Fundamental Principles, Individual Rights, and Free Government: Do Utahns Remember How to Be Free?
The idea of jealously guarding freedom seems to be slipping quickly from the grasp of the average Utahn and American. Over the past year I have spent significant time in New York, California, and Utah with visits to Arizona, Nevada and Kentucky. I get a feeling that the average American is becoming less and less […]
What Does Our Future Hold? or You Can’t Fix Stupid
Fairytale of 2011 Once upon a time and in a land not so far away, there was a people who willing made personal economic decisions beyond their income capacity. They borrowed money from lenders for not just houses and cars, but they borrowed money for clothes and vacations, homes far beyond their ability to maintain […]
Free Enterprise, Part One: The Future Economy
The American Dream America was established on the hope of relief from political and religious tyranny. Over time it became the bastion of liberty founded on the principles of limited government, freedom of religion and Free Enterprise. About a hundred years ago with the advent of widespread use of the business corporation in close relationship […]
Let Us Dare: Writings From John Adams
In late 1765, John Adams began writing an essay entitled, “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.” He was 30 years old and just beginning to stretch his legal and political wings. His purpose for writing this essay was to contrast the tyranny of feudal and canon law with the glorious struggle for freedom […]
Change in Utah Government?
I was recently asked if I was happy with the changes in Utah State government (6 more Republicans in the House and 1 more in the Senate). “What changes?” I asked. “You know, the legislature is more conservative now.” “Really? When did that happen?” I inquired. “I only see a changing of the guard,” I […]