Mike Jensen is a freelance writer living in Colorado. He received his M.A. in Professional Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he wrote his first book, Alaska’s Wilderness Highway. He has since published Skier’s Guide to Utah along with humor, travel, and political articles for various magazines and newspapers. He is married with five sons, and spends his free time at a remote cabin in the Colorado Rockies.
I’m inspired by this Mormon theological idea: God intended for humans to be free to make our own choices and live with the consequences of those choices.
Ronald Reagan said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; let that not happen in this generation, and let us never fall before a false god!
If we are going to take liberal arguments at face value and follow this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion: the only way to stop global warming is to stop life
We should tax all former members of Congress a 50% flat tax rate. Former presidents, a flat 75% of annual income. Current members of Congress and president at 100%
Problem with freedom—for those who don’t like it much, whether it be 18th Century European monarchs, 20th Century communists, or 21st-Century “progressives”—is that it makes people, well, free
The English language, despite all of its quirks and difficulties, despite its crazy spelling and grammar rules, despite its weird pronunciations, REALLY sucks