Ted Cruz wakes up every morning and asks himself "How can I become President?" And someone with that mindset should NEVER become President because it requires selflessness. Not surprising from someone who said his reasoning for serving in congress was to defend a foreign country

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When Satan is unable to get churches to go along with the world's embrace of evil things as good, he can still get similar results by getting the church to go along with denouncing and condemning what the world calls evil. Don't let him set the frame.

The Boomer ethos rewarded some of the worst kinds of men with positions of power and influence. If any of the old institutions are going to be salvaged it will take drastic measures by men who don't mind being called mean. In the meantime, many will operate independently.

When you believe collapse is imminent, you will bet on it, and then consciously or unconsciously work toward it. Be a realist, but be careful with pessimism.

Politics is a game of instrumental use of people and things toward desired ends. It is not virtuous when 'principled', beautiful losers cry about it. Christians must be wise as serpents. Rulers are to rule well, under Christ the King of the Universe.

Mythos precedes ethos. We're in a mythos-building phase.

Has any nation ever embraced usury and not come to ruin?

“Language, faith, culture, and history—and, yes, birth, blood, and soil—produce a people, not an ideology.” —Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency

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Salvation is so difficult not because God made it difficult, but because we are so evil and sinful that we come up with every reason to refuse it. We find in Satan an affirming ally to the flesh.