There’s no doubt that our nation’s immigration system is broken. It no longer serves our nation’s interests, and has caused anxiety among native-born citizens and immigrant communities alike. We have seen that legal immigrants, who constitute the vast majority of the immigrant community, face long delays and high financial costs due to our very complex…
A Health Care Proposal that’s Right for America
When it became apparent March 24 that Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act could not muster enough votes to pass the House, Republican leadership finally pulled the ill-conceived bill and will now start over. This is a good thing. The Republicans had eight years to design a viable health care alternative to Obama’s “Affordable” Care…
New Frontiers for FreedomFest
Part of our work at FreedomFest is to discover all the new and exciting developments in our world. Exploring new frontiers not only in our freedoms, but in entertainment, education, health care, technology, business and investing. I love to travel the world and meet the interesting people who are doing interesting things…and invite them to…
Civil Discourse, or Civil Disobedience? Celebrating 200 Years of Thoreau
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…
THE BIRTH OF A NATION: With the able assistance of the Electoral College.
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…
Donald Trump and the Return of the Luddites
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…
New Speakers at This Year’s Fest
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…
…And That’s Why There’s a Bucket in my Bathtub
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…
If it can’t be measured, measure it anyway! – Robert Lawson
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…
Here’s One “Freedom Fighter” We WON’T Honor at FreedomFest
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…