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What Makes America Great?

          America is a nation with a checkered past. Our original open borders doomed the Native American civilizations and saw the purchase and importation of slaves from African slave traders. There was religious persecution, particularly against Catholics. Thirteen separate, competing, and squabbling little governments, all united by belonging to the King of England. It wasn’t a promising start.

          Yet, a spark of the sense of the value of men (limited, initially to men, not women, and not Native Americans, nor African slaves) and their rights given, not by governments, but by the Creator of all, rose and inspired a population to seek, first redress from King and Parliament, then independence.

          With the help of Europeans, principally France, we succeeded in separating from England’s control. We had no king and no real government that unified the thirteen separate states. All of Europe watched as our new nation looked pathetically weak and unable to govern ourselves. Most kings waited for the right moment to take us under their “enlightened guidance.”

          Then, something miraculous happened. A document was created, inspired by our original insightful Declaration of Independence, to set up a method of self-governing. It included individual freedoms as rights that weren’t subject to government whims, and government that had a balance of powers to keep leaders from becoming tyrants, and common people from becoming raging mobs. So, a minority couldn’t enslave a majority, and a majority couldn’t enslave any minority. It would take a while for women and non-northern Europeans to be recognized as men (Darwin’s later, unscientific, Survival of the Fittest would complicate this process).

          George Washington, though immensely popular, set the most important precedent by declining to become a hereditary monarch, leaving us to choose our rulers, sometimes wisely, sometimes not, but always, our choice.

          America expanded from the East coast to West coast, by exploration and conquest of the Native Americans. (our first open border policy) Our nation’s rise to greatness moved in fits and starts. That half of our nation sought to fight our bloodiest war to end the curse of human slavery was a major improvement. This would be a half victory with the rise of segregation limited the freedom of the former slaves.

          We had another moment of greatness when our nation sympathized with the Cubans who were rebelling against the mistreatment that they endured under Spain (that would resonate with our colonial experience). The fake news (Yellow journalism) of the day called for war when the Maine blew up (an accident due to the limits of coal as a means of movement). We went on to ‘liberate’ several island territories from Spain, giving Cuba its independence, but holding onto the others on the premise that it was the ‘White man’s burden’ (Darwin again) to nurture them in becoming civilized.

          A horrific European War saw Americans go overseas, not for conquest, glory, or gain, but to save the freedom of other free peoples. This was a sign of greatness. Legally accepting women as fully human and equal in importance to men followed.

          The Great Depression tried the American soul but there were countless examples of           Americans helping each other get through the worst time in our young nation’s history.

          WWII began in China, then, a trial run in Spain, followed by a full-blown war in Europe. While neutral, we put restrictions on trade with Japan for its naked aggression, but resolved to stay out of Europe’s bloodletting. America First was the cry from many. Many Americans sympathized with the European victims of Germany’s unbridled aggression and we responded with Lend Lease. Like today with Ukraine, we gave supplies and old, but useful equipment to the allies.

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

Happy birthday to my younger brother Ming.

Ming waited 13 years to come here under my sponsorship. He never took any welfare benefits and worked nonstop full-time through the entire pandemic period stocking shelves at Wal-Mart.

He and his wife both are responsible and hardworking employees of Wal-Mart for years. With their modest income, they managed to save money to put their son through college.

They are still learning English and studying their civics test, so someday, they will pass the test and become American citizens.

Love you, brother. I am very proud of you and your work ethics!

[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

Moraff is the grandson of the founder of Toys R Us. (He found Platner.)

Platner comes from a line of ivy grads and lawyers.

These men are spoiled, wealthy, white males, being tasked with bringing the working class to the Dems.

It's somewhat astounding.

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@XCzsnx My Mother taught me before I went away to grad school.

[Henshi @HenshiG]

A German soldier stopped at the front of the line and stared. He knew that face.

It was Janusz Korczak — the beloved Polish-Jewish doctor and writer whose books he had grown up reading.

The soldier quietly offered him a way out: “Step aside. Disappear. Live.”

Korczak shook his head. He took the hands of the two smallest children beside him… and kept walking toward the train.

There had been many such offers. He refused them all.

