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Read Patrick Henry's entire speech before the Virginia convention in March of 1775 in US History class today. It is spectacular and worth your time.
We cannot nor should we desire a return to previous ages. But there is lot we can learn about where we headed and how to handle it by studying the Middle Ages.
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Texas results by group (NBC exit poll):
🔴 White men: +23 Republican
🔴 White women: +13 Republican
🔵 Latino men: +19 Democrat
🔵 Latino women: +42 Democrat
🔵 Black men: +77 Democrat
🔵 Black women: +84 Democrat
🔵 All others: +10 Democrat
Like it or not, demographics are destiny
"If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms... 1/2
A wonderful essay by @postnuance. Gives parents, teachers, and so many others some good things to think about when it comes to raising children.
Franciscus Junius was thirteen years old when he began studying law.
Taken by itself, the fact sounds like one of those early-modern anecdotes that makes the past seem almost another species of human existence. A thirteen-year-old studying Justinian under Hugues Doneau belongs, apparently, with boys composing Latin verse before puberty and entering universities at an age when modern children are entering middle school. We can admire the precocity, conclude that children simply grew up faster, and turn the page.
Junius’s own account makes the story considerably more interesting.
This is such a wonderful study. Lots of windows. Books to the ceiling. Various things about the world (globes, etc.). A large desk. Delightful.
Rudyard Kipling’s study at Bateman’s.
Kipling wrote of the home:
“We had seen an advertisement of her, and we reached her down an enlarged rabbit-hole of a lane. At very first sight the Committee of Ways and Means [Mrs Kipling and himself] said ‘That’s her! The only She! Make an honest woman of her–quick!’ We entered and felt her Spirit–her Feng Shui–to be good. We went through every room and found no shadow of ancient regrets, stifled miseries, nor any menace though the ‘new’ end of her was three hundred years old…”
"Virtually all the inhabitants of English America of European descent [in the colonies] were Christians, nominally, habitually, or devoutly...Moreover, most Christians were Protestant." Clarence Carson
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“A commonwealth survives because a people has been taught to read its texts, remember its history, understand its law, administer its institutions, worship within its inherited order, and communicate these goods to its children. Althusius therefore ends where political preservation begins: with the teacher before his pupils, the parent before his household, and one generation placing its inheritance into the hands of the next.”
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🚨 U.S. States Ranked by Number of Mosques & Islamic Centers 🚨
California – 313
Texas – 283
New York – 194
Florida – 181
Illinois – 171
Michigan – 157
Pennsylvania – 155
New Jersey – 152
Virginia – 131
Minnesota – 114
Ohio – 107
Georgia – 106
North Carolina – 96
Maryland – 93
Washington – 79
Massachusetts – 76
Missouri – 57
Indiana – 55
Connecticut – 53
Tennessee – 50
Arizona – 47
Kentucky – 42
Louisiana – 42
Wisconsin – 39
Alabama – 32
Colorado – 31
South Carolina – 30
Iowa – 25
Nebraska – 21
Mississippi – 20
Kansas – 20
Delaware – 18
Arkansas – 15
Nevada – 14
Utah – 14
New Mexico – 11
Oklahoma – 10
Idaho – 9
Rhode Island – 7
West Virginia – 7
Maine – 7
New Hampshire – 6
North Dakota – 6
South Dakota – 5
Wyoming – 3
Vermont – 2
Montana – 2
Total: 3,128
Read that number again.
This should terrify every American.
David French and Russell Moore have done more damage to the Christian faith than kinists and it isn't even close.