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A Terrible Idaho Injustice from 40 Years Ago →

July 23, 2024

Unless you think children belong to the State, this real-life tragedy should terrify you.

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Promoting Liberty in Africa →

July 20, 2024

“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.”

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As Far North As It Gets →

July 15, 2024

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

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Wake Up, America! →

July 11, 2024

With John Papola for his Dad Saves America podcast.

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A 15-minute Interview in Lublin, Poland, April 2024 →

July 10, 2024

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.

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The Good That Carter Did →

July 8, 2024

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

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Sixteen Things Individuals Can Do To Help Bring America Together →

June 19, 2024

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

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The Jews of Montana →

June 19, 2024

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

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Is Moldova Next? →

June 12, 2024

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

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The Free State of Bottleneck--Gone But Not Forgotten →

June 4, 2024

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

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Another Side of FDR →

May 21, 2024

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.”

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A Small Town with a Famous Name →

May 21, 2024

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.

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Remembering 1924 →

May 15, 2024

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.

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I try to make my articles like my axe throwing.

May 13, 2024

Why President Pierce Opposed Federal Aid for the Insane →

May 9, 2024

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.

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American Hyperinflation →

May 8, 2024

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

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Best Quotes on Freedom →

May 2, 2024

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.

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Doing Something About the Debt Bomb →

April 26, 2024

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

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Were Japan's "Taika Reforms" a Good Idea? →

March 28, 2024

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

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Lessons From Prohibition →

March 26, 2024

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/.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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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
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025

“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

Oct 18, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025

Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

Sep 25, 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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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025
Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

Nov 18, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

Nov 13, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

Nov 11, 2025