“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions" His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Talmudic Reflections: The Gift That Multiplies
Rabbi Elazar taught, “One who causes others to perform a meritorious act is greater than one who performs that act himself” (Bava Batra 9a).
The giver relieves a pain; the person who stimulates generosity creates a continuing source of relief.
Elazar, the third-century Palestinian (Judea region, not the modern term) sage Eleazar ben Pedat, lived several centuries before the Babylonian Talmud, which was compiled during the fifth and sixth centuries.
Duty Free Shoppers cofounder Chuck Feeney quietly distributed roughly $8 billion during his lifetime, then made his method public.
His “Giving While Living” philosophy influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who cited him as an inspiration for the Giving Pledge.
Feeney’s donations exceeded the fortune he gave away: he helped make large-scale giving a habit.
In the seventh-century, a saying attributed to Muhammad holds that “one who guides to something good has a reward similar to that of its doer” (Sahih Muslim 1893a). The hadith grants the guide equal moral credit.
Goodness reaches its most productive version when it becomes contagious.
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On this idle Sunday, here are ten ideas from Warren Buffett on living a better life:
Rule #1: Eat Like a Six-Year-Old
Buffett drinks Cherry Coke, eats McDonald’s for breakfast, and keeps peanut brittle within reach. It’s not a brand stunt. It’s a worldview.
“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”
Lesson: stop moralizing every bite you take.
2. Marry Your Future
Buffett says the two biggest turning points in his life were “coming out of the womb — and meeting Susie.”
“Marry the right person. I’m serious about that. It will make more difference in your life. It will change your aspirations, all kinds of things. What happened with me would not have happened without her.”
Lesson: Your spouse isn’t just your partner. They’re your partner in becoming who you are.
3. Don’t Chase Net Worth. Chase Self-Worth.
Never confuse love with liquidity, whether in your marriage, at the office, or with your closest friends.
“Being given unconditional love is the greatest benefit you can ever get.”
Lesson: Real wealth is emotional security. And the only way to earn it is to be lovable.
4. Invest, Then Get Out of the Way
Buffett doesn’t trade. He cultivates.
“A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors.”
Lesson: You don’t need more strategies. You need more stillness.
5. Choose Friends You Can Grow With
Buffett’s best relationships, romantic, business, and personal, are built on respect, not flash.
“You want to associate with people who are the kind of person you’d like to be. You’ll move in that direction.”
Lesson: Character is contagious. Choose carefully who you catch it from.
6. Read Like It’s Your Job
Buffett reads five to six hours a day. His biggest investment isn’t money. It’s attention.
“I just sit in my office and read all day.”
Lesson: Busy is overrated. Curious is where the returns are.
7. Live Beneath Your Ego
He still lives in the Omaha house he bought in 1958.
“Would 10 homes make me happier? Possessions possess you at a point.”
Lesson: If you don’t need more, you don’t fear losing it. Simplicity is common sense, not denial.
8. Say No Like Your Life Depends On It
Buffett avoids most meetings, dinners, conferences, and business travel.
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.”
Lesson: The things you don’t do define you.
9. Work With People You’d Trust With Your Wallet
Buffett chooses temperament over talent. You can teach a skill, but you can’t teach integrity.
“You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”
Lesson: Trust is a better long-term asset than brilliance.
10. Live Somewhere That Makes You Smarter
Buffett left Wall Street for Omaha. It wasn’t an escape. It was an upgrade.
“If you can’t think clearly in Omaha, you can’t think clearly anywhere.”
Lesson: Your geography becomes your psychology.
Buffett’s story is one of the central themes of my new book, Lift: The Three Hidden Forces That Launch Remarkable Lives. It’s a Next Big Idea Club must-read for October and comes out October 20 from Skyhorse.
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Yeah, sure. How’s that working out for the Venezuelans so far?
Meanwhile he wrecks our Atlantic Alliance and sells out the Ukrainians to the genocidal Russians.
Trump is a toxic sociopath. Nothing good will come from him. If something good happens in Venezuela it’s because of Marco Rubio.
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As a Reagan era Conservative I endorse the impeachment and trial of President Trump and Vice President Vance after the November elections.
I hope that the House and Senate will act to protect the integrity of the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and especially the Constitution, irrespective of political affiliation.
Principle before politics.
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The 2026 Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report was released today. @MegTuszynski has a high-level overview on what’s new in this edition in her latest Substack post.
Tl;dr - global freedom is up, but the US is slipping.
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In 4 out of 5 economic freedom areas, the Nordic countries score highly. So why do people keep calling them socialist?
Meg Tuszynski's newest Substack post explains this puzzle.
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The five takeaways from Lift:
1. Nobody is self-made.
2. Look for the person who sees your strength.
3. Build a small circle that tells you the truth.
4. Learn the rules of the room before you follow them.
5. One honest voice.
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The ancient Greek word krisis meant a turning point, a decision, a judgment, a selection.
