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 was disappointed today to read that the “Lew Rockwell” faction of libertarianism is apparently involved in a knock-down, drag-out ideological fight with the “cosmopolitan” libertarians at the Cato Institute. I wasn’t up to speed on the details of the rift before now, but I had wondered why the hell the Catos hadn’t jumped all [...]
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 [...]
A building in my apartment complex burned to the ground tonight. My building was unharmed, but it is very unsettling to have such an uncommon, horrible occurrence happen right next to your home, which is supposed to serve as the ultimate safe haven. It makes you think about things you don’t normally think about. At [...]
I attended a lecture last night given by Bettina Greaves, an economist from the Austrian School, who studied under Ludwig von Mises. Ms. Greaves is a lovely lady who said she was happy to speak to young people (the lecture was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and gave us her email [...]
I’ll admit it. That was my reaction when a friend of mine told me a few years ago that he was a Libertarian. “But, Libertarians are anarchists!” I admit, I was a sheep. I had heard it somewhere, the word “Libertarian” sounded weird to me, and just like most people, I sometimes don’t like things [...]