[Vision2020] Western Conservative takes aim at the State of the Union

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries:

There's a very good piece on the Missoula node of New West today called 
"The State of the Union: A Western Conservative Takes Aim."  You can 
read it at http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/5732/C8/L8 or, 
should my link prove defective, just go to http://www.newwest.net and 
click on Missoula.  It's the lead story.  The introduction was written 
by Todd Wilkinson, but the author is John Baden, a Goldwater 
conservative, libertarian economist, and founder of the  Foundation for 
Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE).  It's a great piece, 
and not one that can be lightly dismissed as liberal-conspiracy 
Bush-bashing.

No, I take that back -- perhaps Pat can find a way.  Nevertheless, I 
encourage you all to read Baden's argument and judge for yourselves.  
Here's a dirty little secret -- I've always been a bit of a fan of the 
late Barry Goldwater.  I share an estimated 1.354% of his political 
philosophy, and that's only because I have a wee Western libertarian 
streak, but he was a bright spark and a genuine fiscal and social 
mind-your-own-business-and-I'll-mind-mine conservative.  Bush's 
Faith-based Initiatives alone must have old Barry spinning in his adobe 
coffin.

Joan Opyr
Northern Idaho Editor
New West Magazine
www.newwest.net
www.joanopyr.com
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