GULF COAST
JANUARY 4 – JANUARY 10, 2013
Business Review
THREE DollarS
COLUMN ON PAGE 15
Make your priorities
TO WATCH in 2013
Time management is the key to achieving goals. So why are we so bad at it?
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Mark Wemple
review & comment
The word for America in 2013: Freedom lost in the minds of the American electorate and barely taught in the generations behind us. Sure, out of the 127 million votes cast last November for a presidential candidate, you almost could expect 127 million different reasons why each voter selected the candidate he did. And while the following may be presumptuous, it also is correct to conclude that 50% of the Americans who voted in last year’s presidential election clearly did not make freedom their top priority
when they cast their vote for Barack Obama. If they truly believed in embracing and defending the principles that our nation’s founders inscribed and adopted in the U.S. Constitution, the outcome would have been far different. Freedom for the individual is nowhere to be found in Barack Obama’s philosophy. This is not to devolve into a harangue against Obama. Rather, it’s to make the case that among the primary reasons the United
States is an unstoppable train chugging down “The Road to Serfdom” toward the Europeanization of America (i.e. bankruptcy), is because too few people are advancing and too few people are living the cause for freedom — especially economic freedom. How many times, for instance, did you ever hear Barack Obama or Mitt Romney even say the word “freedom” or “liberty” in their cam-
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MATT WALSH
Happy New Year. The word for 2013 is “freedom.” Economic freedom. Personal freedom. Freedom. We have a tradition. Each year on New Year’s Eve, we announce at a family gathering our word for the year — the one word that describes how we are going to focus our lives during the New Year. In our humble view, all of America should adopt the word “freedom.” It is becoming increasingly lost in American culture and certainly
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