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Past Contest Prizes and Prize Winners

Since our first drawing in October 1995, we have helped give away about $27,550 in great libertarian prizes to more than 182 Freedom Network members and readers. Register for your free chance to be next!

October 2003
Sponsored by The Cato Institute.
Globalization prize package, worth about $700. Won by Michael Giesbrecht.

September 2003
Sponsored by The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Book package worth about $100. Won by Paul Wicks.

August 2003
Sponsored by The Center for Consumer Freedom.
Gift certificate for $300 at Best Buy appliance store. Won by Brent Bielema.

July 2003
Sponsored by OnPower.org.
Replica bust of Thomas Jefferson, a classic Tiananmen Square poster, a deck of "signers of the Declaration of Independence" playing cards, and a selection powerful pro-liberty books. Won by Rick Tompkins.

June 2003
Sponsored by ISIL.
12-cassette tapes series of George Smith seminars. Won by Mike Koziol.

May 2003
Sponsored by The Objectivist Center.
Hardbound copies of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead", and a signed copy of "The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand". Won by George F. Smith.

April 2003
Sponsored by A World Connected.
A $250 gift certificate for Worldstock.com. Won by Sherre Lyn Andres.

December 2002 -- March 2003
Sponsored by International Society for Individual Liberty.
Five prize packages ranging in value from $90-$125, each including several books. Won by Ghost Gray, shreya21, David F Salisbury, Claire Joly, and Jeff Eubanks.

November 2002
Sponsored by FoundingFathers.Info.
A prize package including one 3' x 5' Gadsden flag, one 3' x 5' First Navy Jack flag, one 4" x 6" Gadsden decal, one 4" x 6" Navy Jack decal, and one Gadsden flag t-shirt.

October 2002
Sponsored by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
Ten prize packages, each including JPFO's "I Will Live Free: Songs Celebrating the Bill of Rights" CD and two books -- "The State vs. the People" and "Hope." Total value: $528. Winners include B. Keith Brumley of Hillsdale, Michigan; William Lane of Wilmington, Delaware; Mike Brady of Marietta, Georgia; Kane McAniff of Ithaca, NY; Pat McQueen of Dearborn Heights, Michigan; Stacey Bradley of Hastings, Pennsylvania (a two-time winner of our contests!); one anonymous winner; and three winners yet to be announced.

September 2002
Sponsored by NORFED.
One solid ounce of gold, one ounce of silver, and several beautifully engraved warehouse receipts for more gold and silver, as well as a video and a few more surprise goodies. This "Liberty Dollar" prize package is worth more than $526.
Won by Christoph Kohring of Switzerland.

August 2002
Sponsored by Anarchism.Net.
More than $300 in merchandise, including a gold coin and logoed merchandise -- flaunt your anarchism as you drink fine cognac from the flask and light your Cuban cigar with the Zippo lighter, both of which bear Anarchism.Net's logo.
Won by Stacey Bradley of Hasting, PA.

July 2002
Sponsored by the Freedom Summit.
A $300 gift certificate from Laissez Faire Books. That's a lot of books. Might have to buy a new book case for 'em!
Won by Dave Furst, an Instructional Systems Specialist in the U.S. Navy.

June 2002
Sponsored by the Palmer R. Chitester Fund.
A "Friedman birthday" prize package including an original 1980 "Free to Choose" video set, T-shirt, and mug, as well as a copy of John Stossel's "Is America # One?" teaching kit (which Dr. Friedman has called a "modern-day version of 'Free to Choose'"). Best of all is an autographed copy of "Free to Choose".
Won by Mr. Philip Deinsch, a liberty-minded supporter of the Free State Project.

May 2002
Sponsored by the International Society for Individual Liberty.
A $635 prize package including $500 worth of pro-freedom books, a $100 discount on their upcoming Puerto Vallarta conference, and a one year ISIL membership and "big welcome package" (value $35).
Won by Mr. Ralf Mathey, of Prum, Germany.

April 2002
Sponsored by the Cato Institute.
A $375 prize package including $100 worth of Cato books and a $275 ticket to the Cato 25th anniversary celebration and banquet.
Won by Mr. Stephen Thoms, of Auckland, New Zealand.

March 2002
Sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education, Laissez Faire Books, and Free-Market.Net.
A priceless collection of historical libertarian artifacts.
Won by Ms. Elizabeth McInstry, of Hillsdale, Michigan.

