I am currently writing a chapter titled The Statesman in a book I am working on for men. We desperately need statesman to rise. Here is small excerpt:
Give power to a politician and it becomes a tyrannical throne, but give power to a true statesman and it becomes a cross. The statesman knows that public office isn’t a feast laid out for ambition, but a table where a man must break himself like bread for the life of the people. This is why the modern politician is such a grotesque figure. He isn’t merely dishonest. He’s a man who has made peace with the slow murder of duty. He is a man who can stand before suffering people and speak fluently about service while every hidden nerve in him reaches for advantage and relevance. He is a ruined steward, a man who was handed a field and chose to sell the soil, tax the seed, and call the famine progress.
The politician is what remains when ambition learns the language of compassion. He can speak of the poor while feeding on them, speak of justice while exempting himself from judgment, and speak of the future while pawning it for another term. Look at the political class and you will see what happens when power is severed from repentance. The plastic face smiles, the corrupt hand waves to the crowd, the speech swells, but underneath it all the soul has become a committee room with no windows, no altar, and absolutely no fear of God. The current political class is suffering from a shortage of clean souls willing to carry authority without worshiping it.
A people can survive bad policy much longer than they can survive faithless leadership. When the men entrusted with the public good become servants of themselves, the whole nation begins to feel the weather of their corruption. The treasury becomes a carcass. The people become livestock for schemes they never approved and debts they never chose. This is the great theft of corrupt leadership: it doesn’t only steal money, it steals trust, courage, imagination, and the belief that public life can still be honorable.
Good morning Cowboys and Cowgirls! Here’s a video from one of the most popular singing acts of 1971. Who knows who they are ? Did you follow their music ?
@jaynitx The question “what’s next”? After running through all the rabbit holes, the “next” is what you choose to make it every day. For me, through Jesus praying to GOD I ask for guidance. Thank you
Elon Musk reveals the single idea that explains why he keeps working despite being worth $800 billion
"When I was a teenager, I had an existential crisis trying to figure out what's the meaning of life. It doesn't seem to be any meaning"
"For me at least, the religious texts that I read did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers. You have to be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression"
"Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as a kid you're like, whoa"
"Then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The real problem is trying to formulate the question. To really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth"
"The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?"
"The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe"
"The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell's going on"
"This is why I think we should have more humans and more digital, both biological and digital consciousness"
@Mr_Husky1@susieq2cute When I was building my business I slept only a few hours a night. Got a lot done between 6:00P & midnight and 4:00A & 8:00A. I was fairly successful. Was able to keep us afloat as my wife went through serious health issues. She’s with Jesus now.
Washington Post, why do you insist on calling them 'undocumented immigrants' instead of illegal immigrants? 'Undocumented' implies they simply misplaced some paperwork — like they lost their passport at the airport. No. Most entered illegally or overstayed visas in violation of U.S. law. That's why they're being deported.
Your own article notes 360,000+ removals since January, with many having been here years. Entering without permission isn't 'undocumented' — it's illegal entry. If someone is invited into your home, they're a guest. If they break in or refuse to leave after being told to, they're not a guest. They're a trespasser. The U.S. isn't required to house, feed, or subsidize millions of trespassers indefinitely just because they managed to stay hidden long enough.
Enforcing immigration law isn't cruelty. It's basic sovereignty. Words matter — stop softening illegal actions with euphemisms.
BREAKING: 16-year-old Texas student Marco Hunter-Lopez just EXPOSED how his high school censored conservative values while openly promoting Sharia Law.
His Republican Student Club faced much of the same that many of our chapters do; months of delays, poster removals, and hostile interrogations.
Yet the organization known as "Why Islam" got free rein during lunch to hand out "Understanding Shariah" pamphlets and Qurans with conversion cards while administrators watched and did nothing.
The principal even bragged about loving World Hijab Day.
In America, conservative students should not be castigated and harassed while Muslims and Islam promoted freely. This is an inversion of the social compact and it must be stopped.