The state’s roughly 7,400 home school children (as reported by the Associated Press) are saving Montana taxpayers well over ten million bucks this year. Nationwide, homeschoolers save the public upwards of $56 billion.
Read MoreWanted: Moral Courage →
When we see acts of moral courage, we should recognize and applaud those who show it. We should feel emboldened to practice more of it ourselves.
Read MoreLincoln Steffens the Useful Idiot →
He was “hornswoggled by the biggest lie of all,” namely, that Lenin’s Bolshevism would somehow morph into a socialist utopia.
Read MoreReviving the Can-Do Spirit →
What we traditionally refer to as a “can-do” spirit, so vital to the country’s past success, must be front-and-center again. Nations that suppress the can-do spirit are plagued with endless, intractable problems from poverty to poor health to lousy government.
Read MoreAndrew Mellon and the Good and Bad Guys of the Great Depression →
A speech delivered at the Rivers Club in downtown Pittsburgh, PA for Grove City College’s Institute for Faith & Freedom on June 6, 2023.
Read MoreHe Who Pays the Piper →
DeSantis to universities: If you’re so self-focused and sanctimonious to declare an inviolable right to other people’s money, you need to go back to school and learn about the piper.
Read MoreThe Centennial of the Birth of a Great Critic of Socialism →
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich, born on June 3, 1923, showed that socialism is fundamentally anti-individualistic. Socialism is cannibalism animated by philosophy.
Read MoreChurchill's Gold Standard Blunder →
No doubt Winston Churchill’s economic intentions were good. But good intentions by themselves are never good enough. They desperately require good economics.
Read MoreIn Defense of Justice Thomas →
The political party whose roots are sunk deeply into racism and groupthink still treats blacks the way it always has: Keep them down, buy them off, tell them they’re victims and you’re their saviors, don’t let them choose anything but the government schools their zip codes bind them to no matter how bad those schools are, etc., etc.
Read MoreThe Slave Who Went to Montana →
He was the first African American to cross the continent, the first African American to see the Pacific Ocean, and the first African American to set foot in Montana.
Read MoreWhat Does a Sensible "Political Spectrum" Look Like? →
Instead of deploying flawed and simplistic spectrum charts, let us judge political and economic systems by who they empower—the State or the individual.
Read MoreEvil is Rising, But Despair is Not an Option →
Its gateway drug is disdain for the truth, the little white lies that lead to bigger ones, that then open the door to more heinous offenses.
Read MoreA Video Interview on Gold and FDR's 1933 Seizure →
Here's a video interview with me on gold, FDR and American monetary history—recorded on May 2, 2023. Conducted via Zoom from Singapore by Patrick Vierra of SBTV, Silver Bullion TV.
Read MoreFoxes: Victims of Good Intentions →
Presidential Campaign Songs: Puffery, Not Education →
Did you know that Saddam Hussein’s campaign song in his rigged election of 2002 was Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You?
Read MoreJane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: A David vs Goliath Story →
In one of the many public protests she helped organize, Jacobs wore a placard around her neck adorned in large letters with the message, “Conscience: the Ultimate Weapon!”
Read MoreIsrael's Declaration of Independence Almost Didn't Make it on Time →
As it always has been, the Middle East is beset with ethnic, religious and national tensions. No matter what your views might be on any of the related issues, you can’t help but recognize that May 14, 1948 was a momentous day in history.
Read MoreHow a Montana Senator Helped Curse Us With the 17th Amendment →
In his own defense, Montana’s William A. Clark said, “I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.” (Photo is one I took myself along the Skalkaho Pass between Philipsburg and Hamilton, MT in 2019).
Read MoreNOT Socialist Countries! →
While Nordic nations dabbled in welfare-state-style socialism a half-century ago, they learned some lessons from the resulting stagnation. They reversed course. They are now among the freest, most capitalist countries on the planet.
Read MoreEdgar Guest, the People's Poet →
He fell in love with his adopted state and country and never left either. More than 300 newspapers across the country regularly published his work.
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