Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Friday, August 8, 2025

Dissent Requires Courage

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     I have an admission to make, Gentle Reader: I'm not terribly courageous. There are times when I back away from saying plainly and e...
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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Faces Of Courage

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     In mathematics, we speak of the preconditions for some implication as being necessary, or sufficient, or both. If a precondition is n...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Quickies: “Dangerous Worlds”

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     Among my favorite passages in C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, this one is at the top:      This, indeed, is probably one of the ...
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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Heroes Redux

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     Well, the National Football League has begun its “regular season” once again. As is usually the case, the opening game between the Kans...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Vent: A Coda

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     Many are the mornings I awaken feeling, in Carole King’s well-known words, uninspired. I suppose a goodly fraction of my morning dreari...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Anonymity: Further Thoughts

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     My comments on Internet anonymity in yesterday’s piece stimulated a reflection from the worthy Dystopic, whose core is as follows:  ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The vote heard 'round the world

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First "Brexit," then Trump. If both our nations pushed back against the Globalists in the same year, that'd be some Hope ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Quickies: “Are you crazy? No one wants to deal with HR.”

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     That's from this exceptionally important piece by David French:      I recently spoke to a mid-level executive at a major corpora...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Easy for me to say...

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Let's see if I can take my own advice as events unfold, shall we? A short video (really, honest!) about Liberty's long game + ...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Quickies: One Media Or Two?

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     I normally let the CSO have the remote control as soon as Special Report with Bret Baier has ended, so I don’t learn about interesting...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

DIY: Celebrate "D-Day" the Google way!

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The following is an augmented screen-cap from this morning. (Note website thumbnail, bottom row, 2nd from right!) Find a photo of my W...
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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Free-speech & "fine lines"

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Well, we can thank Alysin Camerota (especially at 2:30 mark+) for clarifying that whole Free-Speech + "fine line" thing for us. A...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The Culture War: A Reflection

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Well, Polymath has just received its first Amazon review – those of you who purchased your copies at SmashWords can review it at both sit...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Cowardice: A Midweek Rumination

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Old friend Pascal recently wrote with some thoughts: Does cowardice fall in any way in the province of one of the 7 mortal sins? Does cour...
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