fear; bring it into the sunlight and it withers.
The collapse of our southern border is a catastrophe, and it will have serious consequences not only for Americans today but for future generations as well. That citizens are not allowed to freely discuss this crisis—the most important event since 9/11—without being bullied,…
I was stationed in a small conservative town down South, and that first weekend I took my wife to a local diner. Inside we quickly noticed most of the patrons openly praying over their meals. And I remember my wife saying, “This is a good place.”
The rubes will inherit the earth
After dinner my boy asked to talk to me in private. Given his serious expression, I was prepared for a broken window or dead bird, and instead he lowered his voice and said: “Daddy, I hate rock music. I always have. And everyone in this family likes it but me.”
Journalists: “The right to vote is sacred, and you have a solemn obligation to vote your conscience… but be advised, if your conscience tells you to pick the wrong candidate, we will spend the next few years insinuating that you ought be exterminated.”
Here is Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford Deal for the Southern Border👇
1) Increase green cards by 50,000/year
2) Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders
3) Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody
4) Taxpayer funded lawyers to…
Many of us are troubled to see the rapid disintegration of the old consensus that carried the nation through WWII, the Cold War, and all the turbulence in between. Surely it was a rare moment for America and the world—one we’ll never see again—but we’re still left with a…
Here
@MSNBC
helpfully makes it clear their disdain for Christians in America.
She says that if you believe that your rights come from God, you aren’t a Christian, you are a Christian nationalist.
Somehow they seem to not mention that our own founding documents make this…
In his 2002 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush closed the speech with this:
“They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the…
It’s no coincidence that the Uniparty is seeking to pass sweeping new powers to ban websites and spy on Americans at the same time that it bankrupts America with forever wars. This agenda is increasingly unpopular and can only be propped up with authoritarian tactics.
I’ve been hearing people ask at what point in a potential downfall should they leave the US. Now I hear the same from Canadians and Europeans.
The issues with all of this is where will you go? We all need to fight to keep our countries in order or there will be nowhere to run.
Yes, Americans should be able to say mean things without being surveilled, stalked, harassed, fired, starved, jailed, gulaged, shot, etc. Mine is not the radical position.
I don’t know what it’s like to come of age in a time like this, but I know every man, past and present, has had to accept that by and large no one gives a damn. You are of no concern to anyone else but a small and precious circle—for which you should be grateful. This isn’t an…
Being a Republican voter in 2024 is like being a derelict landlord who relies on a slick property manager for 30 years, only to realize at retirement that everything was liquidated long ago, the place left to squatters, and now the only recourse is a customer service rep in India
The same derangement that set America on fire in 2020 is now in full form on college campuses across the country. Perhaps you turned a blind eye then, or maybe you’re doing it now, but make no mistake, it’s the same derangement…
The greatest Americans were those who settled this country.
George Dangerfield: "... the settler who committed himself to the westward migration wa like a man entering a whirlpool, who passed as he sank the various stages of civilization, all of them intensely active, and who…
I've said it before, but it's reassuring that after all they've done to extinguish this populist uprising—the show trials, censorship, street violence, and very repurposing of the War on Terror—tens of millions of Americans are still as defiant as ever.
My grandmother, a Goldwater voter who introduced me to conservative populism, talk radio, and anti-communist lore, has finally decided she’s done with politics. It’s like losing an old drinking buddy, but deep down you’re happy for them.
As a patriarch you should be doing your utmost to preserve memory. Reserve a shelf in your library for family history, instruct your children in the faith of their fathers, adorn the walls of your home with heirlooms and images of your ancestors.
Thinking of all the women of courage and grit who helped tame a wilderness and raised children in the shadow of war, hunger, and privation.
We should always be proud. American women are just built different.
There’s a scene in some books and movies where a character returns home after a long time away only to find it unrecognizable or empty. I’m not sure why, but it always affects me deeply, more so than any other theme (ex: GWTW, Ben Hur, It’s a Wonderful Life, Doctor Zhivago)…
This cold hard fact staring us all in the face should remind us that the parchment was neither created in a vacuum nor theorized into being, but was instead the result of a compromise between representatives of their respective states. The object of those deliberations was not to…
This map reminds me of why the Constitution recognizes the sovereignty of each state by mandating equal representation in the Senate, regardless of population.
Fun fact: this is the ONLY feature of the Constitution that cannot be amended.
Everyone talks about changing the world, but those unsung mothers and fathers raising strong, virtuous kids in a time like this, and breaking generational cycles of dysfunction and abuse, are actually doing it.