Unapologetic champion of Western Civilization, constitutional originalism, capitalism & meritocracy. Sworn enemy of DEI, ESG, multiculturalism, and Islam.
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Decent men apply the "Napier Protocol" to a conflict in cultures. General Sir Charlies Napier was Britain's 19th century commander-in-chief of India.
When asked to respect the Indian custom of burning widows on their husband's funeral pyre, he replied:
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
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What a surprise from Stanford…
Western-canon courses account for just 3.5% of offerings. Even that included classes like “Socrates and Social Justice!” How much smaller would that share be if these ideological perversions of Western canon were excluded?
In AZ v Inter Tribal, forbidding states to ask for proof of citizenship to register, SCOTUS made the absurd ruling that the Constitution's Qualifications Clause, the power of the state set qualifications to vote, is subject to restrictions through the Time, Place, and Manner clause that lets Congress set how elections themselves are conducted.
Scalia, shockingly, writing for the majority, broke 200 years of precedent saying "what cannot be done directly, " that is, controlling qualifications, "cannot be done indirectly," by way of the Times, Place, and Manner Clause.
Here is a list of over a dozen cases that cite this principle, ignored in Inter Tribal.
Supreme Court cases — chronological order
YearCaseOpinionWording
1825Wayman v. Southard, 23 U.S. 1, 50Marshall, majority“what cannot be done directly from defect of power cannot be done indirectly.”
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1867Cummings v. Missouri, 71 U.S. 277, 325Field, majorityExact. Followed by “The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.”
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1883Ex parte Wall, 107 U.S. 265Field, dissentExact. Quotes Cummings.
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1895Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 158 U.S. 601Brown, dissentExact. Acknowledges that the Court has repeatedly applied the rule, but explains its limits.
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1901Fairbank v. United States, 181 U.S. 283, 294Brewer, majority“what cannot be done directly because of constitutional restriction cannot be accomplished indirectly by legislation which accomplishes the same result.”
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1902Terlinden v. Ames, 184 U.S. 270, 278Fuller, majorityExact, followed by “through the writ of habeas corpus.”
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1911Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219, 244Hughes, majority“What the state may not do directly it may not do indirectly.”
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1929Macallen Co. v. Massachusetts, 279 U.S. 620Sutherland, majorityRepeats Fairbank's expanded formulation regarding constitutional restrictions.
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1932Pacific Co. v. Johnson, 285 U.S. 480, 501Sutherland, dissent“what cannot be done directly because of constitutional restriction cannot be done indirectly by legislation designed to reach the same end.”
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1937Hale v. State Board, 302 U.S. 95Sutherland, dissentQuotes Fairbank's direct-versus-indirect principle.
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1963Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 230Douglas, concurrence“What may not be done directly may not be done indirectly, lest the Establishment Clause become a mockery.”
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2000Carmell v. Texas, 529 U.S. 513, 541Stevens, majorityExact. Quotes Cummings.
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2022Denezpi v. United States, 596 U.S. 591Gorsuch, dissentExact. Quotes Cummings in discussing double jeopardy.
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2023Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181, 230Roberts, majorityExact. Quotes Cummings in addressing indirect racial discrimination in admissions.
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2024Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 631Roberts, majority“It would permit a prosecutor to do indirectly what he cannot do directly” and cites Cummings.
I miss Charlie.
Every single allegation against Russell Brand concerns events that took place twenty years ago or more. None of them existed while he was a famous actor or comedian. All of them emerged once he became a highly visible dissident on politics and Covid.
Brand has been forthright about his behavior as a young man, but the idea he was a serial rapist is absurd and, more importantly, completely unprovable.
This is a political prosecution, plain and simple.
Muslims typically get sensitivity training for rape, Brand is looking at life.
20 years ago, he grabbed a boob, sniffed a crotch, and kissed someone; and some star struck groupie had consensual sex with him with her friend but his "cavity" choice was over the line. They watched TV after.
Pay no attention to the fact he is the most prominent anti-government anti-censorship personality in the country---that has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Russell Brand Convicted In UK Court On Charges Of Raping While Not Muslim buff.ly/cRxOqj6
Russel Brand was found guilty of rape and sexual assault that occurred 2 decades ago that he claimed were consensual.
His crimes, if they were not consensual, are not forgivable, BUT the fact that the British police state chose now to prosecute, given that he is one of the most prominent anti-establishment and anti-government commentators on social media is chilling.
He's criticized every aspect of gov power, COVID-era restrictions, pharmaceutical companies, mainstream media, censorship, and political elites.
In Britain today, I can't help put think this was more "show me the man, I'll show you the crime" than justice.
Holy crap. So it wasn't the war or gas prices, it was non-citizens voting, mass migration, and mail in fraud. And zero chance this would have happened with the SAVE Act, thank Traitor Thune. Go take another victory lap.
“Mohamed”
America will be Europe by 2030 and there’s no way out.
I get it, Republicans are getting trounced, but the contest in Maine is the best horse race I've seen in years.
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My freshman year at Emory: A 3-day marathon live reading of Homer's Iliad
Emory today: $600k in grants for projects like studying how Shakespeare "made whiteness”
Emory University has awarded over $600,000 to support 20 projects centering on publicly engaged arts, humanities, and social science research.
🔗 Read the first story: links.emory.edu/1yr
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That is very well said my friend, just wish Americans could see as clearly as you can from Italy.
Wow, that is fantastic. Incredible resource!!! Thucydides would approve: “a possession for all time.”
All eight books of Thucydides are on Kevilex, in Ancient Greek, and you can click on each word for definitions and to save vocabulary:
kevilex.com/collections/thuc…
Michigan, this man is the devil incarnate.
An unapologetic lying jihadist.
He wants to take away guns, force cross dressing freak men in your daughter’s locker room, and thinks Israel is a bigger threat than Israel.
Oh, and he despises Jews.
When you feel you’re falling for his lying charisma, remember Hitler took power on lies and charisma.
Vote Mike Rogers.
Sayed is a monster. Because your daughter has a cell phone, and presumably has seen a naked men on the internet, then it’s “outdated” thinking to keep men out of her locker room. The fact your naked daughter isn’t on the internet or the safety of 6’3” 220 lb cross dressing freak men in her locker room just doesn’t occur to him.