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The LDS Church made a light-hearted but thoughtful video for Thanksgiving. Here’s the video clip’s excerpt:

Random people on the streets of New York City share a variety of grateful responses to one simple question: What are you thankful for?

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The last video in the Operation Health Freedom series, Congressman Ron Paul talks about the need for less government in health care and mentions reforming the tax code to give us back more of our hard-earned dollars so we can pursue a much wider variety of health care options.

Ron Paul:
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The fifth part of the Operation Health Freedom series, bestselling author Tom Woods gives a historian’s perspective on the health care debate.

Tom Woods:
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Continuing the Operation Health Freedom series, British MEP Daniel Hannan talks about the National Health Service (NHS), England’s publicly-funded health care system, and looks at why it is so difficult to reform such a system once people get used to it.

Daniel Hannan got famous amongst freedom-loving people with his verbal lashing of the UK’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown not too long ago.

Daniel Hannan:
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As part of the Operation Health Freedom series, Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at health care and a justified use of Congress’ interstate commerce regulation power. Americans should be free to buy insurance across state lines.

Judge Andrew Napolitano:
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Second up in the Operation Health Freedom video interview series is Congressman Ron Paul’s son, an eye doctor, Rand Paul. He discusses the true nature of the health care crisis, what causes prices to skyrocket, access to care, and how to fix the government-caused problems.

Rand Paul:
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Campaign For Liberty has launched a new site regarding the health care debate called Operation Health Freedom. There is  a lot of good information on that site and they are currently putting together a series of 6 videos which consist of 6 interviews with different people about health care from a free market / constitutional perspective. The 6 people interviewed are Congressman Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, bestselling author and historian Tom Woods, Euro Pacific Capital President Peter Schiff, and British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan.  I’ll post all 6 videos, one per day, until all 6 videos are up.

The first video is Peter Schiff discussing some of the cost issues of the our current health care system and how to remedy the situation. He makes good points and I wanted to emphasize that the whole current health care debate is (like most political issues being discussed today) highly flawed. We are told that there are many problems with our current health care system, including access to health care services, getting everybody coverage through insurance, etc. But none of those are really the problem, they are simply symptoms of the real problem.

The real issue is health care costs. If health care was cheaper, we wouldn’t need insurance for routine visits and minor health issues. We only need insurance because it costs too much for everything we do involving our health. Though Obama and some of those pushing current government health care schemes admit costs are an issue, they don’t properly diagnose the cause of the rising costs. So first we have to understand: Why has health care gotten so expensive?

Peter Schiff helps explain some of these things in the video:

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Rhiannon and I recently got some professional photos done with a friend of ours that does photography. She did an AWESOME job, as these are the best photos we have ever taken of us. Rhiannon and I always literally laugh at our own photos we take, even when professionally done, because we mess them up so badly. We just aren’t photogenic. But these photos are amazingly well done. The photos include Rhiannon and I, of course, Rhiannon’s mom Renee, our nephew Zain (his hospital photos from birth are already on this site), and our new dog, Quincy.

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When I posted on Man, Freedom, and Government a little bit ago, I received a lot of good feedback. It’s a wonderful video that provides good insights into the proper role of governments, and how freedoms are lost by having government attempt to take care of us.

Here is another excellent video, again by the John Birch Society, that demonstrates what made America great. It also clearly explains the different forms of government (facism, communism, republics, democracies, etc.) and the varying economic structures that exist (capitalism, socialism, etc.) within those political systems. It is just as insightful as the previous video and should, too, be shown in all schools so that our children (and us) do not misunderstand the principles of freedom that granted us a prosperity the world has never known. Maybe then we might be more accurate in diagnosing our current problems and actually support those that promote more freedom as the answer to those (government-created) problems.

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When I was 3-4 years old, my family and I lived in Alaska. We first lived on a tiny island called Craig (was this our house?), and then later in Anchorage. Though I was very young during that time, it was such a vivid place to live that I have many memories of growing up there. While living in Craig (I believe), there was a night when my dad called all of us to follow him outside. We walked out to the street and turned around to face the house. I remember my dad had picked me up and was holding me when he said to everyone, pointing at the sky, “Look, the Northern Lights.” To this day I can recall how beautiful it looked seeing the green, blue, and purple lights waving across the dark sky that night.

If you’ve never seen them, they are gorgeous. I came across this video clip of the Southern Lights in Antarctica awhile back and it reminded me of that night. Even though this clip is from the other side of the world, the music and stop-motion photography is so well done, it’s the best clip to share the beauty of this phenomenon.

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