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My favorite Tom Sowell quote and one particularly pertinent in this climate
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I would gladly pay fifteen cents, a nail, and the shell of a great-great-great-grandfather snail to not read this in a judicial opinion.
Replying to @kyledcheney
And here is how Judge Reyes concludes: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin…
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The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to our national security.
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The Soviet Union is gone, but that intellectual type has moved on, finding other criminal ideologies to prop up and white-wash.
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NEW: The Fifth Circuit ruled that a federal law restricting the interstate manufacture, transportation, and distribution of switchblade knives violates the Second Amendment, holding that switchblades are constitutionally protected arms.
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This is awesome. Devin Stauffer was a great professor and he’ll be a great dean.
NEW: @UTAustin @JimDavis_UT announces a new “University College” to be “the guardian of the new core curriculum,” led by inaugural dean Devin Stauffer, faculty fellow at the Civitas Institute and a government professor. Stauffer chaired the core curriculum task force.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear our case challenging admissions policies aimed at racial balancing that discriminate against Asian students for selective middle school magnet programs in Maryland. This will be Pacific Legal’s 22nd time before the Court.
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years." -Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
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When I see what's happening in France, all I see are the things Sartre wrote in the early 1960s.
Le pape de l'existentialisme n'a jamais tenu une arme, mais sa philosophie a servi d'alibi absolu à toutes les formes de violence de son époque. Pendant un demi-siècle, Jean-Paul Sartre a régné sur la pensée mondiale en justifiant la brutalité depuis le confort des brasseries parisiennes. De l'oppression d'État au terrorisme en passant par la destruction intime, sa plume a méthodiquement blanchi l'injustifiable. Sur le front politique, il décide de sacrifier froidement des millions d'hommes broyés par le stalinisme. De retour de Moscou en 1954, il ment délibérément à la presse française pour ne pas briser le mythe communiste. Il déclare publiquement que la liberté de critique est totale en URSS, crachant au visage de tous les déportés du Goulag. Sur le front du terrorisme, la rhétorique du philosophe devient ouvertement sanguinaire. En 1972, lorsque des athlètes israéliens sont pris en otage et assassinés aux Jeux Olympiques de Munich, Sartre justifie l'exécution de civils désarmés. Il absout les tueurs en écrivant noir sur blanc que le terrorisme est une arme terrible, mais que les opprimés n'en ont pas d'autre. Sa complaisance macabre culmine en 1961 dans sa préface aux Damnés de la Terre, où il appelle ouvertement au meurtre racial par procuration. Il théorise froidement le carnage en affirmant qu'abattre un Européen, c’est faire d’une pierre deux coups, c’est supprimer en même temps un oppresseur et un opprimé. Cette mécanique d'une violence décomplexée s'applique jusque dans son intimité, sous le vernis intellectuel de l'amour libre. Avec Simone de Beauvoir, il orchestre un système clinique de prédation sexuelle en réseau. Il utilise son écrasante autorité pour consommer de jeunes lycéennes vulnérables rabattues par sa compagne, broyant leur équilibre psychologique pour satisfaire ses pulsions. Ses admirateurs célèbrent le rebelle courageux qui a émancipé la pensée moderne. Les faits dévoilent un bourgeois intouchable qui n'a jamais risqué sa peau, mais qui a transformé la philosophie en machine à laver les crimes de son siècle.
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Anger management, Aristotle edition. Training one's character is noble work: “Anybody can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power—that is not easy. And that is the reason why right doing is rare and praiseworthy and noble.” (*Nicomachean Ethics*, 2.9, 1109a–1108b)
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Civilization is a “forever war” against barbarism.
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Masters aren't the cure for a corrupt nation. They're just what a corrupt nation gets.
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dear media: when you report on a lawsuit, would it kill you to link to the Complaint?
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The call for a king or a tyrant is a call to surrender. Never surrender.
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Inbox: @DonHuffines announces ban on grant money for Flock cameras
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Gen Z is facing a housing crisis, economic uncertainty, and a government that keeps promising to fix both. Reagan’s lesson still stands: Washington isn’t the solution. It’s usually the problem. washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
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I explored the right lane and found it wanting. (I-95 in south FL today)
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One of the all time great episodes. The strike does not go well for Squidward.
Conservative parents decry tonight’s premiere SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Squid on Strike” for including “communist imagery and messaging.”
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