Under great pressure, our tendency is to react, and reacting can freeze us in a room we should have left. But a crisis, as the Greeks meant it, asks us to decide.
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Secretary @SecRubio why are we negotiating with evil? You will never achieve any meaningful peace with Russia as long as you continue to hold out hope to Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. He sees all of you in the @WhiteHouse as moral cowards, unwilling to fight for freedom. Russia must be defeated.
…the russians did this yesterday morning, and yes, they don't care about any red lines. It was a residential building, and a small number of people who hadn't evacuated yet lived here. Also, this apartment building housed the office of the Proliska humanitarian mission. Following the strike, 3 staff members were trapped under the rubble of the destroyed building. Fortunately, all three were rescued alive: one female staff member sustained minor shrapnel wounds, while the other two suffered acute stress reactions. But… russia only knows how to take human lives. According to preliminary data, 5 people were killed and another 6 were injured as a result of the strike in Oleksandrivka. At the time the video was filmed, people, including children, were still trapped under the rubble. Rescuers and volunteers continue to work at the scene, salvaging surviving belongings and humanitarian aid.
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Partnership with Chavez-era oil baron Alejandro Betancourt complicates Trump’s Venezuela oil gamble
Risks undermining president's goal of driving Moscow and Beijing out of country
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Does economic freedom just make us richer — or actually happier?
Two decades of research says freer places (countries, states, even metro areas) tend to be happier places. But the story has 3 caveats worth knowing.
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Maduro's Capture Was Step One. Venezuela Still Needs Freedom | Franklin Camargo @FranklinCamarg0
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1913 was not “progress.” It was the year Washington built a permanent machine for taking wealth from the public and feeding it to the state.
In a single year the country got the modern income tax and a central bank:
The 16th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913, stripping away the old constitutional rule that direct taxes had to be apportioned among the states.
The Revenue Act of 1913, signed October 3, put a federal income tax back on the books: 1 percent above $3,000, rising to 7 percent above $500,000 — and it hit only a thin slice of households.
The Federal Reserve Act was signed December 23, 1913.
The Treasury is older than all of that (1789).
What changed in 1913 was the partnership: Treasury extracts and borrows; the Fed supplies an elastic currency and a market for the debt. Together they let government spend first and settle the bill later, through taxes you see and inflation you are trained not to call a tax.
That is the record, not a slogan. Since the Fed’s founding, the dollar has lost on the order of 96–97 percent of its purchasing power on official CPI. A 1913 dollar buys a few cents of today’s goods.
A currency that melts is not a store of value. It is a quiet transfer from savers, wage earners, and people on fixed incomes to whoever gets the new money first — government, banks, and the contractors and bureaucracies clustered around federal spending.
The income tax followed the same path. It was sold as a small levy on “the rich.” Within a few years the top rate was in the 60s and 70s; in World War II it hit 94 percent. The code metastasized from a short statute into a permanent occupation of private life.
Federal spending before World War I was a few percent of the economy in peacetime. It is now in the low-20s of GDP at the federal level, with total government far higher. Debt held by the public has reached 100 percent of GDP. That is not “the people funding common defense.” It is a political class that discovered it could buy constituencies with money created or borrowed against the next generation.
Call it what it is. When the state takes earnings by statute and then cheapens what is left in the paycheck, it is not partnership. It is extraction. The beneficiaries are not “the public” in the abstract. They are the agencies that never shrink, the programs that become entitlements, and the politicians who treat other people’s output as a patronage budget.
Congress should unwind the 1913 settlement.
The Federal Reserve Act is a statute. Congress created the System; Congress can abolish it and repeal the Act. Bills to do exactly that have been introduced. Repeal is a policy choice, not a metaphysical impossibility.
Freedom and prosperity do not come from a central bank targeting 2 percent annual decay and a Treasury that treats the productive economy as a revenue farm. They come from property that is hard to seize and money that is hard to dilute.
The 1913 progressive package inverted that. It should be reversed — the Act by legislation, the Amendment by amendment — and the government put back on a short fiscal leash.
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Claire Valdez @claireforny we defeated an upstart Mexican dictator at San Jacinto in 1836. We have zero tolerance for tyranny in any clothes, especially Sombrero Marxists like yourself.
215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won.
I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative.
And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us – and building a government for the working class.
¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!
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This begs the question @SenTedCruz as to why you’ve said absolutely nothing in defense of U.S. national security interests in Europe, especially Ukraine and the Baltics? While Trump and Vance assailed President Zelenskyy in the White House, where were you?
Today, the House passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act.
Lindsey was one of the most formidable foes America’s enemies ever faced. He was unapologetic in confronting the Russian regime and worked tirelessly to deprive Putin’s war machine of the resources it needs.
This legislation honors his legacy. I look forward to seeing it on President Trump’s desk, and becoming law.