Robert Reich (@robertreich) Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its...

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For our time.......again
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

~ Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

~ Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

December 21, 2025 Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.

December 21, 2025

Agree?
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December 15, 2025 “For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character.

December 15, 2025

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation

~ Albert Camus

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

December 6, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...

December 6, 2025

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

November 30, 2025 On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...

November 30, 2025

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

It is plain that we were meant to go together.

~J. R. R. Tolkien

November 25, 2025 Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.

November 25, 2025

There was a willow hanging over the mill- pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

November 23, 2025 “Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...

November 23, 2025

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien