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.
Westboro Baptist Church is the unspeakably obnoxious group that protests at things like dead soldiers’ funerals (apparently more than 280 of them) and the funerals of college students. Their main gripe seems to be, of all things, homosexuality, and they hold signs saying things like “Thank God for IEDs.” The disgusting behavior of these people [...]
What’s the bigger threat to the environment, global warming or Ben Bernanke? Exactly how many trees will have to be cut down for all the dollars Helicopter Ben’s been ordering lately from his well-used printing press? * Image courtesy of Don Luskin.
Would the poor prosper better in a libertarian society than they do now? I believe so. Here’s why: The current system often benefits the rich and special interests, not the poor. The “War on Drugs” disproportionately places poor people in prison for non-violent crimes, separating families and ruining lives. The inflation tax is a tax [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]