Marc Buxton

Servant of Christ. Husband to @jessibuxton. Dad of 3. Missionary with Global Surge. Provost of GLU. I blog about the intersection of faith and current events.

[Marc Buxton @marcbuxton]

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Leaders take dreams and make them reality.
Leaders initiate something when there is nothing. Leaders create what is.
And doing that for the Kingdom of God is the greatest work in the world. (Read more....)

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

“Sunday in the South” by Shenandoah.

A people, a place, and a faith- not an idea.

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

This is the third or fourth time our family vehicle has been struck by a foreign, uninsured motorist in the last four years.

This time it was - and I'm not making this up - a Muslim man on his way home from Mosque.

Thankfully, this time no one was in our vehicle. It was parked when he struck it hard enough to launch one tire over the curb into the front yard of the house where our car was parked. Our family vehicle.

When it happened to us in 2022 our entire family was in the vehicle (a different one) and our car was totaled. My wife was pregnant with our youngest at the time.

Today I asked the officer what would happen to the guy. Would he be arrested? No, just get a ticket. It's a misdemeanor. Will he have a blood test? No, not without probable cause.

This is not ok.

My family cannot afford to have these reckless, uninsured foreigners smashing into our cars at an average of once a year. We can't.

I know part of the answer is deporting them, and I'm all for that, but we need a better fix in the meantime. I pay my monthly car insurance. I pay $218 EVERY MONTH for auto insurance. This guy will get a ticket that could be LESS THAN I PAY IN ONE MONTH FOR CAR INSURANCE.

In the meantime, my rates are so high because uninsured drivers smash into people left and right. The don't pay. We pay.

This has to change. There need to be significantly higher penalties for uninsured driving, and especially when an uninsured motorist gets in an accident.

Maybe something the Texas legislature could work on next session. @TexasGOP @BrentMoneyTX @brentmoney @DavidLowe4Texas @wesvirdelltx @realmitchlittle @andyhoppertx

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Trump just unveiled the new Air Force One and it’s 🔥

Actual red, white and blue that reflects our nation’s colors instead of periwinkle blue.

We are so back 🇺🇸

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.

Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.

We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.

It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.

Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.

Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

Sorry but you can’t chat about things like digital ID when dressed as if you’re living in the 16th century

[SWAMPIST @Swampist]

The Great Southern Road Trip is live: a back-roads atlas of the American South. No interstates.

Twenty-five routes, 6,369 miles, 521 stops. It’s drawn like an old engraved atlas, with real coastline and rivers and state lines on parchment, and you can trace any route across it, including a few historic ones like De Soto’s Entrada and Lafayette’s Farewell Tour.

The four regions each have their own character. The Gulf Coast runs through Cajun country and shrimp-boat towns. The Deep South is Delta blues and battlefields. The Upper South climbs into the Blue Ridge. The Atlantic Coast is Lowcountry marsh, Savannah, Charleston, the Outer Banks.

Grab a ready-made itinerary or build your own, then actually drive it. A GPS companion follows along: where you are, how far to the next stop, a nudge when you’re close. Check stops off as you go. No sign-up, all on your device.

It works offline, caches the map for when the signal dies on some county road, and installs like an app. Field Notes has the longer stories behind the stops.

https://t.co/qNPMiHJp4T

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

There will be a SBC, Pip.

[Marc Buxton @marcbuxton]

@AccentsSouthern Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Livin’ in a Van Gogh down by the river!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤨

[Aedanus Burke @aedanusburke]

Classically Anglican with no distractions, Pompion (Punkin) Hill Chapel was constructed in 1763 as a chapel of ease in St Thomas and St Denis Parish outside of Charleston South Carolina.

[Adam Morgan @RepAdamMorgan]

👋Meet South Carolina’s newly appointed Public Health Director—

-Donated to Biden DURING Pandemic.
-Ran all COVID vaccine campaigns in SC.
-Put her infant in COVID vaccine trials…
-Pushed mask mandates & shutdowns.
-Called for Trump to be impeached.

She was just appointed by “Republican”@henrymcmaster

And the biggest irony—she donated to McMaster’s Democrat opponent James Smith…

Do you trust her judgment to manage public health?

Remove Dr. Traxler NOW!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A glaringly obvious double-standard

[Marc Buxton @marcbuxton]

@MattWalshBlog It’s been boring since Rush passed, frankly

[Marc Buxton @marcbuxton]

Wow

[ABC News @ABC]

NEW: Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China, the Justice Department announced on Monday.

Wang agreed to plead guilty, the Justice Department said. https://t.co/61VZ41RJMF

[Marc Buxton @marcbuxton]

Incorrect. I know a few billionaires personally, and they absolutely did earn it by creating products and systems and opportunity, and stewarding that over several decades. It absolutely takes genius on several levels, which I do not believe, in my assessment, AOC possesses. That may be her blind spot.

[Heritage Foundation @Heritage]

Just because AOC is incapable of generating value worth more than $1 billion doesn’t mean everyone else is.