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Wanted: A Healthy Dose of Humility →

November 30, 2011

A message that humbles the high and mighty and pricks the inflated egos of those who think they know how to mind everybody else’s business. 

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Liberty and the Power of Ideas →

May 25, 2011

The outcome of the struggle between freedom and serfdom depends entirely on what percolates in the hearts and minds of men. At the present time the jury is still deliberating.

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Competition and Monopoly: A Refresher →

April 21, 2011

In economics, competition is not the antithesis of cooperation; rather, it is one of its highest and most beneficial forms. 

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Realignments to Remember →

October 26, 2010

Realignment elections demonstrate that Americans don’t much care for endless wars in faraway places, a sagging economy, spending and taxing binges, or politicians otherwise behaving badly.

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Free Markets Blossom in Vietnam →

July 7, 2010

Downtown Hanoi even boasts a three-story luxury shopping mall, and the people shopping in it are not predominately foreigners.

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Good Economists, Bad Economists and Walmart →

June 29, 2010

The anti-Walmart campaigns of today are eerily reminiscent of the Luddite crusades against chain stores seven decades ago—proof of the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

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George Washington Plunkitt and Honest Graft →

April 19, 2010

The forgotten robber barons of Tammany Hall.

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How We'll Know When We've Won →

April 19, 2010

We’ll know we’ve won the future for liberty when “public service” is regarded as what one naturally does in the private sector.

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Your Daily Liberty Checklist →

February 23, 2010

Put a check mark next to any that apply.

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Where Have All the Monetary Cranks Gone? →

February 22, 2010

They’re now wearing pinstripe suits and instead of selling inflation per se, they’re hawking “stimulus” and “full employment.”

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The Locofocos: When Democrats Were Principled and Respectable →

January 1, 2010

If you’re unhappy that today’s political parties give lip service to equal rights as they busy themselves carving yours up and passing out the pieces, don’t blame me. I’m a Locofoco.

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The Sound of Freedom →

November 18, 2009

Some say The Sound of Music was corny, but for me it was an epiphany. It’s my favorite film, and it always will be.

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Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution →

October 23, 2009

Child labor was relieved of its worst attributes not by legislative fiat but by the progressive march of an ever more productive capitalist system.

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A Tribute to the Polish People →

September 23, 2009

To all those millions of Polish freedom fighters who ushered communism into the dustbin of history, thank you for your courage, your perseverance, your vision, and your example.

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Two Cheers for Transparency →

May 21, 2009

If citizens knew more about how their governments really worked and what they spent other people’s money on, it would not only make for better-informed citizens but for better (and hopefully less) government at the same time.

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All the News that's fit to Tint →

April 6, 2009

What amazing magical powers our benevolent government has! It stimulates when it spends, unlike what happens when the rest of us spend.

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What We Believe →

March 29, 2009

Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are waging a battle of ideas to win, not to make a living, bide our time, or go down with the ship with a smile on our faces.

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A Trillion Wrongs Don't Make A Right →

February 27, 2009

If we had listened to the Indiana legislature in 1947, we might be several trillion dollars freer today.

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A Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty →

January 20, 2009

Khmer Rouge Survivor and Academy Award Winner Haing Ngor Didn't Take Liberty for Granted. The sad ending to his story was his murder in Los Angeles in February 1996.

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Freedom or Free-for-All →

September 1, 2008

The lofty notion that individuals possess certain rights—definable, inalienable, and sacred—has been cheapened and mongrelized beyond anything our Founders would recognize. 

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