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A Sanctuary from Centralization
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The John Lilburne Award
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What Me Vote?
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Constitutional Coup d’état?
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Discord Over Spending in Concord
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Disaster Relief Pass-Over
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Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »
Not Now
November 7, 2024
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
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Old Dominions
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How Not to Fix a Failed State
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Trying Our Souls
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Chairman Jeffords
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After Them, the Deluge
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Bernie and Economic Law
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The Hilarity of a Serious Threat
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What’s Up With Hate?
SharingReported hate crimes are up. Last year, you may remember, major …
Memed Into the Public Domain?
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Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie

Don’t think legislators deserve a 150% pay raise?
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“Regulation” should not be confused with “rule of law”
A “rule of law” is based on general principles, and …
Free Trade, Tolerance and Cooperation…
Free trade, tolerance and cooperation will lead inevitably to peace and …
Funny how that happened…
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Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
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