steven n fettig

WI is home. God, family, community. "Lex injusta non est lex."

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

Al Gore is a perfect proxy for the collapse of the Democrats, intellectually. If 1999 Gore was still alive today, he'd be a conservative Republican on most issues.

That sane Gore was replaced with an apoplectic banshee advocating totalitarianism. And by today's party standards... he's still a moderate.

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

Abolish all government healthcare intervention.

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

I regret that we didn't have MORE children.

Selfish children themselves produce this "journalism".

Is parenting super hard, and especially draining in the first 5-7 years? Of course. Every human in all of history knows this.

Do parents have moments of being fried and even darker flashes of "regret"?

Do nearly all parents feel that "regret" outside of those dark moment (or while under the throws of serious distress or mental illness)? NO.

Does anyone on their death bed (outside of selfish sociopathic narcissists like the median corporate journalist) think "man, I wish I had fewer/no kids to bought more shit or went on more vacations"??

Hell fucking no.

I think most of this is motivated by the corrupt culture of self-centered, purposeless striving in industries that chew up and spit out mostly female young careerists... like "journalism".

Don't worry about how much this job sucks and the total emptiness it offers feels demoralizing. It could be worse! You could be a mom!!

Articles like this, even when they're (carefully sought out and curated) testimonials, are anti-knowledge, anti-wisdom, infantile appeals to fleeting base emotions. And they all point in the same, evil, anti-human direction.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[steven n fettig @snfettig]

"We need the face and voice to re-signify the person. We must safeguard the gift of communication as the deepest human truth towards which every technological innovation must be directed."

https://t.co/ZOAeTVdEJL

[steven n fettig @snfettig]

@histories_arch @grok is this the only reason for the schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church?

[steven n fettig @snfettig]

@bradleybirzer Blue

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Pope St. John Paul II declared that the Church has taught in an infallible and irrevocable manner that women cannot be priests. Thus, if the Church were to reverse this teaching, that would (obviously) falsify Catholicism, since she can hardly ever claim to teach infallibly and irrevocably if even purportedly infallible and irrevocable teaching can be reversed.

Lewis’s conception of papal authority is not Catholic. In fact, he is committed to the voluntarist caricature of the papacy promoted by the Church’s enemies, according to which a pope can teach just any old thing he wants – even reversals of infallible traditional teaching – and the reversal will itself somehow magically become “traditional” or even “infallible.”

This is worse than theological incompetence. It shows an incapacity for elementary logical reasoning. And it gives aid and comfort to critics of Catholicism insofar as it lends false credibility to the charge that Catholic claims to doctrinal continuity are spurious and that the Church’s defenders are intellectually dishonest.

[Tom Grieve @AttyTomGrieve]

The pistol brace rule died yesterday: not with a roar but with a whimper. The government withdrew their appeal and the saga is now over… for now. #atf #nfa #pistolbrace

[steven n fettig @snfettig]

RT @kerpen: The Senate version only includes school choice scholarships only in states that affirmatively opt in. That is a real shame for…

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

A rather silly article appeared in the Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune concerning my participation in the President’s Religious Liberty Commission. The author, Karen Tolkkinen, claimed that I “advocate erasing the boundaries between church and state.” This is a gross mischaracterization of my position.

The first amendment to the Constitution does indeed say that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, and I completely support this. But the amendment contains a second clause in regard to religion, namely, that Congress shall make no law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Though there can never be an official American religion, there can indeed be expressions of religion in the public space and in civic life. The relegation of faith to the private sphere, which has been encouraged by some of the regrettable jurisprudence of the last seventy-five years, is happily being overturned by a number of recent decisions of our Supreme Court. It is no accident, in fact, that freedom of religion is the first liberty guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. For if the capacity to express one’s deepest moral convictions in public is denied, all of the other freedoms can and will, in time, be denied.

Ms. Tolkkinen represents the elite liberal class that, unfortunately, controls many of the institutions of our society. What she and her colleagues fear the most are confident and assertive religious people who refuse to stay sequestered in private. So I say: fight hard against any formal establishment of religion, but fight just as hard for the right to exercise religion in the public space.

[Rep. Doug LaMalfa @RepLaMalfa]

California continues to be slapped down in the courts. Great job to FPC for this lawsuit. I fully agree with this statement by the court. “California is Wrong”.

FPC sued and overturned the unconstitutional 1 gun a month law in California. They won 3-0 at the liberal 9th circuit with two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only in the short run.”

— Thomas Sowell

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

The best take on the feud.

[steven n fettig @snfettig]

I support this. But, I also think this is an offhand recommendation Warren Buffet made during an interview when asked about how he'd try to balance the Federal budget. Any honest person, regardless of political stripes/party, should support this.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Would you support a constitutional amendment rendering all members of Congress ineligible for re-election whenever the federal deficit exceeds 3% of GDP?