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So, I’m developing my first WordPress plugin. It’s simply called “Quoty” because it brings in quotes from the site http://quoty.org. Once you install and activate the plugin you will be able to configure it to pull a random quote from the site http://quoty.org based on usernames or tag names, and display it on your blog.

For version 1.0, I plan to have the following features:

• Admin interface to specify which username or which tag name to use
• Provide a template tag for inserting quotes into blog’s theme
• Have an example of the resulting random quote on the admin configuration screen

After the initial release of the plugin I plan to add the following additional features:

• Ability to display quote with a widget
• Ability to add multiple usernames or tag names to get a quote from
• Improve admin interface using ajax for adding/deleting authors/tag names
• Option to set max char length of quote
• Add button into toolbar (tiny mce) to make adding a quote into a post or page simple
• Possibility of specifying quotes by username AND tagname (don’t think it’s possible with current soap api functionality of quoty.org)

I hope to release the initial version very soon (I’m contemplating “widgetizing” the plugin for the initial release since I think it’s pretty necessary for most non-techies). Hopefully I can get some good user feedback to improve the plugin beyond what I already have planned.

If you’d like to donate to help further the development of this plugin, please click the button below. Thanks!

Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, once defined Fascism as the merger of corporate and government power. In many industries in America, that is what we currently have (e.g. the banking industry, military industrial complex, healthcare / pharmaceutical). While this dynamic has steadily eroded the quality of services for consumers and benefited the corporations, politicians continually place blame on the private sector and “capitalism”. So they further intervene into the free market in the name of protecting consumers, which ends up benefiting the corporations even more and reduces the quality of goods and services even more for consumers, and then they once again place blame on the corporations themselves and sell the American people on more government intervention, and so on and so forth.

Understanding this process, it’s sad and yet comical to watch politicians demonize particular industries on the one hand, and then turn around and pass legislation that greatly benefits the most powerful players within that industry.

C4L’s Kevin Brett recently interviewed columnist and author Tim Carney on how the health care bill empowers the drug and insurance industries, why Barack Obama is not the foe of the special interests he’s believed to be, and what effect the legislation will have on our health care down the road.
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In January Rhiannon and I went on vacation to Maui, Hawaii for a week. We went with her mother and grandmother. It was a great trip and we had a lot of fun on our excursions, which included snorkeling, zip-lining, whale watching, helicopter tour, Road to Hana and more.

Here are the some of the photos from the trip:

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I received this email newsletter a few weeks ago by someone I admire and have linked to many times on this site. He lives in Utah and sent this email about a candidate for Senate running in Utah named Mike Lee. I’ve looked into Mike a little and don’t have any disagreements with the email sent to me so I am going to post the email here for your reading. One of the major ways in which we can stand up for our freedoms is to elect those to office that understand the Constitution and will uphold it. Our government is increasingly out of control and we desperately need to reign it back in by putting principled individuals into Congress that will fight against the despotic policies being pushed upon us.

Here’s the email:

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A few weeks ago there was a series of lectures given at a “Mises Circle” event titled, “The Failure of The Keynesian State.” There were various excellent lectures, but one that I particularly enjoyed was that of Lew Rockwell titled “The Misesian Vision.” He talks about the state of society and how the ideas of liberty and economic freedom are seen as unreachable and strange and how we don’t even recognize the totalitarian controls currently placed on society.

There is a short introduction by Mises President Doug French with the lecture starting at about 1:30 into the video. Lew Rockwell’s lecture ends around 26:30 and then there are closing remarks by Doug French again. I highly recommend this video (and the lectures of the whole series, especially Ron Paul’s and Tom Woods‘):

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A few days before President Obama’s State of the Union Address, Ron Paul gave a “State of The Republic” address, which is quite different from what President Obama said. While Obama sounded more optimistic and is saying the same type of things the media is about our current economic situation, Ron Paul’s address was much more pessimistic. However, it’s not that Ron Paul is a pessimist and Obama is an optimist; it’s that each has a much different understanding (or lack thereof) of reality and what the consequences of government meddling in society does. If there’s any doubt about who has a more accurate outlook, we’d do well to remember the past record of the media and those who advise Obama in regards to  their understanding of the present situation versus Ron Paul and others (see videos I posted here for a reminder).

At the end, Ron Paul outlines his 8 point plan to transition back to the principles this country was founded upon, so that we might become a free society again. How different his suggestions are than Obama’s and how great it would have been had he won the presidential election instead in 2008.

Here is Ron Paul’s 8 point plan:

• Balance the budget by reducing spending
• Change our foreign policy to that of non-intervention
• A full audit and more supervision of the Federal Reserve leading to abolishing the Federal Reserve
• Legalize competition to the Federal Reserve with competing currencies
• Regain respect for civil liberties and privacy while reigning in the CIA
• Wean ourselves off the dependence of wealth transfers by government
• Abolish crony capitalism: no subsidies, no bailouts, no regulatory or tax privileges to protect the powerful elite, especially the military-industrial complex
• Eliminate the income tax, inheritance tax and taxes on savings and dividends.

Here’s the actual address:

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Judge Andrew Napolitano recently did an excellent video series on Freedom Watch about The Constitution and Freedom. He gives a history of the founding documents and breaks the discussion into the following 5 parts:

1. Why the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written
2. Congress’ role under the Constitution
3. The President’s powers and roles under the Constitution
4. Role of the courts under the Constitution
5. Role of the states under the Constitution

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Merry Christmas Everyone! Thanks for all the cards and presents. Have a great holiday!

Here’s a short video by the church from this year’s Christmas Devotional about giving on Christmas:

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I saw Ron Paul speak this morning at Arizona State University for the 1st Annual Campaign For Liberty State Convention. It was great to hear him speak in person and see the enthusiastic crowd cheering on freedom and truth. Here’s a video I took of his entrance to speak to those attending:
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I haven’t given any updates on the Audit the Fed bill lately, but it is going surprisingly well. There have been a few blatant attempts to stop or gut the bill of any substance by the establisment but they have failed. There has been so much grassroots support and pressure put on officials that the bill continues to advance towards approval. The Fed has hired a former Enron lobbyist, gotten Fed economists to publish news articles, and Ben Bernanke himself has written an op-ed Washington Post article, all trying to get congressmen and the public scared to audit the fed, threatening dire consequences of such actions.

Yesterday, Ron Paul set the record straight by stating the important facts on the economy and the Fed:
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