There's Still Time To Get Tickets

Below, an announcement from Americans for Limited Government, forwarded to me by a member of the team on ALG's mailing list. Note the Senator from Oklahoma, where ALG's SOS Oklahoma was the subject of much controversy in the spring.

But first, a little interlude from today's guest blogger:

MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH." Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle ...

Now, directly from Chicago, the ALG email:

THE ALG ACTION CONFERENCE
August 17-19, 2006 * Chicago

Two weeks left to register...
Join Senator Tom Coburn, Susette Kelo, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, and other top voices for liberty in Chicago!

The InterContinental Hotel
505 N. Michigan Avenue


Want to discuss the top issues of 2006 with experts and activists from across the country? Join us in Chicago on August 17, 18, & 19 to learn about how we can work to restore limited, accountable government in states across the nation.

On the agenda:

Who is fighting tooth and nail against putting voters and taxpayers back in charge across the country? You might be surprised…

How can we keep politicians and parties accountable?

Who really cares about limited, accountable government anymore?

How can we stop out-of-control state spending and unjust government takings?

Working with the media…

And more!

Your $50 registration fee will cover all meals at the Intercontinental Hotel in Chicago, including the Friday night reception and dinner, Saturday lunch with Senator Tom Coburn, and welcome cocktail reception on August 17.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), Chairman Emeritus, Americans for Limited Government
• Susette Kelo, Plaintiff in Kelo v. New London
• John Fund, the Wall Street Journal
• Paul Jacob, syndicated columnist and ALG senior fellow
• Dennis Byrne, syndicated and Chicago Tribune columnist
• Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute
• John Andrews, founder and chairman of Backbone America
• John Berthoud, President, National Taxpayers Union
• Jay Richards, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty
• Steven Anderson, the Institute for Justice

Click here to visit our Action Conference 2006 website, see the schedule and register for the conference online today!

For further information on the conference, call
Jodi Bridges, (312) 920-0080, ext. 310 or e-mail info@getliberty.org.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

• Private Property Rights
  
  
• Tax & Spending Reform
  
  
• Fighting BIG GOVERNMENT

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Still time to get tickets, but hurry!

Our guest blogger continues:

... bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses —whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter. Such a man is only the more dangerous if he occasionally does some deed like founding a college or endowing a church, which makes those good people who are also foolish forget his real iniquity. These men are equally careless of the working men, whom they oppress, and of the State, whose existence they imperil. There are not very many of them, but there is a very great number of men who approach more or less closely to the type, and, just in so far as they do so approach, they are curses to the country.

(Forum, February 1895.) Mem. Ed. XV, 10; Nat. Ed. XIII, 9. Theodore Roosevelt

Courage.
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