Ottoman rulers routinely engaged in the debasement of money. It prompted a revolt in 1589.

Federal spending plummeted by 75 percent. Millions re-entered the private job market. Yet unemployment remained lower than it is today, and the economy took off.

Worrying about the balance of trade is misplaced. Basing a nation’s trade policy on it is worse; it’s dumb and destructive.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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/.

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

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.

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.