February 2002
Sponsored by HealthFactsAndFears.com.
A $200 collection of sound science publications, and a one year membership in the American Council on Health and Science.
Won by Mr. Robert Manning, of College Station, Texas.

January 2002
Sponsored by Backwoods Home magazine.
A $300 collection of 10 freedom-enhancing anthologies and books, 11 CD-ROMs, and a one year subscription to the magazine.
Won by Mr. John Millheim, of Cape Coral, Florida.

December 2001
Sponsored by Miss Liberty's Film and TV World.
A $300 prize package of freedom movies and a copy of "Miss Liberty's Guide to Film and Video." Two runners up will each win a copy of the book.
Won by Mr. Derek Nelson of Chicago, IL. Runners up were: Damaso Torres of San Antonio, TX and Sam McCumpsey of Little Rock, AR.

November 2001
Sponsored by the Cato Institute.
A $300 prize package of new Cato books.
Won by Mr. Christopher Baughman of Colorado Springs, CO.

October 2001
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
A $300 gift certificate from LFB, good for books, videos, and other goodies from their online store. The winner also gets an extension of LFB's October "15% off everything" sale, raising the net value of the gift certificate to $345.
Won by Mr. Brian Brown of Chicago, IL.

September 2001
Sponsored by Liberty Round Table.
LRT is giving one free-marketeer a one ounce gold coin, worth just under $300, as well as a one ounce silver coin to each of two runners up. Coin winners as well as seven other winners will receive LRT-shirts.
Gold coin won by George F. Mussmann, of O'Fallon, MO. Silver coins won by Michael Gilson De Lemos, of Saint Petersburg, FL and William Cole, of Chattanooga, TN. LRT-shirts won by: Frank DuBois, of Las Cruces, NM; Anonymous; Kenneth Gregg, of Las Vegas, NV; Nick Bonner, of Christchurch, New Zealand; Rhonda Jockisch, of Pekin, IL; Wayne Grantham, of Santa Ana, CA, and; Eneas Biglione, of Fairfax, VA.

August 2001
Sponsored by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
JPFO is giving away $500 in pro-self-defense materials in five packages, worth $100 each, to five different winners. The packages include signed copies of "Hope" and "The Mitzvah" by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, a Bill of Rights T-shirt, and an activist pack with Granpa Jack comic books and other materials.
Won by Bob Maples of Reno, NV, Mark Ingram of Athens, OH, David F. Kennison of Columbia, SC, Alex Singleton of Surrey, UK, and Michael Grossberg of Columbus, OH.

July 2001
Sponsored by Americans for Technology Leadership.
Five historical American flags, one for each of five different winners. Over 30 flags to choose from.
Won by James Blachly of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Dan Walker of Tallahassee, Florida, Roger Tucker of Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia, Anonymous, and Eric Caron of Arlington Heights, Illinois.

June 2001
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
A $300 gift certificate from LFB, good for books, videos, and other goodies from their online store.
Won by Tom Woods, a small business owner from Birmingham, Alabama.

May 2001
Sponsored by the Guest Choice Network.
One winner will get 500 Twinkies, to spite the nannies who want to impose a "Twinkie tax."
Won by Stephen Z., a computer administrator from Phoenix, Arizona.

April 2001
Sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist Society.
Five winners receive $100 in free libertarian science fiction books, a year-long LFS membership, and a set of 10 recent issues of Prometheus, the LFS quarterly journal. The first place winner also gets a free invitation to LFScon.
Won by Ron Nash of Huntington, CA. Free-Market.Net Sponsor J. Scott Hamilton, Amy Phillips of New York University, wdodson, and smccumpsey.

March 2001
Sponsored by the Cato Institute.
A prize package worth over $500, including autographed hardcover copies of "Libertarianism" and "The Libertarian Reader" by Cato's David Boaz, a limited edition F.A. Hayek print, a $150 Cato shopping spree, one-year subscriptions to CatoAudio, Cato Journal, and more.
Won by Antonin Kazda of Prague.

February 2001
Sponsored by Reason magazine.
Three prize packages for three different winners, worth a grand total of over $500. Each includes five one-year subscriptions, a Reason hat, a laser-engraved Reason pen, and a Reason desk clock/calculator/calendar.
Won by Andrew Vecci, of Chicago, Illinois; Sugi Sorensen, of La Canada, California; and Terry Ing of Brampton, Ontario.

