“I haven’t missed [striking Detroit newspapers] myself.  It’s better to be uninformed than misinformed. I even doubt some of the pictures I see in the papers.”  -Orville Hubbard, mayor of Dearborn, 1955

We tend to believe others are like us.

The average leftist who tells us private charity could never pay for the hopeless charity cases… doesn't herself give very much.

Women who are into politics universally share the opinion that nothing is of greater interest to their sex.  Certainly not gossip or makeup, though chrome histories beg to differ.

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”

― Charles Mackay

Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Lucy Letby is a British nurse who murdered seven babies. She has been given a "whole life" order, which is British for "very serious indeed." But it's not serious enough I'm afraid.

I read this touching passage in a study about the family members of the murdered: "One participant is Catholic, a religion that is traditionally opposed to the death penalty. She noted that if it had resulted in this scenario, she would have given up her religion in order for her to support capital punishment for her son’s murderer."

Just kidding he seems like a good guy.

But I did listen to him and Tucker talk for 45 minutes so here are my thoughts from that interview alone.

   Their voices  were  even  and  low,

  Their  eyes  were  level  and  straight.

   There was neither sign nor show,

  When  the  English  began  to  hate.

-Rudyard Kipling

I'm not going to legally analyze the charges against Donald Trump.  Many people have done that better than I can.  I can only tell you what I perceive is the gravity of the present situation from my knowledge of history:  We are in dire straits.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.  -Winston Churchill

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Paul Graham: If you'd told me as a kid that in the 2020s liberals would be the ones punishing dissent and the protest songs would be conservative, I not only wouldn't have believed it, I couldn't even have imagined it.

Humanity does not suppress an error without simultaneously erasing several truths. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." -Ronald Reagan, 1975

Lebron's school is failing although it's very well-funded and does everything Democrats would like. It's a family! Maybe that's the problem.

A law professor sniffs at objections from Trump as to the fairness of the DC venue. This reveals the ugly power-hungry beast that is leftism. It sees no injustice if done to its competitors for power.

"We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F.B.I. is tending in that direction." -Harry Truman

“You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”  -Unknown

Civilization requires universal standards. 

Either all our cultures will develop a sense of accountability or all will develop a sense of unaccountability:  A house divided cannot stand.

“sufficient female institutional power is incompatible with what we call civilization.”  -@explicatur1

“Given how passive celibacy has become the overwhelming temptation of our time, maybe aspiring servants of God should take a vow of nymphomania”  -@filthyarmenian

The left uses science the way the Germans used to:  It means what they want it to mean.  Their studies all point in one direction, that humans are in mortal danger and the only solution is leftism in power with fewer checks and balances than before.

“A republic, if you can keep it.”  -Ben Franklin