A new book, Min Jgħidu n-Nies li Jien - il-Faqar tal-Paternaliżmu (Who do people say I am - the poverty of paternalism), written by Mark Montebello, explores paternalism from all sides. It discusses paternalism on an interpersonal level as much as on the institutional and legal levels. The book,...

Behavioral paternalism raises deep concerns that do not arise in traditional welfare economics. These concerns stem from behavioral paternalisms acceptance of

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At first blush, Thaler and Sunstein seem to be proposing that voluntarily helping people to overcome or cope with their rash, ignorant, impulsive selves be called…

BACKGROUND: Psychiatric staff members have the power to decide the options that frame encounters with patients. Intentional as well as unintentional framing can have a crucial impact on patients opportunities to be heard and participate in the process. We identified three dominant ethical perspectives in the normative medical ethics literature concerning how doctors and other staff members should frame interactions in relation to patients; paternalism, autonomy and reciprocity. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse statements describing real work situations and ethical reflections made by staff members in relation to three central perspectives in medical ethics; paternalism, autonomy and reciprocity.. METHODS: All staff members involved with patients in seven adult psychiatric and six child and adolescent psychiatric clinics were given the opportunity to freely describe ethical considerations in their work by keeping an ethical diary over the course of one week and 173 persons ...

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When I saw that the editorial included primum non nocere in the title, I assumed that the author would be addressing the harms caused by aggressive breastfeeding promotion in general and the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in particular. I couldnt have been more wrong. The author Timothy J. Tobolic, MD, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, is concerned with preventing harm to breastfeeding, NOT preventing harm to babies and mothers.. In my view, it is a fundamental violation of medical ethics to place protecting a process above protecting patients. NOTHING comes before the wellbeing of our patients.. Wait, I hear you say. By promoting breastfeeding, which is good for babies and mothers, we are promoting the wellbeing of our patients.. That attitude is typical of the paternalism and egotism so beloved of physicians - Doctor knows best! - and so despised by patients. The history of medicine is littered with examples of doctors causing harm by believing in the tests, medications ...

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Regarding [What a dairymaid does all day long] SHE SEES CHEESE:. I agree with Amy regarding the casual paternalism of the nomenclature, and I suspect it was used (a) specifically to get at the gender in the answer and (b) without a thought by either the woman constructor, the men editors, or the mixed group of test-solvers. Milkmaid and dairymaid are just SO in-the-language-been around since the 1500s!. That said, (a) there is no reason why cruciverbalists should not metaphorically don extra-sensitive antennae for this type of thing and seek new solutions and (b) this clue-answer combo is, imho, but one more item in a convention (I hope that is the right word) that has been seeping into crosswords for the past 2-3 decades, by my imprecise calculations. It is a convention that I am generally averse to, as it seems to break a long-standing rule or tradition that the answer to a clue should be one item. Not one word necessarily, not at all, but not a clause, dependent or independent, that serves as ...

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What could be more soothing than curling up at bedtime with a good book and a cup of chamomile tea made from flowers fresh from your garden? The flowers can also be dried for floral arrangements, pressed for crafts, or woven into charming wreaths, and their edible petals can be tossed into salads. In the garden, chamomile attracts beneficial insects and pollinators.

The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition of rational behavior. It neglects nonstandard preferences, experimentation, and self-discovery. It relies on behavioral research that is often incomplete and unreliable. It demands a level of knowledge from policymakers that they cannot reasonably obtain. It assumes a political process largely immune to the effects of ignorance, irrationality, and the influence of special interests and moralists. Overall, behavioral paternalism underestimates the capacity of people to solve their own problems, while overestimating the ability of experts and policymakers to design beneficial interventions. The authors argue instead for a more inclusive theory of rationality in economic policymaking.. ...

If you paid any attention to the recent wave of political primaries, you observed a small number of Libertarian candidates winning Republican primaries, due to the new-found alliance between the fledgling Tea Party and the Libertarian movement. Increasing numbers of people within the Tea Party movement have come to identify themselves as Libertarians, and are voting for Libertarian candidates. Many of these people are only just now realizing…that they may not know what Libertarianism REALLY is.. Once Rand Paul won the Republican primary in Kentucky, he made a number of very public statements in DIRECT violation of the Libertarians unwritten code of conduct. These rules are simple:. 1 - Do not talk about specific Libertarian policies. 2 - Do NOT talk about specific Libertarian policies. You see, Libertarian concepts sound wonderful, when considered in the philosophical abstract. Here are some examples:. Strict Constitutionality: The government has ONLY the powers enumerated in the ...

