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America’s second Revolution:

For those that know me. I like taking notes when I attend lectures. Over year ago I attended a series of lectures talking about American history and politics. I took notes, but never transcribe them to the PC. I’m typing … Continue reading

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Meet the Orem Candidates’ night:

I attended meet the candidate night and I went prepared to ask five questions. The questions were, 1. What are their feelings about the cares program? In particular, about money being spent for such projects as some of the story … Continue reading

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Survive the 4th Turning:

Over a year ago I attended a presentation that talked about the cycles of history. It was one most interesting presentations, I have heard. It discussed how there is one event every 40 or 50 years that will change history. … Continue reading

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Free The People Event:

  I went to the free the people event hosted by freedom works. There are some very good speeches that took place. Here are some of my brief notes. Unfortunately, I was not able to write as quickly as they … Continue reading

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Presentation on Utah’s version of Common Core:

Last night I attended the Alpine School District meeting hosted by the school administration to discuss the new education school system. The room was filled to capacity with over 200 people, I’m thinking. The first hour was filled with an … Continue reading

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Common Core Testing Meeting

Common Core Testing Meeting Utah County 9/12 Meetup Group Added by Brian Halladay Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:00 PM Alpine School District Office Building 575 N 100 E American Fork, UT 84003 This is the common core meeting with the … Continue reading

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Why we should not have a national gun registry:

See the following documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OBhHgnPHKUE Those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it.

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Transparency of the Obama Administration:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment *** Some complaints: *** http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obama-the-puppet-master-87764.html?hp=t1 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/the-obama-administrations-abject-failure-on-transparency/252387/ http://www.rollcall.com/news/inhofe_sees_cover_up_in_benghazi-222234-1.html http://endthelie.com/2013/02/24/former-obama-press-secretary-says-he-was-told-to-deny-existence-of-deadly-drone- http://endthelie.com/#axzz2LxVLPq00 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/02/25/obama-transparency-president-i-want-clear-out-press-so-we-can-take-some- http://www.nfoic.org/transparency-obama-administration http://dawn.com/2013/01/23/emotional-clinton-angrily-denies-benghazi-cover-up/ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73606.html http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-08-03/world/35493923_1_foia-obama-administration-freedom-of-information-act http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/obamas-broken-promise-fed_n_500526.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nudge-nudge-wink-wink-how-the-government-wants-to-change-the-way-we-think-2174655.html http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100167328/a-government-of-nudge-nudge-wink-wink/ http://www.inquisitr.com/541177/dan-rather-president-obama-broke-his-promise-of-transparency-video/ http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/02/buchanan-the-smoking-gun-of-the-benghazi-cover-up/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/subjects/transparency/ http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/obamas-empty-promises-transparency-national-security

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Play acting to manipulate the media or home viewers

I realize that the US media will alter how they report news in order to alter the perception of the viewer. I have a list of examples on my Vent page. It looks like other countries do it as well. … Continue reading

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Political Humor (both sides of the isle)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-mitt-romney-trade-barbs-jokes-al/story?id=17514406#.UItUuW9ESnI http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcfr6j5QSLo http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/laughing-at-the-issues-you-have-to-watch-this-brutal-gop-ad-that-goes-after-biden-for-his-debate-performance/

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