If Other Governments Do It →

April 8, 2025

If other governments are doing it, that might be a good argument for us not to.

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Apr 22, 2025

People Who Bypassed Legal Process to Migrate to USA Demand Legal Process Before Being Kicked Out

Apr 22, 2025

At publishing time, the United States Supreme Court ruled that President Trump must stop deporting criminals since they snuck into the country fair and square.

Apr 22, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

The World's Earliest Evidence of Taxation

Apr 17, 2025

Crystal Ponti: “From Sumer to China, civilizations devised ingenious, and sometimes bizarre, ways to track, collect and enforce taxes, leaving behind vivid clues of how they funded their ambitions—and proved that even in the Bronze Age, nothing was certain but death and taxes.”

Apr 17, 2025

Apr 9, 2025

Man Imposes Tariffs as Wife Racks Up Huge Trade Deficit at Target

Apr 9, 2025

At publishing time, news broke that Jenna Harper was planning to impose an immediate laundry embargo to counter Eric's tariffs — Babylon Bee.

Apr 9, 2025

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Feb 11, 2025

Murphy on America

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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Apr 24, 2025

Paper Money as a Weapon of War

Apr 24, 2025

The greatest harm the HMS Phoenix inflicted on America was accomplished with paper, not gunpowder.

Apr 24, 2025

Apr 22, 2025

Ruining the Money

Apr 22, 2025

Ottoman rulers routinely engaged in the debasement of money. It prompted a revolt in 1589.

Apr 22, 2025

How the Post-WWII Economic Boom Proved Keynesians Wrong

Apr 22, 2025

Federal spending plummeted by 75 percent. Millions re-entered the private job market. Yet unemployment remained lower than it is today, and the economy took off.

Apr 22, 2025