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The PATRIOT Act supporters are at it again. Since the last vote unexpectedly failed, they have changed the rules to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote this time (it required 2/3 vote to pass last time). Now they are bringing it up for vote again before the provisions expire on February 28th. I have emailed my representative again, a 2nd time, to try to persuade him to vote against extending any of the provisions of the PATRIOT Act up for renewal. Here is my 2nd letter:

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This is an excellent talk discussing religious freedom and law. It does not have an LDS focus and should be watched by all: Mormon, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Atheist, Agnostic, etc. I especially appreciate the continued inclusion of Muslims in his speech as worthy of the same religious freedoms as us all.

I think all types of people will find this interesting as he speaks about the societal shifts of definitions and views of religion and how moral relativism has lead to the decline of religious tolerance. He brings up many current events, like Prop 8, and discusses specific individuals’ opinions within the government, including the Obama administration and Obama himself.

Video below:

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Here is a letter I wrote to my Representive Jeff Flake about the vote yesterday to extend a few of the provisions from the PATRIOT Act that were set to expire. He voted to extend the provisions, however, the provisions did NOT pass, thanks to the democrats! At least someone is standing up for our freedoms. I don’t care who does it. You can see how your representative voted here.

Here’s the letter:

I just saw that you voted to extend the few provisions from the PATRIOT Act that came up for vote. Luckily, it did not pass, but I’m am deeply disturbed by your vote. Normally, you and I are on the same page of every issue. Your voting record is very consistent with the Constitution. However, I don’t know how you can support the provisions being extended, which include accessing information, and otherwise spying on individuals who have not been charged with any crime. It does not matter if that person is a suspected terrorist or not. ALL individuals deserve constitutional protection and are innocent until proven guilty. If we make exceptions for those that we fear and abhor, we open the door for those same actions being taken against us. There have been numerous innocent Americans that have been watched and spied on since the inception of the PATRIOT Act. Please stand up for individual freedom and rights and let us remember the lessons of history and the wise words attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller in Nazi Germany:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Merry Christmas everyone! Here are some photos we got taken by our friend for Christmas this year. Some of you have received a few of these in the mail. Hope you all had a great Christmas this year!

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Here is a letter I recently wrote to one of my Senators, Jon Kyl, about the bill S 510 “Food Safety Modernization Act”

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I went to an excellent lecture last night by Tom Woods in Phoenix. I’ve read one of Tom’s books (Meltdown) and am almost done with my second (Nullification). He’s one of my favorite Austrian Economist speakers and authors. He’s very entertaining, insightful, and knowledgeable.

After the lecture, he was doing a book signing and I was able to meet him and snap a photo:
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I haven’t written any new posts for a few months and my website has been down recently because I temporarily moved to a free hosting provider which was horrible. I have moved my website to a nice server now and should be back up and writing new posts again. Sorry for the delay.

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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