If you're a man who drinks three gin and tonics for breakfast, the only thing you should be in charge of is your personal cigarette stash at a rehab clinic, not the Department of Defense.

That the DoD nominee didn't know what ASEAN was until yesterday is more concerning than his personal vices. How do you graduate from Princeton and Harvard, serve overseas as an Army officer and not know this?

After Tuesday, you will still be in control of deciding to live an ethical life. Honesty, respect, compassion, generosity, and humility will remain available choices for individuals.

"Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool." Proverbs 19:1 Seems relevant.

Libertarian director of immigration studies at Cato institute lays out a coming reality I tried to warn y'all about last summer: just because you were born here does not mean you're safe from losing your citizenship and facing deportation.

Not a good sign when your country's elite build doomsday bunkers for the world they're creating. On the positive side: it'll make a great post-apocalyptic loot drop. realtor.com/news/unique-ho…

A ridiculous amount of things to process from yesterday. That's by design. The most notable was the tech oligarchs and their wives at the swearing in - all the men who control your data and the information you receive.

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." Proverbs 22:1 A good reputation is better than obscene wealth. We confuse wealth with virtue, wisdom and/or intelligence in this country - which is a mistake.

Walking our rescue in the neighborhood this morning, got attacked by an off leash pit bull, kicked the shit out of the pit bull before it could lock jaws and our dog escaped unscathed. It wasn't the pit's fault, it was the owner's fault. Aggressive dogs should be kept on a leash.

Love to hear the sound of rain falling. It's been a while.

"As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool." Proverbs 26:1 Fools are not a new problem in human society. The Bible is full of warnings about fools. It mentions fools 360 times - not to follow them, believe them, deal with them etc. Just sayin'.

Shot across the bow to every government south of the Rio Grande. Chinese and Russian diplomatic and geostrategic wet dream.

She's 100% correct.

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1 You'll have to overcome fear, folks, or you'll be ruled by it.

The Danes are our allies. They were a founding member of NATO and we've had uninterrupted diplomatic relations with them since 1801. We should not be be seeking to steal their land nor should we be threatening them. Nothing good will come of it.

Shit is about to get real. The consequences of this widespread refusal to disburse funds allocated by Congress will create a crisis at the constitutional, federal, state, local, and, in many cases, personal level.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All The king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. A nursery rhyme to consider before you break things.

"Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee." Proverbs 3:29