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.
When I tell people about libertarian ideas, they agree with me that government is bad and can’t be trusted. It’s really, really bad and can’t be trusted. However, they ask, why should we trust corporations more than we trust the government? If the government is prone to mess up, aren’t corporations, too?
These are very common [...]
Many “progressives” see a rise of socialism as a newfound utopia– no suffering, no pain, no having to work all day, no children in trouble, and apparently no consequences, either. This thinking is nothing new. Jerome K. Jerome wrote about it in his short story “The New Utopia” 100 years ago, quite well in my [...]
In another example of what has gone wrong with our “government-can-solve-everything-for-me-through-regulation” society, a Mississippi lawmaker has introduced a serious bill which would bar restaurants from serving those considered obese (determined through weighing at the restaurant and through BMI measurements).
This is a clear case of, as with smoking bans, governments thinking that they know better than [...]
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson gave an interview for the December issue of Texas Monthly in which she decried independent journalists and bloggers in response to the question, “What are the chances that the Republicans will keep the White House?”:
“It will be a close race, and the purple states are the states that will really [...]
It’s certainly true that people shouldn’t discriminate. Should we make laws so that they can’t? Do the laws actually make discrimination worse than it would be otherwise?
Most people would jump at the chance to say that laws should exist to prevent discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation, for private organizations [...]
“Libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.”
That quote becomes more interesting when you find out that Ronald Reagan said it in 1975. Today would have been Reagan’s birthday. Why not sit back and listen to a vintage Reagan speech and decide which candidate is most like him among today’s GOP candidates (I’ll give you [...]
I’ve been against the Iraq War from the start, but since we’re in it, and since leaders are saying that we might invade Iran or Pakistan or even other countries in addition to what we’ve gotten ourselves into in Iraq, we have to think of what our policy will be if and when we [...]
For a few months (since the beginning of my site), I’ve had a page in the sidebar warning America (and the world, for that matter) about “Rudy Giuliani, Tax and Spend Liberal.” I’m glad to say that the T&SL has dropped out of the race– he was by far the worst candidate running, and I’m [...]
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]