Much of the discussion of ethical issues in therapeutic research on children is based on the application of general moral principles to categories of problems. The authors believe that this approach does not adequately address the complexity of a treatment regimen for catastrophically ill children which is both therapeutic and research oriented. Using a case study to illustrate the potential complications of such a situation, they argue that medical paternalism is justified in therapeutic research on children even if it diminishes the patients autonomy, on the grounds that the best interests of the patient must take precedence over preservation of complete autonomy. (KIE abstract) ...

More than half of libertarians say government regulation of business does more harm than good (56 percent vs. 47 percent). However, four-in-ten libertarians say that government regulation of business is necessary to protect the public interest (41 percent).. More than half say government aid to the poor does more harm than good by making people too dependent on government assistance (57 percent vs. 48 percent), while almost four-in-ten (38 percent) say government aid does more good than harm because people cant get out of poverty until their basic needs are met.. Libertarians are more supportive of legalizing marijuana than the public overall (65 percent vs. 54 percent). But they are also more likely than the general public to favor allowing the police to stop and search anyone who fits the general description of a crime suspect (42 percent of libertarians, 41 percent of the public) and to think it is best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs (43 percent of ...

Posted on 10/09/2005 3:00:11 PM PDT by ct235. LISTEN, Libertarian! By Tim Condon October 9, 2005 Libertarians are such losers. I know, this is not a way to endear myself to them, even when my best friends are all libertarian or near-libertarian. But success is staring them in the face, and a significant proportion of them deploy massive brainpower and argument to make sure that nothing ever gets better. Its incredible. LISTEN, libertarian! Its over 30 years later, and were still hearing endless platitudes that keep us from gaining political power in the service of individual freedom. All we need to do is a better job at selling our product! the activists say. But weve been trying to sell our product for decades, and the people of America arent buying. All we need to do is a better job of educating people about what we stand for! say the activists. But after 30 years of libertarian presidential candidates and campaigns, the voters are more than aware of what we stand for. We are caught ...

I think you have to go on the assumption that the majority of Libertarian votes would go to a Republican candidate if the Libertarian candidate was not on the ballot, said Dick Wadhams, a political strategist and former state GOP chairman. I think history would dictate that.. I think in a race as close as this one, clearly that Libertarian candidate affected the outcome and handed it to a Democrat.. There were Libertarian candidates in 40 state House races and 12 in state Senate races, but the Hudak-Sias matchup was the only contest in which Libertarian votes arguably changed the outcome.. There were also American Constitution Party candidates in two Senate races and eight House contests, and two House races with unaffiliated candidates. But the margins of victory for the winners in those races were large enough that the involvement of third-party candidates had no effect on the outcome.. Tim Hoover: 303-954-1626, [email protected] or twitter.com/timhoover ...

Cultural Diversity and Teamwork in Healthcare EthicsConsider the scenarios given below and answer the questions listed after each scenario. Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.Scenario 1In the past, paternalism among healthcare providers was an accepted way of practicing medicine. Patients sought care from physicians and accepted their opinions and treatment choices without question. However, in todays healthcare industry, there has been a shift away from paternalism as patients become active in their treatment choices and work as a team with their healthcare professionals. In the light of these facts, answer the following questions: What do you feel has caused this shift and why? Do you think this shift is for the better? How do you think this team approach to care can affect a patients care choices?Scenario 2With increasing diversity in the United States, a question has arisen regarding what accommodations should be made to assist the diverse population. Some groups ...

According to Routlege, which publishes the book, The purpose of the book is to document the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution the Negro American League in 1957. When to Stop the Cheering? examines the multidimensional relationship the black newspapers had with baseball, including their treatment of and relationships with baseball officials, team owners, players and fans. Over time, these relationships changed, resulting in shifts in coverage that could be described as moving from brotherhood to paternalism, then from paternalism to nostalgic tribute and even regret ...

