Kimberly C Russo

“The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.” Justice Kennedy

[SCVRepublicanWomen @SCVRepubWomen]

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[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems.”

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

“Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too — great enough to give fame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.

“They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests.

“They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was “settled” that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final;” not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times.

“How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defense. Mark them!

“Fully appreciating the hardship to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep the corner-stone of the national superstructure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you.

“Of this fundamental work, this day is the anniversary. Our eyes are met with demonstrations of joyous enthusiasm. Banners and pennants wave exultingly on the breeze. The din of business, too, is hushed. Even Mammon seems to have quitted his grasp on this day. The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells. Prayers are made, hymns are sung, and sermons are preached in honor of this day; while the quick martial tramp of a great and multitudinous nation, echoed back by all the hills, valleys and mountains of a vast continent, bespeak the occasion one of thrilling and universal interest — a nation’s jubilee.”

- Frederick Douglass

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

This is FABULOUS @SoveyX

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Robin Williams’ emotional tribute to the American Flag leaves an entire stadium speechless — then in tears.

Is there a single Hollywood star who would give this performance today?

Total Patriot.

RIP Legend 🇺🇸

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I hadn’t read the Declaration of Independence since high school history class. Ah, yes, history class! In fact we had American history throughout the tenth grade, then world history during our junior year. When I listen to the TikTok crowd spew the nonsense they champion today, I think how easily their knuckle-headed thinking could have been cured with a few good history classes. Alas, I don’t see much hope for the future, as long as the teachers in our urban areas are in the clutches of politicians and unions with a far different agenda from real education.

Now rereading the document for the first time in decades (shame on me for taking so long), I had forgotten that the bulk of the text is a list of grievances suffered by the American colonists at the hands of the king and various elements under his tyrannical regime. What has truly stunned me these 250 years later, however, is how familiar these grievances feel in our contemporary situation. Let’s take a peek at the exact text, and see if anything feels uncomfortably close to home (the “He” refers to King George, of course, and I will use the original spelling and punctuation):

“He has refused to Assent to Laws”

Hmm, every “sanctuary state” governor today for starters…

“He has made Judges dependent of his Will alone”

Hmm, activist judges anybody?

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people”

Hmm, 87,000 new armed IRS agents. Ring a bell?

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent”

Hmm, ever looked at your tax bill?

“…transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny…”

Hmm, thirty million military-age males pouring across our open borders from 2020 to 2024…

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us”

Hmm, BLM and Antifa riots…

SHORT VERSION: LEAVE US ALONE!

The very essence of the Declaration of Independence is a concerted celebration of God’s gift of our “unalienable” right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It was argued, researched, debated yet again, drafted by Jefferson, then edited by Adams, Franklin, and others. Together the bravest men stood together against the storm of tyranny and gambled it all. As I reread it today, I literally shed tears at those miraculous words:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortune and our sacred Honor.”

And then, of course, there were those who shed more than tears. They shed their blood, watched their homes burn, and too many gave the ultimate sacrifice. Whether they formed local militias or joined the Continental Army, colonists now dedicated to the cause, gambled their very lives. One of those Americans was my ninth generation ancestor. He fought in one of the most consequential battles of the American Revolution, the Battle of Cowpens. I am forever honored that his blood runs in my veins.

I know that this will be a joyful and glorious weekend for all of you, God willing. It should also be, if I may presume to say, a solemn one as well. The sacrifices made by simple men and women those many years ago have made these precious rights and this glorious day possible. Take a moment and honor them in your heart. I know I will.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1945 Hayek published four pages in the American Economic Review that dismantled the entire socialist calculation project. "The Use of Knowledge in Society." Read it. He showed that the central planner faces a problem no supercomputer solves: the knowledge required to run an economy does not exist in any single place. It lives scattered across millions of minds, in the particular circumstances of time and place. The tin dealer in Kuala Lumpur who knows a mine flooded. The baker in Vienna who knows his regulars want more rye this week. That knowledge is fleeting, local, often unspoken.

Prices carry it. When tin gets scarce, the price rises, and a thousand people who have never heard of the flooded mine start economizing on tin. Nobody ordered them to. They saw a number and acted. Hayek called this a marvel, and he meant it literally: the price system communicates dispersed information faster and more honestly than any planning bureau ever could.

