Government Healthcare. What could possibly go wrong?

August 20, 2009

This is a great quote: “Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn’t understand it. It’ll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General [...]

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The Morality of Cash for Clunkers

August 17, 2009

I received an email from a friend recently talking about how they traded in their old car for a brand new one and made use of the government’s cash for clunkers program to sweeten the deal by $4,500.  My first reaction was to sarcastically think to myself, “I’m glad my taxes could help you get [...]

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Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine

August 14, 2009

If you have ten minutes, please watch/listen to the following speech by Ronald Reagan on socialized medicine. The speech comes from a 1961 campaign against government run health care and was distributed via a long play (LP) record album called Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine. It’s amazing how prescient his comments were. And [...]

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Mozy Review: Two Thumbs Down

July 23, 2009

Avoid Mozy, Use an External Hard Drive for Backup My wife and I have had a miserable experience with Mozy over the last month since our hard drive crashed.  Their customer and technical support is awful, but the real disappointment is that some of our files were not available  to restore.  My advice: go with [...]

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Americans Are Destroying America

July 2, 2009

In the LDS Church General Conference of April 1968, Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and former Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration, gave a talk called Americans Are Destroying America.  The full text of the talk can be found in a couple of places online, http://rogmo.com/98.html, [...]

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

June 25, 2009

Common Sense was the name of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January of 1776, just prior to the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule and was written in a style that common people understood.  The pamphlet became an immediate success; [...]

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Eisenhower’s D-Day Message

June 6, 2009

Today marks 65 years since the D-Day invasion of Normandy by the US and Allied troops, and 65 years and one day since Eisenhower’s D-Day Message to his troops. “June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General [...]

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Mormon Mission Prep Web Site and Blog

April 23, 2009

I haven’t blogged here on my political blog in a while and I wanted to let everyone know why. All my blogging efforts over the last couple of months have been directed at a new site/blog I’ve created called Mormon Missionary Preparation. It can be found at MormonMissionPrep.com. It is still a work in progress, [...]

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Correlation Between Economic Freedom and Income

February 12, 2009

I was recently reading the Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings developed by the Heritage Foundation which is a measure of the economic freedom and opportunity in countries. In 1776, economist Adam Smith, in his influential work, The Wealth of Nations, formulated a theory that when institutions and governments protect the economic liberty of individuals, [...]

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More Examples of Corporatism. Goodbye Capitalism.

February 6, 2009

The New York Times recently posted a table that tracks the spending of the $700 billion bailout bill passed last October (see Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout). It lists, line by line, each of the companies that received money and how many billions each got. Here is the top ten: Free Market Capitalism Is Gone [...]

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