Today is my 20th wedding anniversary. I could not ask for a better partner in life.
The United States has the best and most reliable economic data in the world. Those data allow American businesses large and small to understand and respond to changes in the economy, including shifts in the workforce. Those data also allow policymakers at all levels to create policy that is more relevant and useful. These things cannot happen if the data are skewed to please those in power; that is exactly the reason why we do not rely on the economic data produced by the Chinese government.
Trump's removal of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the data makes America less great.
I get to see my family today!
Who's excited for tariff day tomorrow?
What percentage of your friend group is Christian?
Make sure you're nice to somebody today.
"If all the different concepts of the true, the human, and the good are not to be privatized and excluded altogether from the public square, or alternatively if the public square is not to become a gladiatorial arena of special-purpose groups fighting to the death, then the task of knowing how to live with our deepest differences is becoming more urgent--not less." -Os Guinness, "This American Hour"
“Whereas an Eastern view of suffering responds by emptying one’s mind of desire, so as to minimize its frustration, a Western approach seeks to mitigate suffering by overcoming it altogether. Neither posture imagines that suffering is actually to be used as part of what enables us to become more wholly human.” -Curt Thompson, “The Deepest Place”
Congratulations and welcome to Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine's inaugural class! We're so excited to have you here!
Congratulations and welcome to Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine's inaugural class! We're so excited to have you here!
It's weird that I get ads for apps I already have.
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
DON'T PANIC
Happy birthday to Nikola Tesla!
How do you define "liberal democracy?"
Do you belong to any clubs, social organizations, or other groups that meet at least once a month and put you in contact with people who are demographically significantly different from you?
"America is not America because of a single culture and a common language. America is characteristically a nation by intention and by ideas, so it depends crucially on an ongoing commitment of heart and mind. ... But the fiercest American pride was not in a place but in principles, and the deepest affections were not toward teh soil but toward the society in which those principles were embodied." -Os Guinness, "The American Hour"
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg. Just four years later, Canada became an independent nation. Coincidence? You decide!
What does it mean to you to be an American?
“What makes America America is not measured best in GNP comparisons, nuclear firepower ratios, or the polling figures on anti-Americanism. Such measurements may rise or fall. The distinctiveness and strength of America lies elsewhere, in its ideals and ideas.” -Os Guinness
Joined Nov 2022
