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September 1, 2008

The lofty notion that individuals possess certain rights—definable, inalienable, and sacred—has been cheapened and mongrelized beyond anything our Founders would recognize.

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Apr 17, 2025

The World's Earliest Evidence of Taxation

Apr 17, 2025

Crystal Ponti: “From Sumer to China, civilizations devised ingenious, and sometimes bizarre, ways to track, collect and enforce taxes, leaving behind vivid clues of how they funded their ambitions—and proved that even in the Bronze Age, nothing was certain but death and taxes.”

Apr 17, 2025

Apr 9, 2025

Man Imposes Tariffs as Wife Racks Up Huge Trade Deficit at Target

Apr 9, 2025

At publishing time, news broke that Jenna Harper was planning to impose an immediate laundry embargo to counter Eric's tariffs — Babylon Bee.

Apr 9, 2025

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

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

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Apr 17, 2025

Patriots' Day 2025 -- April 19

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Apr 15, 2025

A Good and Faithful Servant

Apr 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.

Apr 15, 2025

A Tax Man With Courage and Convictions

Apr 15, 2025

Have you ever heard of someone so principled that he quit his job rather than do something he knew to be wrong?

Apr 15, 2025