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Popes Pontificating on Immigration

May 9, 2025

Leo XIV should show understanding of America’s situation before he moralizes as Francis did on American immigration policy.

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Public Education as State Worship

May 7, 2025

Don’t trust any outfit that doesn’t trust you.

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The Compatible Teachings of Christ and Confucius

May 1, 2025

It should surprise no one that the murdering megalomanic, Mao Zedong, hated both Christ and Confucius.

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Paper Money as a Weapon of War →

April 24, 2025

The greatest harm the HMS Phoenix inflicted on America was accomplished with paper, not gunpowder.

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Ruining the Money

April 22, 2025

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

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How the Post-WWII Economic Boom Proved Keynesians Wrong →

April 22, 2025

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.

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Dumb Trade Policy

April 22, 2025

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

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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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Minnesotans Escape to Somalia
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Fleeing Minneapolis for Mogadishu.

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The End of the Climate Cult
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The End of the Climate Cult
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The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot — Matt Ridley.


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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
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“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.

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Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
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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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When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026
When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

Jan 16, 2026
He Gave It All for America
Jan 13, 2026
He Gave It All for America
Jan 13, 2026

Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.

Jan 13, 2026
Thomas Paine and the American Spirit
Jan 12, 2026
Thomas Paine and the American Spirit
Jan 12, 2026

On the 250th anniversary of the appearance of Common Sense, I decided to give it a long overdue re-examination. I wanted to see if it would “electrify” me as it did so many people so long ago. It did.

Jan 12, 2026