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January 1, 1998

Winning the war of ideas requires that we not let the other side get away with judging free markets against perfection while they judge their own deficient prescriptions against mere good intentions.

Recent “Best of Web”

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Mar 10, 2025

Panic Politics: Law Profs' Umpteenth Constitutional Crisis Falls Flat

Mar 10, 2025

Jonathan Turley explains why “it is embarrassingly easy to get 1,000 law professors to sign off on letters claiming endless constitutional crises caused by Trump or conservatives.”

Mar 10, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

Dems Ready to Defend DOE as Soon as They Figure Out What it Does

Mar 7, 2025

While the Department of Education is worthless when it comes to education, it’s yet another conduit for Democrats laundering your money to their friends and pet causes.

Mar 7, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

Study Finds People Trying to Stop Financial Audit Have Absolutely Nothing to Hide

Feb 12, 2025

Why do you think that NONE of the ridiculous, corrupt spending DOGE is finding was ever revealed under Joe Biden and the Democrats? (Hint: The guy in the picture is a Democrat.)

Feb 12, 2025

Recent Quotes

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Feb 11, 2025

Murphy on America

Feb 11, 2025

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

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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Apr 2, 2025

Retrospective: How Did Government Handle COVID?

Apr 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.”

Apr 2, 2025

Mar 30, 2025

The Unseemly Greenland Gambit

Mar 30, 2025

Americans ought to let Trump know that we do not want Greenland “one way or the other.” Such unseemly language should always be beneath us.

Mar 30, 2025

Mar 23, 2025

Give Me Liberty!

Mar 23, 2025

In the long and storied history of the struggle for liberty, “the speech” of March 23, 1775, in that Richmond church surely ranks as one of the most memorable orations of all time. Spanish translation here: https://informeorwell.com/cultura/dame-libertad-o-dame-muerte-250-anos-despues/.

Mar 23, 2025