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Remembering Yogi on His 100th

May 11, 2025

To millions of Americans, he might have been better known for things he said than for the game he played. He remains a great and unforgettable American.

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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 -- 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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Civil rights activists in Chicago have warned that the photo ID requirement at the Obama Library could directly kill thousands of black people — Babylon Bee.

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Gore's Scam
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Referring to the lies in his cartoonish fiction film, Gore says “It may not have been true in any way, but I sure enjoyed it. After all, I am now very, very rich" — Babylon Bee.

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Murphy on America
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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
February 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
February 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.”

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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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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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Glad He Left Town
July 5, 2026
Glad He Left Town
July 5, 2026

One of history’s most infamous con artists was born in the little town where I now live—Newnan, in Coweta County, Georgia. And we’re not proud of him. He departed this world on this very date, July 7, in 1898.

July 5, 2026
Women and the Founders
July 4, 2026
Women and the Founders
July 4, 2026

What were the reasons why America’s founders did not buy into women’s suffrage nearly 250 years ago? You might not agree with them, but you can at least try to understand them.

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Locke or Rousseau: America vs France
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Rousseau was a collectivist who dreamed of homogenizing individuals in a communal blender, thereby sacrificing their uniqueness for the sake of the “common good.”

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