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Two Indians With Scottish Names →

March 12, 2024

During the 18th Century, Scots and Creeks were the principal players in a thriving transatlantic trade in which deerskins and furs from Georgia were exchanged for various European goods.

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The Latest on the Supreme Court's DEI Hire
Mar 31, 2026
The Latest on the Supreme Court's DEI Hire
Mar 31, 2026

Dumb as a box of rocks.

Mar 31, 2026
Honored by the Left, Wrong on Everything
Mar 17, 2026
Honored by the Left, Wrong on Everything
Mar 17, 2026

Paul Ehrlich: Time and again, he predicted doom on the assumption that humanity is a plague on the Earth.

Mar 17, 2026
New York Times Retracts Story Due to Several Accuracies
Mar 16, 2026
New York Times Retracts Story Due to Several Accuracies
Mar 16, 2026

The Babylon Bee reports that at publishing time, sources revealed that The New York Times had already fired one of its lead journalists for inadvertently reporting a true story.

Mar 16, 2026

Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
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
Mill on Freedom
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
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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

Recent Blogs

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One Hundred Years Ago in Rome
Apr 4, 2026
One Hundred Years Ago in Rome
Apr 4, 2026

The line between sanity and mental illness is not stark and defined. It is blurry, so it’s not easy to tell when someone has crossed it.

Apr 4, 2026
William Henry Harrison: The Speech
Apr 3, 2026
William Henry Harrison: The Speech
Apr 3, 2026

As long as it was, it was largely boring and forgettable.

Apr 3, 2026
Eleanor Roosevelt on the Ten-Dollar Bill?
Apr 3, 2026
Eleanor Roosevelt on the Ten-Dollar Bill?
Apr 3, 2026

A proposal from more than a decade ago that fortunately went nowhere.

Apr 3, 2026