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Israel and Ice Cream: The Ben & Jerry's Blunder →

July 23, 2021

Thanks, Ben & Jerry’s, for providing me with the opportunity to say some good things about Israel’s vibrant economy.

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Private Profit in Public Schools: A Necessity! →

July 22, 2021

The crisis in the government schools these days is NOT in the part that’s delivered privately, but rather, in the part that is exclusively government.

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Australia, Gold and Liberty →

July 21, 2021

Historically, the connection between gold and liberty is a potent one. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to assert—if you will pardon the pun—that they are two sides of the same coin.

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Alfonso XIII and the Walk of Death →

July 16, 2021

If you don’t like hikes, then if you walk Caminito del Rey, you may lose your tapas.

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Devastation is NOT a Blessing →

July 15, 2021

Anyone who simply observes the increased construction activity as people spend to rebuild and concludes that a disaster is some sort of economic blessing, is blind to the big picture.

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Healthcare Minus the Third Parties →

July 13, 2021

The greatest drag on the DPC model is the threat of government red tape and regulations at the federal and state levels, as well as pressure from those with a vested interest in the high-cost, less-than-transparent status quo.

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Edgar Guest: The People's Poet →

July 8, 2021

Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse.

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Calvin Coolidge: The Difference Between Simple and Simplistic →

July 4, 2021

Today’s advocates of the spendthrift nanny state dismiss this practitioner of small government as a simple man of even simpler times. His wisdom, however, demonstrates the crucial difference between simple and simplistic.

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The Berlin Wall 60 Years Later →

July 1, 2021

A hideous monument to the essence of socialism, which is FORCE.

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Learning from Livy →

June 27, 2021

The experiences of those who came before, especially when understood in the context of their times, are fraught with lessons we ignore at our peril.

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The Compact That Preceded the Magna Carta →

June 15, 2021

An event two centuries before Magna Carta can stake a strong claim as the real genesis of English liberty.

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Utopian Communalism: One Flop After Another →

June 13, 2021

They wanted a triumph of exhortation over incentive, of intentions over results, of wishful thinking over actual performance.

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Daniel Ortega, Evil Dictator

June 11, 2021

His entire adult life is a story of power lust—of fighting for power, abusing it when he got it, being ousted when it made him over-confident, then fighting to regain it, and now doing his best to keep it for life.

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A Tale of Two Henrys (and Inflation Too) →

June 5, 2021

If Henry VIII knew his history, he might have learned from the earlier Henry and been a better money manager.

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America's Founders Were Heroes to the World

June 3, 2021

The Founders would be among the first to tell you they did not possess all the answers to everything. But they were confident that a free people would eventually come up with better answers than corrupt elites who worship power.

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The Importance of Hope

June 3, 2021

Hope is not something you can touch, taste, smell or see but it’s powerful stuff, a compelling motivator. Here are some reasons why it’s so important.

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I Was a Smuggler -- And Proud Of It! →

May 31, 2021

Banning the transport of stuff that people desire is much easier said than done and may well produce more victims than the stuff itself.

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Joe and Janet, Robber Barons →

May 29, 2021

Yes, unbelievable as it may be to small children, governments and double standards go together like peanut butter and jelly.

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Entrepreneurs and Encouragement →

May 25, 2021

My speech for the Free Market Road Show conference in Podgorica, Montenegro — May 2021. In the video, the speech begins at about 6:50.

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George Schuyler Was His Own Man →

May 22, 2021

For more than five decades as a journalist, George Schuyler eloquently assailed Jim Crow, Big Government, and socialism.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025
Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025

“For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they bankroll in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble,” writes Ryan Walters.

Oct 31, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025

“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

Oct 18, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025

Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

Sep 25, 2025

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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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025
Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

Nov 18, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

Nov 13, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

Nov 11, 2025