Posts Tagged ‘free market economics’
Focus Local: Finding Your Blogging Niche
One of the main areas that I help train in for American Majority is New Media…which loosely translates into: Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare…etc. I believe that if we’re going to make a tangible impact on this country that we are going to take the fight to where not only the liberals are but where…
Read MoreCandidacy- or Why You Should Run for Office
It’s no secret that we at American Majority are looking for leaders. Throughout the nation and within each state, city, county and school board, American Majority staff and trainees are daily looking for new ways to advocate for liberty. For some people, that means registering for vote for the first time. For others, it involves…
Read MoreThe Bigotry of Charles Blow
Since the advent of the conservative resurgence I have attended a number of TEA Party events, interacted with tens of thousands of TEA Partiers, trained over a fifteen-hundred with American Majority and spoken at several rallies and protests. One behavior I have never observed at these events or exhibited by the patriots around me is…
Read MoreAfter The Tea Party: What Now?
Today is Tax Day. This morning (…as I scrambled to finish my taxes and griped and moaned about the ungodly amounts of money that were taken from me by various parts of the government…) I reflected on how the TEA Party movement came about and where it should go from here. From Rick Santelli’s first…
Read MoreA New Birth of Freedom
The heat of adversity yields steely resolve, so says Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Adjunct Scholar Paul Rahe in his landmark piece imploring conservatives to have heart, for this “could be our finest hour.” Rahe highlights his thoughts in Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift that Americans are “made of sterner stuff,” thus we have not fallen…
Read MoreThe End of the Beginning
In two weeks the Tax Day TEA Parties will celebrate their one-year anniversary. As we prepare to celebrate that day and how far our conservative insurgency has come, I believe it’s critical to remember where we are in this struggle. In the past year we have won major victories and experienced stinging defeats. We have…
Read MoreA Center/Right Call to Action: Lessons Learned from a 100 Year War
On March 25th in Iowa City, Iowa, President Obama said the following: “On Tuesday, after a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was finally fulfilled. And today, health insurance reform is the law of the land.” In…
Read MoreHad Enough Yet?
Last night’s vote to strap the American people with trillions of dollars of more debt, circumvent our freedoms and enslave our children is very likely the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back. I see this usurpation as a chance for Americans across this nation to lay down their lives of mediocrity and take up…
Read MoreWho’s Looking Out For Your Healthcare Freedom?
For those who are seriously concerned about government intrusion into our health care, the latest question on many minds is “What do we do if this thing passes?” As the battle rages in Congress over passage of health care reform legislation, many state and local leaders are looking ahead at ways for states to…
Read MoreTaxation Despite Representation
There are only a few movies I really, really enjoy watching. Among them is Amistad. After all, I’m a history buff (particularly of antiquity and of the American founding era) as well as a political junky. So it comes as no surprise that I see all sorts of political metaphors on the silver screen. And…
Read MoreThe Father of the Tea Party
The Left is oft-quick to regurgitate revolution-era platitudes to justify their own revolution against the very institutions which the Revolution was fought to protect. Whilst the real meaning of it all escapes them still.
Read MoreRon Michel, 70: Who said social media is only for Gen Y?
As I’ve crossed the country training conservative activists, I’ve run into more than a few individuals who believe that social media and web based tools are impossible for people over 25 to comprehend. It doesn’t matter how heavily I emphasize the point, someone invariably makes a comment (or at least skeptically rolls their eyes) disparaging…
Read MoreSector Showdown: Private Vs. Public
The D.C. area is an interesting place to live indeed. Recently, we received over 30” of snow. The record snow fall has crippled much of the federal government, including the post office. So it was no surprise Monday when the federal government announced it would remain closed all day. Now imagine my surprise when I…
Read MoreClose the Floodgates
The Heritage Foundation today has a good good piece on the attempt for a second stimulus and the extreme growth of government taking place. Rather than recreate a similar article, I thought I would share some highlights: Anticipating this bleak job news, the President announced in his State of the Union address last week: “That is why…
Read MoreBuilding Your Tribe
My Uncle/Mentor/Entrepreneurial Advisor, Matt Miller, sent me a copy of Seth Godin’s “Tribes” for me to read about a year ago. With it being at the beginning of my last college semester, the book sat idle on my desk for a few days, but once I picked it up I had difficulty putting it down.…
Read MoreRaz & Reba’s Excellent Adventure
Austin, TX Activist and Candidate Training
Statism of the Union
So tonight we get to hear the State of the Union, and it will no doubt follow the usual storyline of glossing over the bad, highlighting the good (if there is any?), but in the end not really providing us an honest evaluation of where we stand right now, January 27, 2010. With all that…
Read MoreA Leaderless Revolution?
I think it’s clear that what we’re seeing is something new in politics with the tea party movement, and especially with what took place last night in Massachusetts. It’s not about people choosing this party or that party, nor is it just about the anger of independents. It’s people looking for leadership that will actually…
Read MoreTea Party Comes Full Circle
By now, most of you know the news: Scott Brown has won Massachusetts’s special election for Ted Kennedy’s seat. Although his platform was one of transcendence and accountability, the fact still remains that Brown is a Republican. A Republican in a seat that had been a liberal shade of blue for over three decades. One…
Read MoreSome Other Books I Read in 2009
One of the best bits of advice I got when I was younger was that, “Readers are leaders, and leaders are readers.” I send the AM staff a book a quarter that I feel will help them become better at what they do. 1. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert Murphy. A quick…
Read MoreConservatives and the Technology Gap
This year, American Majority will be launching its Patriot 2.0 training program, Gulp….. As we trained around the country last year, the same questions and comments were being made, “Can the government track me through Facebook?” (“Ma’am, your life is not that interesting.”) and “I don’t use social media because it’s for Liberals!” (“Sir, with…
Read MoreOral Roberts University Campus Majority Training
Some Books I Read in 2009
Ned Ryun, President of American Majority discusses some of the most influential books he has read this past year. 2009 was a big year for American Majority, find out some of the secrets he used to successfully expand the organization during a recession.
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