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That's the main lesson on the subtlety of temptation. The most dangerous vices aren't invitations to outright evil, but little corruptions here and there that chip away at our higher calling.
Milton's showdown was intended to reveal that Christ was both fully God and fully man. He really did feel genuine human temptation, hunger, ambition, and the desire for recognition. He overcame them all without miracles, using only reason, faith, and virtue.
In other words, the victory in the desert was the perfection of human virtues that we can all put into practice.
Eve lost in paradise; Christ won in the wilderness. It's not the place or struggle that matters, but each and every choice we make.
https://x.com/the_culturist_/status/2024131178052067461
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - Amazingly, Tom Nichols is right for a change.
There are so many people who are well-read about war, but because they have never heard a shot fired in anger, they don't know what they don't know.
Like Tom Nichols, for example.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2024353890511311169
Dale Stark @DaleStarkA10 - Took a look at Oregon IP28 (PEACE Act) today, & it's a direct attack on hunters and ranchers. It's gathering signatures now for 2026.
Here's exactly what it would do:
- Bans all hunting, fishing & trapping. Deer season, elk hunts, bass fishing, even rodent control on your land? Criminalized.
- Makes raising & slaughtering livestock a crime. Every steer I send to harvest becomes "causing death of an animal." Family ranches shut down overnight.
- Outlaws normal ranch practices. Dehorning, castration, branding, AI breeding (now called "sexual assault of an animal") all gone.
- Forces impossible pet-level care rules "Adequate" shelter, bedding, exercise for every cow in coastal Oregon winter = guaranteed citations.
- Lifetime ban on owning animals after one conviction.
- Takes effect in just 30 days, no phase-in.
This isn't stopping abuse, it's ending our way of life.
DO NOT SIGN. Spread the word and kill this at the ballot box
https://x.com/DaleStarkA10/status/2023898094346399930
Dan Scavino @Scavino47 - ADVICE—Do not blame the Presidential Personnel Office for your failure to pay federal taxes over multiple years during a background investigation (while claiming you did), showing a complete lack of candor, and failing to produce sufficient documentation as requested.
Meanwhile, you're running around telling anyone who will listen in Washington, DC and beyond—that you've gone "above and beyond" in doing so, and how wonderful you are (not the first person to do-so)…
Get a grip, be honest with yourself, and stop blaming PPO for your past when you are not extended an offer, due to not being able to obtain a security clearance for a position…
Be OPEN and HONEST to those that put their name on your referral for a job—It doesn’t look good for them when you blow smoke up everyone’s ass, and they call asking what happened with ____?
It’s embarrassing. BE HONEST! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely, Dan
https://x.com/Scavino47/status/2024336118838116453
Dara Kam @TheDaraKam - Here's what @AGJamesUthmeier told me about this week's @MiamiHerald @garrettshanley report that the AG is pulling down $100K as an adjunct law professor at @UF . Dropping Monday on the next "Between the Lines with Dara Kam" pod @StateAffairsFL. Full episodes here:
https://pro.stateaffairs.com/fl/podcast
https://x.com/TheDaraKam/status/2024451356862357632
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - I was such a stubborn atheist that my current pastor once used me as a sermon illustration for “don’t stop witnessing, even when the person you’re talking to is being absolutely insufferable.”
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2024017237850374526
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