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Too Much Love Is Not Enough
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Too Much Love Is Not Enough

However deep one's faith in a loving God, I cannot fathom how a parent processes the sudden death of a young child. This past spring, the five-year-old son of close

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 18 Oct 2023 • 1 min read
Safe, Convenient Servitude
technology

Safe, Convenient Servitude

Lately, I find myself increasingly concerned with the more sinister consequences of dependence on technologies that offer convenient ways to do all of the things we once did for ourselves.

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 7 Mar 2023 • 2 min read
City Upon a Hill
history

City Upon a Hill

In June of 1630, the Arbella came to anchor in Salem Harbor, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was born. Arriving ten years after the settlers of Plymouth Plantation, this first

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 30 Aug 2021 • 3 min read
The Measure of a Life
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The Measure of a Life

While frittering away a few minutes watching random YouTube videos the other day, I came across an old TEDtalk about procrastination. The video is linked below, and I encourage readers

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 13 Aug 2021 • 2 min read
Ronald Reagan at CPAC, 1974
politics

Ronald Reagan at CPAC, 1974

January 25, 1974 First Conservative Political Action Conference There are three men here tonight I am very proud to introduce. It was a year ago this coming February when this

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 2 Aug 2021 • 15 min read
Eye of the Hurricane
history

Eye of the Hurricane

Hard times breed strong men. Strong men build good times. Good times spawn weak men. Weak men beget hard times. All of this has happened before. All of this will

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 13 May 2021 • 1 min read
Making Amends
law

Making Amends

I have followed the progress of the Convention of States movement with great interest since it first launched in 2013. For those not familiar with the legal context for an

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 29 Apr 2021 • 7 min read
Make Mine Freedom
freedom

Make Mine Freedom

Once upon a time, there were some things about which Americans all agreed. At a time when we seem to agree on almost nothing, this film shouldn't just be nostalgiac.

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 22 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Get Busy Livin'
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Get Busy Livin'

As I lay awake this morning, waiting for the alarm (or the baby) to sound, my wandering mind gradually focused on a single question — "What are you most afraid

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 22 Mar 2021 • 2 min read
A Polite Society
gun rights

A Polite Society

Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 21 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
History Has Stopped
quote

History Has Stopped

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 14 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
The Object of Life
quote

The Object of Life

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. — Marcus Aurelius

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 7 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
What's So
religion and philosophy

What's So

What follows is an essay by Werner Erhard. As a believing Christian, I am not convinced that this take is entirely aligned with my sense of truth, but it still

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 2 Mar 2021 • 3 min read
I am a Republican
politics

I am a Republican

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. — Frederick

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 28 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
If you build it, they will come (maybe).
technology

If you build it, they will come (maybe).

For the past month or so, I have been obsessed with finding some way to respond to the corporate social media purge of traditional, mainstream ideas and attitudes. The speed

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 26 Feb 2021 • 2 min read
...shall not be infringed.
gun rights

...shall not be infringed.

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 24 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
The Most Oppressive Tyranny
politics

The Most Oppressive Tyranny

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 21 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
We promised. We lied.
history

We promised. We lied.

First they came for the Trump supporters, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Trump supporter. Then they came for the gun owners, and I did

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 21 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
Think your opponents are evil? Yes, they are (and so are you).
religion and philosophy

Think your opponents are evil? Yes, they are (and so are you).

Democrats think Republicans are hate-filled, racist, xenophobic nazis. They want to control everyone's life, and force them to conform to the dictates of a theocratic, patriarchal prison state.

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 19 Jan 2021 • 5 min read
What Do We Do Now?
politics

What Do We Do Now?

We awaken this morning to the no longer deniable reality that we live in an Empire of Lies. Where the stories we are told as "news" no longer comport with

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 7 Jan 2021 • 1 min read
Now, Today, This Moment
religion and philosophy

Now, Today, This Moment

"God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 20 Dec 2020 • 1 min read
Sheep Are Deadlier Than Wolves
history

Sheep Are Deadlier Than Wolves

You are dismayed to find that millions of your countrymen prefer slavery to freedom. Then someone reminds you that freedom is an historical anomaly, while subjugation has been the rule

  • Tony Farruggio
    Tony Farruggio
Tony Farruggio 2 Dec 2020 • 1 min read
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