On the one hand we’re being told Notre Dame is raiding the fridge, kicking dogs, banging wives, not paying rent, on the other hand we’re being told they have no leverage and are crawling back to USC to play a week 0 game in Mexico.
A reminder words don’t have to mean anything.
🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today:
“Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.”
The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate:
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible.
James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion.
The First Amendment’s opening words:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
They put it first.
7 of the 13 members are from the South. Only 1 from the North/Northeast, where the last three national champs and 4 of the last 6 title game participants are from.
They are heroes who sided with the Constitution over partisan tribalism.
It’s the job of a Supreme Court justice to uphold the Constitution and the law—not to “side with the Left” or “side with the Right.”
The Roman empire was a majority foreign institution as far back as the Phyrric wars. The Roman ability to integrate subjects and get them "bought into" the imperial project was literally their greatest strength.
As football fans around the world turn their eyes to #SuperBowlLX, we’re celebrating more than great football, we’re celebrating one of our own!🦊
Congratulations to Jason Myers ’13 [@JayMy_31] on making Marist history as the first Red Fox alumnus to play in a Super Bowl!🏈💥
Every citizen is equally American, and attempting to grade by genealogy is the exact aristocractic thinking we rejected when the Declaration of Independence said all men are created equal, with certain unalienable rights.
@USAttyEssayli You’re an attorney who took an oath to support and defend the constitution not piss on it so you could justify what’s politically expedient. Grow up
When i was in Iraq, if an insurgent had spit on me and then the next week I shot him 10 times while he was unarmed, I would have been quickly court martialed.