Dewayne Wright

Christ follower. Husband. Father. Writer. PR practitioner. Oh, and I have two cats and a dog. All opinions my own.

[Dewayne Wright @DewayneW]

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Can’t believe the guy with the Nazi tattoo turned out to be violent that’s crazy.

[Teresa Palmitessa @TeeCeePal]

#WhenYoureFullOfHotAir it's hard to stay grounded

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Here is what someone should tell the President, because it bears on his own political survival.

A well-armed tyranny ruling an unarmed population is remarkably durable under economic pain. The Iranian regime can starve its people and shoot the ones who object. It has done so for decades. It will absorb two-hundred-dollar oil and call it resistance.

A republic founded not on theocratic rule, but on rule of the people, by the people, and for the people is different. It answers to voters — and these voters elected a President on a promise to crush the inflation Joe Biden left behind. Instead, they have watched costs climb under tariffs, trade wars, and now an actual war that has sent energy prices soaring with no end in sight. The mullahs can outlast their economic misery. The coalition that put this President in office cannot. Mr. Trump is betting the American voter has the patience of a captive Iranian. That is a bet he will lose.

The honorable path is also the sound one: finish what we started, or get out of the way of the ally willing to. Reopen Hormuz by force if Iran will not do it by agreement. Stop calling a war a ceasefire and stop dignifying a rout as diplomacy.

Otherwise, the verdict will be brief and brutal. We had Iran beaten. We talked ourselves out of the win. And we let a regime that shoots its own citizens lecture us on what a ceasefire means — while we nodded along, shooting, as the President put it, “in a more moderate manner.”

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[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

This is just laughable false propaganda and clearly sourced from Alexander Dugin.

Russia has lower birth rates than America, a 75% divorce rate, high trafficking rates, and rock bottom Christian observance rates.

In no way is Russia an example of valuing “God and family.”

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

This is a baffling tweet, because it says twice that Platner has “a history of bad decision-making,” and then confirms that that bad decision-making causes all sorts of other problems, and then concludes that this would not matter for . . . a member of the U.S. Senate.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

One reason classical education produces more mature young people is because it introduces them to greatness early.

Students spend years around saints, philosophers, statesmen, poets, generals, and missionaries.

They grow up reading about courage, sacrifice, honor, discipline, truth.

Modern education tries to protect students from greatness because greatness creates objective standards. But young people desperately want standards.

They want something higher than themselves to admire and live up to.

[Byron York @ByronYork]

Sadly true. So what now?
1) Stick with the Great American State Fair concept. Make it a sprawling display of the local economies and cultures of each of the 50 states.
2) De-celebritize the events. Don't try to book stars. Republicans have always lost at that game, and doubly so with Trump. At the moment, show business appears to be largely made up of a) entertainers and businessmen who hate Trump, and b) entertainers and businessmen who are scared of being accused of not hating Trump. Why waste time with them?
3) Make music a big part of the events by showcasing U.S. military bands. There are a lot of military bands and orchestras, and they are very, very good.
4) Make the 4th of July a traditional 4th of July, with the exception of a turbocharged America 250 fireworks show.
5) No starring role for Trump. He'll be the President of the United States watching over the events with pride.
6) If anyone calls it hokey, fine. Old-fashioned hokey patriotism is good.

[Teresa Palmitessa @TeeCeePal]

#PlanetaryPublications Klom Sawyer

[Dewayne Wright @DewayneW]

Amen, brother!

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

Murder and slavery were widely practiced in biblical times too. Do you think they’re morally acceptable?

And yes, the Bible affirms that unborn babies are alive (Genesis 25:23, Ecclesiastes 11:5, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 49:1, Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 20:17, Hosea 12:3, Luke 1:41), and that murder is evil.

It never even seems to have occurred to Biblical authors that unborn babies might not be alive, because they weren’t completely stupid like many people are today.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

My advice to anyone under 20: If you learn to write, cultivate it and eschew AI? In 20 years you will be like sorcerer. You will be a Jedi with a pen instead of a lightsaber.

[Teresa Palmitessa @TeeCeePal]

#BandsUCanFeastOn The Oak Porridge Boys

[Dewayne Wright @DewayneW]

I remember those days. It changed when the progressives used politics to replace religion and then "conservatives" followed suit.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Gen Zers don’t remember a time when this country wasn’t horribly divided.

If your political memory starts with George W Bush and only includes Obama and Trump you probably just assume we were always this dysfunctional.

But we weren’t. We used to all hang out together and make fun of each other and stuff.

Politics just weren’t that big a deal; besides abortion our biggest arguments were over crap like marginal tax rates.

I don’t see it happening again any time soon, but I’m glad I got to at least experience it.

