tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22686522756232231212024-03-13T08:27:51.994-07:00Junto 2:00 pm @ CraigosJunto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-57394647692462531312011-06-17T11:10:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:31:40.042-07:00Junto 6/23/2011Hey everyone!<br /><br />We will be meeting next week 2:00 @ Craigo's and will be reading this excellent work on free banking which can be found here: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18501901/2728792.pdf">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18501901/2728792.pdf</a><div><br /></div><div>Hope to see you all there!</div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-33234860933067950902011-06-03T09:42:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:31:40.033-07:00Junto 6/9/2011Reading: <a href="http://mises.org/rothbard/praxeology.pdf">http://mises.org/rothbard/praxeology.pdf</a><br /><br />We still have T-Shirts for $12 that will be available on Thursday!Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-59879493359242345212011-05-10T06:51:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:31:40.060-07:00Junto 5/ 12/11<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Everyone!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Our topic will be on Immigration and will be lead by Colter. Some of the readings he will be drawing from can be found <a href="http://goog_993248214/" target="_blank">http://mises.org/books/</a><a href="http://liberalism.pdf/" target="_blank">liberal<wbr>ism.pdf</a> (on page 136, use the page numbers on the document and not the PDF page numbers) and also <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-immig.html" target="_blank">http://www.cato.org/pubs/<wbr>policy_report/pr-immig.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">T-Shirts for those interested will still be available at $12 a shirt. Hope to see you all on Thursday.<br /></p>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-23365760028022236492011-04-23T13:28:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:31:40.027-07:00Junto 4/28/11Hey everyone! <div><br /></div><div>The reading for Thursday is "Liberty and Its Antithesis" an essay by Ludwig Von Mises which can be found at<a href="http://mises.org/efandi/ch35.asp"> http://mises.org/efandi/ch35.asp</a>. Colin Campbell will be leading the discussion so read up and post some comments on this thread to get prepared!</div><div><br /></div><div>In addition for those who are interested some Junto members are planning to drive to Idaho Falls on Friday to see a showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1. If anyone has any questions feel free to let us know!</div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-9817689828444117792011-04-13T12:20:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:31:40.070-07:00Junto on Break!Huge thanks to Brother Nate for his excellent presentation!<br /><br />We are going to be on break for the next few weeks and will not be scheduling another Junto until we can coordinate with certain societies on campus. However, if anyone has any ideas on topics that they would like to discuss this upcoming semester please feel free to post ideas as comments to this post.<br /><br />Regardless, we already have some great plans for the upcoming semester! We still have quite a few T-Shirts left and those will be made available at the next Junto. We hope everyone is enjoying their break!Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-13712243649788072702011-03-22T19:54:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:30:33.572-07:00Junto 3/31/2011Last Junto of the semester!!!<div><br /></div><div>Brother Ronald Nate is going to be leading our last discussion. He will be presenting on Public Choice! Here are the readings:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/06/01/GarrettRhine.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://research.stlouisfed.<wbr>org/publications/review/06/01/<wbr>GarrettRhine.pdf</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/does-government-always-have-to-grow/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.thefreemanonline.<wbr>org/columns/does-government-<wbr>always-have-to-grow/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p></span></div><div>On a totally awesome note...</div><div><br /></div><div>T-Shirts are in! We will have them all ready to go by next Junto so bring your $12 to get one. We purchased a few more than was asked so feel free to continue to invite your friends to Junto and we will be able to offer them a T-Shirt.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-36949759566242620012011-03-12T10:41:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:30:33.594-07:00Junto 3/17/2011Thanks to Daniel for leading our last discussion!<div><br /></div><div>On Thursday we will continue on in our presentations on foreign policy by reading an excerpt by Ezra Taft Benson entitled "United States Foreign Policy" which can be found here:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.latterdayconservative.com/articles/ezra-taft-benson/united-states-foreign-policy/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.<wbr>latterdayconservative.com/<wbr>articles/ezra-taft-benson/<wbr>united-states-foreign-policy/</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Feel free to use this blog as a discussion forum and to post questions with regards to the assigned topic.</div><div><br /></div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-8000826061426965552011-02-24T19:31:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:30:33.633-07:00Junto 3/3/2011Thank you Colter for presenting last Thursday!<div><br /></div><div>For next March 3rd, Dan Gardner is going to present on the topic of U.S. foreign policy. We are going to look at a few different articles/videos which can be found here:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6095">http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6095</a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHfdSi-GDo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHfdSi-GDo</a></span> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br /></span></span></div><div>We will probably also get up another reading here in the next few days but go ahead and look at these to get the general idea of what we will be talking about.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks!</div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-78308406725917486402011-02-12T11:41:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:30:33.626-07:00Junto 2/17/11Big thanks to Jake Honsvick for leading our last Junto presentation.<br /><br />This week Colter Angell will be leading a discussion a work by Ludwig Von Mises entitled "Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism" and can be found <a href="http://mises.org/daily/2370" target="_blank">http://mises.org/daily/2370</a> there. There are a few different links to all of the parts but it is really quite brief.<br /><br />Feel free to use the comments function on this blog as a type of forum to prepare for Thursday's presentation.Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-69744422054048294372011-01-22T11:38:00.001-08:002012-04-26T20:30:33.620-07:00Junto 2/3/2011Thanks to everyone who came out to our last meeting, it was our largest group yet!<br /><br />For our next discussion we will continue on with The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. We will read chapters 5 - 10 and our discussion will be lead by Jake Honsvick, Economics major at BYU-Idaho. <div><br /></div><div>Jake has also put together a document of supplemental reading that can be acquired <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18501901/Junto%20Suggested%20Readings%20%281%29.docx">HERE</a> and we highly recommend that you give it a read!