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  • Hanging Out With the Homesteaders

    Hanging Out With the Homesteaders0

    Recently I attended the 2025 Homesteaders of America Conference in Virginia. Some 6,500 organizers, speakers, vendors, and attendees packed the fairground parking lots and a couple of acres of grass with cars and trucks, and blessed by a bright sun, had a grand time together. Here under tents were companies like Home Grown Collective, Egg Brigade Chicken

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  • Hanging Out at the Park May Soon be a Crime

    Hanging Out at the Park May Soon be a Crime0

    Have you ever noticed that it seems increasingly easy for good, upstanding citizens to be labeled as criminals? For example, your fruitcake making grandmother is guilty of a federal crime if she sells her Christmas specialty in “a serving size other than 1 ½ oz.” Your crunchy mama friend who makes her own unpasteurized eggnog

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  • Hang On to Your Prejudices – Some of Them, Anyway

    Hang On to Your Prejudices – Some of Them, Anyway0

    In his 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, the late Allan Bloom wrote of a debate he once had with a psychology professor when he taught at Cornell University. The psychologist “said that it was his function to get rid of prejudices in his students. He knocked them down like tenpins. I began to

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  • Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and the Decline of Knowledge in the West

    Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and the Decline of Knowledge in the West0

    The other day, I heard an announcer on a local classical radio station gently chide his listeners, saying, “It’s almost Easter, and I haven’t had one request from our audience for selections from Handel’s Messiah!” For those who think of the Messiah as a Christmas tradition, this announcer’s request seems a bit odd. But historically

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  • Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government

    Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government0

    Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” That baseball team of words should continue to terrify us. When we look at government failures in the last 50 years, the list

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  • Halting the Energizer Bunny of ‘Wokeness’

    Halting the Energizer Bunny of ‘Wokeness’0

    The “woke” crazies never quit. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen Mr. Potato Head attacked for his gender-bias and the Muppets “put into context” by Disney. Meanwhile, as Intellectual Takeout’s Annie Holmquist reports, the cancel culture mob is busy banning or assaulting other films and books. I believe there is a way to halt this

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