Born Henryk Goldszmit, Korczak was a renowned pediatrician, author of children’s books, and radio voice beloved across Poland.

He could have lived a comfortable life. Instead, in 1912 he founded Dom Sierot — an extraordinary orphanage in Warsaw where children ran their own parliament, court, and newspaper.

His one sacred rule: A child is not someone who will matter one day. A child matters now.

He lived among them for thirty years as their father.

When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, Korczak moved the orphanage inside. Friends begged him to escape — he looked Polish, he was famous, he could pass. He refused. “I will not leave my children.”

Inside the starving ghetto, he begged for food, carried heavy sacks on his failing back, and tracked every child’s heartbreaking weight loss by candlelight. He was starving too.

On August 5, 1942, the soldiers came. Korczak calmly told the 192 children they were going to the countryside for fresh air.

He had them dress in their best clothes. Each carried a small bag with a favorite book or doll.

Then the old doctor led them out — 192 children walking in calm rows behind him, holding his hands, the smallest in his arms. No crying. No panic. Just quiet dignity as they marched three miles through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz.

At the platform, the final offer came.

Once more, Korczak refused. He climbed into the cattle car with his children and staff.

They were murdered upon arrival at Treblinka.

He could not save their lives. He knew it. So he saved the only thing left: their dignity and their sense of not being alone.

In the darkest place on earth, Janusz Korczak gave those children the one thing the Nazis could not take — a hand to hold until the very end.

Today at Treblinka, among 17,000 stones, one bears the name: Janusz Korczak and the Children.
He had none of his own. He died with 192 of them.

May their memory be a blessing.

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@PBlood64 Praying for her.

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@brad_polumbo They should be glad they aren't accepted. Their HIV party would end painfully!!!

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Nick Shirley uncovers an adult day care in Flushing, Queens with 7,000 phantom members.

Nick: “This public document says you have 7,899 members.”

Employee: “No, we don’t have 7,000 members.”

Nick: “So you’re overbilling then? You’re getting paid $1,600 per patient — that’s how you got $12.9 million in 2024.”

Employee: “Please leave.”

American taxpayer dollars at work.

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@AmericaPapaBear Praying for you now.

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#GenCon is coming!
https://t.co/3ut4IvleQ7

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Newt Gingrich: "You're watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world! Democratic Party goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson..."

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@TertiusIII Praying for you.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

BREAKING: Randi Weingarten complains about "harassment" because Congress is investigating her for using $1.4 million in teachers' dues to promote her book calling conservatives fascists.

Her shirt says "I'm with the banned books."

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@CilComLFC If you see Peter Tatchell near a boy call 1-800-25-abuse.

[Chicago Flips Red @FlipChicagoRed]

We were so happy that Peter, a 19-year-old Chicagoan, took the time to come to the Public Safety Committee meeting and speak about the public safety crisis in Chicago.

Young people like Peter are stepping up, getting involved, and making their voices heard. Chicago needs more conservative civic engagement from the next generation.

https://t.co/NSOZGGEMsu

#ChicagoFlipsRed

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Cuba Healthcare
https://t.co/UdhAKCCZh8

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If Republicans do not demand full transparency from the Senate & our gov’t on the state of Senator McConnell’s health, then we are no better than when the democrats covered up Biden’s cognitive decline for years.

I mean this with the utmost respect & wish Senator McConnell well.

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Any system that believes ALL of society's problems will be solved if the government had the laws and the enforcement, led by leaders who are so much 'wiser,' IS Socialist.
Covid and its lockdown, climate, borders, housing, poverty, law enforcement, gender theory, election integrity, how to attack the constitution and "modify" it to stop interfering with Liberal reforms, the control and censoring of contrary opinions and facts, are all the signs of ultimate Communist control that have happened and continue to happen in the USA. Faking Science, ignoring logic, historical facts, and trying to shame, bully, even kill free speech (forgot Charlie Kirk already?) and celebrating it are straight out of 1984.
I, as a devoted American citizen and Catholic, will always oppose socialism, democratic socialism, communism, and any demonic philosophy that makes government into a god and the only sin is to disagree with the government.

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@OliLondonTV Wait, Kathy Griffin is a comic? This must be the first joke I ever heard her tell