With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. -NO DM's
Some of us almost spit out our coffee this morning on Dan Goldman going on CNN to denounce the lack of civility in politics. This stems from the refusal of a barista to sell him a coffee. Goldman, who is viewed by many as the face of rage for his party in attacking anyone with opposing views, lamented the loss of civil discourse..
"In his new book, New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars, Rainer Zitelmann presents the idea that private enterprise is the best way for space exploration to go forward, pointing out the ways in which public funding, since the days of the Moon landing, has been too uneven (and insufficient) to make the advances possible.
When reaching space initially was a political contest, the spirit was there, but since the end of the Cold War, it has been less of a priority."
- @katrinagulliver
Sec. Rubio: "You can't have the end of hostilities and conflict in the region as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq and are participating in terrorism... It is an issue that will be gotten to at the appropriate time in these negotiations."
🚨 In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that the Helms‑Burton Act itself strips Cuban state‑owned companies of sovereign immunity, allowing Exxon’s billion‑dollar lawsuit over property seized after Castro’s 1960 nationalizations to proceed in U.S. courts.
For years, DHS has arbitrarily limited expedited removal to 14 days even though it applies to illegal aliens who entered the country illegally within the last two years. Today, the DC Circuit vindicated our decision to apply the law as written. It’s not too late to take a $2,600 check and a free flight home!
The limited concept of government led to the creation of the most just, free, and prosperous society in the world, at least for some time.
~From “Redeeming the West”
🚨 BREAKING: The Texas A&M professor who kicked a girl out of class for having a religious objection to transgender rhetoric has been FIRED, per Gov. @GregAbbott_TX
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Universities should NOT be woke indoctrination camps! 🔥
What's better: Jerry Tarkanian looking like a cast member from Barney Miller or his assistant looking like a drug dealer Kojak is about to bust at halftime?
A Waffle House at three in the morning. I ordered hash browns. The waitress, Charlene, turned toward the kitchen and shouted.
"Scattered, smothered, covered!"
I rose from my stool.
These were battle commands. Shouted across a room, fast, in code, the way a captain calls a line into position. Something was happening. I prepared myself.
"Who is under attack?" I asked.
Charlene turned back. "Huh? Oh. That's just your hash browns, baby."
I sat back down slowly. "...The potatoes have their own commands?"
"Mhm. Scattered means on the grill. Smothered's onions. Covered's cheese."
"And there are more?"
She counted them off without looking at a menu. "Chunked is ham. Diced is tomato. Peppered's jalapeños. Capped's mushrooms. Topped's chili. Country's sausage gravy."
I was silent for a moment. Nine words. Nine fates, for one potato.
In my homeland, a man earns a name through a lifetime of deeds. Here, a hash brown can earn nine in a single night. I had badly underestimated this country.
"I want all of them," I said. "Every word. The potato has earned them."
"...You want it all the way?"
"All the way. To give it fewer would be an insult."
Charlene shouted the whole thing back into the kitchen, the full litany, and the cook answered without turning around, and I stood again and bowed to him, sergeant to sergeant. He did not see it. It did not matter. I knew.
It came buried. Onions, cheese, ham, tomato, peppers, mushrooms, chili, gravy. You could barely find the potato underneath, which seemed correct, because by then the potato was no longer a side dish. It was a decorated soldier.
I ate the whole thing with a fork in both fists. It was hot and filthy and magnificent. I have eaten in palaces. I have never eaten anything that was honored this thoroughly.
So tell me, America.
You can shout the same potato into nine different lives.
Who wrote this language, and where can a foreigner learn it?
And the cook who answers in code at three in the morning. Is that a kitchen, or a war room?