Over the past decade, as I've occupied a front-row seat to observe the degradation of our government and the moral cowardice of its leaders, a question has always nagged at me: Do these people not care how they're going to be remembered?
Ben Sasse cared. You could tell -- both in conversation with him and watching from afar. It was apparent that he felt the weight of history judging him, posterity studying him, his children living with his name and his legacy.
And so, he acted accordingly. Does that mean he got everything right? Nope. None of us do. But at least he tried. At least he had a standard. At least he was honest -- with himself and with us. At least he could look his kids in the eye and know that for whatever the temptation to gain the world, he hadn't forfeited his soul.
Check out these tributes pouring in from across the ideological spectrum. How refreshing -- how dreadfully rare -- to see a political figure celebrated for their integrity, their honor, their steadfast virtue.
Ben Sasse aimed to be a good man. And so, he'll be remembered as a great man.
I'll be praying for him and his family this advent season. (And I, for one, will never read Isaiah 9 again without thinking of him! Now that's a legacy, @BenSasse.)
Today, I see a few op-eds about how closing the DOE would impact special ed kids. Great. That's awesome. But if the authors have no history of writing about our kids and if they didn't give a shit about our kids during COVID, they can stuff it.
Interesting this is on the rise— last winter my 10 yr old ended up in the ER with a collapsed lung and pleurisy after not being able to kick (what we thought) was an irritating cough for several weeks. Turned out to be mycoplasma pneumonia.
MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE
This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
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Thank you again for all the outpouring of love for our Ben. I can’t tell you how much it means to me and my family.
He wasn’t just my best friend – he was America’s best friend ❤️
If you’re drunk and need to get home, CALL A FUCKING UBER. Two kids are growing up without a dad, parents have lost two sons, & a sister now has to grieve the loss of her two brothers on her wedding day all because somebody decided to get behind the wheel drunk in 2024. Senseless
Florida State isn’t that great:
• pulled away late from 6-6 G5 team
• needed prayer to beat 6-6 rival
• 3-point win vs. 4-8 conference foe
• lost by 10 at home
oh wait shoot this is my Alabama file one second
A lot of people foresaw it and were energetically maligned by those who didn’t. Maybe those who didn’t foresee this very obvious thing and went to great lengths to shut up those who did shouldn’t be in charge of public health.
“You started to see this is going to be really bad for kids. What about the kids in abusive homes? Those struggling with gender identities? The kids with special needs, who get occupational therapy, physical therapy. What are those kids doing?”
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Three years in, a few more journalists & educators are now reflecting publicly on the US education system's disastrous COVID response.
https://t.co/9L6V4kJ9RV 1/
Defending champions are 0-3 in national championship games in the College Football Playoff era.
Can Georgia be the first to buck that trend? https://t.co/uinMAJ100O