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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ye Olde Waffle Shop, on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, recently celebrated the 35th anniversary of their opening by bringing back their original 1972 prices for a day. The differences in prices are absolutely shocking (graphic courtesy of The Daily Tarheel). Why would waffles costing $1.25 in 1972 now cost $5.55? The answer lies in [...]