Corunna grad '93, school board member, coach and dad
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We've all been lied to about the Supreme Court. Every time you hear this phrase, the conservative justices, you should reject it, even though it's used across all news outlets, even more conservative news outlets. The idea here is that these justices who believe in this legal philosophy loosely called originalism are conservative because originalism means understanding the Constitution based on what it says. What kind of cloud-cuckoo-land have we gotten into where understanding the law based on what it says is conservative? The alternative is what the University of Chicago Law School calls living constitutionalism, which is the idea that the Constitution evolves and changes without being formally amended. They should be embarrassed to publish such drivel. We have a process for amending the Constitution, and we have a Congress tasked with making laws. A judge who interprets the Constitution without formally amending it in new and novel ways isn't practicing law; they are practicing legislation, which is not their job. Yet we have accepted all of this. All of this poo-poo thought has entered into the American consciousness. And when you combine that with publications about Justice Alito's wife's relationships with her neighbors, the lowest form of irrelevant journalism designed to appeal to someone who wants to consume a story just after reading the National Enquirer, you get what we now have, which is a majority of Americans who have a low opinion of the Supreme Court. So in this video, we're going to look at all this and look at the reality of who votes as a block, the reality of who disparages their colleagues in public and lowers trust in the court. #news #politics #law #scotus #legal
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Study the news, you'll conclude that things have never been worse.
Study history, you'll conclude that things have never been better.
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A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time. It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.
—@naval
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The purpose of debate isn’t to defeat the other person. It’s supposed to be a way of discovering whether your own argument survives contact with someone who disagrees.
If you never expose your beliefs to that test, how can you possibly know whether they’re any good?
Mark Buckley retweeted
“The devil’s mandate is destruction. The devil’s method is distraction.”
A very practical message from our pastor today.
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Every good thing you want is on the other side of talking to other people. A single conversation can plant a seed that changes your life 10 years from now.
Shyness is a liability, not an identity. Force yourself, no matter how painful. You'll find you won't have to do much of the talking, and it's easier than you thought.
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God does not love you because you prayed correctly.
He does not love you because you were able to focus in your prayer.
Your excellent theology does not compel Him to love you better.
He just loves you.
He loves your helplessness.
Your brokenness is a magnet for Him; it attracts, it doesn’t repulse.
Don’t despise your spiritual poverty, it’s the truth about you.
The Father gave us a savior. Don’t be surprised you need one.
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To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
—Marcus Aurelius
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There are currently 2 ‘sweetheart deals’ in relation to the CFB playoffs.
One for independent ND that guarantees them a place only if they finish in the top 12.
And the other for the 136 teams in a conference that guarantees 5 of their champions a place even outside the top 12.
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This is a TL; DR warning!
I partially blame womens books for the high divorce rate. Romance fic sells a lie the same way princess wedding galas sell a lie: that love conquers all, and your everlasting and divine matrimony will survive until the mountains crumble into the sea. Etc.
Truth is the wedding is just a beginning. We should be telling all our youngsters that a marriage is a commitment to WORK, as much as it's about true love or sex.
Kids, you are gonna have to WORK your butts of in ways you don't even know yet. BRACE YOURSELVES. Etc.
But we mostly don't admit any of this. And people get shocked when the fizz and bubble of the blossomed coupling begins to wear off. Usually after the kids come and the bogged-downness of real life hits. And the man and woman start uncomfortably staring at each other over the kitchen table and asking themselves, "Why did we do this?"
Happens to everyone without exception.
Anyone who claims it hasn't happened? Either hasn't reached that point on the track yet, or simply can't bring themselves to confess it, or has confessed it silently inside but will lie for the public eye.
Because everyone—especially women—doesn't want to be judged for not having the perfect glass slipper marriage like they were all brought up to believe they should have a perfect glass slipper marriage.
The glass slipper marriage is bunk. Hogwash.
Only way my wife and I have survived 3+ decades—despite being *very* different temperamentally, ideologically, and having different tastes and preferences on a great many things—is the WORK we've been putting in, Very hard, very un-glamorous, un-romantic WORK.
Why am I convinced WORK is the decider in many cases?
