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[SonicSyrup @SonicSyrup]

@guythomasholder @flowidealism Agreed. We live in a neighborhood of about 30 houses, and there was only 1 boy our son's age. Going to school, he had a very had time finding anyone who did anything other than game.

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@walterkirn Does a mountain lion actually live under the porch?

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

The editors of Public Square Magazine interview me on Fidelity Month.
https://t.co/MYThqbmQnX

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@MacSherbert @karenvaites @chronicle I teach 4th grade, but 10 years ago was teaching 2nd in the same district. The 2nd graders were more mature socially and far more capable academically. Zero attention span for half the class. They expect to be entertained, not educated.

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

Please do no harm in the name of Henry Nowak, nor in the just cause of our raped children.

The officials, police, judiciary, and the political and media class whose poison and complicity permissions these crimes are responsible for their actions.

As hard as this is to hear, these are not servants of the British public but of an insane ideology presented with a religious zealotry in every aspect of modern life.

They are captive to a cult which has been designed to capture us all, and whose technique has been refined for over a century of liberal democracy.

These people are not victims of the rape and murders caused by their diseased political beliefs.

They are victims of a belief system designed to make them believe that what they are doing is the highest good, as they deliver us all into evil.

If we are to @RestoreBritain we must understand the depth of the crisis we will inherit.

We must seek to heal the sick and remove the sickness transmitted through every aspect our lives and which is sinfully presented as virtue.

There can be no justice in this rotten state until we root out the cause of the terrible effects of liberal idolatry that seeks to replace our people, our culture and the beliefs which inspired our civilisation with itself.

This is not just a war on our people. It is a revolutionary war on our entire civilisation. This revolt against all that is good, just and true must be recognised and it must be reversed.

Where we can, we must heal the sick and help the wounded - even when these casualties are found among those who identify and act as our enemies.

Our cause is the restoration of natural justice to our lives. If this mad cult is not stopped it will destroy us all in a spasm of universal vengeance.

Do not go mad along with it. Demand sanity instead.

Those who do not belong here must leave in an orderly and humane fashion. Those among our people who have misused their power to destroy us must repent, and the worst among them must be brought to a meaningful justice.

We must have justice or we shall have anarchy. To restore the dignity of our people and to secure our future in our homeland will require a vast and painful national effort.

This requires the recognition that we have been wronged on a level so profound it is almost impossible to name within the limited vocabulary of experience we have inherited from this degrading liberal political economy.

The national emergency is grave. It is the result of an unjust war which is waged by a rotten State against us all, friend and enemy, to fold us like final demands into the envelope of a globally standardised dystopia.

The task ahead of us is to destroy this evil.

It can be done.

It must be done or we are done for.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

This speech belongs in parliament.

[SonicSyrup @SonicSyrup]

@frankriccidc @JonathanTurley @000Dillon000 The northwest corner of Connecticut is solidly Republican, and would have a rep in congress if not for the absurd 5th district lobster claw.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.

Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.

"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."

What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.

Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."

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@bighealer_sarah I'm reading this now, and it explains exactly what you say.

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@Batfox_Pictures @TKsAudioRoom The world would have been a better place if The La's, Stone Roses, and My Bloody Valentine had all released 10 albums each. Bands from the 60's and 70's released an album every year. Why couldn't 90's bands? Was it the music business? CD's being longer than lp's?

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

This high school teacher in Alabama is describing a dynamic that’s already in plain view.

Wealthy kids are prohibited from playing with tablets and don’t get smartphones until 15-16. Low-income households, on the other hand rely on these devices as babysitting aids.

The result is apparent by kindergarten. Teacher after teacher has told me, “We can tell which kids have their own iPads from how distracted and anxious they are.”

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@walterkirn I won't be able to arrive until 7, so I'm hoping you don't give your spiel until then.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

If I could make everyone read this, I would. I couldn't agree more with this model.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera

The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

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@walterkirn I just bought my ticket. It's not far from Mark Twain's house, which Walter is a bit of a modern version of.

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@KennethKirkPC @socraticexp Agreed. I teach 4th grade, and too many students have had their attention ruined by screen addiction and chaotic family life. Arithmetic and writing complete sentences aren't optional skills.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

He did evil things--and doing evil things corrupts and deforms one's character. One integrates the evil one does into one's very self. So, yes, he made himself an evildoer, an evil person. Still, he was our brother--a fellow human being. He was made in the divine image and never ceased being so. It was not for us to hate him, though it was right 1) to hate the evil he did, 2) to stop him from doing it, and 3) to support his justly being punished for his crimes. It is now for us, including those of us who have spent much of our lives fighting against people like him and what they stand for, to hope that he repented, and to pray for him to be judged mercifully. I know that's a lot to ask. But it is, in my opinion, our duty.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

I understand. It's hard. We hate the evildoing so much that it's hard not to hate the evildoer. Still, it's our duty. I certainly don't know Gosnell's whole story. He became essentially a hit man--killing babies for money. Perhaps he began sincerely thinking he was helping women and honoring their rights. Maybe he bought the argument that unborn and newborn human beings are not yet "persons" and therefore have no inherent dignity or right not to be killed. There is no doubt that he became a deeply calloused person, laughing at and playing with the corpses of the little ones he had killed, and so forth. But that's what evildoing does to a person. It's the corruption of character. One grows more and more callous and insouciant to the evil one does. It's how people "progress" from being ordinary sinners to being moral monsters. The pangs of conscience the person feels when initially doing the evil deeds, disappear as the evildoing becomes a routine part of the evildoers life.

[SonicSyrup @SonicSyrup]

@walterkirn This book explains just what you mention.

[Martin Gurri @mgurri]

My take on the panic of the "rules-based" elites...
https://t.co/A1P1LfM3bL