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One of History's Greatest Stories Ever! →

June 27, 2023

Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, to their eternal credit, proved that even the most entrenched of laws and policies can be changed by people of courage, character and conscience.

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The Origins of "No Taxation Without Representation" →

June 25, 2023

When the English Civil War began in 1642, John Hampden was among the first the King unsuccessfully attempted to arrest.

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Montana's Home School Heroes →

June 20, 2023

The state’s roughly 7,400 home school children (as reported by the Associated Press) are saving Montana taxpayers well over ten million bucks this year. Nationwide, homeschoolers save the public upwards of $56 billion.

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Wanted: Moral Courage →

June 20, 2023

When we see acts of moral courage, we should recognize and applaud those who show it. We should feel emboldened to practice more of it ourselves.

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Lincoln Steffens the Useful Idiot →

June 15, 2023

He was “hornswoggled by the biggest lie of all,” namely, that Lenin’s Bolshevism would somehow morph into a socialist utopia.

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Reviving the Can-Do Spirit →

June 13, 2023

What we traditionally refer to as a “can-do” spirit, so vital to the country’s past success, must be front-and-center again. Nations that suppress the can-do spirit are plagued with endless, intractable problems from poverty to poor health to lousy government.

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Andrew Mellon and the Good and Bad Guys of the Great Depression →

June 8, 2023

A speech delivered at the Rivers Club in downtown Pittsburgh, PA for Grove City College’s Institute for Faith & Freedom on June 6, 2023.

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He Who Pays the Piper →

June 6, 2023

DeSantis to universities: If you’re so self-focused and sanctimonious to declare an inviolable right to other people’s money, you need to go back to school and learn about the piper.

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The Centennial of the Birth of a Great Critic of Socialism →

June 3, 2023

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich, born on June 3, 1923, showed that socialism is fundamentally anti-individualistic. Socialism is cannibalism animated by philosophy.

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Churchill's Gold Standard Blunder →

June 1, 2023

No doubt Winston Churchill’s economic intentions were good. But good intentions by themselves are never good enough. They desperately require good economics.

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In Defense of Justice Thomas →

May 30, 2023

The political party whose roots are sunk deeply into racism and groupthink still treats blacks the way it always has: Keep them down, buy them off, tell them they’re victims and you’re their saviors, don’t let them choose anything but the government schools their zip codes bind them to no matter how bad those schools are, etc., etc.

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The Slave Who Went to Montana →

May 30, 2023

He was the first African American to cross the continent, the first African American to see the Pacific Ocean, and the first African American to set foot in Montana.

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What Does a Sensible "Political Spectrum" Look Like? →

May 30, 2023

Instead of deploying flawed and simplistic spectrum charts, let us judge political and economic systems by who they empower—the State or the individual.

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Evil is Rising, But Despair is Not an Option →

May 23, 2023

Its gateway drug is disdain for the truth, the little white lies that lead to bigger ones, that then open the door to more heinous offenses.

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A Video Interview on Gold and FDR's 1933 Seizure →

May 11, 2023

Here's a video interview with me on gold, FDR and American monetary history—recorded on May 2, 2023. Conducted via Zoom from Singapore by Patrick Vierra of SBTV, Silver Bullion TV.

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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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“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.

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Mill on Freedom
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“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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Did these inventions and their subsequent global influence come our way because of wise and generous government? Evidence in the affirmative is, at best, scant.

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In fighting socialism, the chain saw is far more effective than the butter knife.

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