Because in the time my wife and I have been WORKING we've seen at least two dozen couples we know personally—and who seemed to enjoy far greater overlap in any domain you care to pick—split. Sometimes acrimoniously.
Divorce court does not seem to be a respecter of persons. And doesn't care how deathless your romance was at the start. Hell, my wife and I won't be able to stop WORKING until the grave! Complacency, too, is a killer.
My wife's favorite saying for this is, "Love is not enough." She should know. She got divorced before. And I've never seen anything IRL to suggest she's wrong.
So when I crank the horn about pesty base needs and how base needs not being met can and will cause problems, I'm talking about part of the WORK. And I know it's un-cool to spoil the princess marriage fantasy with talk about WORK, but as divorce rates stay around 50% and everyone is fretting about the future of the family, I think the princess slipper dream needs to die.
Let's have a handcart shoulder-to-the-wheel approach instead. Your long-lived, happy marriage won't be served up to you. It will be earned through blood, sweat, and tears.
If more people understood this, I think we'd have more people marrying for the right reasons, and lasting longer, too.
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Marcus Freeman says caring for players solely to produce better results is manipulation, and genuine love usually produces better results anyway
“It’s why you do what you do. I’m a competitive dude. I want to be the best at what I do. But that’s not why I do what I do.”
“I truly want to make sure the young people you coach are better football players and better men because they chose to play football at a place you’re the leader of.”
“It isn’t about wins and losses as much as…‘I want this young person to be better because of the time we spent together.’ That means caring about him as an individual. Caring about his family.”
“You don’t do that for me to win games. But you know what? It helps.”
“At times I’m hard on them. But they know I care about them. ‘I love you.’ ‘Now I’m going to get after your ass.’ ‘I’m going to get after you, but I love you.’”
“When you feel that way about somebody… That’s when you’ll run through a brick wall.”
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125,000 years ago, the Thames was full of hippos.
2,000 years ago, the Romans grew grapes on the Scottish border.
Today, British councils force people to rip out their aircon because of "unprecedented climate change".
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America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
(article below)
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In 2015 a writer named Tim Urban sat down and counted the days he had left with his parents. He was 34, healthy, both parents alive and well. The number came back around 300. Less time than he spent with them in any single year of his childhood.
The post is called The Tail End, on a blog called Wait But Why. The idea is to stop counting your life in years and start counting it in events. Reach 90 and you get about 4,680 weeks, and every one of them fits on a single sheet of paper. Maybe 60 more winters after that. If you read five books a year, that is 300 books, picked from every book ever written.
Those things at least spread out evenly. A third of the way through life means a third of the way through your pizzas. Time with the people you love does not work like that. Almost all of it sits at the very start. Then it is gone.
For your first 18 years you are around your parents nearly every day. Then you leave for college or a job in another city, and a normal adult sees their parents maybe 10 days a year. So the day you move out, you are already at 93 percent. Urban was living in the last 5 percent and had no idea until he drew the chart. He called it the tail end.
It does not stop at parents. His two sisters, after a whole childhood in the same house, had around 15 percent of their time together left. The four friends he played cards with most days in high school were down to their last 7 percent. Nobody had a fight. Nobody moved away angry. Life quietly spends the time for you while you assume there is plenty left.
You do not have to be old to be near the end with someone. If your parents are alive and you live in a different city, you have probably already used more than 90 percent of the days you will ever spend in the same room as them.
His one instruction is about that last stretch. When you are down to the final days with someone you love, treat that time like what it is, which is almost gone. The rest is the tail end, and it is much shorter than it feels.
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In Michigan, you need a license to cut hair, roof a house or operate a polygraph machine. But you need no training at all to write the laws that govern those professions. mackinac.org/blog/2026/michi…
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“Free” school meals aren’t free. They’re paid for by your tax dollars. Yet Michigan is funding meals for all students, including those in the wealthiest school districts, despite existing federal programs that already help families most in need. Mackinac Center’s Michael Van Beek joins @stevegrubershow to discuss the pitfalls of these policies.
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Queen Whitmer caught on hot mic bragging to Oracle CEO about brushing off Michiganders’ data center concerns
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