Posted January 5

I used to be a male trapped in a female body. Then my mom went into labor and I was born.

Posted January 12

The world is like a mirror, face it smiling and it smiles right back at you. — Madeline Daly

Posted January 19

I've learned much over the last several years and one thing I've learned about learning is this; the most monumental and important concepts that you will learn often come first with a ruffling of feathers when it's heard. True growth will always be accompanied by struggle and resistance. — Nate Rock

Posted January 25

No Socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.

And where would be the ordinary simple folk–the common people, as they like to call them in America–where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip? — Winston Churchill

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February 16

Darkness is the microscope of the imagination and it magnifies a million times! — Unknown

Posted February 23

"Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages [social] intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher..." — Thomas Paine

Posted March 2

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. — Proverbs 16:32

Posted March 9

…Faith, patriotism, hard work, family. These things have disappeared. And that leaves a moral vacuum in its wake. And when you have a black hole that runs that deep, that is when the poison fills the void " – wokeism, transgenderism, climatism, globalism, depression, anxiety, drug usage…Our job is to rise up, the level up. Restoring the American Dream for every American will not happen automatically. It's going to require each of us to do our part to save this great nation. — Vivek Ramaswamy

Posted March 16

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

Posted March 23

Modern definitions of propaganda include: persuasion through careful curation of true information, selective omissions, hamhanded emotional appeals instead of evidence, 'framing' to shape perception, appeals to cherry-picked authorities, and diligent suppression of counter-narratives. — Jeff Childers

Posted March 30

The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. — Richard Horton, former editor of the The Lancet, a premier medical journal

Posted April 7

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. — Gustav Mahler

Posted April 13

"Common sense" is a stream flowing down from profound reverence for God and love for the ethical standard which He, our Creator, has given to mankind. If we arrogantly cut ourselves off from that source, the stream no longer irrigates society with happiness and prosperity. Instead, common sense becomes a muddy puddle of common foolishness.

Posted April 20

You go on an embassy compared with which all the embassies of men dwindle into insignificance. You go forth as the ambassadors of Christ. You go to crumble idols — to convey light to benighted minds — to kindle love to God in the souls of ungodly men. Who can overestimate the qualifications necessary for such a work? . . . The fervent, effectual prayer shall ascend to the mercy-seat for you. You shall never see the day when your brethren who sent you out will turn their backs on you. But look higher. The Saviour has told you, 'Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.' That Almighty Friend will always be at your side to sustain you. — George Nixon Briggs, Governor of Massachusetts, A.D. 1844 – 1851

Posted April 27

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Posted May 3

Historian Hannah Arendt's banality of evil, from her book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), shattered the comforting illusion that only fanatics commit great crimes. Watching Adolf Eichmann's trial, she saw not a monster, but a dull bureaucrat – obedient, career-driven, and chillingly thoughtless. His evil wasn't ideological rage but blind conformity, a cog in a system that made atrocities routine. Arendt's horror was realizing that authoritarian regimes don't just rely on radicals; they thrive on ordinary people mindlessly enforcing evil, making malevolence disturbingly mundane. — Jeff Childers

Posted May 11

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens, in 'A Christmas Carol'

Posted May 18

"Your hard work is the dream of every unemployed person;
Your restless child is the dream of every childless person;
Your small home is the dream of every homeless person;
Your meager capital is the dream of every debtor;
Your ill health is the dream of every patient with an incurable disease;
Your peace, your sound sleep, your accessible food are the dream of every person in a country at war.
You must cherish everything you have.
After all, no one knows what tomorrow will bring." — Unknown

Posted May 25

It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell

Posted May 31

Simple, teachable, and mild,
Changed into a little child:
Pleased with all the Lord provides
Weaned from all the world besides. — Anonymous

Posted June 8

The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2000 years. Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots – to change culture – a long March through the institutions is necessary. — Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theorist and politician (d. Anno Domini 1937)

Posted June 15

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. — Alexandre Dumas

Posted June 22

"Oh, what is man!" d'Avrigny muttered. "The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone — an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!" — d'Avrigny is a fictional character in Alexandre Dumas' novel, 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

Posted June 29

Never be afraid of thieves and murderers. They represent the dangers without, which are not worth worrying about. Be afraid of ourselves. Prejudices are the real thieves, vices are the murderers. The greatest dangers are within us. Who cares who threatens our heads or our purses! Let's think only of what threatens our souls. — Victor Hugo, per one of his fictional characters