I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
I came out of the grocery store last night and found that some jerk in either a truck or an SUV had hit my car and left. The police officer who came to the scene was one of the nicest I’ve ever met. I thought it was weird when he asked if I had a [...]
Wifi. It was fun while it lasted. Sipping on a caffe mocha while surfing the net in the airport or while studying for final exams. How convenient. How nice. How over. The SAFE Act passed the House of Representatives by a spectacular vote of 409-2 (of course, one of the two dissents was my man [...]
I was disappointed today to read that the “Lew Rockwell” faction of libertarianism is apparently involved in a knock-down, drag-out ideological fight with the “cosmopolitan” libertarians at the Cato Institute. I wasn’t up to speed on the details of the rift before now, but I had wondered why the hell the Catos hadn’t jumped all [...]
I’m consistently amazed at how The New York Times leaves the most interesting and relevant details to the end of their articles. I first noticed this shoddy journalism a few months ago with the story of the breastfeeding medical student who got a court to rule that she needed extra break times during a board [...]
Via Andrew Sullivan (with credit to Utne), I’ve learned that not only is marijuana California’s largest cash crop by far, but growing it illegally is devastating to the environment. The obvious solution is to legalize marijuana. Why legalize marijuana? Why not just make it illegal and attempt to arrest all these renegade marijuana growers and [...]
Jeffrey Toobin is one of those generic journalists, writing so much in so many different places, so un-memorably, that even though you know his name when you hear it, it doesn’t matter because you can’t recall a damn thing he ever wrote. He’s no George Will, that’s for sure. Anyway, Toobin said that Ron Paul [...]