January 2001
Sponsored by Stossel in the Classroom.
Video kits for "Is America Still #1?" and a private online chat with John Stossel for ten winners.
Won by Marjorie Donnett of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, an executive secretary at Land O'Lakes; John D. Giorgis of Takoma Park, Maryland, an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Gary Leff of the Institute for Humane Studies; Jill Nicola of Houston, Texas, a software engineer; Gene Berkman of the Renaissance Bookshop in Riverside, California; Eric Meers-Berg of Palos Heights, Illinois; Charles Wilkins, a Webmonkey from Burbank, California; rlcoffey; tasfree; and BrownBomber.

December 2000
Sponsored by No Free Lunch Distributors.
A nine-part video and gift package including Ayn Rand, Tim Slagle, and Waco videos.
Won by John Erickson, a policy advisor for Governor Mike Johanns of Nebraska.

November 2000
Sponsored by Personal Retirement Alliance.
A brand new Palm IIIxe, worth $249.
Won by Kathleen Sullivan of Attleboro, Massachusetts.

October 2000
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
Five Thomas Sowell sets including his new book "A Personal Odyssey" and an audiotape entitled "Reflections on Wealth, Poverty and Race."
Won by Oliver Bowen, a student at the University of Oklahoma, and by members Ward_Griffiths, darkfreedom, imran_akram, and cincinnatus.

September 2000
Sponsored by The Alliance for the Separation of School and State.
A $250 gift package including books, audiotapes, and videotapes.
Won by Arthur Torrey of Waltham, Massachusetts.

August 2000
Sponsored by Free-Market.Net.
Five Free-Market.Net T-shirts to celebrate our five-year anniversary.
Won by Tim Billups of Columbia, Missouri; Nelson Llumiquinga of Gilbert, Arizona; John McAdams from Shorewood, Wisconsin; Bill Wiley of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania; and Diane Williams from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

July 2000
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
Five autographed copies of Jim Powell's "The Triumph of Liberty."
Won by William Lane of Wilmington, Delaware; Don Formanek of Moorhead, Minnesota; Arthur Berkowicz of Copenhagen, Denmark; Dr. Patti Barrett of Pinehurst, Idaho; and Don Sloan of California.

June 2000
Sponsored by Aaron Lukas and Gary Dempsey
Five copies of the video documentary "Collateral Damage: The Balkans After NATO's Air War" for five winners.
Won by preacherowens, Don Northam, Mary Ellen Sullivan, Tom Ender, and jewli.

May 2000
Sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
Five copies of the book "Clichés of Politics" for five winners, plus a $300 shopping spree in the FEE bookstore for the first place winner.
The first prize was the won by Michael Giesbrecht of Lucasfilm, Ltd. The runners-up were jhall, aug.jan, CountryBoy, and quarterback.

April 2000
Sponsored by the International Society for Individual Liberty.
A free invitation to attend this year's ISIL conference in Ontario, Canada. This $699 prize includes five nights of lodging, all meals, a city tour, and the gala closing banquet.
Won by Jingles of New Jersey.

March 2000
Sponsored by SunriseView.com.
A $329 Palm Pilot V plus an autographed copy of Eric Szuter's book "The Return of Common Sense." Ten second prize winners also get an autographed copy of the book.
The grand prize was won by Mrs. Wanda Banks of Southern Pines, North Carolina. The runners-up were Steve Salinger of London, England; Dr. Andrew Piacsek of Cle Elum, Washington; Christopher Mayer of Germantown, Maryland; Dave White of Ponca City, Oklahoma; Michael Ingram of Edmonton, Canada; hammernails, chrisledouxlover, rajah, deep_100, and mro69.

February 2000
Sponsored by Future of Freedom Foundation.
A $150+ prize package including six autographed books, two audiotapes, and a subscription to Freedom Daily.
Won by Eisenmd of Phoenix, Arizona.

January 2000
Sponsored by PRC Fund.
Three John Stossel video packages, including teachers' guides and student study guides.
Won by Graham Hearn, a math student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

December 1999
Sponsored by Reason magazine.
Free invitation to the Second Annual Dynamic Visions Conference.
Won by David Anderson of Waco, Texas.

November 1999
Sponsored by Americans for Technology Leadership.
A $500 online brokerage account.
Won by Wayne Dougherty, a computer analyst from Brunswick, Maryland.

