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Give Me Liberty! →

March 23, 2025

In the long and storied history of the struggle for liberty, “the speech” of March 23, 1775, in that Richmond church surely ranks as one of the most memorable orations of all time. Spanish translation here: https://informeorwell.com/cultura/dame-libertad-o-dame-muerte-250-anos-despues/.

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DOGE Exposes Constitutional Drift →

March 22, 2025

According to the Big Government crowd, spending is only “multiplied” when the politicians and their beneficiaries do it. That smacks of self-serving alchemy.

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The Jig is Up

March 19, 2025

Most Americans aren’t fools. They know the Democrats didn’t lift a finger on waste, fraud and abuse when they could have. But it’s worse than that.

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Remember the Ides of March →

March 15, 2025

In an ancient Roman context, the Ides of March evokes a story of bloodshed and tyranny. In an American context, however, March 15 should be remembered as a remarkable day in which the character of a great man saved a nation.

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The Centennial of Coolidge's Inaugural →

March 4, 2025

Calvin Coolidge remains the only President of the United States in the last 200 years to leave the federal government smaller than the day he took the job.

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Was Marx a Peacenik? Give Me a Break! →

February 23, 2025

The Communist Manifesto is gobbledygook writ large as if cooked up by nincompoops. (The article also appears here: https://tinyurl.com/2azyp9t7).

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The Quasquicentennial of the Box Brownie →

February 19, 2025

Like almost everybody today, I use a digital camera and haven’t bought a roll of film in decades. But my first camera, back in 1960, was a Kodak Box Brownie.

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Remembering Oscar DePriest →

February 17, 2025

He thought federal welfare programs would undermine independence and entrepreneurship—and on that, the historical verdict is sad but resoundingly clear: He was right.

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is Right →

February 11, 2025

Excessive damage claims are not only mostly arbitrary, but they burden everybody with higher insurance premiums and hit small businesses especially hard.

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Reflecting on the Gold Democrats →

February 6, 2025

Please don’t blame me for the dollar’s century-long decline in purchasing power. I would have voted Locofoco in 1836 and Gold Democrat in 1896.

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Montana and Missouri: The Fur Connection →

January 20, 2025

Historian K. Ross Toole: “Before the emigrant’s wagon ever rolled a mile, before the miner found his first color, before the government authorized a single road or trail, this inhospitable land had been traversed and mapped” by folks in the fur business.

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Longest Inaugural, Shortest Presidency →

January 20, 2025

On this Inauguration Day, it’s worth noting that the man who delivered the longest inaugural address in American history also presided over the shortest presidency. If there’s any lesson there, it might be this: keep it short and sweet.

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DOGE and DODGE →

January 10, 2025

If DOGE can accomplish what Dodge accomplished, we too may experience a new American economic miracle. The difference a Detroit banker made in three countries—Germany, Japan and the U.S.

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Get Ready for the Semiquincentennial! →

January 2, 2025

Introducing “The Philadelphia Declaration.”

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The Fanny Crosby Story--From Bill Courtney's "An Army of Normal Folks" Podcast →

December 30, 2024

She was blind but not disabled. Recorded in Memphis, TN, in November 2024.

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In Praise of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan, 35 Years Later →

December 27, 2024

The Polish experience proves once again that the “tonic” of capitalism is the best antidote to the “poison” of socialism. It was a powerful medicine, but the patient was close to death. After all, you don't prescribe chicken soup for cancer.

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A Cleric's Heroism →

December 26, 2024

When the bad guys hate you, you must be doing something right: The Story of Cardinal Mindszenty.

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Presidents and Christmas →

December 24, 2024

What some U.S. Presidents said on Christmas.

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Merry Christmas, Montana! →

December 17, 2024

Roy L. Smith cautioned that “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

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Bringing Rose Lane to Life →

December 10, 2024

From conscription to dependency on government programs to the near-meaningless differences between communism and fascism, Lane’s writing stands out as some of the most clear-eyed stuff libertarians have ever produced.

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“Mamdani’s plan to carve a substantial portion out of NYC’s food market for ‘public’ grocers, with no way of gauging their effectiveness, is a foolhardy attempt to coax voters into supporting socialism, rather than a realistic effort to help New Yorkers,” writes Connor Vasile.

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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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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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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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“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.

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No Pardon for Auto Pen
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No Pardon for Auto Pen
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What if a President were to announce one day, “I hereby pardon everybody in America for every offense they committed and for every offense they might yet commit.” Would anyone in his right mind believe that this would be in keeping with either the spirit or the letter of the Constitution? Hey, whose hand is that on the autopen? (Photo credit: NewsMobile.in.)

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A Hero of Australian Aviation
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Mike Mansfield and the Japanese
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Mike Mansfield and the Japanese
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