Classical Liberal | UChicago & Oxford | Texan | Husband & Father | GWOT vet | Christian
Austin, Texas
Joined July 2021
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At the core of every program is an effort to grow government and to calcify its bureaucracy first. The mission, dear friend, is merely the means -- the excuse -- to gain funding for the perpetual mechanism.
Austin has spent $790,052 of this year's federal anti-poverty grant, all of it on salaries and benefits for 13 city employees.
The city's proof that it's working is that 36 people "transitioned out of poverty."
What counts as a transition is if a household earns more than about $40,000 a year for a family of four, for 90 days.
But nobody checks back after those 90 days to see.
The goal is 41 people. Last year the city reported 49, and it kept the goal at 41 for some reason.
That’s nearly $800,000 in pay and benefits to hit an easy target that only measures three months of income.
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Historian @ProfStonebraker thought she'd achieved the life of a happy and intellectually fulfilled atheist at the start of her academic career, until she encountered the ideas of New Atheists @PeterSinger and @RichardDawkins. This led her to question her assumptions and, ultimately, convert to Christian faith!
More stories like this can be read in the book 'Coming To Faith Through Dawkins' 👉 kregel.com/apologetics-and-e…
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AJ developed a solution to help DHS identify Muslim terrorists, but the person who leads the machine-learning department there, whose name was Muhammad, rejected it.
I know the capabilities of the software AJ developed, and I am going to offer it to the right people in the White House, where no Muhammad has any jurisdiction.
A cabal uncovered ...
I just came across this in an Open Society Foundations document about how to fix public “mistrust” of liberal "democracy," and I honestly feel sick reading it. I've read many alarming quotes, but few are so "mask off" like this.
"I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good—to whom the electorate… can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections—will be able to justify public trust and spearhead... our struggle to survive.""
Read that again. The proposed solution to the public's distrust in democracy... is less democracy.
An unelected "elite" to whom the public should cede sovereignty.
Abolish democracy to save democracy. This kind of thinking is what we're up against.
Bex retweeted
Officially NOT a conspiracy anymore.
This is seditious conspiracy.
She has EXPOSED a coordinated network of ex-USAID officials, former national-security, and NGOs openly planning street chaos + lawfare pressure to force a crisis, remove Trump before January 3rd, and then write the rules of the government that follows.
They’re applying the same color revolution playbooks the U.S. used abroad, on America itself.
Mainstream media is ignoring it, so regular people, YOU are the distribution network.
What’s the single highest-leverage thing an average citizen can do right now?
Consider this Democracy Files 3.5.
Note in the video that they are pretty confident that a "breakthrough" will happen that gets rid of Trump sometime between now and January 3rd, and Mike Smith allegedly acknowledges RAD's role in writing the government that comes after.
Another drop coming later this morning.
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Meet Judge Araceli Martinez Olguín…
She was appointed by Autopen.
Born in Mexico.
There’s NO RECORD her parents immigrated to America legally.
They could be illegals.
Araceli just barred DHS doing field interrogations of potential illegals.
The Judiciary is a disaster.
The echo chambers of academia have a long history of hysteria at the thought of competing voices and alternative views. This preference for monoculture, left unchecked, is self-evincing and leads to what we find today at Yale (as an example) where not a single conservative voice is on faculty. Not one. And they think that's fine.
Professors complaining about conservative influence at UT Austin is a tale as old as time
You can find articles on it from both the Rick Perry and George W eras, very similar to today's Texas Monthly
Heck, heres a Daily Texan article from 1942 saying "Academic Freedom is gravely threatened here on our own 40 acres" after some conomics instructors were fired for their opinions on the 'New Deal' 😂
Its going to be ok! UT is in a good spot right now
Give me 4 minutes and I'll save you from 6 years of regret.
Every word is James Talarico’s.
27 clips. 4 minutes. 2019–2026.
“God is non-binary.”
“…many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.”
“If you deny your child’s gender identity… it’s abusive for sure.”
“There’s only one person who can determine a child’s gender identity, and that’s the child.”
“I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too.”
“…the bill that would have denied gender-affirming health care to trans children… All these ideologies stem from this Christofascism movement.”
“The way I fought for trans kids in the legislature is how I will fight for the U.S. Senate, and my position hasn’t changed.”
“Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness.”
“It’s always rich to me that defund the police is considered off limits…”
“Prison is violence.”
“Tear down this secret police force.”
Assault weapons ban? “Absolutely.”
Send this to 10 Texas voters and tell them to vote today.
It starts making more sense once you realize it is an open-air, island prison, @JohnCleese.
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Meet the Democrats' star candidate for Texas HD 7: Fantasha... or should I say her alter ego "Smoree Starr"? Because apparently running for office under a stripper name is a qualification now. Her rap sheet reads like a career criminal's resume: aggravated robbery in 2011, aggravated assault with a weapon against a dating/family/household member in 2014, and ANOTHER aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2020. That's on top of 4 Class A misdemeanors, 2 Class B misdemeanors, 2 probation revocations, a bench warrant for skipping court, failure to pay court fines, contempt of court, and an "alias index" flag for giving cops a FAKE NAME. And the Dems had the audacity to say Republicans don't run their best? This is who they're putting on the ballot. Y'all are cooking with gas over there, huh?
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Do you know who to vote for in the midterms? Let me give you some help, but you decide. The Democratic Party wants open borders, while the Republican Party wants secure borders. The Democratic Party wants noncitizens to be able to vote; the Republican Party supports requiring voter ID. The Democratic Party wants to give taxpayer-funded benefits like healthcare to noncitizens; the Republican Party says No to that. And there are a hundred more issues. The choice is yours—but look prayerfully at what both parties stand for.
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🚨 BREAKING: Pete Hegseth says the overseas scam rings robbing Americans are tied to enemy militaries, and the War Department is going after them.
"There is a very clear connection between transnational cyber syndicates and enemy militaries and how they fund themselves," Hegseth said at the White House.
Per Hegseth, Cyber Command and the NSA are feeding intelligence and tracking data on overseas cyber networks straight to the Homeland Security Task Force.
Law enforcement uses it to map, disrupt and dismantle those networks.
"If they can't match us or beat us on the battlefield, which they can't, they try to move to the realm of cyberspace," he said.
They picked the wrong country to rob.
In the face of deceit and temptation, lean into your faith and rest in God.
Bill Clinton Quotes Bible in Effort to Flip Florida Blue trib.al/JPtw9xL
The 4 gospels, in their differences and distinctions, add depth and dimensionality to our understanding of Jesus; that He came as the Son of God, the Messiah, the Suffering Servant, and YHWH among us as a man in fulfillment of His covenantal promises.
The 4 Gospels all tell the same unified story about our Lord Jesus Christ. But they are also distinctly different in some ways. This is not an accident.
@CarlosErazoGTG says this realization changed how he reads the Bible 🙌
Preparing future practitioners of the profession to break the law and cover up crimes.
Law schools need to be shuttered for such behavior.
After the @CivilRights Division found that Berkeley Law has an illegal race-based admissions system, its “flagship” student-run California Law Review thought it would be a bright idea to destroy evidence of possible race discrimination in how it selects its members. We’re investigating! 🤨
