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Jason Vaughn is a fellow FreeCapitalist and editor of the FreeCapitalist Daily. A former school teacher, he loves freedom and knowledge. Jason lives in Utah County with his wife Melanie of 16 years, and their five children.

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Real Estate Appraisal Regulation

HIGHLAND, UT | 19 August 2008| The real estate industry in the United States is in complete disarray. Many articles have been written on FreeCapitalist Daily to illustrate this point. Still, little has been done to really capture the severity of this problem. Throughout the country, many news articles and even books have been written in […]

19Aug2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Whose Time Is It, Anyway?

HIGHLAND, UT | 6 August 2008 | One hundred-fifty years ago, nearly everyone worked from home. Not much of a surprise; it was an agrarian society. People worked in their own fields or they had shops (such as a blacksmith or mercantiler) attached to their homes. Following decades found more people move their workplaces into […]

6Aug2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 3 comments | Continued
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Only an Enlightened Electorate Should Vote!

HIGHLAND, UT | 5 August 2008 | Caspar Weinberger, Jr., recently wrote an op-ed piece challenging America’s mindset in voting. He asked the question whether every American old enough to vote should be allowed to. His point:
If you are intelligent enough to read the Times or to boycott it on purpose because of its consistent left-biased slant, you […]

5Aug2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 12 comments | Continued
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What Is the Right Value of a House?

HIGHLAND, UT | 29 July 2008 | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced recently that housing prices in the U.S. are “overvalued” by as much as 20%. A common misconception in the world today is that things have inherent value and that when prices fluctuate they become overvalued or undervalued. What the IMF and other economists […]

29Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Why the Pickens Plan Won’t Work

HIGHLAND, UT | 23 July 2008| One of the hottest topics in the marketplace of ideas is America’s growing concern with energy. Many say that oil production peaked in 2005 and will soon dry up. Others say that petroleum based internal combustion engines, though not very efficient, are here to stay. Many are looking for […]

23Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 5 comments | Continued
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Censorship a Question of Private Property not Free Speech

HIGHLAND, UT | 15 July 2008 | When most people hear the word tyrant, they think of Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin. They may think of overzealous bureaucrats or demanding city officials or HOA presidents. But how many would consider the sweet neighbor down the street with an entitlement attitude; or even themselves? Yet, some […]

15Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued
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NOTICE! Human Life Value Takes a Dive!

HIGHLAND, UT | 14 July 2008 | The EPA, of all agencies, regularly publishes a calculation on human life value. They reported recently that over the past five years this value has dropped. What is the EPA doing calculating human life value? Turns out that many government agencies calculate this value, all for their own […]

14Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued
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Who Decides the Price of Liberty?

HIGHLAND, UT | 8 July 2008 | Last week Americans throughout the country had the good fortune of celebrating the birthday of its nation by honoring the day upon which The Declaration of Independence was pronounced in the open streets of the then 13 British Colonies in America. The birth of our nation is replete […]

8Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 4 comments | Continued
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Entitlement Addiction Hard for Doctors to Let Go Of

HIGHLAND, UT | 7 July 2008| Health care continues to be a big item in this year’s election campaigns and politics as the push toward a nationalized health care systems receives more and more pressure. Today, New York Times reporter, Robert Pear, tells the story of how the recent cuts in medicare allowances have prompted many doctors […]

7Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 3 comments | Continued
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How Do You Celebrate Independence?

HIGHLAND, UT | 4 July 2008 | Ah! The Fourth of July! That great mid-summer holiday. Full of parades and beauty pageants, fireworks, barbecues, 10k races, pancake breakfasts in the park, and flag raising ceremonies. This is what this holiday is all about, right? Oh, and thinking about the signing of the Declaration of Independence (whatever […]

4Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Chinese Bloggers Show Indomitable Spirit of Inalienable Right

HIGHLAND, UT | 3 July 2008 | Chinese bloggers are proving that rights, being unalienable, cannot be taken away no matter how hard a government tries. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that “bloggers on forums such as Tianya.cn have taken to posting in formats that China’s Internet censors, often employees of commercial Internet service providers, have […]

3Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Supreme Court Ruling for Guns already under Attack

HIGHLAND, UT | 1 July 2008 | It took the opponents of firearms ownership less than a week to come up with their next attempt to ban handguns. Last week the Supreme Court struck down the 32-year old D.C. handgun ban in a 5-4 decision. Yesterday, AP “medical writer”, Mike Stobbe revealed a “surprising fact,” that […]

1Jul2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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545 or 300 Million?

HIGHLAND, UT | 30 June 2008 | In the 1980s, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, Charley Reese, published a piece entitled, “The 545 People Responsible for all of America’s Woes.” In this article, Reese points out that politicians are the only people who cause problems and then campaign against them. He blames all problems America faced in […]

30Jun2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Nationalization for the People!

HIGHLAND, UT | 23 June 2008 | Lenin and Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler; Mao, Minh, Castro, Chavez, the 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates and Congress! What do these characters all have in common? They all either have or would like to take private property and give it to “the people.” This sounds very good, does it not? “Power […]

23Jun2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Who Is to Blame for $4 per Gallon Gasoline?

HIGHLAND, UT |18 June 2008 | While surfing the Internet for interesting news stories I came across an advertisement: “Who is to blame for $4 per gallon gasoline?” It then offered three photographs the reader could choose from for the blame. One was a picture of an Arab, representing the OPEC producers of oil. Another […]

18Jun2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 8 comments | Continued
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