Socialism is a tragic joke. This is Part One of two parts. Part Two is here: https://tinyurl.com/9z3fxtbk.

The story (in audio) of the Flushing Remonstrance, a pivotal document and moment that established a precedent of religious liberty in what would eventually become the United States. Based on this article: https://fee.org/articles/the-flushing-remonstrance-the-religious-magna-carta-of-the-new-world/.

Politicians who bemoan low voter turnout shouldn’t be so critical of non-voters.

Americans of the 1800s learned from the development of the telegraph that it was entrepreneurs in a free market, not government, that really promoted the “public interest.”

When he died in 1971, fellow Jazz great Duke Ellington said of him, “He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.”

Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, and Booker T. Washington possessed wisdom and character that deserves to resonate and inspire for many generations to come.

Now that we know what socialism is, why is it anti-social? Let me count the ways. Six, at least.

How would you like to have delicate surgery performed in your mouth while on a boat—in its saloon, no less?

Unlike many US presidents, Ronald Reagan understood there was no loftier achievement for any society than freedom.

No matter what you think about America entering World War I, and no matter what color your skin, you can celebrate the heroic Harlem Hellfighters. They were among the best.

In September 1991, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent stamp in memory of Jan Ernst Matzeliger. It was an honor he richly deserved.

Keep government small and keep your eye on it because it will grab whatever power it can get its hands on at your expense.

A retired government school teacher in my town, at the start of the pandemic, declared capitalism to be unable to handle a crisis. Here’s my response.

What’s the big-picture lesson here? Montesquieu, the French Enlightenment thinker, summed it up in 1748: “Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”

Long before the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek noted that “The more the State plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual,” Coolidge knew it in his gut.

So many black, blind and brilliant musicians grace our history that it’s difficult to fit them in a single list.

The notion that only government can “make money” is not only historically inaccurate, it’s also downright silly.

I have no interest in homogenizing people in a socialist or egalitarian blender. Commonism is just one letter away from communism, a deadly poison.

Without men and women willing to dream and take risks, life for the masses would surely still be—in the words of Thomas Hobbes—nasty, brutish and short, just as it was for centuries until capitalism gave the entrepreneur a chance to succeed.

If the choice is obedience or conscience, I try my best to pick conscience.