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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Would the poor prosper better in a libertarian society than they do now? I believe so. Here’s why: The current system often benefits the rich and special interests, not the poor. The “War on Drugs” disproportionately places poor people in prison for non-violent crimes, separating families and ruining lives. The inflation tax is a tax [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how the [...]
“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 [...]
The situation at Indiana University regarding the major ethical violations of their coach, Kelvin Sampson, who is alleged to have cheated and lied to the NCAA on numerous occasions, reminds me of the classic actions of a corrupt government. The corrupt are not punished– they’re rewarded. Indiana knew that Sampson had been accused of numerous [...]