The Road to Freedom by Arthur Brooks is a must-read.

Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility are traditions at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America’s culture. In his new book, Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, examine how these traditions have been weakened in recent years. He explains that this trend cannot be reversed through materialistic appeals about the economic efficiency of capitalism. Rather, free enterprise requires a moral defense rooted in the ideals of earned success, equality of opportunity, charity, and basic fairness.

Our friends at AEI do a great job and are tremendous coalition partners.

Economic freedom results in lower infant mortality, greater longevity and increased per capita income for countries which have more economic freedom. Those with little economic freedom have more children dying, shorter life expectancy and are poorer. Economic freedom is a tremendous indicator of happiness and well-being. We at AFP-Texas have taken this message on the road.

A blog post worth reading appeared on John O Sullivan’s site titled Poverty Reduction vs Climate Change:

“You might have noticed that the phrase poverty reduction is in the process of overtaking climate change as the issue of major international concern. The phrase sustainable development is also losing ground. It never was implementable and now the UN organizers of Rio+20 are struggling to get an international agreement on its objectives.

Americans for Prosperity-Texas regularly highlights blog posts as providing information which can’t be found elsewhere. We have some tremendous citizen journalists in Texas. This blogger – Will Franklin -- has provided an interesting perspective that no other media has presented.