So-Called Health Care Reform

So-called health care reform passed today. Reform was supposed to cut costs for health care. Instead it increases them. Reform was supposed to ease the burden of health care on businesses. Instead it imposes a fine on businesses for not providing health care, and tightens the relationship between employment and health insurance coverage. Reform was [...]

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Freedom, Security, and Cost in Our Health Care Dilemma

Recently I ran across an article by Cynthia Tucker that quoted from Ronald Reagan’s 1961 speech against Medicare. In the speech, Reagan accurately predicted what would happen if Medicare were enacted. She also cited Nicholas Kristof’s article, where he mocks critics of Social Security and Medicare. Referring to the critics of the current health care [...]

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Disturbing medical marijuana case involving an AIDS patient

Tom Faltynowicz, a 43-year-old gay rancher in Meade County, South Dakota, was diagnosed with Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1990, and is currently facing criminal charges for possessing and growing marijuana for medicinal usage.For those of you unaware of the specifics of that disease, a patient infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) may [...]

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Medical marijuana vending machines

Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate can get their pot with a dose of convenience at the Herbal Nutrition Center, where a large machine will dole out the drug around the clock.”Convenient access, lower prices, safety, anonymity,” inventor and owner Vincent Mehdizadeh said, extolling [...]

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Marginalizing murder

I have been watching the news reports about the young, extremely pregnant female Marine, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, who disappeared almost a month ago. What has been most prominent in this case is the systematic marginalization of a young woman who dared to accuse a man, a superior officer, of sexual assault. I expected that [...]

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Scientists prove you really don’t need a brain to be a tax collector

Tiny Brain No Problem for French Tax Official Something that many people secretly believed has been confirmed: You don’t actually need a brain to work in a tax office. A French civil servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his head — yet lives a completely normal life. The [...]

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Lawsuit against US Department of Veterans Affairs alleges multiple abuses of injured war veterans

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Iraq War veterans against the US Department of Veterans Affairs. A copy of the lawsuit complaint may be seen at http://www.mofo.com/docs/pdf/PTSD070723.pdf Along with a plethora of abuses alleged in that lawsuit, it is additionally alleged (as previously touched upon in this forum, when I noted [...]

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Law enforcement involvement in death of CA woman ignored by ER personnel

We’ve probably all heard the story of Edith Isabel Rodriguez, who died in a Los Angeles emergency room after being refused treatment. Concerned people on the scene called 911, and were told there was nothing cops or paramedics can do, since she was already in a hospital. Hospital personnel stepped over her while she was [...]

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Medical Marijuana Bill in Connecticut Vetoed by Governor

From FOX News: Connecticut’s governor, a cancer survivor, vetoed a bill that would have allowed people with certain serious illnesses to use marijuana, saying it was fraught with problems and sent a mixed message to children. Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Tuesday that she struggled with the decision. “I am not unfamiliar with the incredible [...]

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Energy Vortex II

A while back I wrote about the Energy Vortex and others have commented on the same issue. The most cited instance of this is the War in Iraq (and possibly Afghanistan; it may have had a lot to do with the proposed oil pipeline through Afghanistan). This view of Operation Iraqi Liberation has worked its [...]

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Outright Libertarians survey – Steve Kubby for President

Since Stuart mentioned the Outright Libertarians interview with George Phillies, here is their interview with Steve Kubby, from their blog. Unlike the problem with immigration that Stuart mentioned in George’s answers, Steve’s were traditionally libertarian down the line. Read the interview after the jump.

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Nursing Home Greed + Alzheimer’s Patient + Dead Rat In Mouth = Lawsuit

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. – Staffing was so inadequate at a California senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer’s patient’s mouth and died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of 90-year-old Sigmund Bock, alleges that administrators at the Paragon Gardens Assisted [...]

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Feeding Homeless A Criminal Offense In Orlando

Orlando police have unbelievably arrested 21-year-old Eric Montanez, an activist with the charity “Food Not Bombs”, for feeding 30 homeless people in downtown Orlando. A city ordinance, supported by businesses which claim the homeless frighten away customers, prevents feeding more than 25 homeless persons within two miles of Orlando City Hall. The law does allow [...]

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Four-Year-Old OD’d, Parents Charged With Murder

While the world watches and waits, and demands to know what killed Anna Nicole Smith (and where her son Daniel got the Methadone which killed him just five months prior – duh), a far more disturbing prescription drug-related death has occurred. Four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of an overdose of Clonidine, a drug prescribed for bipolar [...]

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Sherlock Holmes Connection To Houdini Murder Mystery?

Renowned magician Harry Houdini is rising from the grave, 81 years after his untimely death at age 52. He’s not doing so voluntarily, though, despite his promise to contact his loved ones from The Great Beyoooooond. It seems that members of his family now believe he died, not as the result of peritonitis resulting from [...]

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The Energy Vortex

An exchange provoked by the Libertarian Response to Bush’s State of the Union Speech Andrew L Sullivan writes… You have a choice of drilling for oil in your own damn country or fighting for it in the Persian Gulf. PICK AND CHOOSE! http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/ Well, yeah, those are a couple of choices. But there are others [...]

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Health Care: Alternatives to Socialism and Fascism

Can liberals and libertarians find common ground on health care solutions? At http://mutualist.livejournal.com/ 01:30 pm – What is worse: socialized medicine or fascist medicine? With the democrats retaking congress socialized medicine (er, “universal healthcare”) will once again take the center stage. While I certainly expect the far left to spew more rhetoric, I do not [...]

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Kubby 2008 update

The new Kubby 2008 website is up, thanks to Knappster. http://www.kubby2008.com The previous Kubby.com was not specifically about the campaign, rather, it was a combination of everything Steve Kubby has done in the last decade or so of his life. This one is more focused, and more modern looking, but does not have a whole [...]

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