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.
One of the bills the Humane Society is really pushing now is the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009. This closes a loophole in federal law which was widened under Clinton in 1998, when the amount of money a garment had to be worth to be labeled with its fur content was increased from [...]
I have no doubt that there is racial profiling, even rampant racial profiling, taking place every day in America. At first I thought this may have happened with Henry Louis Gates’ arrest last week. But this photo tells a different story. If anyone racially profiled, it was the Harvard professor’s neighbor, who apparently called police [...]
They ask Willie Nelson and others how the world would be different.
If it’s true that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a biodefense researcher at the Army’s Medical Research Center on Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks to further his own career and funnel more federal funding toward the study of his speciality, anthrax– and to himself– it perfectly illustrates what I have previously said [...]
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today for taking money from a company to remodel his house. I have two thoughts. 1.) Good riddance. 2.) Who cares? Most of our members of Congress do worse things than this on their jobs every day. Shouldn’t voting for unconstitutional bills and amendments be an indictable offense in [...]
As he did so many times as Governor of Texas, President Bush has given the go-ahead to an execution. This time, it will be a court-martialed member of the Army, Ronald Gray, who murdered two people near Fort Bragg in 1988. I can’t say I was surprised to see that Ronald Gray is black, even [...]
I recently watched the ’70s movie Serpico, which is not a Mafia movie as so many Pacino movies were then, but a true story about a New York City police officer named Frank Serpico who happened to be pretty much the only cop on the force not taking bribes from criminals– or at least the [...]
I usually don’t get as involved in a sensational news story as I did this week following the murders of Eve Carson, the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president, and Lauren Burk, an Auburn freshman. Both girls seem to be similar to me and my friends in so many ways, Eve lived in my town, and [...]
It wasn’t enough that the Governor’s Mansion the Illinois taxpayers so kindly provide to their governor wasn’t enough for Rod Blagojevich, and he thought every Illinoisan should be happy to pay to fly him in a private plane every day from Chicago for a few hours while he basically does nothing (or maybe sees fit [...]
For those who think that our current laws are not tough enough on crime, death penalty and all, I found this in a newspaper in a section that recounts the news from 100, 50, and 25 years ago. “50 YEARS AGO: Local prisoners on the state’s list of pardons and parolees included _____ ______, who [...]