I hope my kid gets to one day, too.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Here's how the game they're playing with Erika works. They start with an outrageous claim or accusation that's so serious and damaging, it feels like you have no choice but to respond to it. Then they flip the burden of proof. Instead of proving the claim, they demand proof it isn't true. This is burden-shifting, but it's made worse by the fact that a lot of accusations are difficult (if not impossible) to disprove, especially when they’re about someone's motives or private behavior.

Once the accusation is out there, every possible reaction gets twisted into evidence of guilt. If you deny it, they say you’re being defensive. If you try to explain yourself, they say you’re over-explaining because you got caught. If you get angry, they say your anger proves they struck a nerve. And if you stay quiet, well . . . only the guilty have nothing to say in their own defense.

So the outrageous accusation itself never actually gets tested honestly, and it wasn't supposed to. The whole point was to make as many people as possible believe the claim must be true, no matter what is or isn't said in response to it. And it's nearly as effective as it is evil.

The only way out of the trap is to show that it's a trap, and to ridicule and reject the wicked people who tried to set it up in the first place.

[Dewayne Wright @DewayneW]

One of my "If I am elected" issues.

[Eric Bott @EricJBott]

🚢💡It's time to turn the lights out on the Jones Act.

The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 — better known as the Jones Act — mandates that goods shipped between U.S. ports must travel on vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-flagged.

Sold as a national security measure, it has instead become a textbook case of protectionism producing the opposite of its intended effects.

✴️Higher Costs for Consumers and Businesses

✅Shipping a container from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico costs roughly twice what it costs to ship the same container to a nearby foreign island — a direct Jones Act tax on American consumers.

✅Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico — all heavily dependent on maritime imports — face systematically elevated prices for food, fuel, construction materials, and consumer goods.

✅American manufacturers pay inflated freight costs that make U.S. exports less competitive globally, undermining the very industries the law claims to protect.

✅During natural disasters the Act delays emergency relief shipments, forcing costly waivers just to get aid to Americans in crisis.

✴️A Shipbuilding Industry in Irreversible Decline

✅Shielded from foreign competition, U.S. shipyards have had little incentive to innovate, invest, or become cost-efficient — a Jones Act-built ship costs 4–5x more than a comparable foreign-built vessel.

✅The U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry has collapsed from over 70 active shipyards in the mid-20th century to a handful today, despite — or because of — protectionist insulation.

✅Monopoly protection breeds stagnation, not strength. The Act has produced atrophied, high-cost weakness.

✴️A Weakened Navy and Merchant Fleet

✅The U.S. merchant fleet — the very asset Jones Act proponents claim to be preserving — has shrunk dramatically; fewer than 100 Jones Act vessels operate today.

✅A truly competitive, dynamic maritime industry would produce more vessels, more trained mariners, and more surge capacity for national emergencies — the opposite of what the Act delivers.

✅Allied navies and commercial partners increasingly outpace U.S. maritime capability, precisely because their industries face competitive pressure that drives improvement.

✴️The Bottom Line

The Jones Act is corporate welfare masquerading as patriotism.

It enriches a small cluster of protected shipowners while taxing every American who lives on an island, ships goods domestically, or pays at the pump.

💪🇺🇸🚢Repeal would lower prices, revitalize shipbuilding through genuine competition, and produce a merchant fleet worth defending.

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[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

For seven consecutive seasons since 2019, the Los Angeles Dodgers re-signed outfielder Andrew Toles, who has Schizophrenia so he could keep access to the team’s health insurance and mental health services.

He wasn’t expected to return to the field but the team support allowed him to continue to receive, medication, therapy and counselling.

[Baseball Performances @MLBPerformances]

5 years ago today, Javier Baez caused one of the worst defensive mistakes in MLB history from the Pirates 🪄

[عبدالله موسولچی @Mosolchi]

After 3 months of internet outage
I connected from inside Iran
And I have only one message for the world
Don't believe the lies of the Western Ayatollah-loving medias
The Islamic Republic is not winning the war and has suffered a heavy defeat
Militarily, we witnessed the destruction of IRGC centers in cities every day
Economically, prices in Iran have exploded and we can no longer even afford to buy chicken and eggs
The regime has been controlling the streets with armed terrorists for more than three months in order not to fall
They cut off the internet for three months so that you wouldn't hear these words
Even if you hate Donald Trump
You have to accept that the decisive winner of this war is America
#IranWar‌

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The federal govt takes in more money than the GDP of every country on earth except the US and China and it is still not enough for this greedy louse.

Plus, politicians aren’t and should not be investors.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I know Purdue is a techie school but honestly putting a bot in charge of hiring their president is a bridge too far