Before this book, I thought “tabby” was one of the more common names for a house cat. Now I know it’s a kind of concrete made with oyster shells.

People said he had a voice like gravel, and they meant it as a high compliment. 

Governments don’t like gold because they can’t print it is a truism worth canonizing in the Book of Proverbs. The experiences of Australia, the UK and the US.

Why have a “commerce clause” in the first place if the federal government can declare that you’re doing commerce—interstate or otherwise—even if you’re not?

Personally, Grover loved pork in his sausage, but he hated it in bills.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.