Ed McFadden

Flack. Opinions are mine ... but should be yours.

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

Walk on music....
Prague Film Orchestra: Star Wars - Imperial March (LIVE - 29.11.2010) https://t.co/qR4opW6v4J via @YouTube

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@JimmySpencer Chris Speier.

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@jtLOL Best challenge coin ever ...

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@GiantHotTakes @Graham_H23 And don't forget about Encarnacion. Saw him in Balto on Sunday it was awful both at the plate and in RF, where he was singularly responsible for at least three Orioles runs.

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@49ersSportsTalk Paul Hofer

[Mark Lucas 🇺🇸 @MarkLucasUSA]

Veteran Action is celebrating our one-year anniversary — and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude and emotion. I intentionally launched it on the Feast of Saint Joseph.

Every day I pray for veterans contemplating suicide. I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ and Saint Joseph, our patron saint, save their lives. I pray for every veteran struggling to get a medical appointment at the VA — that they are miraculously seen.

Those prayers are the most impactful action I take as Founder & President of @VeteranAction.

Not media. Not lobbying. Not fundraising.

Prayer. Because prayer is action.

I never planned to start a veteran nonprofit — even as the former executive director of Concerned Veterans for America. And yet, here I am. I'm grateful the Lord blessed me with this mission.

I served as an infantry rifle platoon leader in Afghanistan during the deadliest year of the war. I almost died several times. We witnessed miracles in combat that can't be explained without God. By His grace, all of my men returned home alive.

I came home with all of my limbs. My struggle with post-traumatic stress was brief and limited. The Lord allowed me to start a beautiful family.

I am blessed — and I feel required to serve those who aren't as fortunate.

Our first year has been a wild success. All the glory goes to God. Saint Joseph has been an incredible advocate for our mission.

We begin our second year like we did our first. In prayer. Saint Joseph, pray for us!

[Thaddeus McCotter @ThadMcCotter]

My latest @theamgreatness:
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@LisaDeP @MarkCorallo1 @nedryun @edmcfadden @thoughtsoplenty

[Bill McGurn @wjmcgurn]

By abandoning its just war tradition, the Vatican is making itself irrelevant at a time when its old, hard wisdom more important than ever. https://t.co/yZF2POVzKc

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@pritipatel Success can only be measured by how quickly Starmer and the British government got Jimmy Lai out of prison and home to his family. So yes, abject failure on every level.

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

1/ The sentencing of #JimmyLai & the others is a grave attack on press freedom & international advocacy. #HongKong authorities & the judiciary have weaponized the courts to criminalize speech & imprison those who speak up. @thecfhk urges the US to impose targeted sanctions—asset freezes, travel bans, & financial restrictions—on those driving this repression.

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@dbongino Remember this is the newspaper that has been stumped for years by why the national crime rate was lower while criminal prosecutions and prison populations were higher at the same time.

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

Requiescat in pace. John was a good, honorable man and an outstanding journalist, and it was honor to know him.

[American Bankers Association @ABABankers]

ABA shares @FinancialCmte Chair @RepFrenchHill’s concern that a proposed credit card interest rate cap "could mean those Americans with lower credit scores have their credit curtailed in some way.” See his comments on @BloombergTV:

[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

@jpodhoretz And Queen Latifah is otherwise occupied to take on the role.

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

(3/5) *👏👏👏 @DesmondSwayne for highlighting the case of #FreeJimmyLai and for distilling so perfectly what the Government’s decision on the application for #MegaEmbassy should be. No.

[FriendsofLindenNuns @Friendofstdomi1]

Dear Friends,
#LaetareBenefit is almost two months away. This event supports the Sisters if St. Dominic’s Monastery in Linden, VA . Please join us as we gather to celebrate Laetare Sunday and support our beloved sisters! Thank you and God bless! @PetriOP

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

🚨 🚨 BRAKING 🚨 🚨

In a stunning betrayal of its protector and the oldest and greatest country on earth 🇺🇸, “Great” Britain has announced it is banning (Latin for “deleting”) X. Here’s why that’s an illegal act of war:

1. This app was created by Elon Musk, one of the world’s greatest American born inventors

2. Since the British must do whatever the Queen says, her decision to ban X is final

3. This ban also applies to Ireland, Scotland, and Whales, as they are subject to the Queen’s decrees

4. Great Britain literally would not exist without America. This is a slap in the face to the country that single handedly rescued them in two world wars

5. This is a clear breach of NAFTA, which mandates free trade

Trump has no choice but to declare war

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

📰 President Trump @POTUS tells @hughhewitt that he spoke with Xi Jinping about #JimmyLai.

Trump also mentions recently meeting with Lai's son, Sebastien:

"I loved that he was fighting hard for his father. I like to see sons that fight hard for fathers. He was certainly doing that."

Thank you, @hughhewitt, for continuing to advocate for Jimmy Lai. (starts 3:30)

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[Ed McFadden @edmcfadden]

Great @Keir_Starmer. Now expend this kind of effort on behalf of a truly deserving man: @SupportJimmyLai

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.

I want to pay tribute to Alaa’s family, and to all those that have worked and campaigned for this moment.

Alaa's case has been a top priority for my government since we came to office. I’m grateful to President Sisi for his decision to grant the pardon.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey.

He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him.

By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him.

Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life.

The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see.

A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened?

Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured.

George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined.

If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation.

You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet.

But it’s there.

And it matters more than you know.

Merry Christmas, friends.

🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️