October 1999
Sponsored by NORFED.
$200 in American Liberty Currency (20 ounces of .999 pure silver).
Won by Lynne Pitts of New Hampshire, a project manager for the IT department of a defense contractor, and a Major in the Air Force Reserve.

September 1999
Sponsored by Reason magazine.
A prize package including a one year magazine subscription, an autographed copy of Jacob Sullum's "For Your Own Good," and an autographed copy of Virginia Postrel's "The Future and Its Enemies."
Won by Free-Market.Net founding member Dan Ness of Everett, Washington.

August 1999
Sponsored by Hands Off the Internet.
$600 to spend on high-speed Internet access service ($200 for set-up, $400 for monthly access charges).
Won by "JElton."

July 1999
Sponsored by The Henry Hazlitt Foundation.
Three Free-Market.Net t-shirts.
Won by Beata Lechowicz of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Ray Konopka of Penndel, Pennsylvania; and "wittj" from Canada.

June 1999
Sponsored by the Cato Institute.
First place winner gets a five-year subscription to Regulation magazine, the second place winner gets a three-year subscription, and the third-place winner gets a one-year subscription.
The first place winner was Patrick Sullivan, a computer programmer from Baker, Louisiana; the second place winner was Abe Hudgins, a network administrator on Scott Air Force Base in Illinois; and the third place winner was Imtiyaz Husain, "an over regulated and stressed stock broker from Dhaka, Bangladesh."

May 1999
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
Five copies of "Death by Government" by R.J. Rummel. The first place winner gets his copy autographed, and also get a copy of "Power Kills."
The first place winner was James Long of Mandan, North Dakota. The runners-up were David Andersson of the World Economics Society in Taipei, Taiwan; Gwen Johannsen of Amery, Wisconsin; Marnie Velez of Chicago Heights, Illinois; and Diane McKellar of North Vancouver, British Columbia.

April 1999
Sponsored by Monex.
A gold, silver, and platinum coin set worth over $700.00.
Won by Michael Long of North East, Pennsylvania.

March 1999
Sponsored by PublicOpinion.com.
$500.00 to be spent at any business or organization that has been reviewed at the PublicOpinion.com Web site.
Won by Robert Manning, a graduate student in economics at Texas A&M.

February 1999
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
Three autographed first edition copies of James Bovard's "Freedom in Chains."
Won by Richard Jones of Gilbert, Arizona ... Brian Tannahill, a computer programmer from Prairie Village, Kansas ... and John Junge of Kansas City, Missouri.

January 1999
Sponsored by the International Society for Individual Liberty.
A full conference package for the 18th Annual ISIL World Convention in Costa Rica, August 1999. A $795.00 value, including conference fees, five nights in a first class hotel, breakfasts and lunches, an opening reception and a closing banquet, and a tour of San José.
Won by Cheryl Clayton, a student from Phoenix, Arizona.

December 1998
Sponsored by The People's Forum.
A choice of ten different pro-freedom memberships and subscriptions.
Won by Doug Leard of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania ... Sanja Uzelac of Australia ... Michael Haag of Malden, Massachusetts "a network engineer by vocation, a musician by avocation, and an ardent believer in complete and consistent liberty" ... Melissa Hill of Mt. Vernon, Iowa ... Jim Peron of South Africa ... Steven Bush or Newington, New Hampshire ... worrywart ... Mark Schiller of San Francisco, California, who is "trying to become rich in the software industry so that [he] can support libertarian causes" ... Steve Weatherby of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... and William Quinn, a Roadway Express dock supervisor from Sauk Village, Illinois.

November 1998
Sponsored by The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Three copies of the special 50th Anniversary Scholar's Edition of Mises' "Human Action," with the first place winner getting their copy signed by all three of the authors of the new introduction, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Herbener, and Joseph Salerno, plus a $100.00 gift certificate for other Mises Institute publications.
First place won by Fred Reynolds of San Jose, CA. Runners-up were Steve Galpin, an America Online techie and Free-Market.Net Member from Oklahoma City, OK, and Mike S., a jazz musician from Marin County, CA.

October 1998
Sponsored by The People's Forum.
$700 in libertarian merchandise, including 29 books, 1 video, 2 T-shirts, 1 CD-ROM, and 200 World's Smallest Political Quiz cards.
Won by FMN Supporting Donor Franck Sidon, of Hong Kong.

