“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary…” -Thomas Jefferson

1) FBI gets hunter laptop in 2019 2) Spends the next year warning Big Tech about disinformation specifically involving Hunter Biden 3) In August 2020, the computer store owner gives up on hopes the FBI will charge Hunter Biden with crimes and tips off Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was under FBI surveillance at the time. 4) In September 2020 twitter’s Jim Baker, former FBI employee, was asked for a private meeting with two FBI agents with no other Twitter employees present. 5) When the Hunter laptop surfaces the next month, Baker “repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Where did peer review come from and haven't we had enough?

"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don’t like to have another point of view in the room that they don’t squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling. — David Horowitz

I reflect on TwitterFiles parts 2-5

“Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause — the wickedness of human nature.” -Aristotle

Douglas was everything in this Munk debate. And, deservedly, won the largest victory in the history of that debate.

Besides, don't trust the media.

"The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins." -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I criticize Tucker Carlson for no apparent reason and then discuss the recently revealed "Twitter Files."

"Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI..." -The Intercept

“Every man becomes what he teaches others to be. Those who gain victory over themselves will gain victory over others." -Dhammapada

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." -Jesus, Luke 6:27-28

Kanye West has said some unusual things. Let's discuss them.

"I do not believe in returning good for evil. I believe in returning justice for evil. I do not believe that I can put a man under a moral obligation to do me a favor by doing him a wrong. The doctrine of non-resistance is to me absurd. The right should be defended and the wrong resisted. Goodness should have the right to protect itself." -Ingersoll

When street prostitutes moved in considerable numbers to the street corners of the neighbourhood in which I live, the senior local policeman said in response to residents’ requests that he do something about it that he would do nothing, since the women came from disadvantaged homes and were probably all addicted to drugs. He was not prepared, he said, to victimise them further. It was therefore our duty as citizens to pick the used condoms from our rose bushes. Such is life under the regime of zero intolerance.  Dalrymple, Theodore

"Prohibition doesn't work"

-It doesn't work for behaviors libertarians like but does work for behaviors they do.

-What if we banned cow's milk next year -- would not fewer gallons be drunk?

A SPECTRE IS haunting the Western world: the underclass. This underclass is not poor, at least by the standards that have prevailed throughout the great majority of human history. It exists, to a varying degree, in all Western societies. Like every other social class, it has benefited enormously from the vast general increase in wealth of the past hundred years. In certain respects, indeed, it enjoys amenities and comforts that would have made a Roman emperor or an absolute monarch gasp. Nor is it politically oppressed: it fears neither to speak its mind nor the midnight knock on the door. Yet its existence is wretched nonetheless, with a special wretchedness that is peculiarly its own.  Dalrymple, Theodore

"There is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.” ― Dennis Prager

Elon Musk has been tweeting very compellingly the past two days; It is because he has become openly hostile to leftist lies from the helm of Twitter.

"...although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want..." -Edward Winslow, 11 Dec 1621.

We pardon to the extent that we love. -La Rochefoucauld

The LA Times cautions us that it might take decades to "end homelessness." Without the North Korea model, I'd say it will take us eternally longer.

The ADL wants to know, now that the left's grip on Twitter has been loosened, if it is time for Twitter "to go." But the left always wants to annihilate what it cannot have.

CBS News has investigated and finally reports that Hunter Biden's laptop is legitimate. Which is interesting because the laptop is now ancient history. What's next, will CBS News confirm the Black Dahlia wasn't a suicide?

An Antifa member stabbed two Proud Boys almost two years ago and yesterday received a sentence of 20 years. But the media aren't reporting it ofc.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. -La Rochefoucauld

I watched President Trump's announcement. It was a little dull, quite a bit longer than it should have been (1 hr!), but it was good enough. He's the man to beat for the 2024 Republican nomination.

Note:  A prior version of this show was released on the morning of Friday 11/18.  I wasn't happy with the post-production effects meant to boost President Trump's words, so I remastered the file and am much happier with it now.