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The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine recently launched an ad campaign on the DC Metro system featuring Jasmine Messiah, an 8-year-old Miami girl who is a vegetarian and says her school has no vegetarian options available for her.
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The ad garnered more attention for asking why Obama supports different policies for his children than for [...]
Last weekend I attended the Taking Action for Animals (TAFA) conference conducted by the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, DC. The conference was eye-opening for me in a few ways– the terrible ways that animals are treated and abused, in ways that I as a vegetarian and animal lover never even comprehended, [...]
Well, well, well…
Arlen Specter is the least likable type of politican– the one who switches positions based strictly on polling and whimsy (most of Congress does this in some form, but not as blatantly).
In addition to his long list of other embarrassing blunders (claiming the Military Commissions Act was one of the worst laws [...]
That’s the equivalent of what he asked Cabinet agencies to save when he requested they each cut $100 million out of their billion-dollar budgets. Economist Greg Mankiw compares it to saving $3 a year and putting $30,000 on the family credit card. Megan McArdle is sympathetic.
The AP writes:
” The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal [...]
In addition to Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, it’s also Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.
Some libertarians may view Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant or a criminal (even a litmus test for whether or not someone is libertarian!), but I can’t agree. Maybe it’s because I’m from Illinois. At the same time, libertarians [...]
In a way, it’s all very refreshing. Al Gore’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, Joe Lieberman, has been one of John McCain’s biggest supporters, introducing McCain at this year’s Republican convention. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s Secretary of State and the man who introduced Bush at the 2000 Republican convention, Colin Powell, comes out for [...]
Although I long ago said I’d prefer Barack Obama to any of the other Republican candidates in the field after Ron Paul, Obama has gotten scarier and scarier since he started facing off against McCain rather than Hillary. Next to Hillary, he seemed like a beacon of calm, a supremely intelligent and elegant man who [...]
Leave it to Joe the Plumber to explain, essentially, the fundamental problem with many of Obama’s economic plans.
Joe the Plumber is the perfect messenger: he’s not a Wall Street banker or a lawyer or even a doctor. His name is actually Joe, and he provides an important, if un-glamourous, service: plumbing. No one becomes [...]
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 to vote [...]