Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Zach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?

A question of self-ownership.   You may have the right to control your own life, but what about your own death? This is a question facing several states across the U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington for    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Observations on life as it is.        When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I would say to anyone, "What you don't know would fill more books than the Encyclopedia Britannica." At least half of our society's troubles   ... MORE

Peter Van Buren: Eric Holder And The End Of Rights

America gives away its freedom.   Historians of the future, if they are not imprisoned for saying so, will trace the end of America's democratic experiment to the fearful days immediately after 9/11, what Bruce Springsteen called the days of the empty sky, when frightened, small men named Bush and Cheney made the first decisions to abandon the  ... MORE

VIDEO: Harry Browne - Why Government Doesn't Work


Central planners fail to understand that people will think for themselves.  

Brian Phillips: Individual Rights And Government Wrongs

The right to the pursuit of happiness means just that.   What does happiness mean to you? Does it mean a career that you love? Does it mean a family? Does it mean discovering a cure for some horrible disease? Does it mean building your dream house? No matter your answer, only you can determine what will bring you satisfaction, joy, and happiness ... MORE

Doug Giles: 13 Politically Incorrect Gun Rules

Guns have only two enemies, rust and politicians.  Gun lovers. Herewith are thirteen things to remember when carrying your weapon.  BTW- this list is not original.  I’ve Google up the bullet points but alas …I got nada in regards to who penned it. If and when someone schools me on who the author is you can rest assure that I’ll give him or her proper praise.  Enjoy. ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: Why We Need Not Envy China

Up to 40 million Chinese people still live in caves. That's more than the populations of Texas and Illinois, combined. In fairness, a fraction of these caves are apparently pretty nice, complete with electricity and well-compacted dirt floors. But that's grading on a curve because, well, they're still caves. Meanwhile, 21 million Chinese live below what the Communist ... MORE

Obama's Change: Steep Drop In Standard Of Living

by Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor. Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You'd be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years than at any time since the US government began recording it five decades ago. Bottom line: The average individual ... MORE

David Harsanyi: Abortion, Science and Reason

Is it time for a new debate over abortion?
 
Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor, is accused of killing babies with scissors after botching late-term abortions -- among hundreds of other hideous acts. The doctor, it was reported, appeared confused by the charges against him ...  MORE