Ringleader of Clan MaGuirk, follower of Christ, Constitutionalist, classical educator, grammarian and lover of the Lord, family, books, travel and the outdoors!
Also worth pointing out, @Nike who claims to champion women, sponsors this event (Nike XC Invitational) had nothing to say per usual.
So much for using their platform for “social justice”.
Are you even surprised it’s taking the @WNBA this long to define one simple word?
Woman!
The confusion reaches all the way to the highest court in the country.
We have a sitting Supreme Court justice whose job is to interpret the law, yet she declined to define what a woman is.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
I know you went to law school for many years and passed the bar exam, but let the man who speaks English as a second language define it for you:
An adult human female.
Or, to make it even easier, just check your birth certificate.
But this isn’t about winning a culture war. It’s about whether our institutions still have the courage to say what ordinary Americans already know.
When leaders become afraid of simple truths because they might offend someone, they stop leading.
Politics should not decide reality. Reality should guide politics.
This is bigger than you can imagine. They are trying to make me look like the villain, the bad guy, the troublemaker, the extremist, the enemy.
But
I’m what they fear. I stand with a truth that unmasks them, and I carry the light that exposes their darkness. I’m a voice they cannot silence. Their power ends where truth begins. I do not walk alone. I walk with the truth God has commanded us to uphold. And the one who carries truth never bows to oppression or hypocrisy.
I stand with American values,
In reality, they are not after me,
they are after your children.
I am just in their way.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