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As All-American as it Gets →

August 15, 2021

He would likely be appalled at how partisan and politicized so much humor has become today. He ripped both major parties with good, clean humor and was consequently appreciated by Democrats and Republicans alike in the 1920s and 1930s.

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How Venezuela Can Recover →

August 12, 2021

The bolivar is so close to absolute worthlessness that Venezuelans are refusing en masse to use it, preferring American dollars and cryptocurrencies instead. How Venezuela can recover.

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The Man Who Purchased an Empire →

August 11, 2021

The notorious “Auction of the Empire” reveals what eventually happens when a civilization succumbs to concentrated power and corruption.

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This is "Civilization"?

August 5, 2021

It has been said that income taxes are the price we pay for civilization. To that, as I try to make sense of the tax code, I must ask, “This is civilization?”

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So Capitalism Can't Handle COVID but Government Can?

July 29, 2021

The idiot who said capitalism can’t handle COVID got it precisely wrong. In this commentary at EL AMERICAN, I recount my recent COVID-related experience at the Paris airport.

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Was Hitler a Capitalist or a Christian? →

July 29, 2021

Do not be gullible or foolish enough to suggest that the supremely evil Adolf Hitler was either a capitalist or a Christian.

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Cancel Culture Targets Hayek →

July 28, 2021

To the LSE Class War people, Hayek’s championship of the free economy over a socialist one is a sin that can be neither forgiven nor tolerated. Theirs is an indefensible perspective that speaks volumes about their intellectual insecurity.

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What Joe Biden and Henry VII Have in Common →

July 25, 2021

For one who fancies himself “progressive,” Biden seems astonishingly unaware that his “soak ‘em good” mentality is medieval, if not ancient.

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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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Nothing motivates Democrats more than promising to take away people's hard-earned money — Babylon Bee.

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Socialists think there’s no such thing as a bad poor person or a good rich person. Among socialists, it seems there’s no such thing as a thinking person — Lawrence W. Reed.

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Murphy on America
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Murphy on America
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“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.

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Mill on Freedom
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“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.”

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People who hate the rich often speak as though there’s an evil-doing rich person under every bed.

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Change Your Name? To What?
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One of the coolest names I’ve ever heard would be high on my list of candidates if I ever had to find a new one.

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A Forgotten Document
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Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all of the Four Great State Papers of the United States.

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