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[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

If you wonder why they want to “defund the police” or “reimagine” the world…it’s because they don’t like The Law. They hate “The Law.”

Prior to 1789, everything in the world was in flux. People stole land from each other at will. War was common. Borders moved.

“Owning” something, meant you took it and then you held it.

Yes, the US expanded West and took land from Natives, but that was no different than Europe. Borders constantly moved. War and Conquest was the way of the world.

But humans yearned for a better way. At some point in history, this had to stop. And the US Declaration and Constitution were the singular documents (Laws) that stopped it.

It’s true that women and blacks did not have equal rights at first. But The Law eventually fixed that. So, yes, not perfect, but striving to be perfect.

Nonetheless, The Law (Constitution) was put into place at an arbitrary time in history. It sought to freeze the theft and the war and give power to individuals rather than nation states.

With “The Law” individuals owned their own inventions, writings and dreams. In other words, individuals could reimagine the world every day. From that point on, everything was fair.

Those who couldn’t reimagine the world, or who wanted to take from other people rather than create things for their fellow citizens, blamed “The Law” for stopping them.

They think “The Law” was instituted at an unfair time. And they blame “The Law” for the fact that they haven’t succeeded.

The current movement to defund the police, is really an attempt to pierce the Constitution. Stop “The Law”. Go back to a time when lawlessness was the way to “own” things.

Unfortunately, this would stop all progress. It would be the Dark Ages all over again.

Anyone can do anything today in the US. You can create your own future. But that takes work and honesty and virtue. So, if you don’t want to do and achieve those things, you blame “The Law” for stopping you.

It’s not hard. But people constantly look for the easy way out. So, they gaslight the unfairness of the time before the Constitution (or even after it) so that they can return to the same world that it stopped.

The people who want to end “The Law” are worse than the people who wrote “The Law.”

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@Handre See also Millei in Argentina

[MLB @MLB]

The flag that Rick Monday rescued 50 years ago today is headed to Cooperstown!

OTD in 1976, Monday, a Cubs outfielder and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, grabbed an American flag from two protesters who had run onto the field at Dodger Stadium and attempted to burn it.

Monday, the longtime Dodgers broadcaster who played 19 years in the Major Leagues, was a two-time All-Star and a World Series champion, has often been asked about the moment.

“If that’s all you’re ever remembered for, that’s not a bad thing at all,” Monday told MLB Network in 2016.

Monday still owns the flag and it will be on loan to the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer as part of America’s 250th birthday celebration. In addition, Monday will be honored on July 25 during induction weekend.

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@brettboettcher1 Plan

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

For two centuries, the Ottoman Empire had pushed westward, swallowing kingdoms whole.

Vienna was on the brink of collapse, the gate to all of Europe was about to fall open.

Then, over the ridge of the Kahlenberg hill, came the largest cavalry charge in recorded history.

🔸By 1683, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful military force on earth. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa marched with more than 150,000 soldiers toward Vienna, pulling with him over 300 cannons and a supply chain that stretched back to Constantinople.

🔸On July 14th, the Ottomans surrounded Vienna and began digging. They ran tunnels beneath the city walls, packed them with gunpowder, and detonated them one by one. The city's 12,000 - 15,000 defenders watched their walls crumble from the inside out.

🔸After two months under siege, Vienna was dying. Food had run out, disease was spreading through the streets, and the garrison had lost a third of its men. The city's commander, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, sent desperate messengers through enemy lines begging for relief.

🔸Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had spent weeks negotiating one of the most unlikely alliances in European history. Catholic Austria, Protestant German princes, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth agreed to set aside their rivalries and march together. King Jan III Sobieski of Poland would lead them.

🔸Jan Sobieski was already a legend before Vienna. He had spent his career fighting the Ottomans on Poland's eastern frontier, and the Turks called him the "Lion of Lechistan." When the Pope personally wrote to him asking for help, Sobieski mobilized 74,000 men and began the march south.

🔸On the evening of September 11th, the allied commanders gathered on the Kahlenberg hill overlooking Vienna. Below them, the Ottoman camp stretched across the plain like a city of its own, with silk tents, horse herds, and cooking fires as far as the eye could see. Sobieski turned to his son and said: "Tomorrow we fight."

🔸The battle opened at dawn on September 12th with infantry clashing in the woods and ravines below the hill. For eight hours the fighting ground on, neither side breaking. Then, at around four in the afternoon, Sobieski ordered his cavalry to the ridge.

🔸The Polish Winged Hussars were the most feared heavy cavalry in the world. They rode massive warhorses, carried 16-foot lances, and wore wooden frames on their backs that held enormous eagle and ostrich feathers. At full gallop, the wings created a roaring sound that witnesses said was unlike anything they had ever heard.

