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.
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are [...]
I woke up at 6am Saturday morning to serve as a patient for a graduating dental school student as she tried to pass her board exams. As I was waiting, I noticed that the testers and graders were not affiliated with her dental school, and the exam was a state exam. It turns out that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s been an eventful week. Two of my teen idols died. Monday was both the most depressing day of the year and Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday celebration/federal holiday. Tuesday was the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, designated as “Blog for Choice Day” by NARAL. I don’t want to get into a long, drawn-out [...]
If you haven’t seen the video that accompanied Bill Gates’ keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, you have to. The richest person in the world raps with Jay-Z, calls Bono and Barack, and asks to be Ron Paul’s running mate (along with most of the other candidates). Tags: Bill Gates, Bill Gates last day, [...]
Say goodbye to the smoky cafe. France will ban smoking in public places such as cafes and restaurants as of January 2 (technically January 1, but they won’t enforce it that day), in a similar move to Illinois and other American states. As I previously pointed out and as the comments I received indicate, libertarians [...]
Tomorrow I leave Illinois to go to Iowa for a week or so, so I’ll miss the magical day of January 1, when by law all public places in Illinois will begin to bar smoking. Many libertarians are against smoking bans, believing that the free market should decide whether to ban smoking (if people don’t [...]