Monday, October 25, 2010

Junto 11/4/2010

A big thanks to Eric Hull for leading our last Junto discussion!

We are still looking for a discussion leader for next time but we already have decided on the topic. It is will be Murray Rothbard's "The Case for a 100% Gold Standard". This can be found here: http://mises.org/daily/1829

There is a small preface at the beginning of the webpage and you'll need to scroll down a ways to get to the start of the book. We are getting this up so early since it is a somewhat longer read than we have had in the past (comparable to The Law by Bastiat). Feel free to post some discussion questions as comments to this post.

Thanks everyone!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Junto 10/21/2010

Next Junto will be 10/21/2010, 2:00pm @ Craigo's pizza.

Our next discussion will be on some select reading of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and will be lead by Eric Hull. Eric will be posting some prep materials as a comment on this post.

Sean and myself (Colin) are working on some exciting ideas to present at the beginning of Junto on the 21st, so get pumped!

Feel free invite any and all friends to Junto. Keep in mind the primary focus of these meetings is to increase our knowledge of important fundamentals, economic and philosophical, to be better able to defend freedom and liberty to all.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Next meeting Thursday 10/08/2010

Thanks to all who posted some topic ideas for Junto! We've put them all in the hopper and plan to get to them in due course.

This week's topic is going to be on the Commerce Clause as a enumerated power listed in the Constitution. Misinterpretations of this clause have lead to an explosion in power used by the Federal Government. Reading for this meeting will be a talk given by Dallin H. Oaks at the University of Utah and the Wikipedia article on the Commerce Clause.

Ryan Johnson will be leading the discussion, so feel free to post possible discussion questions as comments to this thread to better prepare for Thursday.

Articles:
http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/article/fundamentals-of-our-constitutions-elder-dallin-h-oaks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause