Proverbs 20:31 tells us that “Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.” The key word there is “astray.”

The first time the date was celebrated as Jesus’ birthday was apparently in the year 336, in Rome.

As in so many other parables and teachings, Jesus’s Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard upholds capitalist virtues, not socialist ones.

The apostle Paul says in II Corinthians 9:7: “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

Once, a very wise American president warned that dependence on politicians would sap the natural desire to assist our fellows in need and would cost far more than if we pitched in and helped directly ourselves.

The case for capitalism rests on something far more important than material wealth. It is not refuted by the occasional bad eggs who misbehave.

If ever I found myself in circumstances similar to those of Edith Cavell’s in 1915, I would hope I could muster even half the courage that she did.

The “people over profits” mentality produced fewer people until profit—earned as a result of one’s care for his own property and his desire for improvement—saved the people.

This man helped far more poor people than most alleged poverty-fighters. He knew the long-term answer to poverty was wealth creation, not wealth confiscation and redistribution, and he never taxed anybody to do the job.

Don Smith chose to join the FEE board because he believed in the importance of building the movement’s educational outreach, he thought FEE should be an important part of that, and he thought that he could help us figure out how to make it happen.

Iraq is a disaster of big government, central planning, and “leaders” with sticky fingers. Yes, yet another socialist basket case among so many that it’s hard to keep up with their number.

If you found out that the guy on your T-shirt was a mass murderer, you might ask your oppression studies professor why she left out a few important details.

Pol Pot, Maximilien Robespierre, Che Guevara and other collectivist thugs are the subject of this half-hour October 3, 2019 interview.

I’m not a replica, an appendage, or a cog. I’m a completely specific, utterly unique, self-winding, and inner-motivated one-of-a-kind. And so are you.

If our minds were more open—if we mustered more confidence in what free people can accomplish and learned to be more skeptical of bungling big government—we might take notice of some remarkable things already happening.

The contents of a nation’s constitution, its most supreme law, ought to be composed with care and precision and implemented with scrupulous fidelity. The constitution of the Khmer Rouge communists read as though the author’s orders were “Slap something together quickly and get it over with.”

The claim that socialism “has succeeded greatly” in Scandinavian countries is just shameless propaganda, hopelessly wrong and out of date. Those who make such ridiculous claims betray their real agenda of government control by never telling you these facts.

Envy is a form of income bigotry. Search your conscience. If you find envy within it, expunge it before it does its awful work.

Politics is the last place from which I would expect wisdom to flow. Comedian Groucho Marx advised, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

It’s never too late for new generations of Mexicans to get acquainted with one of the 20th Century’s greatest defenders of capitalism and freedom.