Cover of Free to Choose: A Personal Statement I picked up a copy of “Free to Choose” just this last week, and I was struck by the simple eloquence with which Milton Friedman articulates his views on government, freedom and the free markets. In keeping with thinkers like Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and John Stuart […]
Could Utah go blue? Why the Democratic Takeover of Colorado Matters to Republicans, even in “red” Utah
November 29, 2010 by
If you walk away with nothing from this book, it should be this: by using data, organization, and money, political operatives are manipulating how voters think about their candidates with less than accurate information, and it is driving good candidates away from public service. Without a doubt, “The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado” is […]
Is John Tyner a modern day Rosa Parks?
November 17, 2010 by
Less than ten years after 9/11 made us all afraid to fly, security precautions during pre-flight passenger screenings have pushed Americans to near outrage. The anger stems from proceedures performed by TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, which procedures include x-ray scanners that show naked images of passengers to screeners for the purpose of discovering any weapons or explosive […]
Are you flying this holiday?
November 16, 2010 by
The Utah Compact on Immigration
November 12, 2010 by
If you care about immigration, an interesting thing happened a couple days ago. Some of Utah‘s leaders–religious, political, and secular–joined together to propose an a set of principles on to guid the immigration reform discussion. It is seen as an alternative to recent proposals such as those passed in Arizona and proposed for Utah by […]
You won–now what? Cut the budget.
November 10, 2010 by
How might the new Congress avoid the “do-nothing” trap and prove to the American people that they heard the message and actually provide solutions that limit the growth of government and decrease the federal deficit? I sat at lunch the other day with a friend, and last weeks election came up. The Republicans won, he […]
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