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It's a no-brainer that President Trump should formally recognize Somaliland ASAP. Great for us; great for them. A few reasons why: 1. Would allow USA immediate access to Somaliland's 850-kilometer coastline along the Gulf of Aden and access to the deepwater Port of Berbera which will provide critical strategic leverage to protect global shipping lanes from Houthi threats and regional instability. 2. Somaliland has tremendous natural resources including precious metals and rare earths. 3. Somaliland was only created because the dictator of Somalia, Siad Barre, carried out a systematic campaign of state violence, mass executions, and aerial bombardments against the Isaaq clan in the northern region of Somaliland. Somalians like Congresswoman Ilhan Ohmar reject Somaliland even though it is a product of a Somalian dictator's genocide. They somehow believe that Somalilanders are going to forget that genocide and be taken over by the same country that tried to destroy them three and half decades ago. That's not happening. But this will force a conversation of why Dems are opposing independence of a people that Somalia tried to wipe out. – at Venustiano Carranza, Distrito Federal

Stop listening to doomers. America is not over. America First is not over. It did not start with Trump. Washington, Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Pat Buchanan all paved the way. It won't end with Trump. Most of these guys and gals (like @LauraLoomer) have never managed or won an election. They don't seem to know the long history of the Right in America. We can come back. We can win. Texas is not a permanent blue state. That's ridiculous. But we must have a party and party leaders dedicated to God, family, country and not some neo-pagan garbage to win. We must avoid endless wars and neocon interventionism. Trump has done great things for America. I see it every day in our international work. And more great things can be done even with the Senate and House against him. The Left will overplay its hand. It always does. Very glad @jdvance wrote what he wrote. We need to be willing to critically analyze the election results without sugarcoating it. What we don't need are doomers who have never won a political campaign acting as if they have some great expertise in metapolitics or whatever and telling us to give up. No. – at Bladensburg, MD

At the root of most liberal philosophy is some sort of heresy, usually some form of radical dualism, dividing body and mind, a new form of the old gnostic heresy. That dualism is both caused by and causes moral degeneracy. Marcuse loved Orpheus as the founder of Greek dualism because, "Like Narcissus he rejects normal Eros, not for an ascetic ideal, but for a fuller Eros. Like Narcissus, he protests against the repressive order of procreative sexuality." Foucault, Derrida, Adorno, heck, Rousseau and earlier philosophes, all fit the bill.

Great to be with Michelin star chef Daniel Boulud at Cafe Boulud and Maison Barnes. If you are in NYC, this is the pace to go. Top. – at Manhattan, NY

Amazing Eucharistic Procession in the streets of #NYC Thank you @NapaInstitute !! – at Weehawken, NJ

Proud to call @georgesimion a friend.

I worked with Bishop Burbidge @BishopBurbidge when he was Bishop of Raleigh, to pass Amendment One into the constitution of the state of North Carolina. I served as campaign chair. We were under immense attack, but with the help of Billy Graham, Bishop Burbidge, and Bishop Jugis, we won by over 61 percent. This was one of the strongest marriage amendments in the country, and it was passed in 2012. Let that be a reminder that the people did not redefine marriage---our unelected judges did. I am not surprised he is standing strong to defeat the abortion amendments in Virginia. A great shepherd, who understands the importance of life and family.

Update from Dubrovnik. Great to be with US Special Envoy for Trade, Nick Adams, MEP, Stephan Bartulica, and ECR Secretary General, Antonio Giordano in Dubrovnik #croatia for third European Congress of Families. @NickAdamsinUSA @SBartulica @Giordano__Ant – at Penn Wynne, PA

My good friend, Stephen Bartulica, MEP from Croatia just gave awesome opening speech for European Congress of Families. A great man and political leader. Glad to have him as a friend. #croatia

Nikola Grmoja, President of Most, opens up European Congress of Families. – at Montenegro

At opening of European Congress of Families in Dubrovnik. Such amazing conservatives coming from around Europe including my good friends from @aurparty in Romania.

🇸🇧🚨🚨EMERGENCY ALERT! solomonsforwale.com The new Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Hon. Matthew Wale is under attack. A strong Christian who is devoted to life and family, he is also rooting out corruption in the Solomons. A group of MPs has called for a vote on his removal, which will happen on Monday. Christians in the Solomons have created a website and petition to support him. I know the Solomons are far away, but there are only 193 sovereign nations in the United Nations--and it is critical that we have Christian leaders like Matthew Wale advancing life and family in their own country and at the UN. IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN THE SOLOMONS, FORWARD THIS MESSAGE AND ASK THEM TO SIGN AND CALL THEIR MP TO VOTE NO ON MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE. solomonsforwale.com

Honored to have visit with President of Bougainville, Ismael Toarama, to discuss family and Christian values in the area. Bougainville will soon become the next new country in the world, following an overwhelming, 97.7% vote for independence from Papua New Guinea.

MAGA in Papua New Guinea. Great to be here! – at Papua New Guinea

This is such a bad read. 1. Adams was not using "liberty" in the way that James implies. The word liberty did not primarily mean "freedom to do as one wants" to our founders. It definitely did not do so in Adams', A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law. It meant a lot of things (connected back to Country Whig thought) for Adams, but primarily that corrupt, decadent, feudal institutions (oligarchy and Catholicism) should not emasculate the public virtue of a country founded on a non-servile religion (non-conforming Protestantism). In this context, it means that Protestant ministers should be free from control of corrupt ideas and institutions that would push them to support the Stamp Act. There is a lot here, and yes, conceptions of virtue, manliness, and decadence played a major role in his thought, though you hear little of this in high school history classes. As with almost all of the founding generation, Catholicism was a representation of what not to do. Look, I'm a Catholic. But that was what Adams thought. At least that is what he thought in 1765. 2. Adams practically realized that on a federal level, some form of freedom to practice religion should be allowed. But it was never absolute, especially not on a state level. He also later softened (a bit) on Catholicism. But he never deviated in his view that America was a country of manly freeholders; he was Puritan in outlook, if not always in worship, well-read in Roman thought and the Country Whig tradition, seeing "liberty" as connected to public virtue and a rejection of "effeminate" slavishness to a decadent hierarchy. A non-decadent hierarchy of merit and virtue, of independent, God-fearing men working toward the "public good"--that he was for. That was the basis of Federalism and its rejection of Jefferson's embrace of a more individualistic conception of liberty. 3. Early Adams was different than later Adams. He matured and, for example, supported the Alien and Sedition Acts, which most "classical liberals" hate. Talk about support for the common good! Adams was 100 percent OK with limiting the rights of foreigners and the press in the nascent republic in order to protect the common good. 4. Arguments over what liberty meant (then as now) were key to the party system. From the beginning, America had two major camps, with competing conceptions of liberty and virtue--Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. There were some interesting exceptions to this bifurcated understanding of liberty (John Randolph of Roanoke, for example--"I love liberty; I hate equality."), but a key to understanding American politics and the various later two-party systems, is to understand them as an extended argument over "liberty."

A very under-read contribution to the current common good argument is Barry Alan Shain's, The Myth of American Individualism. Clearly there is another story of the lived experience of early America where local communities greatly limited license for the benefit of the common good. I did not agree with all of the conclusions, but worth the read.

Awesome piece by @KMZiccarelli on the the fact that the American and French revolutions were NOT sister revolution. americanmind.org/salvo/1776-… – at Penn Wynne, PA

BANGER!

Awesome review of victoryordeathmovie.com from @MarkTapson @fpmag