<br /><br />Feel free to use the comments to this blog as a forum to prepare for our discussion by posting thoughts, possible discussion questions, and additional articles/resources that would help us to prepare.<br /><br />Be sure to invite anyone that you think would be interested in coming to our groups, we would love to have some opposing viewpoints in our meetings.</div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-88905166798442170452010-12-20T08:58:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:30:33.646-07:00Junto 1/20/2011!!!Next Junto will be on Thursay the 20th 2:00pm @ Craigos.<div><br /></div><div>Our reading will be the first 4 chapters of The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek.<br /><br />I have not been able to find a complete free pdf version of this book but this is one that should be on everyone's shelf anyways. Amazon has a great deal for it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226320553/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0226320618&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1PT4TR0YEA2Q5WD13KDZ">HERE</a>. If you are unable to acquire the book, Ryan Kristjanson has found an abridged version of the book which can be downloaded <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18501901/RoadToSerfdom.pdf">HERE</a>.<br /><br />In addition, feel free to invite any of your friends to Junto as we are always looking for more to come.<br /><br />Go ahead and post discussion questions as comments to this blog.</div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-88462697778194094372010-11-19T09:08:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:33:04.134-07:00Junto BreakHey everyone!<br /><br />Huge thanks to V.P. Scrimshaw yesterday for leading what I think was our best Junto yet!<br /><br />As we discussed, we want to read a book over the break and discuss it for our first Junto meeting in January. If you've read an awesome book on liberty or economics that you think would fit well for a Junto discussion, please post it as soon as possible as a comment! We need to get one chosen soon so that we can have enough time to read it before January.<br /><br />Email me at colin22182@gmail.com if you have any questions.Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-2141070926426732222010-11-09T18:33:00.000-08:002012-04-26T20:33:04.088-07:00Junto 11/18/10Big thanks to Matt Huff for doing a great job on the last discussion.<br /><br />Next Junto's discussion is going to be on an interesting topic called Anarcho-Capitalism. Our reading is going to be much more manageable than last week's and can be found at: http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf .<br /><br />We are still looking into who will lead this discussion but feel free to ago ahead and post some discussion points as comments.Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-8845578291537463332010-10-25T08:07:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:33:04.128-07:00Junto 11/4/2010A big thanks to Eric Hull for leading our last Junto discussion!<br /><br />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<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Thanks everyone!Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-31011902822216460672010-10-11T17:58:00.001-07:002012-04-26T20:33:04.097-07:00Junto 10/21/2010Next Junto will be 10/21/2010, 2:00pm @ Craigo's pizza.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Sean and myself (Colin) are working on some exciting ideas to present at the beginning of Junto on the 21st, so get pumped!<br /><br />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.Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-13156852278422193452010-10-04T21:43:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:33:04.069-07:00Next meeting Thursday 10/08/2010Thanks 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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Articles: <br />http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/article/fundamentals-of-our-constitutions-elder-dallin-h-oaks<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_ClauseJunto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-18900350918841117322010-09-16T18:47:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:33:04.079-07:00Junto Topic IdeasGreat Junto today!<br /><br />Go ahead and post your ideas for possible Junto topics as comments to this post.Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-13606911454591585952010-09-10T21:19:00.000-07:002012-04-26T20:33:04.074-07:00Junto is back!Thursday September 16th 2:00pm at Craigo's Pizza will be our first Junto back from break.<br /><br />As is traditional with the first Junto back, we will be revisiting The Law by Frederic Bastiat which can be viewed here: http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/The_Law.pdf<br /><br />The discussion will be lead by Ryan Kristjanson who will have some insights prepared for a great liberty power hour!<br /><br />One main goal of this blog is to invite everyone to post discussion questions below as comments. By posting these questions everyone should get a feel for what direction the conversation will go, helping us to know what concepts we can dive deeper into and which ones to possibly stay away from. <br /><br />See you all there!Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-52876805496627263422010-07-02T23:01:00.000-07:002010-07-02T23:07:21.007-07:007/8/2010 Ron Nate & The Economics SocietyNext Junto meeting date is undecided at this time. However, Ron Nate will be giving a presentation to the Economics Society on campus. More details will be provided soon.<div><br /></div><div>As discussed last Junto, here is an excellent video "For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px; ">For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of L</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIcIkoOwp7s" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=BIcIkoOwp7s</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Feel free to comment on the video!</div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667822589055597453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-26464027734589506492010-06-22T17:50:00.001-07:002010-06-22T18:00:05.644-07:00Junto 7/1/10, "Manifesto of the Communist Party"<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:15px;"><br /><div><br /></div><div>7/1/10 Topic:</div><div><br /></div><div>What do the enemies of liberty and freedom teach?</div><div><br /></div><div>Reading: "Manifesto of the Communist Party"</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:15px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2268652275623223121.post-64184563905074377162010-06-22T17:38:00.000-07:002010-06-22T17:50:08.906-07:00Junto BlogHi Everyone!<div><br /></div><div>In an effort to improve the quality of our bi-monthly meetings we have decided to make this blog as a way to enhance our preparation for each topic. All future Junto topics and information will be posted on this blog. It is very important that you subscribe to this blog so that you receive an email whenever a new topic is posted as the traditional e-mail blast will be going away.</div><div><br /></div><div>One main intended function of this blog is to encourage preparation for Junto by posting discussion questions as comments. By doing this we hope to achieve an understanding and preparation that will allow us to all be on the same page at Junto and dig deeper into each topic. Additional articles and insights are very much welcomed and encouraged. </div><div><br /></div><div>We will discuss more fully the purpose of the blog at next Junto's meeting and answer any questions that any of you have!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Junto Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343956692858327890noreply@blogger.com0