Three and a half years ago, I bought a new car. The reason why I mention this as a means of beginning this post is because that car had something I had never had in a car before, namely Sirius XM satellite radio preinstalled. Curious, I subscribed, and I now barely listen to regular radio anymore. A couple of years after I had bought the car, a new channel was added to the lineup, a channel called Radio Classics. I dont know how I discovered it, but I rapidly became hooked on whats commonly referred to as old time radio. Basically, thats classic radio of the sort that was broadcast between the 1920s until around 1962, when the last of the scripted radio dramas and comedies that were so popular went the way of the dodo with the final broadcast of a couple of my now favorite old time radio shows, Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. (For any other geeks like me, my favorite episodes were the ones starring Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.) Its true that some of these shows were truly cheesy ...

RSA USA We all know the vast majority of Internet-of-Things devices havent anything more than a fig leaf for protection. Now the unlikeliest of folks are calling for rules to improve IoT security: libertarians.. In a session today at the RSA infosec conference in San Francisco, Olaf Kolkman, the Internet Societys chief internet technology officer, and Bruce Schneier, IBM Resilients CTO and the bloke who literally wrote the book on cryptography, found themselves in an unlikely alliance on the matter of IoT security.. Essentially, Kolkman has called for strict industry requirements to bring IoT defenses up to scratch. Schneier, an anti-regulation libertarian, agrees, yes, its time to draw up rules for internet-connected gadgets.. A lot of us have been libertarian for years and dont want regulation, but that wont be an option when the internet crashes into the real world and people get killed, Schneier said. You cant talk about regulation versus no regulation - that ship has sailed. Now ...

Some may say, and you call yourself a libertarian. But I have decided I can be a kind of statist, big government, expansive regulation, high taxing, low investing, industrial policy, aggressive PC enforcing sort of libertarian. If you look at libertarians for Obama, I would hardly be the first. Besides, I never listen to Rush anymore and Fox I could even do without. I have hundreds of books in my library I have yet to read, and this would give me the chance. All that conflict in the media is a huge time suck anyway. ...

I ve long criticized many of Pauls idiosyncratic positions as kooky. As far back as August I approvingly quoted Brian Doherty on Paul: BD) Pauls concern with immigration is of a piece with his right-populist strains, an obsession with sovereignty that feeds his fevered opposition to international trade pacts and the UN. Combined with his strong emphasis on trash-talking the Federal Reserve and advocating a return to gold, its the sort of thing that strikes many other libertarians as, if not inherently unlibertarian, sort of cranky and kooky, and that led me to note to The New Republic that many libertarians (though not me) think of Paul as a bit of a yokel. (BD ...

Its not easy being a libertarian. I am not looking for sympathy when I say that. I just mean to point out that rejecting the conventional wisdom on virtually (do I really need this adverb?) every political question, current and historical, can be wearying. Life could be so much simpler if it were otherwise. No doubt about that. I really dont like conflict, especially when it can quickly turn personal, as it so often does. (I embrace the advice that one can disagree without being disagreeable.) But for a libertarian, disagreement with most people is not an option. We cant help it.. Strictly speaking, reason doesnt permit us to choose our beliefs. If you follow the steps of an algebraic problem and see why X=4, do you have a choice about whether to believe that X=4? Of course not. To see the validity of the steps that yield the solution X=4 is to believe that X=4. Belief is not a separate step.. If you grasp that an inference logically follows from factual premises and self-evident axioms, can ...

moving in peacefully to affect voting outcomes] Thats close enough to invasion for me. Suit yourself. The term sure has lost 99.999% of its bite since the days of the Mongol Hordes.... If you look at the link provided above, the goals are to do all sorts of libertarian things, all of which require a strong majority. Which is pretty much taking over, nest pas? Well I should explain. Certainly I agree that their goal is overt and it is to affect the body politic of some state by concentrating their votes so that their votes will be significant. Duh. A big reason I object to a characterization of this as taking over is because nobody can take over anything in the United States. We have limited government here. If the libertarians or anyone else really were taking over some state or part of a state, it would be cause to send in the troops, IMHO. Whatever libertarian things they intend to do, will by definition have to be things that are already within the power of NH state ...

