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.
A friend recently began having attacks where he couldn’t breathe, and his doctor prescribed him an asthma inhaler. Asthma inhalers aren’t something you think much about if you don’t have asthma, but the government thinks about them. Not how they’re saving lives, but how they’re causing the depletion of the ozone layer (never mind that [...]
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 declaring themselves [...]
What’s the bigger threat to the environment, global warming or Ben Bernanke?
Exactly how many trees will have to be cut down for all the dollars Helicopter Ben’s been ordering lately from his well-used printing press?
* Image courtesy of Don Luskin.
Libertarians believe in individual freedom– life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness, and all that. This can often be accomplished through ownership of private property. What about freedom for trees, though?
I present to you The Tree That Owns Itself, in Athens, Georgia.
One unfortunate aspect about The Tree That Owns Itself is that, while it [...]
Environmentalists consistently lobby for more ways in which America’s largest polluter can regulate all other polluters while giving themselves all immunity from their very own laws.
How is that? Well, the government causes more damage to the environment than any corporation, group, or entity in America, yet this same government regulates all others on how they [...]
It was expected for awhile, but this week, Toshiba finally abandoned HD-DVD, meaning that Blu-ray will be the next-generation DVD format of choice for those wishing to upgrade on the current style of DVDs.
Why did Blu-Ray win out? It’s a better product, with a better name, bought by more customers. It’s as simple as [...]
(I’m in Illinois for the holidays, so I thought I’d focus on the Land of Lincoln for a few blog entries starting today.)
“Downstate Illinois,” as it’s referred to by Chicago reporters, is abuzz because FutureGen, the state-of-the-art coal-fired-yet-environmentally-friendly power plant has found its home: Mattoon, Illinois beat out nearby Tuscola, Ilinois and two locations in [...]
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 throw them [...]
Today’s Daily Tarheel details a report released by two UCLA professors emeritus in which they say that while some universities may try to be green, they use such an excessive amount of air travel for conferences and trips that they simply can’t be considered environmentally-friendly.
The Daily Tarheel noted that UNC’s current search for a replacement [...]
Since the United Nations apparently has no desire to help the world in any way that matters, such as trying to stop genocide or condemning the murder of innocent monks, they conduct panels. Lots of panels, on a variety of specialist topics. They recently held a panel on what the IT industry can do to [...]