Currency and the Collapse of the Roman Empire →

October 17, 2018

Rising prices are not inflation. They are one of many consequences of the inflation itself, which is the debasement and multiplication of money.

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Dec 4, 2025

The End of the Climate Cult

Dec 4, 2025

The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot — Matt Ridley.

Dec 4, 2025

Oct 31, 2025

Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education

Oct 31, 2025

“For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they bankroll in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble,” writes Ryan Walters.

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Oct 18, 2025

Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance

Oct 18, 2025

“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

Oct 18, 2025

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Feb 11, 2025

Murphy on America

Feb 11, 2025

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me” — Actor, poet, and the most decorated American of World War II, Audie Murphy.

Feb 11, 2025

Feb 1, 2025

Mill on Freedom

Feb 1, 2025

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

Feb 1, 2025

Mar 20, 2023

Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders

Mar 20, 2023

“There’s nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s good for it — from his book, Musashi.

Mar 20, 2023

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Dec 14, 2025

The Good Counsel of Mrs. Marx

Dec 14, 2025

The pigeons in the picture got it right. Marx was a detestable fraud and he should have listened to his mother.

Dec 14, 2025

Dec 13, 2025

Americans Who Separated Church and State

Dec 13, 2025

Matters of belief and conscience should belong exclusively to the individual and his Maker, not legislators and potentates.

Dec 13, 2025

Dec 11, 2025

A Hero Americans Must Never Forget

Dec 11, 2025

He was arrested and interrogated by the highest-ranking officer in the British Army, General William Howe, who got utterly nothing out of him but name, rank and an honest account of his purpose. For their patriotism, his last words remain unsurpassed. Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/un-heroe-que-los-estadounidenses-jamas-deben-olvidar-nathan-hale/.

Dec 11, 2025