However, in the context of becoming politically relevant and herding these cats, recent history - at least in terms of pragmatism - is not encouraging. We have succumbed to the modern cultural equivalent of Instant Gratification. Ron Paul for President . . . I could go for that personally, but from a pragmatic and realistic standpoint, it aint gonna happen! To get that bloc of 12-14 in the House (and a lesser number in the Senate) we need to identify those with truly libertarian views at the (House) district level and in perhaps one or two states, support them financially (think Koch brothers, Tea Party Express, etc.), and ELECT them. For the immediate future, these candidates would no doubt have to run as conservative Republicans (a la Ron Paul, and Rand in the KY Senate race), and when we achieve a handful in the House and Senate, they could remain a member of the Republican causcus, but also form a small L libertarian caucus (similar to the Black caucus in the Democrat party). In a ...

A project in rural Norway, Liberstad, aims to create a private, tax-free city for libertarians who respect the non-aggression principle and private property rights. Holding a presale now, the projects organizers accept bitcoin for land and plan to make it the citys primary currency. Bitcoin.com talked to John Holmesland, the general manager of the company The post Libertarian City Liberstad in Norway is Moving Forward Using Bitcoin as Primary Currency appeared first on Bitcoin News.

TUCSON SENTINEL) Tucsonan David F. Nolan, one of the founders of the Libertarian Party, died Sunday just two days before his 67th birthday.. Nolan, influenced by the works of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, helped found the Libertarian Party in 1971, following President Richard Nixons implementation of wage and price controls.. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE. ...

The question is: Did Shadowfax go too far?. I would argue that, in this case at least, he did not. Sometimes the only way to overcome a severe case of denial is through extreme bluntness. This case, however, was fairly obvious. Without surgery, this patient was definitely going to die a very unpleasant death within a matter of hours, or at most, a couple of days. The question of paternalism and how far a doctor can go in badgering a patient to let him do what needs to be done. Patient autonomy is important. Consider the case of a breast cancer patient newly diagnosed. Indeed, I wrote about just such a case last year presented to a tumor board I attended. She had an early stage breast cancer that could have been very effectively treated with a high probability of long term survival if she had let the surgeon do surgery on her. She decided instead to pursue woo and then came back a couple of years later with a huge mass that was no longer so straightforward to treat. When death is imminent without ...

For centuries, it did not matter much because medical types did medicine and forensic types did administration and law. Now, however, we have medicine beholden to mulyiple administrative entities, and to government and the results are disastrous and getting worse. This is why all the talk about healthcare reform is so futile; because it does not resolve the irresolvable cultural conflict between the players. The solution is to return healthcare to the healthcare providers. However, we live in a time of profound distrust of authority figures. (Wow! We made it full circle to the original topic of paternalism, didnt we!) And so, because a lot people do not trust the medical experts who know how to provide the care that is needed, we will get more and more administrative, legal, and governmental incursions into medicine (all in the name of fixing the broken system), worse care, and lots of otherwise smart people who never figure out that they are sending medicine straight to Hell even as they do ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane biography of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years.. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful ...

By Lucie Laplace -The issue of the CETRI journal Alternatives Sud for the second half of 2017 provides an interesting contribution to the debate that has been at the centre of the last two issues of Humanitarian Alternatives. The seven articles it contains raise questions by re-politicizing the issue of co-operation between NGOs and public and private (in particular for profit) stakeholders. They help to explain the causes of the de-politicization of NGOs, the challenges arising from the development of neoliberalism, tending to reduce the role of the State and change the organizational culture of NGOs (the instrumentalization to which NGOs are subject, the professionalization of management, paternalism and systematic reform, both often privileged), as announced in the editorial by Julie Godin.[Read more]. ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane biography of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years.. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful ...

However that may be, the only thing the American public heard was that more than two million Americans might be dead in three months.. Recall, by the way, that on January 29, which was nine days after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S. and two days before President Trump issued his ban on travelers from China, the president announced that he was forming his Coronavirus Task Force. But it would be almost March before the Task Force got into high gear.. It turned out to be quite a bull-riding test for Trump - being bucked by a frightened public over the looming apocalypse portrayed by the media and by the unfolding economic catastrophe he knew could not continue.. How much of a lemming was President Trump? Or the state governors? All of them were, to one degree or another. Thus, we were plunged into the grandest of experiments in authoritarian paternalism, whereby we plebeians - i.e., those without government jobs - are deemed incompetent to judge if its safe to take a dip in the ocean ...

