I was a right-wing Goldwater Republican until I met Robert LeFevre in 1967. I took his Catalina seminar in 1970. In 1975 I took V-50 from Jay Snelson of Andrew J. Galambos's Free Enterprise Institute. After that I took many of Galambos's tape and live courses until 1982 when the value I was getting from his lectures had diminished well below the threshold where I was getting my time's and money's worth. During those years I staffed for Snelson and, occasionally, for FEI and its contractors. In 2001 I began to read more of Ludwig von Mises's works, which led me to abandon much of the epistemological basis of Galambos's work and to begin to approach the positions that I currently hold.