The Iowans for Tax Relief are co-hosting with the Iowa Christian Alliance a Presidential Candidates Forum on June 30th in Des Moines. The Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR) has a stated mission of lobbying "for reduced state government spending and lower taxes for all Iowans."

Usually, when politics and science start mixing, I usually want to bang my head with a blunt object when I hear how absolutely asinine the arguments are. However, over at Reason’s Hit and Run blog, Ronald Bailey writes intelligently about how neuroscience is confirming Adam Smith’s theory of human morality which he used as the basis for his free market economic theory.