Think the Best, Do Your Best.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a socialist who even flirted with Cuban communism. Thanks to an open and observant mind, he got over that.

Stop the John Lennon worship, please. The guy was a fool, a wife beater, a hypocrite, a serial liar, a homewrecker, a drug abuser, and an awful father. He even enjoyed making fun of people with disabilities, mocking and bullying them time and again. Article is also available here: https://tinyurl.com/5rpnufhm.

Though fewer people today live in Ireland than did almost two centuries ago, they’re busy teaching the world an important lesson: economic freedom works! 

The fact that some people who should know better still see blessings in destruction is an indication that we have a lot of economics educating to do!

Some quotes from Uncle Joe himself that might help readers see what kind of man he really was.

Honorable Mentions: Sacajawea and Pocahontas, two Native American women, neither of whom (so far as we know) ever claimed to be a white woman from Massachusetts. This article is also available here: https://tinyurl.com/yt4t358j.

A forgotten high school football game played 15 years ago in Texas reveals the power of encouragement.

The Grimké sisters challenged a misconception that was widespread in their time and that persists today: that God is either silent on slavery or in support of it.

No credible person today denies that this holocaust occurred. But in March 1933, Jones was shocked to find his revelations denounced by veteran and highly-respected journalists.

He was an enemy of what tears people and countries down: envy, hatred, idleness, arrogance, and disrespect for life and property.

The sad reality is that Democrats are up to their eyeballs in groupthink, collectivism, the distortion of our past and vote-buying victimhood. Indeed, it seems they create victims so they can then posture as their saviors.

Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson said, “It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”

Something Gary Cooper said decades ago seems even wiser advice today: “Our country is a young country that just has to make up its mind to be itself again."

The widespread sin of “presentism” poisons our understanding of such hot-button topics as slavery.

If we are to assess slavery and its abolition accurately, we must see them in their fullest historical and cultural contexts. We ought to avoid the temptation to assume that everything about slavery’s history is clear-cut and—pardon the double meaning—black and white.

Polish history is replete with heroic men and women who stood firm against tyranny. I am very proud to have met so many of them. Stefan Kisielewski will always be one of my favorites.

Dorothy Thompson’s blistering attacks on political and economic authoritarianism abroad mirrored what she often said about similar developments here in America.

Black Americans ought to love Calvin Coolidge. This article is also available here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8xtkvd.

In the 1892 presidential election, the better man narrowly lost in Montana.