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Saluting a Brazilian Revolutionary

April 20, 2025

Since 1890, Brazilians have celebrated Tiradentes Day on April 21 to honor a man whose ideas and courage have inspired them for more than two centuries.

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Centenarians for Liberty →

April 19, 2025

I would give anything to spend even a moment with centenarians who fought for America’s liberty. Thank you, Rev. E. B. Hillard, for doing that very thing so long ago.

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Patriots' Day 2025 -- April 19

April 17, 2025

How many Revolutionary War veterans were still alive in 1864? Find out here.

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A Good and Faithful Servant →

April 15, 2025

So far as I know, from the reports of the many who knew him personally, Billy Graham was the real thing, through and through. Never a hint of pretense or prevarication. Honest, candid, principled, incorruptible, steadfast.

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A Tax Man With Courage and Convictions →

April 15, 2025

Have you ever heard of someone so principled that he quit his job rather than do something he knew to be wrong?

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The Greatest Hero of World War II

April 13, 2025

Pacifists may not start wars, but they don’t win them either. For that, we need the Audie Murphys of the world. Audio version here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/audie-murphy-the-greatest-hero-of-world-war-ii-5841661

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FDR and the IRS

April 12, 2025

The first president to personally corrupt the IRS for political purposes was the Democratic icon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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If Other Governments Do It →

April 8, 2025

If other governments are doing it, that might be a good argument for us not to.

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Murder in Carroll County

April 7, 2025

McIntosh grew up to become “A Man of Two Worlds,” as the subtitle of George Chapman’s very good biography attests. He was accepted in both the Creek and American cultures of his day.

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Patrick Henry and His Famous Speech →

April 7, 2025

Michael Liebowitz of The Rational Egoist interviews me on one of the most famous orations in American history. Also available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nfW1NhHUCzwGrcUHX77cq?si=GvW360sGRBuvEx2lPnAjxw

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Crisp Got the Message

April 7, 2025

Charles Crisp may be forgotten even in Crisp County these days but on this one very important matter, his change of mind helped protect the integrity of the nation’s currency.

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Retrospective: How Did Government Handle COVID?

April 2, 2025

Overall, the one-size-fits-all response to COVID-19 by Big Government was heavy-handed and often dead wrong (excuse the pun). Remember that the next time some ideologue breathlessly urges you to turn everything over to it in the name of “crisis management.”

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The Unseemly Greenland Gambit

March 30, 2025

Americans ought to let Trump know that we do not want Greenland “one way or the other.” Such unseemly language should always be beneath us.

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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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Honored by the Left, Wrong on Everything
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Honored by the Left, Wrong on Everything
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Paul Ehrlich: Time and again, he predicted doom on the assumption that humanity is a plague on the Earth.

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New York Times Retracts Story Due to Several Accuracies
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The Babylon Bee reports that at publishing time, sources revealed that The New York Times had already fired one of its lead journalists for inadvertently reporting a true story.

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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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Jesus was a Socialist? That's a Lie
Mar 25, 2026
Jesus was a Socialist? That's a Lie
Mar 25, 2026

This interview, aside from addressing the question, “Was Jesus a Socialist?” also touches on events in Poland, Argentina, and Brazil. Published by “Speak Freely” on March 19, 2026.

Mar 25, 2026
Remembering Rostropovich
Mar 24, 2026
Remembering Rostropovich
Mar 24, 2026

One of the 20th Century’s giants of both music and freedom.

Mar 24, 2026
A Woman as Strong as Any Man
Mar 21, 2026
A Woman as Strong as Any Man
Mar 21, 2026

Margaret Thatcher famously said once, “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” That was certainly the case in the ancient story of the great Israelite leader, Deborah.

Mar 21, 2026