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.
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 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 usually [...]
It was expected for awhile, but this week, Toshiba finally abandoned HD-DVD, meaning that Blu-ray will be the next-generation DVD format of choice for those wishing to upgrade on the current style of DVDs.
Why did Blu-Ray win out? It’s a better product, with a better name, bought by more customers. It’s as simple as [...]
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
– P. J. ORourke
An NHS Tale.
I stayed in Miami with some (French) friends last weekend, and they told me about what a nightmare of a time they had getting a simple diagnosis of pneumonia for their son from [...]
I spent the weekend in Miami and was on my way home early Tuesday morning when I heard on the radio that Fidel Castro had decided to hand power over to his brother.
When I told the friend driving with me the news, and how disappointing it was that we had just left Miami and missed [...]
I’ve previously said that anti-discrimination laws are not necessary, for a few reasons.
Without government sanction of discrimination, it becomes much harder to perpetuate the idea that discrimination is OK or good. In the time period up to the 1950s and 1960s and the enactment of civil rights laws, government itself not only allowed discrimination, [...]
Many “progressives” see a rise of socialism as a newfound utopia– no suffering, no pain, no having to work all day, no children in trouble, and apparently no consequences, either. This thinking is nothing new. Jerome K. Jerome wrote about it in his short story “The New Utopia” 100 years ago, quite well in my [...]
In another example of what has gone wrong with our “government-can-solve-everything-for-me-through-regulation” society, a Mississippi lawmaker has introduced a serious bill which would bar restaurants from serving those considered obese (determined through weighing at the restaurant and through BMI measurements).
This is a clear case of, as with smoking bans, governments thinking that they know better than [...]
It’s certainly true that people shouldn’t discriminate. Should we make laws so that they can’t? Do the laws actually make discrimination worse than it would be otherwise?
Most people would jump at the chance to say that laws should exist to prevent discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation, for private organizations [...]
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 [...]