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An animal rights activist told me last July that a person from the animal rights movement had recently been hired by the USDA, and hopefully that would make the USDA’s policies more animal-friendly.
Chances– not likely. As Mother Jones writes, the USDA is “pretty much a trade group for agribusiness.”
In fact, the USDA is the largest [...]
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 [...]
All Erroll Tyler wants to do is start a small tourist business, but he’s been fighting the Boston and Cambridge governments for the past six years trying to make that happen.
He’s still waiting to open.
When discussing how new technologies can breed future events that we simply have no way of imagining now:
“You can’t bail out GM if you don’t have the wheel.”
Reply:
“But you can bail out GM if you don’t have the money.”
Everyone’s been worried about Social Security for a long time and how to make it “sustainable” in the long term. We could cut spending on other programs and try to make a go of it, or we could cut benefits, or just watch the whole thing collapse. Or…
Why not make it means-tested?
Why should rich people [...]
An interesting article from The National Review about student groups at Hofstra University in the wake of Wednesday night’s debate:
One thing the polished Miss Williams did buy into, something that seems to be gaining traction in the progressive hivemind, is the promise of “green jobs.” Senator Obama talked about green jobs and the promise of [...]
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 [...]
Are you getting as sick of hearing from these guys as I am? The worst thing to come out of each of these debates is the realization that one of these men is going to be our next President, and that’s downright scary. When they’re not attacking each other, they’re spouting nonsense.
Anyway, here’s an economist’s [...]
You can almost never go to a bank without seeing it. You can’t see a bank commercial without hearing it. “Insured by FDIC.”
The bailout bill that the Senate will vote on tonight is different than the one the House voted down two days ago. It raises the FDIC cap from $100,000 to $250,000, among other [...]
Note: Libertarian Girl is off to Europe, but while she’s away she’ll be updating with previously written posts about politics and life in the places she’s visiting. She’ll soon be back to her regularly scheduled Libertarian Girl programming.
The Vienna Opera House is beautiful for sure, and it sells out virtually every performance far in advance. [...]