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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 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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Recent “Best of Web”

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025
Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025

“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.

Oct 31, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025

“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

Oct 18, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025

Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

Sep 25, 2025

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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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025
Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

Nov 18, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

Nov 13, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

Nov 11, 2025