{"id":416,"date":"2008-05-26T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/fff-conference-next-week\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:50:03","slug":"fff-conference-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/fff-conference-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"FFF Conference Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\">Future of Freedom Foundation <\/a>will hold their second annual foreign policy\/civil liberties <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/conference2008\/index.htm\">conference<\/a><\/strong> next week in Reston, Va.\u00a0\u00a0 The conference runs from June 6 to June 8.\u00a0 The $495 fee cover all meals and 20 speakers.<\/p>\n<p>I will be speaking on Friday around 1:30 on &#8220;Bush&#8217;s War on Civil Liberties.&#8221;\u00a0 Tricky to find enough material on that topic to round out a speech&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonygregory.com\/\"><strong>Anthony Gregory<\/strong><\/a>, one of the most popular speakers at last year&#8217;s event,\u00a0 provides a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/comment\/com0805e.asp\">lively summary<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of what this year&#8217;s conference will cover and why folks should go.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Future of Freedom Foundation will hold their second annual foreign policy\/civil liberties conference next week in Reston, Va.\u00a0\u00a0 The conference runs from June 6 to June 8.\u00a0 The $495 fee cover all meals and 20 speakers. 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