September 1998
Sponsored by Centers for the Study of Emerging Institutions.
All-expense paid trip to Iceland. Includes roundtrip airfare from Baltimore, lodging, and meals and fees for the CSEI conference that will be going on.
Won by Aaron Kotok of Washington, DC.

August 1998
Sponsored by Foundation for Latin American Energy Studies.
"Subsurface Privatization in Argentina" prize package including the English and Spanish versions of Guillermo Yeatts' "El Robo del Subsuelo" and 50 shares of the Sol Petróleo oil company.
Won by Greg Encelewski of Anchorage, Alaska (the winner of the February 1997 contest!)

July 1998
Sponsored by The Republican Liberty Caucus.
A two-volume hardcover set of "American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760-1805," with a personal inscription by U.S. Congressman Ron Paul.
Won by Gary Green of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

June 1998
Sponsored by LiamWorks Publishing.
Three personally inscribed copies of Harry Browne's "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" plus a phone call from Browne to the first place winner.
The first place winner was Patrick Sullivan, a software designer from Baker, Louisiana. Runners-up were Robert J. Hale, a computer consultant from Holualoa, Hawaii, and Ryan Setliff, the VP for Operations of SelectSurf.

May 1998
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books.
Three "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" coffee table books.
Won by Douglas Wilson from Sumter, South Carolina; Robert Van Zant from Clearfield, Pennsylvania; and Brian Saul, from Portsmouth, Ohio.

April 1998
Sponsored by No Free Lunch Distributors.
Five-part prize package featuring Ayn Rand on film and video.
Won by Craig Caldwell, a high school student from Bristol, Tennessee.

March 1998
Sponsored by Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc.
$500 dollars worth of gold and silver.
Won by Damon Chetson, a program coordinator at the Institute for Humane Studies.

February 1998
Sponsored by American Liberty Publishers
Autographed copies of Edmund Contoski's "The Trojan Project" and "Makers and Takers."
Won by Byron Sanders of Fresno, California.

January 1998
Sponsored by The Cato Institute
Autographed hardcover copies of David Boaz's "Libertarianism: A Primer" and "The Libertarian Reader."
Won by Peter Riker, a carpenter from Unadilla, New York.

December 1997
Sponsored by Reason Magazine
Three Reason gift packages, the grand prize package includes a one-year subscription, coffee mug, and autographed copy of "Free Minds and Free Markets."
First prize winner was Michael Kaufman, a computer consultant from Chicago. The runners-up were John Holton from Marietta, Georgia and James Varney from Cape Coral, Florida.

November 1997
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
25th anniversary edition of "It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand" autographed by Jerome Tuccille, J.D. Tuccille, and David Friedman.
Won by Michael Nichols, a computer consultant from New York City.

October 1997
Sponsored by The Henry Hazlitt Foundation
A free lifetime membership at Free-Market.Net.
Won by Jeanine Schaeffer from Ohio.

September 1997
Sponsored by Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc.
$500 dollars worth of gold and silver.
The silver was won by Lanette Carder of Lawrence, Kansas, and the gold was won by Vance Porter, an engineer from Merritt Island, Florida.

August 1997
Sponsored by The Cato Institute and The Institute for Objectivist Studies
Free invitation to "Atlas and the World" 40th anniversary conference and dinner-dance to celebrate Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."
Won by John VanSickle, a staff sergeant in the US Air Force, living in Woodbridge, Virginia.

July 1997
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
Barbara Branden's complete Objectivist course "Principles of Efficient Thinking" on audiotape.
Won by Dave Bishop, an aerospace researcher and libertarian activist in Denver, Colorado.

June 1997
Sponsored by the Cascade Policy Institute
Four winners get a José Piñera Social Security prizatization video, the grand prize winner gets two bonus videos.
Grand prize: Robert Quinn, a physics student at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Runners-up: Olaf Shibusawa from Washington, DC; Steve Martinovich from Ontario, Canada; Edwin Smith from Tampa, Florida; and Terry Linderman from St. Louis, Missouri.

May 1997
Sponsored by the Independent Institute
A Guns & Crime package, including an autographed "That Every Man be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right" and eight other prizes.
Won by Jim Peron of Johannesburg, South Africa.

April 1997
Sponsored by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Autographed "The Myth of the Robber Barons," choice of $100 in Mackinac materials, and dinner with Dr. Burt Folsom and Mackinac staff.
Won by "anderson" of Ontario, Canada.