A new party system emerged in the wake of the War of 1812. In those years, the United States reestablished its vital economic ties with Britain and began to exploit more thoroughly the potential of the cotton gin, particularly in the lower Mississippi Valley. The new industries in Britain needed cotton, giving rise to the first great American fortunes, based upon a plantation system that imposed a more rigorous and brutal kind of African slavery.. The end of the legal Transatlantic slave trade radically increased the value of these owned workers, and created closer ties between the Deep South that produced cotton on a massive scale and the Upper South and Border slave states in the lucrative business of supplying new slaves. Although entrepreneurial and exploitive in the most modern sense, the plantation economy clothed itself in the guise of traditional paternalism.. Alongside this, the states during these years began revisiting the property requirement for voting. Starting with Connecticut and ...

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1) Week before last: Willie Jackson tells me hes persuaded Mitch Harris to put me on in place of him and Tamihere for a week, the week were now in. They want a break, Willie and I had a very successful pairing a couple of years back, and Willies looking for a repeat in July when JTs away for a month. So this is a good way to ease me back. Mitch is a fan of mine but gets it in the ear from other Mediaworks execs whenever he has me on.. 2) Monday morning this week, before my first show, Mitch gives me my riding instructions. No opera, no Mario-makes us sound a hundred years old. I have no plans for opera or Mario, so am not worried about that. Dont want your libertarian gang. That makes me laugh, since I am estranged from my libertarian gang and always berated them for being utterly useless when it came to phoning up my shows anyway. Not too much of that libertarian stuff. Whoa! But I *am* a libertarian! Well, I shrug, lets suck it and see.. 3) Monday afternoon. I do my first show. ...

Here is an issue that I am struggling with at the moment. Imagine we live in a libertarian society. Everyone owns themselves and their private property. Everyone is able to make contracts with others on the basis of this property. In this society, let us say a billionaire is very worried about his health. He…

Here is an issue that I am struggling with at the moment. Imagine we live in a libertarian society. Everyone owns themselves and their private property. Everyone is able to make contracts with others on the basis of this property. In this society, let us say a billionaire is very worried about his health. He…

Kane asserts that the choice which is made by an agent must be probabilistically and, thereby, indeterministically caused by the reasons for making that choice,[29] where both the choice[30] and the reasons[31] for which it is made have corresponding neural connections or brain-wave patterns. But what do indeterministic, probabilistic causes explain about the making of a choice that is not teleologically accounted for by the reasons for making it?[32] Kane s view seems to be that causation involving an agent s reasons is required as a link to explain why the choice is the agent s doing rather than a mere happening .[33] Three responses are in order.. First, if Kane is claiming that causation is required to make the choice an action, he is simply mistaken. As I explained in setting forth my account of the nature of choice in the previous section, the view that a choice is intrinsically active is most plausible in light of both libertarian and epistemological considerations about action.. Second, ...

For politically oriented libertarians, politics is the art of picking the most libertarian candidate who has a chance of winning. Bill Richardson has no chance of winning, and the other Democratic hopefuls offer nothing to supporters of limited government. On the Republican side, we can safely skip the Ron Paul debate -- he is not going to be the next president of the United States. John McCain sometimes blunders into support of limited government, but his usual reaction to his personal whim of the day is that government should do something about it. And, his honorable service to his country notwithstanding, his unstable personality and temper make him uniquely unqualified for the presidency. That leaves three electable candidates who can offer some legitimate claim to libertarian sympathies -- Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Fred Thompson. Romney is an easy choice. Governor Romneys tax policy should make a libertarians mouth water. It begins with the no-brainers -- make the Bush tax cuts ...

