This American original brings a smile to my face just thinking about him—because of his accomplishments, his American-ness, his talent, and his Yogi Berra-like sense of humor.

Did these inventions and their subsequent global influence come our way because of wise and generous government? Evidence in the affirmative is, at best, scant.

In fighting socialism, the chain saw is far more effective than the butter knife.

Did you know that on two occasions, we almost had a President by the name of Willie? That was his real name, not his nickname. Mangum portrait by James Lambdin, 1844.

The model for Bolivians to follow after today’s election is not Castro, Chavez, Peron or any of the other power-hungry buffoons that seduce with false promises and deliver disaster and dictatorship.

Thank you, Poland, for giving us the Musial family. May we never forget what a fantastic example of sterling character that Stan the Man was! (Photo credit: By Bowman Gum.)

This year—2025—marks the Diamond anniversary (60 years) of a movie that set the trajectory of my professional life.

Americans should be grateful to the Founders for bequeathing us a nation where courageous risk-takers can do their thing. In repressed societies, courageous risk-taking shows up in efforts to escape. But in free societies, it fosters creative ventures that allow people to pursue dreams, build and innovate, explore the unknown and even put their lives on the line to achieve something worthwhile. One such person was Harriet Quimby.

It should be no surprise that nearly 40 percent of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were of Scottish blood. (Photo: The National William Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland.)

A lackluster one-termer, it’s hard to claim he made much of a lasting difference, but here’s some trivia anyway.

Let’s celebrate July 24 as the day that Parliament gave back to the people the light and air it should never have taken in the first place. I believe God wants it that way.

That’s a live raccoon on my shoulder in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2017. It has nothing to do with the subject of this interview but hopefully it will get you to watch it—the interview, that is.

Ed Feulner will always be a giant in the liberty movement he devoted himself to building. For that, every liberty-loving individual on the planet should be grateful—now and for all time.

The state is the God of the socialist religion, so whether socialists are evil or stupid is always a flip of a coin. Javier Milei is undoing their damage in Argentina.

What if a President were to announce one day, “I hereby pardon everybody in America for every offense they committed and for every offense they might yet commit.” Would anyone in his right mind believe that this would be in keeping with either the spirit or the letter of the Constitution? Hey, whose hand is that on the autopen? (Photo credit: NewsMobile.in.)

You’ve got to love the spirit John Robertson Duigan shared with Wilbur and Orville Wright—fly first, then get government approval. Photo credit: Duigan’s 1910 biplane, from Reddit.

The internment of almost 120,000 Japanese Americans in the wake of Pearl Harbor remains one of the blackest marks against the Roosevelt administration. Montana Senator Mike Mansfield opposed it.

Left-leaning idiots in the West embraced China’s one-child policy as a bright idea. Photo credit: Lawrence W. Reed, Beijing, 2004. This article also appears at The Stream: https://stream.org/the-ultimate-big-government-dictating-how-many-children-you-have/.

Financier, entrepreneur, patriot, and legislator, James Swan spent a quarter of his life in custody over a minor dispute. (Photo credit: portrait of Swan by Gilbert Stuart in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.)