March 1997
Sponsored by Full Context
Rare bound volume of The Objectivist Newsletter (1962-65), plus ten of the most popular issues of Full Context.
Won by Kevin Smith, of La Palma, California.

February 1997
Sponsored by the Free Market Society of Chicago
A package for learning about the economics of liberty. Four books plus one free seminar.
Won by Greg Encelewski of Anchorage, Alaska.

January 1997
Sponsored by the Political Economy Research Center
Over $200 in free-market environmental prizes.
Grand prize: "Banzai" from Kissimmee, Florida. Second place: Greg Peace from Ontario, Canada, "Elikar" from Turku, Finland, Robert Blumen from San Francisco, California, and Michael Kipfer from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

December 1996
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
Two autographed copies of Charles Murray's "What it Means to be a Libertarian."
Won by Lou Heavner, an engineer from Austin, Texas, and Marie Gryphon, a law student from Seattle, Washington.

November 1996
Sponsored by the Cato Institute
Year's subscription to CatoAudio, plus three autographed copies of "The End of Welfare" for the runners-up.
Grand prize: Bill Hoyt of Shawnee, Kansas. Second place: Raymond Hutton of Orlando, Florida, John Johnston of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Robert Jauregui of Seattle, Washington.

October 1996
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
Three winners receive a hardcover 50th Anniversary Edition of "Economics in One Lesson," the grand prize winner also gets three other Henry Hazlitt books.
First place: Nick Hiemstra, from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Second place: Kevin Willis of Sacramento and John Amsler of Las Vegas.

September 1996
Sponsored by The Independent Institute
The winner's choice of four prize packages, focused on gun rights, drug policy, the failure of politics, or health freedom. Each package including books, policy reports, subscriptions to the Independent Institute's journal and newsletter, plus an Institute mug.
Won by Tom Jamerson from Chesterfield, Virginia.

August 1996
Sponsored by The Acton Institute
An Acton "Power Corrupts" T-Shirt, autographed books from Ed Opitz and Robert Sirico, plus a subscription to the journal "Religion & Liberty."
Won by Dave Gosse of Alberta, Canada.

July 1996
Sponsored by The Fraser Institute
Over $600 in prizes including an autographed copy of Margaret Thatcher's "The Downing Street Years," Fraser Memberships, and Adam Smith ties.
First Place: Robert Pierce of Stinnett, Texas; Second Place: Neal McCall of St. Petersburg, Florida; Third Place: Wes Walton of McDonough, Georgia; Fourth Place: Shane Bodrero of the University of Colorado; Fifth Place: Donald Scarry of New Jersey Economics.

June 1996
Sponsored by The Institute for Objectivist Studies
Five autographed copies of David Kelley's "Unrugged Individualism."
Won by Robert Blumen of San Francisco, California; Meredith Patterson of Houston, Texas; Brad Andrews of Westerville, Ohio; Marshall Steeves at the London School of Economics; and Catherine Tran at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvannia.

May 1996
Sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation
Three autographed books plus a year's subscription to FFF's "Freedom Daily."
Won by Timothy Johnson of Independence, Iowa (one of the winners of October 1995 contest!)

April 1996
Sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Autographed "Science Under Siege" hardcover and videotape.
Won by Shannon Trosper of Lake Elsinore, California.

March 1996
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
Two autographed copies of Thomas Sowell's "Migrations and Cultures."
Won by Don Harrington of Claremont, California and Heungsoo Pahn of Bloomington, Indiana.

February 1996
Sponsored by The Institute for Humane Studies
Complete 20-volume set of the journal "Literature of Liberty."
Won by Bill Howell of Belmont, Massachusetts.

January 1996
Sponsored by the Heartland Institute
One-year's full Heartland membership plus an autographed copy of "Eco-Sanity."
Won by Norman Laroque from Wellington, New Zealand.

December 1995
Sponsored by Free-Market Enterprises
Ayn Rand T-shirt and framed print set.
Won by Susannah Johnson from Texas A&M.

November 1995
Sponsored by the Cato Institute
Bundle of five new Cato books.
Won by Wes Walton of Covington, Georgia.

October 1995
Sponsored by Laissez Faire Books
Two autographed copies of P.J. O'Rourke's "Age & Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut."
Won by "jl4" from Columbus, Ohio, and Timothy Johnson from Independence, Iowa.





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