James Duncan Davidson

Cleaning out old files from my flash drive today and I found this:

https://sites.google.com/site/helpreidquithisjob/Dear%20Speakers%20-%20James%20Duncan%20Davidson.pdf

It's an old PDF of a blog post from James Duncan Davidson to TED speakers. If you're in speech / forensics, read it. It probably applies to you too.

I'm sure there's a digital copy out there on the web rather than the PDF I have, but I couldn't find it with Google in two minutes and I'm lazy so I gave up.

Mercatus Center report on freedom in the 50 states

One of my friends from George Mason sent me a copy of this report from like 2009 and I remember reading it then and thinking it was pretty good, but then I set it aside and forget it. In random conversation recently I was reminded about it and wondered if it still being done. Turns out it is.

The Mercatus Center does this report on Freedom in the 50 sates. For people doing US / National Extemp, it makes an interesting take on many different topics.

Here's the link to the 2011

http://mercatus.org/freedom-50-states-2011