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Foxes: Victims of Good Intentions →

May 11, 2023

More than 100 veterinarians from around the UK have signed a letter which points out, “Advocates of the 2004 ban on hunting would not have expected their efforts to protect foxes to result in this catastrophic decline.” Oops.

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Presidential Campaign Songs: Puffery, Not Education →

May 9, 2023

Did you know that Saddam Hussein’s campaign song in his rigged election of 2002 was Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You?

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Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: A David vs Goliath Story →

May 4, 2023

In one of the many public protests she helped organize, Jacobs wore a placard around her neck adorned in large letters with the message, “Conscience: the Ultimate Weapon!”

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Israel's Declaration of Independence Almost Didn't Make it on Time →

April 25, 2023

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.

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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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Recent “Best of Web”

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Minnesotans Escape to Somalia
Jan 26, 2026
Minnesotans Escape to Somalia
Jan 26, 2026

Fleeing Minneapolis for Mogadishu.

Jan 26, 2026
The End of the Climate Cult
Dec 4, 2025
The End of the Climate Cult
Dec 4, 2025

The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot — Matt Ridley.


Dec 4, 2025
Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025
Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025

“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.

Oct 31, 2025

Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025
Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025

“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.”

Feb 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023

“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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A Very Old Racket
Jan 27, 2026
A Very Old Racket
Jan 27, 2026

Historians generally posit that the Roman welfare state appeared in the last century of the old Republic, beginning with grain subsidies in 123 B.C. But the racket is even older than that, by at least 300 years. Photo credit: Douglas Rissing via iStock.

Jan 27, 2026
China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
Jan 27, 2026
China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
Jan 27, 2026

A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.

Jan 27, 2026
When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026
When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

Jan 16, 2026