Heroes for Today

Heroes for Today

Heroes for Today features ordinary and extraordinary people commenting about today’s world and current events. These comments will stimulate new thought and challenge your assumptions to help you think more broadly and more clearly. heroesfortoday.substack.com

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January 7, 2025 1 min

RedState headline: Joe Biden's Legacy Will Be That of a Criminally Incompetent Buffoon and Nothing Can Change That Verdict.

But something can change that verdict. It’s actually very simple — and an easy action to take if Joe Biden wants an historic legacy.

All Joe Biden has to do is to resign the presidency on January 18th and open the path for Kamala Harris to become U.S. president for a few days.

What will Biden gain from this actio...

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“A rational voter should evaluate the respective positions of the two candidates on fiscal policy, immigration policy, border security, foreign policy, criminal justice policy, commitment to the First and Second Amendments, the tension between the rights of biological women versus trans women (biological males), and their stance on meritocracy versus diversity, inclusion, and equity.” — Gad Saad, Newsweek opinion piece

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September 10, 2024 37 secs

High inflation, rising costs, open borders, rising crime, economic stagnation, joblessness, and a host of other maladies plague the American people, and a lot of this is thanks to Kamala Harris. — Brandon Morse, columnist, RedState

Excerpt from  Kamala Chameleon: Why Kamala Harris Is the Worst Presidential Candidate in American History by David Q. Walker



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May 16, 2024 1 min

That is the apparent contradiction we face as we continue this struggle for the civil rights of our fellow New Yorkers and our fellow Americans. On the one hand, to hate this system, our system enough to fight it but on the other hand, to love it enough, love it enough to think it's worth fighting for. Nothing else will do for us but this profoundly Christian habit of defeating a contradiction by fully embracing both sides of it. —...

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“When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. ... That's the iron law of the universe. True things prevail.” — Tucker Carlson, news commentator



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"Be fearless and be bold because God is with you. Listen to God and be bold." — Kaya Jones, singer, The Pussycat Dolls

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December 12, 2022 43 secs

For me, it’s family first, me second. God first, me second. And when you’re run by those rules, things are a lot easier. You’re not as tempted to do stupid things. … We all make mistakes every single day. But it’s how we get up the next day and kind of dust it off that dictates what kind of person you are. — Neal McDonough, actor

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Part of the reason that I’m so dedicated to the faith community is because I truly believe that they have always been the very backbone of what makes our country great. When you look back on our history, you can see the fingerprints of the Almighty on all of our national triumphs. — Donald Trump, U.S. president

Despite his many failings, Donald Trump is clearly one of the great heroes of our time. The above excerpt from a recent spe...

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America…let’s please stop all the nonsense. Please pray for all victims. If you hear something, say something. We aren’t supposed to bury our children. I’m praying for all of the families around the country who have lost loved ones to senseless shootings. This cannot continue. — Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson, MLB baseball player, NFL football player, and track and field star

Bo Jackson is the only professional athlete in history to be...

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July 28, 2022 32 secs

Trust wholly in God—even when the scarcity of opportunities or money or whatever we are lacking can pull us down. I’ve learned to seek fulfillment in God. — Krystal Nielson, fitness expert

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It has nothing to do with what you’re saying I can’t say. It has everything to do with my right, my freedom, of artistic expression. That is valuable to me. That is not severed from me. It’s worth protecting for me, and it’s worth protecting for everyone else who endeavors in our noble, noble professions. — Dave Chappelle, comedian

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July 22, 2022 35 secs

A lesson I learned from my brother (James Baldwin): Push through your fear. If there’s something you want, it’s usually worth the risk. I’ve found that on the other side of fear is rebirth. — Paula Whaley, artist

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Don’t be afraid to stand up and fight for what’s right. Get out there in the struggle. The more of us are out there, the more powerful we will be. You might not benefit from it right away, but the younger generation behind you will benefit from it. — Claudette Colvin, nurse’s assistant and civil rights activist

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Life can slap you down sometimes. But if you take care of yourself, if you have a sense of humor, if you live a good life, if you love yourself, you’re going to be happy. And others are going to see that joy. My advice is to develop a strong spiritual life, choose your friends wisely—and love, just love. — Clarice Freeman, educator

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June 8, 2022 30 secs

The reason that I did this ad is because this is what I believe, I'm a strong believer, a Christian, and I really see a lot of the challenges that we're facing in this country a direct consequence of the agenda of the left trying to kick God out of everything. …

Are we better off with this really aggressive movement to totally eliminate God with what we're doing? …

A lot of the challenges we see in the country are a consequence of a ...

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In all of human history, the luckiest black people that have ever lived on the face of the human planet are the ones that are living and breathing in America today. — Candace Owens, bestselling author and founder of Blexit

Candace Owens is the bestselling author of Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.

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Thoughtful challenge and dialogue are the most powerful ways that science gets closer to truth. But Facebook's 'fact checkers' criticized what they imagined I wrote based on a 900-word review, rather than what I did write in a book of more than 75,000 words. They're no better than trolls who pan political adversaries' books on Amazon without bothering to read them. It's not the behavior of serious scientists, and it demonstrates th...

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April 27, 2022 5 mins

Hi, this is Janine Bolon. John has given me the singular honor to share with you a story. It is out of my book, Seeking the Divine: An Intimate Journey into the World of Mysticism.

Just to give you a bit of background, I am a shaman and a healer where I have been able to work with multiple Native American tribes.

This story is from chapter 15 of Seeking the Divine. It's called White Buffalo Calf Woman. That afternoon, I called Thunde...

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The social worker cannot find the time to be a bureaucrat by telling a judge to hear cases more quickly.

The social worker cannot find the time to be a bureaucrat by drivingly more quickly to home calls.

The social worker cannot find the time to be a bureaucrat by telling the instructor of a required four-hour continuing education class to teach the class in three hours.

No, to find time to be a bureaucrat, the social worker must take...

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Misinformation is not a thing. Misinformation is the other side of a debate—facts and data the would-be censors don’t like.

Flat-out lies are a thing. But flat-out lies don’t work. Despite what the censorship-loving woke mob says, they may actually work less well than they ever have, because they draw so much incoming fire so quickly. — Robert Yoho, M.D. and author of two books

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