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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 26, 2024
  There’s a lot to appreciate when contributing to MRCTV’s ongoing coverage of the train wreck that is the absurd “reparations” movement, and,…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 10, 2023
The Biden Administration announced earlier this week that on November 15, Scamtrak Joe and Chinese President Xi Jingping will meet in the San…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 25, 2022
  Even though Joe Biden last week pulled the unconstitutional stunt of invoking the 1950s era fraud of the “Defense Production Act” allowing him…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 12, 2022
The inherent paradox about propagandists using speech (much of it tax-funded) to suppress speech is clear, and well established among political…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 18, 2021
It’s often stunning to see how foolish politicians can be. Take Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R), who last Thursday allowed political correctness and…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 21, 2020
The saying goes that there is always a silver lining to a dark cloud, and, despite the fact that many of the economic hardships Americans suffer…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 22, 2019
  Members of many generations likely are familiar with the seemingly dark-hearted, perpetually gray, totalitarian stop-motion television…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 1, 2019
  One of the essential terms I teach students in economics is what Adam Smith described in his 1776 treatise “The Wealth of Nations” as “…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 27, 2019
Many of us experienced shock, anger, and disbelief upon discovering that some of the most despotic regimes in written record literally erased…