Tamara Shrugged
Jun 30, 20214 min read
I ♥ Fossil Fuels
“Fossil-fueled development is the greatest benefactor our environment has ever known.” – The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Oil is the...

My Personal Guide to A Lifetime of Liberty
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus
“Fossil-fueled development is the greatest benefactor our environment has ever known.” – The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Oil is the...
“The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can’t give it: you are like the...
“American business, by enabling so much wealth creation and by creating so many new opportunities, arguably has outperformed any other set of private institutions in all of world history.” – Big Business In August 2020, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos became the first person to pass the $200 billion mark in net worth, setting off a firestorm of criticism and anti-capitalist rage. Yet, despite the constant protest over corporate and CEO earnings, there is rare objection toward other high
“To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences...
“It's no coincidence that cons tend to thrive in the wake of disaster: natural disaster, illness, economic disaster, national disaster, personal disaster…Fear is one of the con artist's great friends.” – The Confidence Game As the morning after dawns, the damage done by the Coronavirus and the official governmental responses will finally be subjected to the light of day. The deaths, the cases, the hospitalizations, the lockdowns, the mask mandates, and the PCR testing cycles
“Gender has transformed into a cultlike concept, and public knowledge has been overturned to reflect pleasantries that affirm the...
“Adolescent girls who suddenly identify as trans in adolescence…are likely a mixed bag of at least three groups: some kids who are going...
“Where their ancestors defended the pope from enemies of the faith, they now must defend the faith from a pope who aligns with her...
“I challenge anyone to find a passage in scripture in which Jesus called on any government - Roman, Jewish, or another - to tax some and give to others as a method of assisting the needy.” – Was Jesus A Socialist? The question “What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) made a cultural comeback in the 1990s as a reminder to consider our spiritual instruction as we face moral predicaments in everyday life. Unfortunately, that benign phrase has now morphed into the more menacing query, “Is
“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)” – Oh, the Places You’ll Go! As is often the case, even...
“Many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage...
“One father summed it all rather neatly as to why he still preferred private schooling for his daughter rather than what was provided...
“The most secular and the most religious Americans have diametrically opposing views.” – American Grace For the first time since the...
“Hardly any of the domestic spending of today's federal government is associated with one of the enumerated powers.” – By The People In March 2021, Congress passed one of the largest and most partisan bills in US history. Enacted under the guise of COVID relief, over 90 percent of the 1.9 trillion-dollar price tag went for expenses scarcely related to the COVID pandemic, including major abortion funding and bailouts for state pension plans. Only 1 percent went to COVID vaccin
“I find it frustrating and worrying that people are so wrong about the world. How could policymakers and politicians solve global...
“The great defining event of the twenty-first century – one of the great defining events in human history – will occur in three decades,...
“The Golden Rule: Do Not Harm - Do Good.” – The Tuttle Twins and the Golden Rule In April 1980, an unlikely female contender, Rosie Ruiz,...
“News consumers on both sides today behave like cultists, self-isolating intellectually, kept that way with a steady diet of terrifying...
“Violence is a feature, not a bug, of Antifa’s ideology.” - Unmasked As the media narrative surrounding the January 6 Capitol insurrection begins to crumble, the real insurrection story remains largely ignored. Despite consecutive years of riots, arson, and violence by hundreds of Antifa members in cities across the country, the media continues to minimize property damage, death counts, and ongoing agitation toward citizens. Instead, Democrats and their media allies cheered
“Renegades made illicit joys not only possible but real. They didn’t intend their actions as gifts to us. But now is our chance to accept them as gifts, take the side of the renegades when the guardians of social order try to keep them down, and take more.” – A Renegade History of the United States “Only a virtuous people are compatible with freedom,” said Benjamin Franklin as he encouraged the teaching of morality to citizens of his young nation. Sacrifice and responsibilit