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happily married father of 5, conservative christian, seeker of truth

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@voteholyk Yet our ballots arrived yesterday for the primary and special election.

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@BhattiLaib9960 A life

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@curiosityonx Oz

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@sciencegirl Humanity itself

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How great would it be for DOGE to be rebranded the Department of Government Excellence. Retweet if you agree my few if any followers.

[Dennis Prager @DennisPrager]

As an American, as a Jew, and as Dennis, I am devastated at the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The truth is, as I write these words, I can’t believe I am writing them. I am in the denial stage of mourning.

As an American, we have lost the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system—a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions. I watched an inordinate number of these exchanges and thanked God that Charlie Kirk was there to do this work. America’s youth in particular have lost a moral and intellectual leader, one who would, perhaps, have one day become their president.

As a committed Jew, I thank God regularly that a non-Jew, a committed Christian, became one of the few great public spokesmen on behalf of Israel the Jewish communities outside of Israel. Few Jews could match Charlie’s knowledge and eloquent arguments on behalf of those two entities.

As Dennis, I have lost a very close friend. Charlie repeatedly visited me in the various hospitals that I have been in since November 12 of last year, when I suffered a catastrophic fall which has left me paralyzed. When members of the nursing staff heard that Charlie Kirk was visiting me, my room became the most popular one in the hospital. Charlie brought me the manuscript of his forthcoming book arguing that everyone—Christians as well as Jews—should observe Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, just as he and his family had begun to do from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It is a measure of our close relationship that he dedicated the book to me. His brilliant exposition of these arguments provide clear evidence for the non-necessity of a college education for most young Americans.

My heart breaks for his young widow, Erika, and for his two children, who have lost as great a man and a father as children can have. And for Charlie, who did not live to see them grow up. For one of the first times in my 20 years with my wife, Sue, I have seen her sob uncontrollably. The Prager home is in deep mourning, as are the homes of countless Americans. The loss to us personally and to the country generally is immeasurable.

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@BestinDogs Tigger

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@tracegallagher when is someone going to push to make identity hiding at protests, mask wearing, illegal as in wear a mask to a protest and get arrested. Some of these ‘paid’ protester cockroaches would not come out in the light.

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@busydadabroad @Texasbrn Agree, nobody looks at the bottom line.

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@tracegallagher rock around locking the clock. I dont care if we stay on DST or standard time. How about make it which ever way it is on the day the lock goes i to effect.

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@JDVanceNewsX A

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@JohnStossel @Greenpeace This is ex. of zero critical thinking from the masses. We waste trillions of dollars doing feel good things that actually make matters worse. Feeling good is not an answer. We need to put our limitted resources including each of our tax dolars and efforts where they make a diff

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@ivankatrumpo Just being born in the USA doesn’t mean you know what it stands for.

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@JoeKennewick Yes and we know why.

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@TheFungi669 Why is that messed up? What is the basis for the conclusion

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@iamnot_elon 1

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@realDonaldJNews Twice, maybe three times. Mild cases.

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@brixwe I dont believe it

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@iamnot_elon Yes sir!

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@JDunlap1974 I hope they do. What would any citizen get from the program if we put nothing in? It isn’t even legal for them to work and that is who the program is for.