Born October 27, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt helped protect 230 million acres of American land, leaving a conservation legacy hunters and anglers still benefit from today.
Happy birthday to the Bull Moose himself.
Spending over a trillion dollars to randomly send everyone in the country a check for five grand, including people who are not even net taxpayers -- which makes this, yes, welfare -- is idiotic. Sorry. We did that during covid and it didn't help anything. Only made inflation worse. This is flagrant bribery. Which I could maybe stomach if the plan itself was at least sensible and coherent, but it isn't.
Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.
Welcome to September.
Over the next month we will rapidly lose daylight, approx 60 minutes in GA, and fall will come.
Football starts. School is back in full swing. And holiday decorations will fill store shelves.
Cooler air, blue skies, apple picking, and time to pull out sweaters.
Take time to enjoy it, be happy, and observe how God designed the seasons to change.
Social media is the fake world. Enjoy the real world.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON: "To admit foreigners indiscriminately would be nothing less than to admit a Trojan Horse into the citadel of our liberty & sovereignty."
The Atlantic just ran a piece called "The Age of Reading Is Over." We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post. This is not good. Think about history for a second. During the slave trade, what was the one thing punishable by death? Teaching a slave to read. Why? Because tyrants have always known that literacy is the ultimate key to human freedom.
Less than half of American adults read a single book in 2022. It’s so bad that a staffer at Harvard actually complained that assigning books to students is "arbitrarily withholding information" because it forces them to use a "difficult medium." Let that sink in. IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS have a hard time reading something and then paraphrasing it.
If we stop reading, we go straight back to the dark ages. We'll be sitting around waiting for a government agency or an AI script to tell us what the Constitution means through a paraphrased post on X.
Gaethje passing by Teddy Roosevelt, moments before he beats the shit out of the foreign sitting champion on the South Lawn in front of a crowd of 80,000. This is America.
Walk more.
I’m not saying going for a walk will solve all your problems, I’m just saying there’s almost no problem that’s going to be made worse by going for a walk.
"Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. The boy who is going to make a great man, or is going to count in any way, in after life, must make up his mind not really to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."
—Miguel de Cervantes
The will of God is not something you add to your life, it is a course that you choose.
You either line yourself up with the Son of God and say to the Father, “Thy will be done,” or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world and say, “My will be done.”
Elisabeth Elliot
One thing you notice when you read pretty much anything written more than 100 years ago is just how impoverished and bland and limited our language has become. People spoke and wrote in a kind of effortlessly rich and descriptive way that almost no one does today. On this site a lot of people write almost exclusively in cliches and internet lingo. A lot of people speak like that too. The language contracts, our conversational vocabulary shrinks more and more over time. And the more limited we become in our language, the more limited we are in our thinking.