Oh Jezebel, are you scared of the credit market because you don’t understand it?

February 25, 2012

Reading Jezebel’s Are Fertility Finance Companies as Shady as They Seem?, I started to get a familiar feeling I get while reading this kind of Jezebel article. I grow weary of Jezebel’s irrational, baseless, scare-mongering regarding certain kinds of commerce. When describing the likelihood that fertility financing is a bubble, writer Katie Baker writes, “Hey, regulators, [...]

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A Libertarian, Feminist take on the birth control mandate: pro access, not pro mandate

February 24, 2012

Improving access to birth control has been vital in helping women participate in the workforce how and when they choose to do so. Yet today, many forms of birth control remain difficult and expensive to obtain, even for women with health insurance.  Currently, many insurance plans cover Viagra and not birth control. So it’s understandable that [...]

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Dana Goldstein Homeschooling Piece Misses the Real Emergency

February 22, 2012

I just want to  remind everyone of one thing in the midst of the whole debate over homeschooling: Public schooling sucks the most for the families who are able to escape it least. Generally speaking, a low-income, public-school student will get a lower-quality education (if he or she graduates at all) than a high-income student (source). [...]

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Why not investigate Bachus for killing the economy?

February 10, 2012

Rep. Spencer Bachus faces insider-trading investigation So lemme get this straight. It’s okay for congresspeople to choose winners and losers in the private sector. It’s just not okay for them to trade stock related to the firms they picked to win and lose. And it’s not okay because it might tempt them to pick winners [...]

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Human rights violations worsen in Libya

February 9, 2012

Now the government and the militias are torturing and killing people in Libya Mr. Keeb’s government, formed Nov. 28, has found itself virtually paralyzed by rivalries that have forced it to divvy up power along lines of regions and personalities, by unfulfillable expectations that Colonel Qaddafi’s fall would bring prosperity, and by a powerlessness so [...]

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Pilots opposing drones in US skies is corporatism with a twist

February 8, 2012

Pilots worry about safety of allowing domestic drones in US skies >Hilarious. Clearly pilots worry about safety of jobs once pilots aren’t needed anymore. Pilots are hating on the FAA funding bill that just passed Congress. The bill authorizes cops to use drones for law enforcement. The pilots are speaking out in opposition to the [...]

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Huffpost misses the mark on the roadblocks to infrastructure improvements

February 5, 2012

The Huffington Post’s 2,000-word article on the US’s crumbling infrastructure mentions how Obama promised stimulus funds would go to “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects. But it blames the lack of actual infrastructure projects funded by stimulus dollars bizarrely on… too-low gas taxes? Gregoire and others would like to see the country take up President Obama’s challenge to spend the [...]

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Never thought I’d say thank God for the ACLU

February 2, 2012

Going from neoconservatism to libertarianism to Anarcho-capitalism has been weird in many ways. But little’s weirder than growing some love for the ACLU. Glen Greenwald at Salon has a fantastic story about how the ACLU is suing several departments for first killing a US citizen without a trial, and then refusing to even attempt to [...]

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Let’s not create the next Libya in Iran

January 27, 2012

‘Free’ Libya shamed by new torture claims I would love to see the US government enact a more humble foreign policy. The urge to “do something” in the face of human rights abuses is natural, and in a sense admirable. Yet time and again violating another country’s sovereignty to force regime change has unintended consequences. [...]

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Davos — I’m hoping the new path for capitalism is out of corporatism

January 25, 2012

Leaders in business and government are meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum. Global elite seek new path for capitalism in Davos According to Klaus Schwab, the founder and organiser of Davos, this year’s meeting will focus on how to develop a new world model as “capitalism in its current form, has no [...]

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