Advocate for Liberty & Self-Evident Truths 🇺🇸 | עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱 א ג ל א | Writer & Editor of classical ideas | #SkoBuffs 🦬
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Progressives praise tolerance, but George Washington knew better. In his 1790 letter to the Jews of Newport, he advocated for natural #equality over tolerance—a vital difference for the safety of #Jewish community in America today. My latest for @TheBlaze theblaze.com/columns/opinion…
There are thousands of people on this app who keeps saying “I didn’t agree with Charlie Kirk on much, but…”
My question is how many of you disagreed with him in accepting the foundational idea of the Declaration of independence?
Charlie believed in natural rights. The rights the Declaration wrote were self-evident truths. The natural right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Like America’s founders, Charlie knew that these rights didn’t come from government, but were granted to us as human beings. That they exist naturally in the world. I would guess that’s what many of these people would disagree with.
In fact, just last week we heard former Vice Presidential nominee, Senator Tim Kaine say that “the notion that rights don’t come from laws or the government, but come from the creator… the statement that our rights do not come from laws or government is extremely troubling.“ Comments eerily reminiscent of similar sentiments made in 1991 by then Senator Joe Biden, who had already served 17 years on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that he was troubled by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas’s devotion to these ideas of natural rights. This is shared denial that goes back generations, shared by LBJ, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Merriam, John Dewey, Steven A. Douglass, and John C. Calhoun, to name a few.
If this is where you disagree with Charlie Kirk, the only alternative is to believe in nihilism. To believe that there are no truths. To believe the world is based on feelings and what feels true and good and right to you. To believe in conversations beginning by differentiating between your truth, my truth, his truth, her truth, or their truth.
My question then becomes this… if you don’t believe in natural, self evident truths, then how do you know that his murder was wrong?
By telling us you disagree with him, but there should never be political violence is hypocritical and antithetical. Those two ideas cannot exist in the same space. How can you say that political violence is wrong, or any violence is wrong, and simultaneously claim there are no self-evident truths like the truths that Charlie Kirk espoused? Something is either truly, universally wrong, or just your opinion that has no basis to be accepted by others.
If you say “(you) disagree with him, but…”consider that maybe the problem is that you disagreed with him in the first place.
Time to do some recruiting @CUBuffsMBB. How many of these kids would love to play down the road from Jokic.
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😢 There has been a lot of talk about statues at Folsom Field over the last year or two. Can we start with this one?
Thank you for the memories, Coach Mac. My love for the game & my love for Colorado football began the day you stepped on campus. Forever a legend. 🦬 #GoBuffs 🦬
Grandpa Mac, I love you so much. I am heartbroken now, but I know you’re in Heaven now. Rest in Glory, Grandpa Mac.
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@RyanKoenigsberg @JakeDNVR @ScottProcter_ @DNVR_Buffs @UncleNeely anyone want to go over ask Coach Ris if this is true and what we have to do to keep him? #KeepRisInBoulder
FSU expected to hire Colorado assistant, Tallahassee native to recruiting staff 247sports.com/college/florid…
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Nick Saban notoriously brought in guys in situations like EB as analysts for a 1 year career reset. I hope @DeionSanders will consider doing the same for the Buff legend after we've seen how well it's worked out with @WarrenSapp. He could be an amazing Mentor to Dallan, Isaiah, and Micah in particular (similar players). @DNVR_Buffs @RyanKoenigsberg @JakeDNVR @ScottProcter_
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.@DOGE you may not find a better Revolutionary than the good Doc.
There are a few of us social scientists—not many, but some—who have invested decades studying the progressive administrative state.
Those studies include how the administrative state operates, the incentives (and disincentives) it creates, how bureaucrats and others respond to those incentives, how it grows, how it pursues its own interests, and the powers it exercises.
Some of us dig into the subject even deeper, exploring questions of what legitimizes rule by unelected bureaucrats—or what makes their rule *appear* legitimate—and the philosophic view of human nature that provides the foundation for the administrative state.
In the end, the very idea of an unelected administrative state staffed with bureaucrats whose claim to rule is their own alleged intelligence and expertise is incompatible with political self-government.
Either We The People rule within a self-governing constitutional republic, or bureaucrats rule us without our consent, within an administrative state.
Should those of us who understand these fateful subjects of national importance ever create an organization to help transform the administrative state we now have into a regime of liberty and constitutional self-government, we'd never name that organization a Department of Government Efficiency.
We don't want the administrative state to be lean and efficient. We want the administrative state to be gone, and replaced by the American people once again deciding matters of great national importance and public policy for themselves, through the self-governing channels of political power We The People established through our Constitution.
For those who have communication with Messrs. @elonmusk , @VivekGRamaswamy , or those close to them, please pass along this message: We don't want 15 efficient and powerful federal departments of bureaucracies. We want to repeal and abolish most of them. We want a Department of Administrative Abolition.
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I’m not crying, you’re crying. 🥹
Happy Birthday to Miss Peggy. Was always a happy sight seeing the twins in the stands behind the basket in the CUEC 20+ years ago as a student. Even better knowing she’s still there.
Buff Nation absolutely adore Miss Peggy. 50,000+ people singing her happy birthday is the sweetest thing you'll see all day 🥰
#GoBuffs | #CUBoulder | #SkoBuffs
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2024 will forever be known as the first fully AI-influenced election.
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Kamala Harris is trending to be the most anti-Israel presidential candidate of my lifetime.
Worse, her decision to snub PM Netanyahu at the airport and again at his address to Congress displays serious questions about her ability to perform the diplomatic duties of a president.
If she can't have a civil conversation with a world leader who's friendly to the US, how will she deal with hostile foreign regimes?
WATCH: @RJC Launches Major Opening Ad Salvo Against Kamala Harris in Key States
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced a major, five-figure digital ad buy slamming the Democratic nominee for President, Kamala Harris, for snubbing the Prime Minister of Israel's historic speech to a joint session of Congress. RJC CEO Matt Brooks said:
"As Israel fights an existential war for its very survival, and as hostages languish in Gaza at the hands of Hamas terrorists - including 8 Americans - Kamala Harris is choosing to snub Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's critical address to Congress. Instead, she is going to a sorority luncheon. Yes, you read that right. What a shanda.
Vice President Kamala Harris, as President of the US Senate, should be in attendance to preside over the chamber. Harris has totally failed her first test as a candidate for President of the United States - and the RJC will hold her accountable.
Starting today, RJC will be running ads in key battleground states, targeting Jewish voters utilizing the best data operation in politics.
Kamala Harris' priorities are not the Jewish community's priorities. If you thought Joe Biden was bad, Kamala Harris is far worse on issues of top concern for pro-Israel voters."
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If you still think that George Soros and his family have any care at all for the Jewish community, I beg of you to watch this interview from more than 30 years ago.
If you’re Jewish and still unsure who you’re supporting, what else will it take? They are coming for us all and only one candidate has any interest in standing in their way.
For Biden and whoever wrote this, it’s party over country.
It’s interesting that in his own letter Biden says he’s dropping out because it’s in the best interests of his party. America comes second.
That is the Democrat party in a nutshell & it sums up the entire Biden presidency.
Party before country.
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There is evidence all around us of the Nihlist virus that has infected America and much of the world.
When someone can confidently and publicly advocate for the m*rder of another human—whoever that human is—without thought of morality, we've lost our way.
This doctor is giving advice, including medical advice for another person to attempt an ass*ssin*tion against US Presidents @secretservice
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Considering that the @cologop is essentially absent and feckless, @MandyConnell and @Rossputin I hope you will deal with this disgusting human appropriately. Hold him accountable.
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