The Iowans for Tax Relief [2] 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 [3] 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 [5], 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.