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What Darwin Can Teach Us About the Economy
To help America evolve again, we should start by letting failing businesses fail, preserving the opportunity for new solutions to emerge. We should reduce the tax and regulatory burdens on entrepreneurs, freeing them to introduce new variations into the marketplace. We should cut business and personal taxes across the board, freeing the American people to make more choices and do more with their money.

Ten Reasons Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons
A shocking list of the ten reasons public schools are like prisons with assistance from Justin Hartfield of the Prometheus Institute.

The Political Failures of the Baby Boomers, and the Challenges for the Next Generation
The Boomers' failures are distributed uniformly from Right to Left. But given the liberal-leaning Boomers' original rise from the 1960s counterculture, their weak-kneed absorption into the partisan political establishment is most ironic. The generation that fought for free speech and the right to question authority now enforces strict political correctness and quashes political dissent from their tenured posts in academia.

Who Wants to be an Enemy Combatant?
The Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the writ of habeas corpus applied to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The case was the first extension of habeas corpus - a legal tool to challenge the legality of one's imprisonment or detention - to aliens detained on foreign soil.

Five Reasons the War on Terrorism Will Never be Won with Foreign Invasions
Osama bin Laden and all al-Qaida leadership that aided in the 9/11 attacks should be vanquished. We can also protect our homeland from the next terrorist attack. But none of this requires America to invade a single foreign nation, and here are the five reasons why.
Be Your Own Boss: Libertarian Ideas to Escape the Grind
There is little love lost between progressives and Big Corporations. Many Big Corporations, such as Wal-Mart and about a thousand others, are burnt at the rhetorical stake for their failure, inter alia, to provide great (or any) medical and dental benefits or a high-growth 401(k). Progressives generally believe that the market is to blame for this undesirable deprivation of basic freedoms, and that the only solution is more progressive regulation.The libertarian, of course, is not surprised, and has a market-based policy solution for this so-called market failure. The solution: Stop expecting your employer to act like a government, and give employees free choice to let the benefits market actually function.

The Fair and Balanced Myth - Three Reasons Why Media Bias Doesn't Matter
In a world of 6 billion people and only a limited amount of time and space for the media to tell you what has happened to them in a single day, something's obviously going to miss the final cut. The decision of what's Newsworthy varies greatly according to the personal opinions of the audience. If you're liberal, you want to hear about starving Darfuri children and Hugo Chavez' latest economic proposal. If you're conservative, you want to hear about the latest terrorist raid in Pakistan and global market trends.
Metropolitics: Why Local Government is the Solution to Preserve American Democracy (and Society)
It's quite unfortunate that American national elections are perceived as a Partisan Death Match through which 51% of the nation gets to impose its personal beliefs on the hapless 49% minority. America's Culture War (Kulturkampf for you Germans out there) is still raging, and is increasingly being fought over national social policy.
Into the Sunset - The Past, Present, and Future of the American Auto Industry
Despite the attempt of the American car lobby to convince us otherwise, the laws of the universe apply to them as much as everyone else. The evolutionary selection process of the marketplace must be heeded. To survive, Detroit doesn't need the sympathy of patriotic Americans or the fiscal coddling of Congress. They just need to make good cars again.

How America's Foreign Policy is Making the US Less Safe in the War on Terrorism
Despite plenty of muscular rhetoric, President Bush's strategy in the War on Terrorism demonstrates a dangerous ignorance of the unique military, tactical, and political aspects of the terrorist threat, and breeds a dangerous and chaotic foreign policy which has only served to put our nation in greater danger.
Get Rich or Die Tryin' - Inequality, Education and the American Dream
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in America, and nowhere else. This reality is popular in the news these days, as it both provokes maximum interest and also opens itself to be manipulated by all sorts of political spinmasters, which in turn creates more news. The Left savors every glimpse of middle-class struggles during economic expansion, which they tout as the golden nugget of proof finally adjudicating the free market as inherently bad for workers. Europeans lead this chorus, where they are already aghast at America's assumptions of the free market's social value. But the data is welcomed on the Right, too, to the extent that it "proves" the economically-injurious impact of immigration.

