@SenTuberville@POTUS@SecDuffy@SusieWiles47 Roads and bridges built using tax payer dollars should never be toll roads/bridges. That is double taxing hard working Americans! That is not very conservative at all!
Public school spending is out of control.
We don't need to pay a school superintendent double what the governor makes.
We don't need another $100,000,000 high school athletic facility.
@TrueTXProject@GregAbbott_TX@DanPatrick and the RINOs in the TX Legislature are complicit in bringing these 3rd world savages to our beautiful state. Stupidly people voted to bring those morons back and now we are stuck with them for the next 4 years.
@SwipeWright@JeremyDBoreing She is no better than the mainstream media. If it matches her narrative it is truthful and when it doesn't it is a U.S., Israeli, French, Egyptian, Epstein, Jewish, Zionist, anti-Catholic, alien collusion conspiracy to murder her.
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
@CityofFortWorth@bofrench@tarrantgop seems Ft Worth needs a lesson on financial management. As a resident of Ft Worth, I do not need nor want to pay any additional fees aka taxes! Ft Worth needs to start cutting out wasteful and unnecessary programs!
@seanshapiro Can they award more money to the player than the team has cap space for? I feel like that should not be allowed, especially if they do not have a fully staffed roster.
@WilliamWolfe Not a great president to highlight, he was the pioneer of the adminstrative state. He dreamed of ruling by executive fiat as most presidencies function now.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Every Other Civilized Nation on Earth Has Abolished Unconditional Birthright Citizenship:
United Kingdom -- Abolished in 1981. Now requires at least one parent to be a British citizen or "settled" in the UK.
Ireland — Last in Europe to end it; 2004 referendum/2005 law requires at least one parent to be an Irish/British citizen or meet residency conditions.
India — Abolished in 2004. Now requires at least one parent to be a citizen (and the other a legal migrant, not undocumented). Response to illegal immigration concerns.
Australia — Restricted in 1986. Requires a parent to be a citizen or permanent resident.
New Zealand — Restricted in 2006. Parental/residency requirements.
Dominican Republic — Major restrictions in 2013. Retroactive elements affecting those born after 1929 without Dominican parentage.
Pakistan — Abolished in 2024. Requires a citizen/permanent resident parent or long-term residency.
Most of Europe. France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Nordic countries, Eastern Europe — Many have conditional birthright or primarily on descent.
China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and much of Asia — Primarily by descent.
MOST African nations practice parental citizenship requirements, even though they are the 3rd world.
Only in America are we culturally suicidal enough to keep these arcane insults to our citizenry.
Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:
"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens...”
SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.
@MattKrauseTX I live nearby and use this road regularly, including today. When will it actually be open for use? It was still in its two lane configuration between 170 & the high school property?
@RonDeSantis Would you mind showing our incompetent governor @GregAbbott_TX and his cohort @LtGovTX in addition to our legislature how this is done? You have done more in 8 years than Abbott will ever accomplish.
@nohablogreek@Jeff_Coop27 I would rather lose Robertson and get a good haul. The haul would also give us the ability to add the necessary pieces we need to win a cup. We have the scoring, barring injuries, we just need some heavier play to make it to the end.
@nohablogreek@Jeff_Coop27 The issue is they only have 10 mil of space with benn, bourque, & robo not signed. That would get us to the 23 active roster spots filled. You can pay him 16 mil but you need to find 7 mil in cap space to sign just him. Then we would need 2-3 mil more just to fill out the roster