Something To Think About Archive

There’s been more of an effort to return wrongly deported El Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García to the U.S. than there was to keep him from entering the country, illegally we would add, in the first place. The angst on the Left is much more than they ever expressed over the arrival of eleven million illegal immigrants these past four years. Meanwhile, illegal border crossings in February and March were down to 12,000 versus 189,000 in each of those months last year, under the Biden Administration’s less than watchful eye.

Economist Roger Babson wrote that whatever the economic circumstances, “…character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

Marcus Aurelius advised us to “Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls.”

French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” And that was well before smart phones.

Automobile magnate Soichiro Honda claimed that “…success represents the one percent of your work which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.”

Pubilius Syrus said: “Anyone can hold the helm when the seas are calm.”

Uber-Progressives Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are flying about the country, in private jets no less, holding rallies railing against the “Oligarchies; whoever they are. Meanwhile, her district of Brooklyn is awash in prostitution and drug dealers. Remember her rented evening gown for a gala with “Tax the Rich” emblazoned on it? Turns out she rented a $5000 a night suite to change clothes in for the event. Even liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg noted that “Marxist”, his term, Bernie Sanders had a net worth 25 times the average American and owned three houses. Only in America.

Henry Ford believed that “Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.”

Columnist Erma Bombeck advised us that when at a low point, “Tell yourself, ‘I’m not a failure. I failed at something.’ There’s a big difference.” noted Bombeck.

As organizational theorist Myron Tribus once noted: “You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.”

According to Brigadier General Hugh C. Cameron, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”

Journalist Wilma Askinas wrote: “There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.”

The problem with assuming that tariffs on foreign made cars will bring back American manufacturing from Mexico and Canada is this: Its costs $6 an hour to make a car in Mexico. It costs $40 an hour to build a car in Canada. And, thanks to the Administration’s new best friend, the UAW, it costs $70 an hour in labor to build a car here. That and the fact that 60% of the parts that go into the final product come from foreign countries, primarily Mexico and Canada. Bringing those jobs back to the U.S. is next to impossible.

Mark Twain — ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.’

Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom claimed that “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

To paraphrase Norman Mailer: You don’t really know someone until you meet them in court.

According to author Harper Lee, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

John D. Rockefeller said, “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

The Trump Administration deserves criticism for inadvertently including the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic on the group chat regarding possible military strike details. Clearly a rookie mistake by national security advisor Mike Waltz that should never have happened, especially the use of a commercial app on personal phones for national-security conversations. But the real question is: If this was such an egregious breach of national security, why, then, did the Atlantic publish the entire meeting verbatim? THAT is the real breach of security. They could have simply reported on the mistake, kept the details private, and not put U.S. assets at risk.

General Douglas MacArthur believed that “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.”