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Vote by Mailman? No Thanks →

August 10, 2020

If mass mail-in voting takes hold in this country, we can add yet another of our hard-won rights to the growing pile we don’t much care for anymore.

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The Swedish Nightingale →

August 7, 2020

She earned more in a minute than Karl Marx did in a lifetime, and her followers killed nobody.

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Gratitude for Local Papers →

July 22, 2020

The presence of a locally focused newspaper enhances civic engagement and the cohesiveness of a community. That’s important enough that the subscription price seems to me to be one of the best bargains in town.

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TTD: Trade, Tolerance and Decentralization, Three Keys to a Country's Success →

July 18, 2020

It’s my thesis that for a country to be “successful” for a considerable period—success being defined loosely here as economically prosperous, politically stable, and militarily defensible—it must possess substantial TTD.

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The Brit Who Dumped Socialism →

July 17, 2020

Ivor Thomas came to understand that, in his words, "The prime fact of human nature which the wise statesman must take into account is that men will exert themselves for their own benefit, or for that of their families, regarded as an extension of themselves, as they will exert themselves for no one else.”

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Slavery in Historical Context →

July 15, 2020

Did your history teacher tell you any of this?

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George Washington Carver, Lover of Natural Things →

July 8, 2020

In a letter to a friend in 1930, Carver wrote, “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in.”

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You Lucky Americans →

July 4, 2020

Liberty is our most precious possession, because it is the blessing that begets all other blessings: human dignity, decency, prosperity, and more.

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A Man Who Deserves His Statues →

July 2, 2020

The name of Robert Peel deserves the admiration of good people everywhere, not only on this anniversary of his death, but forever.

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A Grotesque Lie →

July 1, 2020

London’s Express newspaper reported that high-ranking British Labour Party politician John McDonnell told an interviewer, “I still see Jesus as a socialist.”  McDonnell is a moron or a deceiver, or likely both.

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Free Market Environmentalism →

June 29, 2020

A new book explores how property rights and free markets are good for the environment.

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The Professor in the Peruvian Prison →

June 26, 2020

He preached Marxism in the classroom, now he gets to preach it to himself behind prison bars. The wasted life of a nutty professor.

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On Wealth and Socialism →

June 22, 2020

Wealth and inequality: Debunking Myths about Socialism. Patrick Donohoe interviews me on TheWealthStandard.com.

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The Control Freaks in Our Midst →

June 17, 2020

It may be harder for a socialist to get to Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

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Ezra Taft Benson: A Farmer for Freedom →

June 12, 2020

"Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around." 

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Paris in 1871, Seattle in 2020: Leftist Lunacy in Action →

June 11, 2020

It was pretty much 70 days of chaos, tyranny, and stupidity—draped in red flags and political correctness.

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Today is the Day! →

June 8, 2020

Seven reasons to get this book! Strike a blow against socialism.

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The Public Doesn't Trust Government But Wants More Of It →

May 27, 2020

Liberty is rare and precious. When it goes, it may not appear again for generations.

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Philadelphia's Deadliest Epidemic →

May 26, 2020

The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was one of the new country’s earliest and best examples of the cascade of private charity that defined the nation for the next two centuries.

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Civil Disobedience: Is It Ever Justified? →

May 23, 2020

Henry David Thoreau asked, “Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?”

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