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How a Montana Senator Helped Curse Us With the 17th Amendment →

April 18, 2023

In his own defense, Montana’s William A. Clark said, “I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.” (Photo is one I took myself along the Skalkaho Pass between Philipsburg and Hamilton, MT in 2019).

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NOT Socialist Countries! →

April 18, 2023

While Nordic nations dabbled in welfare-state-style socialism a half-century ago, they learned some lessons from the resulting stagnation. They reversed course. They are now among the freest, most capitalist countries on the planet.

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Edgar Guest, the People's Poet →

April 12, 2023

He fell in love with his adopted state and country and never left either. More than 300 newspapers across the country regularly published his work.

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FDR's Other "Day of Infamy" →

April 4, 2023

If the federal government tried today to seize the gold holdings of private American citizens, how much do you think we would turn over?

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The Amazing Mary Seacole, A Genuine Do-Gooder →

March 29, 2023

She had only grateful beneficiaries, and no resentful victims.

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The Power of Optimism →

March 28, 2023

Think the Best, Do Your Best.

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The Wisdom of Mario Vargas Llosa →

March 25, 2023

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.

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John Lennon: No Model to Emulate →

March 19, 2023

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.

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Let's Make Montana Look Like Ireland →

March 15, 2023

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! 

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Disasters Should Remind Us of Bastiat's Wisdom →

March 9, 2023

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!

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The 70th Anniversary of Stalin's Funeral →

March 8, 2023

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

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Celebrating Courageous Women →

March 8, 2023

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.

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How To Get the Most Out of Others →

March 7, 2023

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

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Laboring to Ensure Freedom For All--The Grimké Sisters →

March 4, 2023

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.

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Hero of the Holodomor, Gareth Jones →

February 28, 2023

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.

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Why Booker T. Washington Remains a Model for the Ages →

February 26, 2023

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

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Jim Crow Was a DEMOCRAT Project →

February 24, 2023

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.

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Why Censorship Should Chill You to the Bone →

February 21, 2023

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.”

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Montana's Greatest Hollywood Actor →

February 20, 2023

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."

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The History of Slavery You Probably Weren't Taught in School →

February 18, 2023

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

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