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.
On my recent trip to Austria, I was amazed to find that dogs were allowed in restaurants. Not just Paris Hilton-style lapdogs, either. I’m talking huge German shepherds and Rottweilers, walking around the restaurants and pubs, on no leash. No one except my American companions and I paid them any mind, as if it was [...]
Many people say that the skyrocketing cost of health care in America is due to America having a “free market” in health care– we certainly don’t– or that there is not enough regulation of the system. I disagree, and here is one direct way to lower healthcare costs. Why don’t we make all those who [...]
Why should a lifelong Democrat choose country over party, principles over complacency, true progressivism over lip service and vote for William “BJ” Lawson over my current congressman, incumbent David Price? Congressman David Price of North Carolina’s 4th District has: Voted for a $700 billion taxpayer-financed bailout of Wall Street billionaires. That’s reason enough right there [...]
A group living near the California-Oregon border is fed up with both states and wants to secede to create the 51st state, the “State of Jefferson.” The movement is not just a modern one: “Talking about secession has been a quasi-joking conversational saw since 1941, when five counties in the area started things by actually [...]
One thing that disgusted me equally about Sarah Palin and Joe Biden last night was their proclamation of a “passion” and deep, abiding “love” for a foreign country during an American presidential campaign. I turned to those watching with me and said, “Could they get away with saying that about any of our other allies? [...]
I don’t like Sarah Palin that much (not nearly as much as some people do anyway), and I don’t like Joe Biden, D-MBNA. Having said that, I don’t see how anyone could think Biden won the debate last night. There is no doubt that Joe Biden is more articulate than Sarah Palin. However, almost nothing [...]
You can almost never go to a bank without seeing it. You can’t see a bank commercial without hearing it. “Insured by FDIC.” The bailout bill that the Senate will vote on tonight is different than the one the House voted down two days ago. It raises the FDIC cap from $100,000 to $250,000, among [...]