Wow. I know plenty of libertarians, and I simply havent heard any of them claim that its desirable to keep around uneducated people in society, basically to do everyone elses dirty work. Im not saying that no libertarian thinks that, but I just dont think that there is any reason to specifically mention libertarians as maintaining that belief. Most libertarians I know tend to be pretty pro-technology, and believe that innovation can replace many menial jobs, leaving more and more humans to innovate, and to do more creative work. Additionally, while the long-term goal is for immigrants and people in developing countries, to also have meaningful jobs, immigration and trade means that fewer and fewer people in developed countries must take on less intellectual jobs, allowing others, who previously had no jobs, to fulfill these roles (and hopefully be on the track for them or their children to one day have intellectually demanding jobs, as well). ...

html); 2) DC prohibits buildings over 10-12 stories, including in Anacostia and other neighborhoods far from the Mall or Capitol, and even in neighborhoods like Friendship Heights, Foggy Bottom, or Takoma Park DC that are literally across the street or across a river from 30 and 40 story buildings in Arlington, Bethesda, or Silver Spring; 3) DC is the one place where Nixons wage and price controls were never lifted, in the form of DC rent control, which applies to even very small investors who own 4 or 5 units in DC, discouraging them from investing in or maintaining smaller, older, multi-unit buildings for medium income renters, and instead selling them for condominium conversion or demolition ...

The Libertarian Manifesto by John Hospers is something that is equated with the ethical problem surrounding the distribution of wealth, amongst other things. Hospers argues that when it comes to the distribution of income, people should fend for themselves.

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Its a CLASSIC fallacy in American politics--the assumption that other people would share your ideas if they were open to them. This just isnt true. Want examples? Conservatives pushing this culture of life argument; they truly believe that they can convince the other 75% of Americans (the 25% opposed to them and the 50% on the fence) that abortion is wrong. Liberals pushing the tax cuts for the rich meme; liberals think that if people could only see that GOP tax cuts mostly dont and wont benefit them that theyd oppose them, when the truth is that people tend to severely overestimate both their own tax burden and the likelihood that they will make it into a higher tax bracket. And libertarians push strongly on the notion that there are more of them in the US: fiscal conservatives, social (either liberals or non-positioned, depending on the flavor of libertarian) and if only people would abandon their partisan blinders theyd win; the simple truth is that weve got a 2-party system and ...

First off, I am not saying that I am for or against the war on drugs. Instead I am rebutting an argument that I commonly see employed when people...

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Some argue that corporations are legally defined by governments and they operate in conformity with laws that are written by legislatures that are democratically elected to assure that they operate in the public interest. If that worked out in accordance with theory, we would not need to depend upon the good will of business management to limit the human propensity to maximize self interest. Politics in many countries is essentially about how the relationship between government and business ought to function. We have libertarians who argue for a very limited role for government in this relationship. Of course, most of them do not object when governments provide infrastructure and services which enable business to operate profitably. They also dont seem to be troubled when government spends tax dollars on the purchase of products and services by private industry. The libertarians compete with those who argue for a larger role for government in producing business outcomes that serve the public ...

Its well known that folks who describe themselves as libertarian (as the most convenient and accurate label relative to other labels, so long as such labels are deemed expedient) often disagree on many specific political issues. I dont think there is a pure form of libertarianism (i.e. anarchy is a separate political philosophy). Rather, libertarianism simply means to me that government power should be decentralized and limited to its essential purposes. As such, it is simply an emphasis on some of our core founding constitutional principles that unfortunately seem too often to be de-emphasized or forgotten. Certainly there is plenty of room for rational debate as to what are the essential purposes of government to which government should be limited, so that I dont think anyone can credibly claim that their view is the one true pure libertarian view. I , for one, while favoring significantly less overall government spending and taxing, would like to see the federal estate tax ...

Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the countrys biggest killer. Now a spate of new research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit. Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does-a finding that has serious implications for new dietary guidelines expected this year. ...

Polio or Something More Sinister? April 7, 2015 (F. William Engdahl - NEO) - Polio is something I have more than a passing acquaintance with. Two days before my fifth birthday a medical doctor in Minneapolis diagnosed me with polio. I only learned ...

Originally Posted by VanceMack Drop ANY mention of legalizing drugs. Focus on states rights, roles, and responsibilities. Promote return to constituti

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I dont claim to have all the answers, but there are three things all we Americans must insist upon and/or take it upon ourselves to accomplish RIGHT NOW!