B Meredith

Christian, Husband, Father, Patriot, Soldier

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The big picture on the economy: everyone wants to call it an "affordability crisis," when really, it’s inflation.

If your wages haven't kept pace, your purchasing power has been quietly eaten away. And the reason is simple: Washington keeps printing money to cover a $2 trillion deficit it refuses to close. We're devaluing the dollar every single day to pay for spending we never dared to cut. @Varneyco

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@FPWellman @PressSec Let me guess.... there is also no evidence that grass is green or water is wet either...amiright?

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@thepalmerworm Simply arriving at the truth is hard for adults, nearly impossible for teens, and not an option for the young. Someone, somewhere must set the foundational guardrails.

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@thepalmerworm Agreed in principle, but if the examples aren't even there from the earliest ages, in the home, where does one BEGIN?

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@thepalmerworm Agreed in principle, but if the examples aren't even there from the earliest ages, in the home, where does one BEGIN?

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@thepalmerworm You can go one step to the right or left, or maybe it's backward, but before you have the grammar upon which to build a foundation, you must actually believe that finite definitions are fixed and agreed upon. I think we've seen an attack on definition and grammar as a CONCEPT

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@thepalmerworm @pastorspomer Agreed - and metaphysics is 2 laps down to materialism in modern thought.

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@JeremyTate41 Gaming the system. They are learning the test, not the actual subjects. Ask AP teachers what they do over the summer.

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@teachermother1 I don't accept this premise

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@RobSchneider Enter Sandman or Bodies by drowning pool

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@DrewWhoever @JohnDMariana1 @TheAliceSmith Largely BECAUSE government is involved.

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@AdamKinzinger Non sequitur

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@EWErickson Apples and lawnmowers. 2A is foundational and fundamental. 14A is a response to an acute problem, which it solved.

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

Dear UATX community,

When the English writer G.K. Chesterton applied for a visa to visit America, he was asked -- as many visitors and immigrants still are -- whether he was an anarchist bent on subverting the country. The question startled him at first, before he saw its logic: a nation founded on a moral claim has reason to ask whether you share it, while a nation founded on blood or soil would never think to ask such a thing.

As he put it: "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence."

So much of the Declaration defends our natural rights. But a list of rights cannot defend itself, and the founders were betting on something higher in us: that free people would guard their freedoms out of a sense of duty. That is why Madison said a republic asks more of its citizens than any other government. A king rules his subjects whether they care or not, while a free people governs itself and accepts the responsibility to maintain self-government. The Declaration calls each generation to rise to the occasion, to become the kind of citizens worthy of the freedom we’ve inherited.

When the Declaration was signed, nothing had yet been won; the hard years were still ahead. What we celebrate is the moment a people set out on a long and demanding road. Independence Day honors a triumph of human freedom and, at the same time, invites us to carry it further.

That invitation is why this university exists. Here we learn to think clearly, work hard, and cultivate the virtues that sustain a republic. This is how one generation hands the flame of liberty to the next, and how each of us grows into our fullest potential.

Happy Independence Day!

With gratitude,
Carlos Carvalho
President, University of Austin (UATX)

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@JohnDMariana1 @TheAliceSmith this is not a problem so complex or dense that local churches and charitable organizations cannot solve it much more effectively AND efficiently than bloated government rife with fraud.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“Don’t feed the poor yourselves. Get the Roman government or Herod to do it for you by raising taxes.”

- Things Jesus Never Said

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@nytimes @TheAthleticFC There's only one kind of "fair" in the world, the kind with farm animals and carnival rides. Get over yourself.

[B Meredith @cavscout96]

@uaustinorg @JosephLoconte where can we see the full talk?

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.