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.
Sonia Nazario won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series of articles chronicling the attempts of a teenager from Honduras, Enrique, to reach his mother in the United States. She later turned the articles into a book which was made into an HBO movie.
Enrique experienced far more problems getting through Mexico than [...]
In addition to Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, it’s also Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.
Some libertarians may view Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant or a criminal (even a litmus test for whether or not someone is libertarian!), but I can’t agree. Maybe it’s because I’m from Illinois. At the same time, libertarians [...]
That was my favorite chant at the anti-war protest march I attended today for the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. The ironic thing is that the people chanting it happily give their vote to those very members of Congress who claim they’re anti-war and yet allocate more and more funding for it; when there [...]
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]
I called in to a radio show this week and spoke with Jim Gilchrist, who started the Minutemen along with Chris Simcox and has so oddly endorsed Mike Huckabee for president.
I’m new to calling in to radio shows, and I’ve learned something new every time. This time, I learned that when you are on the [...]
In a move that will be sure to inflame many libertarian-minded freedom lovers everywhere, or which could be seen as further proof that our guy may just pull out the Republican nomination, a Libertarian Party candidate has filed to run against my man Ron Paul in his home congressional district in Texas. The head of [...]
Jeffrey Toobin is one of those generic journalists, writing so much in so many different places, so un-memorably, that even though you know his name when you hear it, it doesn’t matter because you can’t recall a damn thing he ever wrote. He’s no George Will, that’s for sure. Anyway, Toobin said that Ron Paul [...]