Don't Bite the Invisible Hand That Feeds You
The anti-capitalist is a curious breed. They take a variety of different positions, but all share one common theme: the general belief that the market is an inherently evil force. They pass along such canards as "The free market doesn't work," "Capitalism is the exploitation of the worker," and "There is no such thing as the American Dream," among many others. They are often found writing for outlets such as The Nation and Harpers, as well as self-righteously demonstrating against free trade agreements and French labor proposals, inter alia.
Get Rich: Policies to Put Green in the Palm of Your Empty Hand
People want policies to benefit them personally. Who cares, after all, if everyone else is well off when you're not? So politicians promise all sorts of schemes and ideas to keep jobs, make jobs, and make jobs pay more, in order to get more votes. Most of these schemes and ideas, however, don't work because most politicians don't know anything about economics.

Find Your Path to Freedom - Five Reasons Why Going Out on Your Own is the Best Solution
As unemployment hits a quarter-century high, many Americans - especially those of us just out of college or graduate school - are looking for a secure and prosperous career path. At the same time, we're not finding very much. This article is dedicated to helping you find your financial and personal freedom by becoming an entrepreneur, and offering your unique talents in the open marketplace.

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A CEOs Thoughts on Collaboration
I had breakfast with Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – yesterday. I’ve worked with Matt for at least six years and love the way his brain works. During my frustrating quest for the best chocolate croissant in Boulder (so far all of the ones I’ve found appear to be exactly the same – I’m guessing there is one chocolate croissant distributor in town) we talked some about “collaboration.”
By Their Fruit They Will Be Known
Bob Harrison teaches us that “Birds of the feather flock together, and that flock is going someplace.” Whom are you flocking with, and where is your flock headed? Your circle of friends and associates will largely determine your future level of success.
Email Marketing Demystified
I’ve combined some of the things I learnt from Matt Furey with my own approach to writing, and the result is a winning combination that I use to write emails that actually make money. For me, writing an email is a 4-step process – it’s a system that you can use and build on. 1. Current or Evergreen? 2. Determine the Strategy 3. Write down the Bones 4. Edit And additional tips.
Levelling the intagible playing field of professional services procurement (Beyond Referrals Profile)
“I stated that the worst thing a purchasing person can do when using an RFP to buy professional services is to exclude a project budget. Immediately, a rebuttal was offered, “But if I give them the budget,” stated the attendee, “they are all just going to come in at that budget.” He was right. But he failed to recognize that as a distinct advantage for both the vendor and the purchaser. When everyone’s price is the same, the buyer can compare expertise and value across a consistent price spectrum and purchase the services of the best expert they can afford.” From the PowerPoint “A Decent Proposal”, Cal Harrison, Beyond Referrals (August 2008)

Life is a Marathon
Three time cancer conqueror, Matt Jones, shares winning strategies he learned from overcoming cancer and running a marathon after relearning how to walk. No matter the challenge or goal you face these strategies will help you be successful in the marathon called life.

Cancer Conqueror Speaks to Inspire
This inspiring story of Professional speaker and author Matt Jones. On September 11, 2002 Matt received a life changing call from his doctor telling him, "you have cancer." After going into remission the cancer came back twice and would spread to his brain. After slipping into a semi-coma doctors did not think Matt would live. Against all odds he recovered. From that experience Matt was inspired to share his story with others.

National Publicity Summit – Should You Go?
As a publicist I get asked by clients and authors about going to the National Publicity Summit in New York. I’ve attended almost every Summit since Steve Harrison started it and go once or twice a year to create new media relationships, maintain old ones and of course, to pitch my clients to the media. Here's a run down of the reasons I've decided to go.
W3C Validation not part of Google Search Engine Ranking Factor
Matt Cutts has announced that W3C Validation and clean coding does not factor into search engine rankings. There are other benefits to having a validated website, but there is nothing in Google’s algorithm that will increase SERPS.
Screw the Apocaholics -- The Optimists’ Case
The NYT has a review/summary of Matt Ridley’s latest, “The Rational Optimist”. Worth a read in its entirely, but here are some excerpts from the John Tierney piece:
Best Practices: Annual CEO Expense Audit
I’ve started a new category on my blog called “Best Practices.” These are going to be posts inspired by my experiences with various companies that I feel are above and beyond the normal activities you’d expect. The first one comes from Matt Blumberg, the CEO of Return Path. Earlier this week the board received an email from him that included the following:
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