Now watch what happens when you destroy the signal. Gosplan in Moscow set 24 million prices by decree and produced shortages of bread alongside warehouses of unsold shoes nobody wanted. Venezuela froze the price of gasoline and got empty pumps in a country floating on oil. You cannot plan what you cannot know, and you cannot know what only the market reveals through free prices.

The economy is not an engineering problem with a solution waiting to be computed. It is a discovery process. Competition is a procedure for finding out things that would otherwise stay hidden. Kill competition and you kill the finding-out. The planners in 1920 thought Ludwig von Mises was being difficult when he told them socialism could not calculate. Hayek spent the next fifty years explaining why, and in 1974 the Nobel committee agreed.

Here is what should keep you up at night. Every central bank on earth sets the price of money by committee, twelve people around a table in Washington pretending they know the correct interest rate for 330 million strangers. Hayek showed you exactly why they cannot.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell on how leftists tend to view those who disagree with them:

“What they believe seems so obviously true that if you’re standing in the way of it, either you must be incredibly stupid, utterly uninformed, or simply dishonest.”

“People like that find it very hard to believe that someone else could honestly, sincerely, and intelligently reach a different conclusion.”

“They talk about how complex the world is, but it never seems to be complex enough that other people could’ve read the same evidence they looked at and come up with a different conclusion.”

[The Independent with Scott Atlas @ScottAtlas_IT]

Atlas: "Fauci at one point said, ‘One of the problems is the public is not afraid enough.’ I was shocked... I said, ‘Can you repeat that?’ He said, ‘The people are not afraid enough, so they won't listen.’ ... I said, ‘It's unethical to use fear in an emergency to manipulate people.’"

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Stephen Miller: “All of civilization can be divided into two groups of people — Builders and Destroyers. Between the people who build, sustain and nurture civilization... and those who only destroy — who litter, who graffiti, who degrade.”

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

American schools need to make sure history is taught accurately. Our history has peaks and valleys, good and bad events but if it isn’t taught fairly children will never understand how far America has come 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

We believe history SHOULD be taught in the American classrooms and it should start right here!

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Read Ayn Rand.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

— Ayn Rand

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Just spoke to the president. He just saw my special on immigration. Everyone should see it. It is a “remarkable story” that no one really knows.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM! SPENCER PRATT JUST DROPPED THIS LINE ON MAYOR MAMDANI:

"The communist doesn’t think to increase the quality of the grid. The communist demands that you decrease the quality of your life. They make you ration the things that every other American gets to enjoy. Every single time."

💯💯

He's right. Mamdani wants everyone to suffer and raise their thermostats so the elites have the power they need.

Communism will LOSE nationwide 🇺🇸 @spencerpratt

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Back in 1993, Dianne Feinstein was correct, and what she said still applies today. Illegal aliens shouldn’t be allowed to come to our country, have a child, and the kid is automatically given American citizenship. That is NOT what our Founders envisioned when they created the 14th Amendment.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Nobody tell the progressives, but their favorite Founding Father, Broadway star Alexander Hamilton, actually held some of the STRICTEST immigration views of the entire founding generation. He believed immigration should serve the nation, not that the nation should exist to simply serve the world. And he warned that admitting foreigners indiscriminately into citizenship would be like wheeling the Trojan Horse directly into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“We are not governed by the people—that’s a myth that carries over from Abraham Lincoln’s day. We don’t have government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

“We have government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.”

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

🚨 THE PLAN WAS TO GET THE VACCINE IN EVERY ARM — BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Peter McCullough M.D. says they didn’t just “encourage” it. They deliberately suppressed working early treatments like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine so millions would get sick enough to line up for the experimental shots.

A monoclonal antibody (bamlanivimab) was already on the market and approved — which under federal law should have made the vaccine EUAs illegal. They ignored their own rules. The goal was never health. It was every arm. Every single one. No exceptions. No debate. No early treatment. Just the needle.

This isn’t theory. It’s the documented strategy, exposed on FlashPoint. They let people suffer and die so the jab would look like the only savior.