“Politics isn’t really my thing.” I’ve heard this said by those in our generation more times than I can count. Most recently, I heard it when I was out to lunch with some friends and it wasn’t in response to some political conversation. A new friend asked me what I did for work, and I said, “I help young professionals and college students get ready to vote.” The response was a quiet comment, but it simply and succinctly sums up what I believe is the overall feeling in our gen

"Don't worry about politics," they say, "the whole world is going down-hill and Jesus is coming back soon." I grew up in a dispensational, premillenial, pretribulation-rapture church. Those arcane terms just mean (for our purposes here) that my church teaches this world is going down hill, and will continue until Jesus returns and makes everything new. I am not writing this to start a debate on eschatology (the study of end times) or to even talk about which view I take. Inst

“I know my rights!!!” Let’s start with a blank canvas and talk about your rights. Are you alive? Then you have a right to keep living. To live you must eat. To eat you must produce. When you produce you obtain a property right in result of your labor. Liberty – freedom from incarceration – stems from both our right to live and our need to produce. A life incarcerated by the state (jail) is no life at all. Also, we cannot produce if our movements are restricted. These – life,

We are in the final stretch of the primary season with not just two Republican candidates still running but three. Trump is almost in reach of the nomination with 845 delegates already won and a victory if he reaches 1,237. He has a significant lead over both Cruz (at 559) and Kasich (at 148). Kasich of course has absolutely no chance of winning the nomination but he is clinging onto his delegates hoping it gives him political leverage at the convention. While Cruz’s hopes o

182 voters gather for Republican caucus at Green Mountain Elementary school gym in Lakewood, CO. on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post Senator Ted Cruz won the Republican Colorado primary – all 37 delegates –without a single vote being cast. The Republican Party in Colorado changed their rules in August 2015, doing away with traditional presidential preference poll – not even taking a vote from the people! A few people in the Republican elite in Colorad