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(Ed. note: Each year in early fall I attend the Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado. My sister Jennifer Schubert-Akin and her husband Rick Akin are co-founders of the SI and this year marked the 15th Annual Freedom Conference. The Steamboat Institute promotes America's first principles and inspires active involvement in the defense of liberty. SI stands for the following five founding principles: 1) limited government; 2) limited taxes and fiscal responsibility; 3) free market capitalism; 4) strong national defense; 5) individual rights and respo...