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Am I Really, Libertarian, Or Will I Find The Right Keyword?

Am I Really, Libertarian, Or Will I Find The Right Keyword?

Am I Really, Libertarian, Or Will I Find The Right Keyword?

(NWR) – I’ve never been much of a political person, generally, nor an activist of any measurable sort, but in some manner, gradually; through no conscious effort which I can attribute it to, I now believe that after nearly fifty years of my drawing breath on this whacked out planet, that if I had to classify how I have come to lean, politically, I would call myself a Libertarian. If indeed, one’s being Libertarian is actually being political? I curiously look forward to any feedback in this regard, if anyone would care to indulge?

Not sure why, but I find it significant somehow, that if I am exposed too heavily or for too long a period of time to either right-wing or left-wing political philosophy; either by means of a television set, radio or internet connection, I invariably end-up so frustrated and disgusted by the prospects that loom before me, that I am prone to the rigors of temporary insanity.

Be it a Sean Hannity – or a Rachel Maddow, either, bi-polar, episode of one or the other, in large enough doses, manages only to turn my stomach over. Even a mere internet news aggregator such as Matt Drudge is eventually capable of pissing me off royally, despite his not publishing so much as a single interesting paragraph of his own (think I can safely exclude the ghost written Drudge Manifesto, simply upon the universality of its reviews). His link titles alone, suffice. Yet, for the sake of an art which the man evidently lacks, I am nevertheless obliged; nearly everyday of the week, to sift through the Sludge Report (couldn’t resist using a familiar tactic to him) that he compiles, for something to inspire me, because I tend to write more prolifically when I’m seeing red. Alas, I suppose, being one of this fellow’s 33 million visitors per day, I suspect my own web site story link won’t be aggregating in Drudgeville anytime soon. Unless, of course, its this very article, due to its merely mentioning his existence, and that it just may wind up getting around somehow. Wish me luck, if you would, that the silly fellow chooses to Google’s himself again today. If just 1% of this human parasite’s die-hard patrons clicked on some link of mine, I would virtually enjoy an surge of 300,000 page visits. Outlandish, isn’t it? Perhaps, Drudge, shies away from linking news analysts or opinion writers, preferring his own mercifully somewhat clever (some of the time), political inferences – so as not to be upstaged?

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Postrel: Make the Pill Cheaper by Making it Over the Counter

Postrel: Make the Pill Cheaper by Making it Over the Counter

| March 9, 2012

Birth-control pills, the crux of an ongoing argument about public discourse and health-care mandates, are artificially expensive, writes former Reason editor Virginia Postrel in her latest Bloomberg column.

It’s a must-read, as it casts a very dark light on a costly prescription regime many of us take as a fact of nature. Snippets:

Making the pill available over the counter could reduce the amount of outrage and invective available for entertaining radio audiences, spurring political fundraising and otherwise amusing the American public. But the medical risks are quite low….

Birth-control pills can have side effects, of course, but so can such over-the-counter drugs as antihistamines, ibuprofen or the Aleve that once turned me into a scary, hive-covered monster. That’s why even the most common over-the-counter drugs, including aspirin, carry warning labels. Most women aren’t at risk from oral contraceptives, however, just as most patients aren’t at risk from aspirin or Benadryl, and studies suggest that a patient checklist can catch most potential problems….

Aside from safety, the biggest argument for keeping birth- control pills prescription-only is, to put it bluntly, extortion. The current arrangement forces women to go to the doctor at least once a year, usually submitting to a pelvic exam, if they want this extremely reliable form of contraception. That demand may suit doctors’ paternalist instincts and financial interests, but it doesn’t serve patients’ needs. As [a 1993 editorial in the American Journal of Public Health] noted, the exam requirement “assumes that it would be worse for a woman’s health to miss out on routine care than it would be to miss out on taking oral contraceptives.”

Whole thing here.

Why wasn’t Congress and the Executive branch working through issues like this during the debate over President Obama’s health-care reform law? Or Mitt Romney when he was pushing his state-level version back in the day? Aren’t these folks supposed to be interested in making things cheaper and more accessible for ordinary Americans? It’s a sad fact that the smartest people aren’t in charge of writing the laws that force us into bad situations.

And now, despite unemployment creeping upwards to 9 percent (according to Gallup) and one-year Greek bonds yielding over 1,000 percent (!), another war in the Middle East looming, we’re stuck in a sideshow discussion about whether Rush Limbaugh or Bill Maher is the bigger jerk and whether Catholic universities should have to pick up birth-control costs for law-school students poised to make $160,000 as a starting salary if they enter the private-sector.

Can’t legislators agree that those of us who are, say, over 18 years old, are adults and if we can buy condoms without a prescription, we should be able to shop for birth-control pills on our lonesome too? And a host of other drugs?

Further reading: “3 Lessons from the National Conversation About Sluts and Twats.”

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Coalition of Peace Activists Plan to Occupy NATO Headquarters this April

Coalition of Peace Activists Plan to Occupy NATO Headquarters this April

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A peace coalition known as the European Antimilitarist Network is planning a nonviolent humanitarian intervention at the NATO headquarters in Brussels this April 1st, 2012.  This network of antimilitarist groups is fed up with NATO using the “humanitarian” excuses to justify aggressive military intervention in sovereign nations.

Their website WarStartsHere.eu states “The increasingly trans­na­tional structure of military interventions requires activists to coordinate resistance activities better.”

The following groups pre­sently form the core of the net­work: War Resisters’ Interna­tional (International), Vredes­actie/Bombspotting (Belgium), alternativa antimilitarista-moc (Spain), Ofog – för en kärn­va­pen­fri värld (Sweden), Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft-Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (Ger­many), Gewaltfreie Aktion Atom­waffen abschaffen (Germany), Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto (AKL – Finland), Transnational Institute (TNI – Netherlands), Trident Ploughshares (Britain), Gruppe für eine Schweiz ohne Armee (GsoA – Switzerland).

They stress the need for multinational nonviolent activism to combat the international support system for war:

The wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, the military operations in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, or the European Union military in­terventions in Congo and Sudan would not have been possible without the use of military infra­structure in Europe. This military infrastructure – military bases, headquarters, satellite centres, ports, and even civilian airports used by the military – form the backbone for wars and inter­ventions.

The network is dedicated to actions of civil disobe­dience and nonviolent direct actions to stop the death and destruction of needless wars. But they emphasize that protesting is no longer enough to stop the war machine from continuing unabated. It’s time, they say, to “make the step from protesting against war to resisting war!”  And that resistance begins in organized fashion on April 1st at NATO’s headquarters in Belgium.

It has never been more urgent to resist serving the war machine in all of it’s capacities. Join their occupation and march on NATO this April.

Please visit and support the War Starts Here coalition today.

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