As it always has been, the Middle East is beset with ethnic, religious and national tensions. No matter what your views might be on any of the related issues, you can’t help but recognize that May 14, 1948 was a momentous day in history.

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).

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.

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.

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

She had only grateful beneficiaries, and no resentful victims.

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."