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From August 1 to 4, LOLA brought together women leaders from nine African countries in Accra, Ghana, for our first-ever...
08/29/2026

From August 1 to 4, LOLA brought together women leaders from nine African countries in Accra, Ghana, for our first-ever Africa Leadership Retreat.

LOLA's network across the continent now spans 15 countries and 26 chapters. These are women leading in very different political and cultural contexts, and for many of them, this was the first time meeting another LOLA leader from Africa in person.

Over four days, the group worked through sessions on chapter leadership, economic freedom, personal branding, and advocacy, taught by leaders and partners from the region. They talked honestly about what is working in their chapters and what isn't.

The retreat also included our traditional Pitch Night, where each leader had one minute to answer the question, "What is LOLA?" Lynet Balukho of Zimbabwe took first place, with Linda Kariuki of Kenya in second and Angela Okai Nartey of Ghana in third.

LOLA Namibia, led by Judith De Oliveira, was named Africa Chapter of the Year. Mary Joyce Takali, who hosted the retreat as LOLA's Africa Regional Leader, was named LOLA of the Month for her work strengthening the network across the continent.

The retreat ended with a tour of Accra, closing four days about liberty and leadership in a city shaped by Ghana's own history of independence.

Nine women came to Accra from nine countries. They left with a clearer sense of the network they are part of, and the relationships they built will carry into their chapters going forward.

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08/28/2026

Free healthcare isn't free of cost. It's free of a direct bill, paid instead through taxes and longer waits. There is no such thing as free lunch, never.

He never paid the woman who ran his household for nearly forty years.Helene "Lenchen" Demuth joined the Marx family in 1...
08/28/2026

He never paid the woman who ran his household for nearly forty years.

Helene "Lenchen" Demuth joined the Marx family in 1845 and stayed until Karl Marx's death in 1883, cooking, cleaning, and helping raise his children. Her only compensation was room and board, no wages, through decades of poverty and exile while Marx wrote in the British Museum reading room.

In 1851, she gave birth to a son, Freddy. Most historians believe Marx was the father, but Friedrich Engels claimed paternity to protect Marx's marriage and reputation, a secret kept for decades.

The man who built a philosophy around exploited, unpaid labor ran his own household on exactly that.

08/27/2026

On 22 November 1990, in her final speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was challenged by MP Simon Hughes over the widening gap between the richest and poorest ten percent during her time in office.

Her response reframed the debate. She noted that people at every income level were better off than in 1979, then pointed out that Hughes's objection meant he would rather the poor stayed poorer, so long as the rich were less rich. That approach, she argued, would never generate the wealth needed for better social services.

Hughes judged the policy by the size of the gap. Thatcher judged it by whether living standards had actually risen. The exchange remains one of the clearest illustrations of that divide.

Footage: Parliamentary Archives, UK Parliament

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton.She gave the world something increasingly rare: someone loved by rich and poor, left and rig...
08/27/2026

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton.

She gave the world something increasingly rare: someone loved by rich and poor, left and right, country and city alike.

Dolly was born in 1946 in rural Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children. Her father never learned to read or write. The doctor who delivered her accepted a sack of cornmeal as payment. She grew up in a one-room cabin with no electricity and no running water.

She died with an estimated net worth of $450 million. From a cabin in the Smoky Mountains to one of the wealthiest women in music, she built that entirely on her own effort. She wrote more than 3,000 songs, sold over 100 million records, and built Dollywood from the ground up into an employer for thousands of people.

And she gave much of it back. Her Imagination Library has sent more than 300 million free books to children around the world, at no cost to their families. Millions more went to disaster relief, education, and hospitals.

Dolly Parton did not just climb out of poverty. She spent the rest of her life helping other people climb out too. Nothing to everything, and then generosity with everything she built.

08/26/2026

Turns out "protecting renters" means no apartments left to rent 🙃🏢🔒

5 Reasons to Abandon Socialism (Especially If You Are a Woman)1️⃣ It puts your independence in someone else's hands. Pri...
08/26/2026

5 Reasons to Abandon Socialism (Especially If You Are a Woman)

1️⃣ It puts your independence in someone else's hands. Private property is what lets a woman build something that is hers alone. Socialism replaces individual ownership with collective control.

2️⃣ Concentrated power rarely serves the people at the bottom. When the state controls the economy, it also controls who gets access to jobs, housing, and capital. Women have historically had the least influence over those decisions.

3️⃣ Shortages land hardest on the people running the household. Command economies have a long track record of producing shortages in food, medicine, and basic goods. Managing that scarcity has consistently fallen on women.

4️⃣ It closes the door on entrepreneurship. Starting a business has been one of the clearest paths for women to build wealth and independence. Socialist systems restrict or eliminate that path by design.

5️⃣ The historical record favors markets, not central planning. Wherever women have gained the most ground, in property rights, education, and economic participation, it has happened alongside market economies, not command ones.

Liberty, not central control, is what has actually expanded what women can build, own, and decide for themselves.

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Taxing capital shrinks the pool available for investment, and investment is what builds the tools, businesses, and produ...
08/25/2026

Taxing capital shrinks the pool available for investment, and investment is what builds the tools, businesses, and productivity gains that raise wages over time. When that capital is taxed away or driven to friendlier jurisdictions, workers lose access to the growth that would have lifted their earnings. Redistribution can offer a short-term transfer, but it does not replace the compounding effect of capital accumulation on living standards. The poor are served better by an economy that keeps growing than by a smaller one divided differently.

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08/24/2026

The scariest thing about socialism today isn't the ideology. It's that it stopped sounding like ideology.

Zohran Mamdani calls his version "pothole politics": deliver public services, deliver them with excellence, and nobody stops to ask what's underneath. It's a good pitch. It's also a bill of goods. This isn't a new experiment. Wisconsin state representative Francesca Hong is running the same message today, and history already ran this one before, with the same promise of excellence and very different results.

The packaging changed. The economics didn't.

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📹 Clip from Reason Roundtable, episode "Is Democratic Socialism Going National?" Commentary by Liz Wolfe (Reason).

What is fascism?The word comes from the Latin fasces, a bundle of rods bound together, once carried as a symbol of autho...
08/24/2026

What is fascism?

The word comes from the Latin fasces, a bundle of rods bound together, once carried as a symbol of authority in ancient Rome. Mussolini adopted it in 1919, and by 1922 his movement had taken power in Italy. He later defined the philosophy directly: the state is absolute, and the individual only exists in relation to it. A person has no independent claim to their own life. The state decides what it will permit.

The movement did not stay in Italy. Hitler's Germany and Franco's Spain followed within two decades, along with smaller movements across Europe that shared the same core structure. Historian Robert Paxton, one of the field's leading scholars, traces the rise of fascism to a period of national humiliation and decline, channeled into mass movements that abandoned democratic process and constitutional limits entirely.

In practice, that meant a consistent set of features across every fascist regime. Political opposition was criminalized. A single party absorbed the functions of government. National identity replaced individual identity as the organizing principle of public life. The economy was directed toward state goals rather than left to individual decisions. Propaganda and constant displays of national unity filled the space where open political debate used to be.

Libertarianism starts from the opposite premise. Individuals hold rights independent of government, and the state exists to protect those rights rather than define them. That single difference, whether the individual or the state comes first, separates the two philosophies at the root. It also explains why the word "fascist" gets misapplied so often today: it describes a specific and extreme relationship between state and citizen, not simply a policy someone dislikes.

We put together a short breakdown of where fascism came from, what it looked like in practice, and why getting the definition right actually matters.

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