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The Story of an American Entrepreneur: Will Kellogg

September 30, 2021

The next time you eat something with the name “Kellogg” on the box, think of what a great country it must be if a man can mix an idea with a few bucks and turn it into a great enterprise. If the class warriors and their political friends have their way, we’ll someday have to go to museums to learn about such things.

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Heroes: Relief from Today's Nastiness

September 23, 2021

We need to be inspired by the words and deeds of real people whose lives are worth celebrating, whose examples are inherently inspirational.

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Chester Mops the Floor with Joe →

September 20, 2021

Big spenders in Washington exhibit the same pomposity with which the arrogant, swaggering demagogues of ancient Rome demolished first the Roman Republic and then later, the Roman Empire too.

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Freedom Hub Interviews Me on George Orwell →

September 16, 2021

Was George Orwell a Budding Libertarian? Recorded September 15, 2021. Based on this article: https://fee.org/articles/was-george-orwell-a-socialist-or-a-libertarian-its-complicated/.

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Life Without Liberty is Unthinkable, So Think About It

September 16, 2021

Important. Precious. Indispensable. Priceless. Liberty is all these and more. And yet, people frequently vote it away in exchange for a short-term advantage or benefit. (Part 2 of this article is here:

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Love Bluegrass, Love America →

September 14, 2021

Bluegrass is quintessential, all-American, Appalachian, hillbilly music. I’ve never seen a bluegrass musician who didn’t seem as happy as a rooster on a June bug.

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Judging the Rich and the Poor →

September 9, 2021

Stereotyping people according to income grouping is superficial bigotry.

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Remembering Paul Harvey's Wisdom, Optimism and Common Sense →

September 4, 2021

“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” asked the late, great Paul Harvey.

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A New Holiday to Celebrate

September 2, 2021

Any good economist will tell you that as factors of production, labor and capital are not only indispensable but hugely dependent upon each other as well — from this significant 2021 revision and expansion of an old essay.

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Louisa May Alcott and the Fruitlands Commune →

August 24, 2021

As most of the country reveled in newly won freedoms and a market economy that allowed the enterprising to create wealth, a few malcontents sought a different life.

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Breaking the Rules of Governance

August 19, 2021

A century from now, people will look back on this turbulent but pivotal moment in history and ask, “What did our American ancestors in the early 21st Century do when faced with dire threats to their Constitution and their liberties?”

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George Orwell: Socialist or Libertarian? It's Complicated →

August 17, 2021

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history -- George Orwell. To watch a video interview I did on this subject (on 9/15/21), follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMPl7lYfmc.

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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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