Help us Celebrate Milton Friedman's Birthday Tomorrow!
The Minnesota Free Market Institute will hold its 2nd annual event commemorating Milton Friedman's birthday on July 31, 2008 from 5:30-7:00 pm at Santorini's in Saint Louis Park. (Cash Bar but there is such a thing as a free nosh--appetizers on us!) RSVP to Jordan Mason
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Media Alert:David Strom will appear on Channel 5 News this evening at 6 pm (Wednesday, July 30) to talk about the Moundsview School District's plan to hire a lobbyist to lobby for federal money.
1) Friedman Legacy Day
2) The David Strom Show
3) Pocket Constitution Promotion
4) In case you missed it: Recent commentary from the Minnesota Free Market Institute
5) Revealed: Conservatives Have Escape Plan for When They Destroy the Earth
1) Friedman Legacy Day
July 31, would have been the Nobel prizewinning economist Milton Friedman's 96th birthday. He passed away in 2006. Friedman is today regarded as one of the world's most powerful and influential promoters of freedom. It's especially important to remember his contributions given the amount of erroneous information about him, consistently propagated by the mainstream media. He added greatly in both fundamental and concrete ways to our thinking about freedom, free markets and limited government.
Tomorrow, fifty events in 41 states will be held to honor "Uncle Milty." (This includes our event--see the top of this update for details) The type of program varies from breakfasts, policy briefings, lunches, forums, receptions and dinners with all concentrating on Friedman's contributions to freedom. (For a list of events go to The Friedman Foundation)
Young America's Foundation and Townhall.com are sponsoring a national live online chat featuring Young America's Foundation's Milton Friedman Lecturer John Stossel. The chat is scheduled to take place from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Go here to learn more about it.
2) The David Strom Show
The David Strom Show sponsored by the Minnesota Free Market Institute is broadcast weekly on AM 1280 The Patriot Saturdays 9-11 A.M. For commercial-free show podcast downloads visit the show page at townhall.com or subscribe via iTunes. (See our radio show page for details).
To find out ahead of time who the guests on the show will be, sign up for our action eList and check the RADIO box. (one email per week).
Last week: (7/26):
Hour 1: Allison Kasic, of the Independent Women's forum on the attempt to expand Title IX in higher education from sports to Math, Science and Engineering faculty hiring and student enrollment.
Hour 2: Don Corace, Author of Government Pirates on Eminent Domain and expanding Government infringement on private property rights.
Podcasts available here: Hour 1; Hour 2
Audio highlights of this show are available here.
This week's guests will include Phil Krinkie, president of the Taxpayers League on Transit taxes and fare increases; our monthly review of economic news with King Banaian, professor and chair of Economics at St. Cloud State University and blogger at www.scsuscholars.com.
3)Pocket Constitution Promotion
Our Pocket Constitution/Declaration of Independence giveaway proved so popular, we're ordering more! If you sign up on our website with your mailing address, we'll send you a free copy. If you donate $25, we'll send a copy to your favorite liberal.
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4) In Case you Missed it: Recent Commentary from the Minnesota Free Market Institute .
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David Strom
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Hear David's 2 hour interview on Blog Talk Radio's Grizzly Groundswellshow on Monday with Chad Everson.
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King Banaian
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John LaPlante
5) Revealed: Conservatives Have Escape Plan for When They Destroy the Earth
Well, the secret is out. Conservatives' willingness to destroy Mother Earth in pursuit of financial gain now makes sense.
The missing fact that helps explain the seemingly inexplicable willingness of Conservatives to destroy the planet was revealed last week by former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. You may or may not remember Mitchell as the astronaut who holds the record for the longest moonwalk.
Dr. Mitchell has broken a long-standing wall of silence and revealed that our government-and governments around the world-have been in secret contact with alien beings from another planet. Mitchell revealed the aliens to be "little people who look strange to us."
Mitchell still refuses to put a name to cigarette-smoking man and other top government officials in on the conspiracy, but details are sure to follow. We can surely know that they are a cabal of neoconservatives.
The details don't matter as much as this one fact: we now know why conservatives have felt free to destroy the Earth. They have negotiated passage to a new, better, and cleaner world elsewhere in the Universe!
Those little grey men with the big eyes and short, lithe bodies probably drove a hard bargain for passage to a new world. Who knows how many DVD players and Plasma TVs it took to entice them to open up their world to human settlement? It may even be that conservatives' insistence on opening up ANWR and the continental shelf to oil drilling is part of their plan to pay off the aliens
How else to explain conservatives'' propensity to doubt the wild claims of environmentalists about the imminent destruction of the planet? Conservatives first ignored Rachel Carson and her warnings about the coming "Silent Spring" that would follow from capitalism's raping of Mother Earth. Now conservatives are casting doubt on the claims that the Earth's climate is ultimately driven by mankind's reckless burning of fossil fuels.
Read More of David Strom's latest Townhall Column
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