Like almost everybody today, I use a digital camera and haven’t bought a roll of film in decades. But my first camera, back in 1960, was a Kodak Box Brownie.
Read MoreRemembering Oscar DePriest →
He thought federal welfare programs would undermine independence and entrepreneurship—and on that, the historical verdict is sad but resoundingly clear: He was right.
Read MoreGeorgia Governor Brian Kemp is Right →
Excessive damage claims are not only mostly arbitrary, but they burden everybody with higher insurance premiums and hit small businesses especially hard.
Read MoreReflecting on the Gold Democrats →
Please don’t blame me for the dollar’s century-long decline in purchasing power. I would have voted Locofoco in 1836 and Gold Democrat in 1896.
Read MoreMontana and Missouri: The Fur Connection →
Historian K. Ross Toole: “Before the emigrant’s wagon ever rolled a mile, before the miner found his first color, before the government authorized a single road or trail, this inhospitable land had been traversed and mapped” by folks in the fur business.
Read MoreLongest Inaugural, Shortest Presidency →
On this Inauguration Day, it’s worth noting that the man who delivered the longest inaugural address in American history also presided over the shortest presidency. If there’s any lesson there, it might be this: keep it short and sweet.
Read MoreDOGE and DODGE →
If DOGE can accomplish what Dodge accomplished, we too may experience a new American economic miracle. The difference a Detroit banker made in three countries—Germany, Japan and the U.S.
Read MoreGet Ready for the Semiquincentennial! →
Introducing “The Philadelphia Declaration.”
Read MoreThe Fanny Crosby Story--From Bill Courtney's "An Army of Normal Folks" Podcast →
She was blind but not disabled. Recorded in Memphis, TN, in November 2024.
Read MoreIn Praise of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan, 35 Years Later →
The Polish experience proves once again that the “tonic” of capitalism is the best antidote to the “poison” of socialism. It was a powerful medicine, but the patient was close to death. After all, you don't prescribe chicken soup for cancer.
Read MoreA Cleric's Heroism →
When the bad guys hate you, you must be doing something right: The Story of Cardinal Mindszenty.
Read MorePresidents and Christmas →
What some U.S. Presidents said on Christmas.
Read MoreMerry Christmas, Montana! →
Roy L. Smith cautioned that “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
Read MoreBringing Rose Lane to Life →
From conscription to dependency on government programs to the near-meaningless differences between communism and fascism, Lane’s writing stands out as some of the most clear-eyed stuff libertarians have ever produced.
Read MoreRemembering Raczyński's Note →
Raczyński revealed in terrifying detail what the Nazis were doing—the creation of ghettoes, the forced labor, the gas chambers, the starvation, the torture, the mass executions.
Read MoreSocialism: Science or Cyanide? →
Why do socialism/communism produce mayhem on an industrial scale?
Read MoreMaybe Blaine County Needs a New Name →
Millions of veterans have utilized the G.I. Bill and no one ever told them they couldn’t go to colleges run by Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, or whatever. The resulting choice and competition has been good for everybody.
Read MoreAbolish the Department of Kudzu →
Only a government agency can get away with a half-century of failure. A private operation with a similar record as the DoE would have filed for bankruptcy long ago.
Read MoreThe Republic of What? →
Micro-nations are fascinating, regardless of what other governments may think of them.
Read MoreCleveland & Coolidge: Two Presidents Who Got It Right -- Delivered in Wichita, Kansas, on November 8, 2024
Models of character, these two great men sought to do what was right whether it was politically popular or not.
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