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.
I noticed when responding to a few comments last night on my post on responses from readers on libertarianism and animal rights that my post from last July about how selling one’s kidney can save lives (and should be legal) had attracted comments from blog readers actually leaving their email addresses in hopes of selling [...]
I met a New York attorney at a conference over the weekend. When discussing the rabbis and mayors arrested in New Jersey, she mentioned that she didn’t want to live in a society where poor people felt like they had to sell their organs, and that these people shouldn’t be taken advantage of or made [...]
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 [...]
Times columnist Ben Macintyre agrees with my previous posts on swine flu and its origins [link]:
“I once worked on a chicken farm. Actually ‘farm’ is far too gentle a word for the way these chickens were raised, and ‘factory’ sounds too clinical. This was the seventh circle of chicken hell, a clucking, stinking, filthy [...]
In response to my earlier swine flu post, I was asked if my solution to the problem of livestock-bred influenza is for everyone to become vegetarians. Yes, in a perfect world; but in the world we have, the best solution may be cultured meat (also known as in vitro meat). (Just ignoring the problem and [...]
Ron Paul always brings an interesting and unique perspective to any issue, and yesterday he addressed the swine flu on his Youtube channel.
RP discusses his first year in Congress in 1976, when the government created a swine flu scare and initiated a mass inoculation program– which killed more people than the original swine flu had.
RP’s [...]
You can rest easy.
The CDC is on top of any possible swine flu epidemic, according to NPR.
They are encouraging sick people not to go to work and issuing bulletins.
The Obama administration is handling the situation calmly, albeit with a dash of security theater.
Liberal bloggers are surmising that universal healthcare would somehow make a [...]
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 [...]
The UNC School of Journalism reports statistics from a study that examined how the media handles stories related to prescription drugs. From 132 newscasts aired on ABC, NBC, and CBS, the Business & Media Institute found that 80% of the stories excluded the industry perspective altogether, not even asking the company for a statement on [...]