http://www.libertariangirl.com Girls Just Wanna Have Freedom Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:34:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. Today I'll be flying from Venice into Paris, where I don't think I ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/18/liberty-leading-the-people-in-paris/ 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. You can't get very far in Austria without being reminded of the country's ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/16/monument-against-war-and-fascism-in-vienna/ 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 ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/15/should-the-state-subsidize-operas/ 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 Stephansdom cathedral is one of the central sights in Vienna. As the ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/14/measurements-before-government-intervention/ 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. Today, I head from two extremes: venturing from the very Eastern-European Bratislava, Slovakia ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/13/austrian-economics/ If it's true that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a biodefense researcher at the Army's Medical Research Center on Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks to further his own career and funnel more federal funding toward the study of his speciality, anthrax-- and to himself-- it perfectly illustrates ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/08/02/bruce-ivins-committed-anthrax-attacks-for-federal-funding/ Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today for taking money from a company to remodel his house. I have two thoughts. 1.) Good riddance. 2.) Who cares? Most of our members of Congress do worse things than this on their jobs every day. Shouldn't voting for unconstitutional bills and amendments be an indictable ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/07/29/ted-stevens-not-the-worst-thing-hes-done/ As he did so many times as Governor of Texas, President Bush has given the go-ahead to an execution. This time, it will be a court-martialed member of the Army, Ronald Gray, who murdered two people near Fort Bragg in 1988. I can't say I was surprised to see that Ronald ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/07/28/the-army-only-executes-black-people/ I recently helped a friend find flights he could redeem with Air France miles he'd collected a few years ago, and I was shocked to find that even on a "free" award ticket that he had earned by flying Air France flights, he was expected to pay close to $400 ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/07/27/the-chirac-tax-or-why-its-so-expensive-to-fly-air-france/ Of course Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Republican. That can mean a lot of different things to different people. He certainly cared enough about distinguishing himself as that that he did not become a Democrat once marrying into the Kennedy family, which would have been understandable in a way. He's hard ... http://www.libertariangirl.com/2008/07/06/152/