The Montana Territory adopted its State Seal in 1865. When joining the Union in 1889 it kept the original content and design. The motto, Oro y Plata, gold and silver, indicated early sources of Montana’s wealth and political power. In 1891 there was a move to create an entirely new seal but these efforts failed. Mining […]
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August 25 of 2016 is the centennial of the U. S. Park Service. It was one of the great and largely successful experiments of the Progressive Era reformers. This experiment has evolved as science, culture, demography, and the economy changed. Over the past year FREE has explored this evolution of ideas, ideals, and environmental […]
Read MoreI recently received an announcement of a forthcoming book, Debunking Utopia. Its author, Nima Sanandaji, Ph. D., is Kurdish-Swedish and has written Scandinavian Unexceptionalism and The Nordic Gender Equality Paradox. He is the president of the European Centre for Entrepreneurship and Policy Reform (www.ecepr.org). He began with this: The Nordic countries are used by Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and […]
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