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Election Integrity: A Discussion with Hans Spakovsky and Lawrence Reed →

November 2, 2020

The challenges of holding a free and fair election in the midst of a pandemic, high passions, mass mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025
Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025

Young Logan Traylor was nearing the end of his kindergarten experience and, despite the public education system's best efforts, was discovered to have absolutely no knowledge about the shocking fetishes and perverted interests grown-ups engage in — Babylon Bee.

May 20, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025

Look up “political scumbag” in the dictionary and you’ll see Newsom’s picture.

May 15, 2025
Does the Bible Teach Blind Obedience to the State?
May 10, 2025
Does the Bible Teach Blind Obedience to the State?
May 10, 2025

The simple answer to the question is No, of course not. And few would argue the point at all. Perhaps then the better question is To what extent does the Bible teach submission to the state? The surprising answer, on closer examination, is not all that much — Jeb Smith.

May 10, 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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Leonard Read's classic now in the Telugu Language!
Jun 11, 2025
Leonard Read's classic now in the Telugu Language!
Jun 11, 2025

Photo: With Raghavendar (Ravi) Askani in Atlanta on June 10, 2025, celebrating the translation of “I, Pencil” into Telugu. An estimated 96 million people, mostly in central and southeastern India, speak the language. Leonard Read would be very proud. Ravi is co-founder with Venkatesh Geriti of the Swatantrata Center, publisher of this edition.

Jun 11, 2025
The Chinese FDR
Jun 6, 2025
The Chinese FDR
Jun 6, 2025

FDR’s New Deal of the 1930s was not a carbon copy of Wang Anshi’s New Policies of the 1070s, of course, but they share an activist, centralizing tendency noted by FDR's own Vice President and Agriculture Secretary. Pictured: sketch of Song Dynasty hydraulic grain mill (Wikimedia). Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/las-similitudes-del-new-deal-de-roosevelt-en-1933-y-el-fracasado-programa-economico-chino-de-la-dinastia-song/

Jun 6, 2025
The Origins of Vandalism
Jun 2, 2025
The Origins of Vandalism
Jun 2, 2025

What the barbarians did to Rome, hoodlums on a smaller scale did to Minneapolis, New York, Portland, and Chicago in 2020, but for this significant difference: The ones who assaulted Rome were foreigners.

Jun 2, 2025