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Remembering Margaret Thatcher →

December 30, 2021

Earlier this month (December 2021), voters in Chile elected a socialist as the country’s new President. It’s only a matter of time before Chile will need a Thatcher to fix all the problems Chileans are soon to experience.

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Ethelmae Humphreys, my "MO Mom," R.I.P. →

December 29, 2021

Rest in Peace, Ethelmae — a faithful, kind, generous, adventurous, unforgettable Missouri Mom of boundless character.

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Theologians, Cosmology and Freedom →

December 26, 2021

In this wide-ranging interview with Justin O’Connell of the Gold/Silver/Bitcoin Show in November 2021, I touched on freedom, socialism, some great theologians, monetary theory, Bitcoin and related topics.

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The Wisdom of a Great Scientist

December 23, 2021

He once said, “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

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Let's Celebrate the Bill of Rights EVERY Day!

December 16, 2021

Time and experience have shown us that the best words any man can write are guaranteed neither universal nor eternal acceptance. Each new generation must be reminded of principles or even the best of them can be lost.

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Twelve Marvelous Quotes on Bill of Rights Day →

December 15, 2021

“Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words ‘unless inconvenient’ to be found."

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Christ, Christmas and Capitalism

December 9, 2021

If you say you want to help the poor and that you favor the poverty-producing failure called socialism, then you’re like the guy who claims to favor medicine but patronizes witch doctors.

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Moral Character, Freedom and Human Flourishing →

December 6, 2021

Jon Hersey of The Objective Standard Institute interviews me on morals, character and heroes.

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George Sutherland: A Model Justice →

December 6, 2021

He warned us, “The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.”

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"Progressives" Are Hard to Figure Out →

December 2, 2021

Their thought processes are so riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions and dubious notions that the rest of us are often left scratching our heads in disbelief.

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Thankful for Man's Best Friend

November 25, 2021

Maybe dogs are God’s way of telling humankind, “You can do better.”

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What Gibbon Got Wrong →

November 20, 2021

The salutary impact of Christianity on the course of history is routinely sold short, as amply illustrated in Alvin J. Schmidt’s marvelous book, How Christianity Changed the World. I strongly recommend it.

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Eight Films for Freedom Lovers

November 11, 2021

The legendary actor Marlon Brando once said, “Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” I don’t know if that’s fair or not, but I do know that occasionally, whether on purpose or by accident, even Hollywood gets something right.

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Books: Antidotes to the Poison of Socialism

November 4, 2021

With the recent resurgence of socialist ideology around the world, it’s more important than ever that people understand what it’s all about. It is an insidious poison that has killed tens of millions over the decades.

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The Great Awakening in Education

October 28, 2021

It’s a fact of life that as human beings, we take a greater interest in those things over which we have some power of discretion than in those things we feel relatively helpless to affect. That’s why many people spend more time shopping for the car they want—visiting dealership showrooms and comparing prices and features—than they spend in picking the right schools for their children.

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Textbook Bias

October 21, 2021

Perhaps some economics texts should come with a warning label.

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The Under-Rated Warren Harding →

October 21, 2021

When it came to race and the law, Warren Harding was well ahead of his time.

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The Reeds of Pennsylvania →

October 17, 2021

The story of the largest private fundraising campaign of America’s Revolutionary War.

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The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove

October 14, 2021

We would do well to remember, as economist Milton Friedman instructed, that “The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

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Celebrate Christopher Columbus!

October 7, 2021

If your aim is to delegitimize American liberty or even Western Civilization in general, then Columbus must go even if it requires lies to get the job done.

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
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“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.

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Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
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“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??

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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.”

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Recent Quotes

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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.

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.”

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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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“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
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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
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The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

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Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
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Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
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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.

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I (Identify As), Pencil
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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