After six months of mostly peaceful resistance, the Dakota Access Protest Camp erupted in flames February 22 as the final demonstrators left the camp. Thousands of people had attended the protest, leaving behind mountains of bedding, trash and waste that, ironically, threatened to pollute the very river they were trying to protect. The fight…

On a clear and cool November morning, while accompanying my dog on our daily circuit of his considerable territory in this southern California suburb, I passed a house that had a flag hung above the garage door. It was at an angle, so I couldn’t see it very well, but then I got it: It…

In his Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump began with what seemed to be a libertarian statement, “We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.” His agenda of cutting taxes and deregulating the economy – two topics he emphasized during his campaign but failed to mention in his…

Dear Friend of FreedomFest, This year John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market and co-ambassador to FreedomFest, will be coming out with his much anticipated book, “Whole Foods Diet: Discover Your Potential for Health, Beauty, Vitality and Longevity.” We have arranged for his two co-authors, Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman, both MDs, to join us…

Nothing feels so good as stepping into a hot steamy shower on a cold winter day, especially when you’re experiencing the fever and chills of a cold. Unless you’re living in California, that is. There’s no such thing as a “hot steamy shower” here. Not with all the regulations that govern the distribution and delivery…

Lord Kelvin famously pronounced, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind”. At the O’Neil Center we say, “If it can’t be measured, measure it anyway!” Whether it…

Dear FreedomFest Attendees, Fidel Castro was a brutal communist dictator and war criminal whose life spanned almost the entire era of the rise and fall of Communism.   He was born just nine years after the Bolshevik Revolution began in Russia, and lived to see the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.  But Communism is still not dead.  Under…

As is the custom in many homes, our Thanksgiving meal ended with each of us at the table expressing what we’re most grateful for this year. One of our guests, whose wife is expecting their second child, said, “I’ll go first!” Then he smiled and said, “I’m grateful for my DVR.” We all laughed, but…

I read a Forbes Magazine article back in September titled “Income During the Crash”, written by William Baldwin. It made me ponder the choices clients have for generating income from their savings—while considering the emotional roller coaster that comes with monitoring your investments regularly. The safest-sounding decision would be to convert your retirement savings into…

The following article is reprinted by permission from Ed Hudgins and The Atlas Society. Don’t miss The Atlas Society Summit at FreedomFest this year! The morning after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, I attended the weekly Wednesday Meeting hosted by Americans for Tax Reform, as I have for nearly two decades. Two decades ago, when then-First…