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The purpose of Manent’s writing is not to abolish human rights, but rather to reground them in natural law after repeated attempts to ground them in something else (consent, the social contract, representation). He sees the recovery of natural law as our most urgent task, and the only way we can preserve authentic human freedom. Most importantly for Manent, we must recover our understanding of the law as practical reason motivating action aimed at the common good. We find ourselves in a difficult position. The increasing subjectification of rights has aimed to deprive us of our conscience

https://thefrontporchphilosopher.com/2021/05/01/debunking-natural-rights-and-recovering-natural-law/#:~:text=The%20increasing%20subjectification%20of%20rights,wisdom%20and%20on%20our%20prayers.%E2%80%9D Debunking Natural Rights and Recovering Natural Law   frontporchphilosopher     Philosophy ,  Politics     May 1, 2021   13 Minutes French political philosopher Pierre Manent has given us all a great gift in his new  book   Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason.  First published in French in 2018, this work is recently available in an English translation by Ralph Hancock. Manent’s concern with practical reason (as opposed to mere theory) makes his argument relevant for everyone, not just political scholars. I will attempt to summarize them in this essay, to be elaborated upon and evaluated later. Chapter One: Why Natural Law Matters What exactly  is  natural law? We often refer without hesitati...
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Bobby Freiler @BobbyFreiler The moment you feel yourself getting sick, one raw clove of garlic can help your body more than most things in your medicine cabinet. Crush it. Let it sit 10 minutes. That wait activates allicin. One of nature's most powerful antimicrobials. It kills bacteria, parasites, and fungi. After the 10mins, eat it. It’s one of the strongest natural antimicrobials we have. 8:00 AM · Mar 22, 2026 · 20K Views

Bobby Freiler @BobbyFreiler The moment you feel yourself getting sick, one raw clove of garlic can help your body more than most things in your medicine cabinet. Crush it. Let it sit 10 minutes. That wait activates allicin. One of nature's most powerful antimicrobials. It kills bacteria, parasites, and fungi. After the 10mins, eat it. It’s one of the strongest natural antimicrobials we have. 8:00 AM · Mar 22, 2026 · 20K Views
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I tend to agree with Tucker, but here's another take on Iran War - Scott Lively: Trump's Iran Strategy: Chaos as the Catalyst for a New Global Order

First Century Focus Bible Study  with Pastor Scott and Anne Lively SATURDAYS   4PM CENTRAL The Old Testament Foundations of New Testament Theology Today: GALATIANS 1-3   Join us for a conversational verse-by-verse Bible study as a participant in the chat room on either  Facebook  or  YouTube  or just watch it live or later on  Rumble . Past  shows are archived  HERE Trump's Iran Strategy:  Chaos as the Catalyst for a New Global Order The pundits are at it again, insisting that President Trump is stumbling blindly through the Iran conflict, reacting impulsively without a coherent plan. They point to his shifting rhetoric, the disruption in global energy markets, and the pressure on allies as evidence of confusion. But those who have followed Trump's career—from real estate deals to political insurgencies—know better. He is a strategic genius who has mastered the art of innovation amid chaos. This is not mere improvisation; it is deliberate dis...
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Dr. Lamont: Ockham notoriously came down on one side of the Euthyphro dilemma by asserting that good actions are good simply because they are commanded by God, and that God could make idolatry, murder, and sodomy good, and abstention from these actions evil, if he commanded that they be performed. This conception of divine authority lends support to a tyrannical understanding of authority in general as based on the arbitrary will of the possessor of power, rather than on law. A law-based understanding of authority, in contrast, holds that law derived from the nature of the good provides the source of the authority of a ruler, and delimits the sphere in which a ruler can give commands. Scholars have long known that the dominance of nominalist thought in the fourteenth century left its mark on Catholic thought for centuries, Catholic theologians and philosophers during the Counter-Reformation all held that law and moral obligation are to be understood as resulting from the command of a superior; Suarez gave a characteristic description of law as ‘the act whereby a superior wills to bind an inferior to the performance of a particular deed.’

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Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor 🚨Catherine Austin Fitts on the Strait of Hormuz shutdown: "This is Covid 2.0." "I think the big problem here is famine." "It started with the City of London." "What's in it for them is implementing the control grid and depopulation together." "You have seen the new administration in the United States systematically cut the domestic funds that are available to support food for poor people in emergencies, as well as the USAID and State Department aid to protect countries that have emergencies like food. So you have, I don't know, 25-maybe billion dollars traditionally that the US had available to stop famines. That money is all cut. And now you have something that's creating the conditions of famine. So... to me that's very disturbing." This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report ( @solari_the ), is taken from a conversation with Paul Buitink

Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor Catherine Austin Fitts on the Strait of Hormuz shutdown: "This is Covid 2.0." "I think the big problem here is famine." "It started with the City of London." "What's in it for them is implementing the control grid and depopulation together." "You have seen the new administration in the United States systematically cut the domestic funds that are available to support food for poor people in emergencies, as well as the USAID and State Department aid to protect countries that have emergencies like food. So you have, I don't know, 25-maybe billion dollars traditionally that the US had available to stop famines. That money is all cut. And now you have something that's creating the conditions of famine. So... to me that's very disturbing." This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report ( @solari_the )...
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