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Old and cantankerous.

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

Tall Ships inNOLA

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@ThatEricAlper "She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went!"

[Maddie Rowley @Maddie_Rowley_]

We hired a local face painter for our daughter's 4th birthday party. I recognized her accent on the phone but wanted to be sure, so I asked where she was from. She hesitated. "I come from a place where there's lots of conflict right now-- Israel. I hope it's not a problem for the party... you know politically."

I could hear the relief in her voice when I said "Yofi!" And told her we had lived in Jerusalem for 2 years.

Sad that she was clearly scared to say she's Israeli. That should never be the case, no matter where you're from.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family. Everything else I believe about ethics and politics in one way or another stands upon or presupposes that principle. Any form of “conservatism” (or “liberalism”) that denies it in principle or transgresses it in practice is alien to me.

That is why I believe that the conservative movement, though it can and should be a broad tent, simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent and equal dignity of all. As a conservative, I say that there is no place for such people in our movement.

So, while I understand and appreciate that politics is about “adding and multiplying, not subtracting and dividing,” and though I welcome conservatives representing a range of viewpoints on a wide swath of issues, I will not—I cannot—accept the idea that we have “no enemies to the right.” The white supremacists, the antisemites, the eugenicists, the bigots, must not be welcomed into our movement or treated as normal or acceptable.

Is this a call for “cancelation”? No. It��s a reminder that we conservatives stand for something—or should stand for something. We have core principles that are not negotiable.

I am—notoriously, for some of my fellow conservatives—committed to the principle of free speech for everybody, including people with whom I profoundly disagree even on the most important issues, indeed, including racists and other bigots. But defending their rights does not mean allying with them, welcoming them into our movement, or treating them as representing legitimate forms of conservatism.

I am also—again, notoriously, for some of my fellow conservatives—willing to engage people with whom I deeply disagree, so long as they are honest and are willing to do business in the proper currency of intellectual discourse, a currency consisting of reasons, evidence, and arguments. (It is pointless to engage bad faith actors, charlatans, and con men.) But, again, engaging and forcefully arguing against people who deny the inherent and equal dignity of all is one thing, welcoming them into the movement or treating their ideas and ideologies as representing legitimate forms of conservatism is something entirely different.

Let me be plain. American conservatism today faces a challenge. That challenge comes from those who reject our commitment to inherent and equal human dignity. They are seeking acceptance in the conservative movement and its institutions, and they do so with the ultimate objective of transforming them by undermining that commitment. They openly preach white supremacy and the hatred of Jews, among other noxious ideas. They no longer feel the need even to try to hide their bigotry.

It is incumbent upon those of us who maintain the “ancient faith” (to borrow a phrase from Lincoln) to make clear to friend and foe alike that we will not permit the integrity of our movement and its institutions to be compromised. We will not treat its foundational principle of inherent and equal human dignity as optional. On the contrary, we will insist on it, defending and advancing it with renewed dedication.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I wish the national media posted about the Palisades being “gone” as much as the east wing

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

OMG. So funny 😁 😂

[Mark Davis @MarkDavis]

The Batman water pistol, 1967. It seemed like such a good idea.

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@Super70sSports Astrodome.

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@Aella_Girl Violence achieves goals. ( THE LEFT!)

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@emily_tweets It depends on the instruments used.

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

My first car was a 1958 Mercedes Benz. The radio had to warm up. Now the car dials my cell phone.

[Mark Davis @MarkDavis]

Driving around today and seeing the Ford on the left is like driving around when it was new and seeing the Ford on the right.

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

Absolutely amazing!

[Pulp Covers @PulpCovers]

This might be my favorite cover of all time

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@TxxsBeaut Learned to cook on electric first. Gas is much easier. Always be ready to move the pan and keep at least one cold burner.

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

@TracesofTexas The AI fascinates me. I think it can add another dimension to the photo. I think I would welcome a few.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

When he won his Nobel prize, Al Gore said the Arctic summer may be ice-free by 2014.

Later he said it was LIKELY by 2016.

Those dates came and went. There's still LOTS of ice.

Turns out alarmists' predictions are alarmist.

But they grab headlines.

We debunk here:

[LUCKI! @NEPTUNEFLAWLES]

Ain’t nobody teach me this shit I learned day by day fuck up by fuck up

[Free To Speak @FreeToSpeak71]

@DefiyantlyFree Yeah we need a wiki like archive to store all the media lies and the evidence against each one. WikiLies or something.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Just so we’re clear: the people worried about families being separated because of deportation made your grandma die alone in the hospital during Covid.

[Garden ride @AutrycH]

No way!

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

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