Introduction by John Baden, Chairman, FREE In last week’s FREE Insight Mary Roloff wrote of her family farm and the culture in which it is embedded. “My grandfather … carried a gun to protect himself from those that would do him harm, take what didn’t belong to them, hurt his family, or to kill […]
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Here is a true, empirical, generalization about people’s understanding of political economy: when well intended, smart, honest, and alert individuals observe government’s operation over time, they eventually separate hopes for reform from expectations regarding outcomes. They develop an intuitive understanding of Public Choice economics. Here’s what they often see: when government expands beyond the limited […]
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As co-founder of Christians For The Mountains, I encourage church folks to enjoy God’s creation and be responsible caretakers. Our primary advocacy mission is to end the practice of Mountaintop Removal coal extraction. Historically, coal has been mined by burrowing underground tunnels from which the mineral is extracted. In recent decades, the advent of powerful […]
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