“Africa is poor,” economist George Ayittey wrote, “because she is not free.” The world’s second largest and second most populous continent, he noted, “has more dictators per capita than any other.”

Al Gore makes big bucks for peddling gloom-and-doom scare talk and never issues refunds when his forecasts flop.

With John Papola for his Dad Saves America podcast.

I recorded this brief interview while in Lublin, Poland in April 2024 to speak for my good friend Prof. Luke Jasinski at Maria Sklodowska University. Turn your volume up.

The very fact that he went to Washington but came back to Plains, Georgia, speaks strongly in his favor.

People of goodwill and character can shape the future for the better. It’s never too soon or too late to start.

Jewish Montanans thrived in mining, merchandising, railroads, hotels, livestock, medicine, meat packing, jewelry and candy making, and even local politics.

Whether you support U.S. aid to Ukraine or not, do not delude yourself into thinking that Moscow will stop if it takes Kyiv.

Maybe someday there will be a country called “The Department of Motor Vehicles.”

He zigged and zagged from one Rube Goldberg policy contraption to the next. His elitist brain trusters covered for his failures and cooked up new schemes, in what Flynn called “the dance of the crackpots.”

Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Jackson would be horrified at today’s Federal Reserve, which has victimized the country with almost non-stop monetary mischief since its birth in 1913.

The 1924 presidential election was a colorful one, featuring a record 103 nomination ballots and the Democratic convention and the Republican victory of the Coolidge-Dawes ticket in November.

Neither the Congress nor the President of today possesses the courage of a Franklin Pierce on the matter of spending, even as the national debt is on track to hit $50 trillion before this decade is out.

The dollar is no longer “as good as gold” because government mismanages money just as it mismanages almost everything else.

Any nation founded on a promise of freedom must be reminded constantly of what freedom is all about, as well as how rare and precious it is. Here are some of my favorite quotes on the subject.

Unless you have reason to believe the culprits in Washington are going to fix this on their own, consider the Article V option seriously.

The so-called “reforms” were far-reaching, to be sure, but they were also quintessentially authoritarian.

Did you know there were 32,000 “speakeasies” in New York City at the height of Prohibition? More on Prohibition here too: https://fee.org/articles/the-volstead-act-a-centennial-to-note-not-toast/.

The word “snowflake” has taken on a new meaning in recent years.