🔸18,000 horsemen crested the hill and began riding downhill toward the Ottoman camp. Sobieski led from the front with 3,000 of his Polish Winged Hussars.

The ground shook. The Ottoman lines, which had held all day, looked up to see a wall of horses, lances, and screaming wings descending on them at full speed. The formation collapsed almost immediately.

🔸The battle raged for 15 hours after which the Ottoman army was in full retreat. Kara Mustafa abandoned his command tent, his treasury, his artillery, and the green banner of the Prophet Muhammad. The Poles captured so much coffee from the Ottoman camp that it is credited with introducing the coffeehouse culture to Vienna.

🔸Kara Mustafa fled to Belgrade, where he was executed by order of the Sultan three months later. The Ottoman Empire never again threatened central Europe with the same force. The siege of Vienna is now considered the high-water mark of Ottoman expansion into the West.

🔸On the evening of the victory, Sobieski wrote a letter to the Pope. In it, he borrowed the words of Julius Caesar and wrote: "I came, I saw, God conquered." He had just saved Western Europe. He sent the letter before the bodies were even cleared from the field.

🔸The Winged Hussars charged for the last time at Vienna, and they won the most consequential cavalry battle in modern history. Within a generation, the age of mounted shock warfare would be over forever.

Most people have never heard of the Battle of Vienna or of Jan Sobieski (he will receive his own card in due time). I believe it is vital you are now part of the group that does.

History has a way of burying the moments that changed everything. Europe was about to fall. These men ensured it didn't.

Thanks for sticking with me. Tomorrow I've got another fantastic story lined up for you.

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@OwenGregorian @FischerKing64 @Cernovich Look at the debt burden per household making more than say $200,000 per year. Also, check to use conservative assumptions on unfunded pension liabilities. Numbers will be scarier.

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@KarlApexFit How many days of rest do you advise between workouts?

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

250 years ago today Adam Smith gave the world a fantastic insight.

That order, cooperation and prosperity are not ordered from above by priests or chiefs but emerge from the social interactions of ordinary people.

It’s the most revolutionary and benign idea ever proposed.

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@RestoringWest This is fantastic. Please consider adding two key pillars to your framework: 1) property rights (see Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Hernando De Soto, and others); 2) limited government (@wesbury writes brilliantly on this).

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THAT'S RIGHT. 🇺🇸

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
Make a great play?
Act like you’ve done it before.
Get a big hit?
Look for the third base coach and get ready to run the bases.
Hit a home run?
Put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more -- a lot more important than the name on the back.
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington, even though I was All-City in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
I love to play baseball.
I'm a baseball player.
I've always been a baseball player.
I'm still a baseball player.
That's who I am."
Ryne Sandberg.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Three of the greatest & most consequential speeches in the history of the English language were given by the same man in the space of 37 days. Their conclusions:

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[Jeff @MNTwinsZealot]

OTD 1980 Team USA played the minor league Dallas Blackhawks. The 10-6 win probably displeased Herb Brooks, but it was the 40th win of their 61 game pre Olympic schedule. It was their 1st game without Ralph Cox who was the final cut a few days before. His words:

[Jim Craig @JimCraigUSA]

People remember the outcome.
I remember the belief, the preparation, and the bond we built long before we stepped on that ice.
That’s what Miracle: The Boys of ’80 captures so well.
The game was the result.
The culture was the miracle.🇺🇸🥇🏒

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

David Pressman, a 14-year-old boy who, 'loved baseball and also had a scientific bent', one night he left his wood bat outside.
In the morning David thought the bat felt heavier and had 'less pop'.
David took it to the post office, borrowed their scale and confirmed his hunch: Wood bats absorb moisture.
David devised a method for drying his bat out over coal embers, and then he wrote a letter on his father’s stationary to tell the biggest baseball star in the world, Ted Williams, all about it.
"Next thing you know my father got a call from Ted Williams.
My dad said, ‘You might want my kid. He’s in school.’
When I got home, I got a call from Ted.
He said, ‘Can you come to Fenway?’”.
David went and explained to Ted the principle of restitution, 'in which both bat and ball compress and then expand at impact'.
David told Ted to put his bats in the clubhouse clothes dryer and weigh them every 15 minutes until they quit losing weight.
So Ted Williams, when sent an unsolicited letter from a fan promising to make him a better hitter, and called the fan.
And when he found out the fan was actually a 14-year-old boy who was unavailable because he was in school, Ted Williams called back.
“The Kid”
Ben Bradlee, Jr.
David Pressman went on to graduate from Harvard.

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[Rick Sutcliffe @Sut_40]

100% true