Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid

Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid If Fortune favors the bold, largess favors the timid. Largesse allows people to settle for less to avoid work, inhibits risk-taking, and dampens the drive to grow and to thrive. The bread and circuses approach to governance distracts a people of low virtue into a stupor where they …

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Fortune Favors the Bold: Fortune and Luck

Luck presents opportunities. They often come with risk and the need to leave security and stretch ourselves to develop the talents fortune provides to take advantage of the opportunity. Courage and boldness are critical to growth. If luck does not present opportunities, and fortune does not present the skills and the temperament to see the opportunity and employ them, growth and change are unlikely.

The Ten Commandments – Part One

  As we continue to explore the philosophical basis for western civilization, it is key to understand that the underpinnings of what we consider morality today is rooted in the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Torah.  Whether one considers them to be divinely inspired or not, they have been pillars of our civilization for centuries, and …

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The Fall of the American Republic is Looming

In the early days of this Republic, the media were even willing to savage George Washington, a man who had sacrificed or risked as much or more than any other American to establish and preserve this nation. Despite Washington’s record of honorable, steadfast and selfless service to his country, the press of his day accused him of being a thief, a seditionist, and would be monarch.

Holier Than Thou

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Whether its pretentiousness, virtue signaling, or overdeveloped self-importance, many people manifest a holier-than-thou attitude that has become both endemic and irritating. I read an article some years ago, with a title like “’Tis the Season to Not Make Anyone Happy.” I thought I had saved a copy of that article, …

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Whack a Mole

I read lately that Planned Parenthood has changed their business model. Since the abortion industry has had its wings clipped, they have branched out into a new and exciting area. “Assisting” children into oblivion by being a provider for puberty blockers and giving counseling to aid them in their bodily mutilation pathway. When an ideology …

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Massie Reveals Photos of IRS Recruiting Program, Looks Like Audition for Next ‘Police Academy’

President Joe Biden took a few hours between vacations on Tuesday to sign the ironically named “Inflation Reduction Act,” a boondoggle of a bill that analysts agree will not reduce inflation. It will, however, raise taxes on the middle class and subsidize green energy programs. The bill will also dramatically expand the scope and size of …

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What the Romanovs Can Teach Us about Living Like Cossacks

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his children pose with the elite Cossack warriors.

For just over 100 years we have been taught to believe a certain narrative about the Romanovs. Particularly that Nicholas II was meek and ill-prepared for a job that he didn’t want, that of being emperor of Russia, when his father Alexander III died suddenly in 1894. The truth was that at just 23, he indeed faced the monumental task of bringing Russia into the 20th Century, but that as a man of faith, he gave his life fully and completely to God’s will.