House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and House Speaker John Boehner are taken aback by the negative reactions from conservative groups to the budget deal brokered with Democrats late Tuesday night. “CBS News” is reporting that Boehner lashed out in response to a question about the deal yesterday in a news conference. “This is ridiculous,” Boehner exclaimed. “Listen, if … [Read more…]
Recently, #HandsOffMyBirthControl trended on Twitter. It was a response to the Supreme Court’s decision to look into whether for-profit corporations must provide insurance covering birth control, even if they oppose birth control on religious grounds. Unfortunately, these short-sighted Tweets are missing the point. Religious business owners have their “hands” on birth control due to a … [Read more…]
Girl, when it comes to sex, we have really been getting screwed lately, am I right? We were promised free birth control, only to find out it came with canceled insurance plans and higher premiums. We looked at our other political option, only to see legally mandated transvaginal ultrasounds for committing the crime of miscarrying. … [Read more…]
With the clock ticking on the legislative session, President Obama held a Roosevelt Room meeting on immigration reform, even as House Speaker John Boehner dismissed the idea, at least for this year. At issue is the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” bill. It offers many of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship while still requiring them … [Read more…]
Welp, that’s a bullet dodged. Contemplating a move to the District from my current home of Arlington, Virginia, I decided to see a house some of my (male) friends are moving into. I had to walk an alternate route from the NoMa metro due to construction. On the way, I asked a building security guard … [Read more…]
Earlier this month I got to speak at the first-ever CryptoCurrency Con in Atlanta. You can watch the video of my talk, Why a Free Society Needs a Free Money, here. Bitcoin Magazine also published the full transcript of the talk. My purpose here is to first emphasize the importance of what you’re doing with Bitcoin. … [Read more…]
Experts say that young, healthy people must enroll in ObamaCare’s health exchanges to cover the cost of insuring sicker, older people. It’s a simple math equation: Charge everyone roughly the same rate for access to basically the same product. The people who use it less will subsidize the people who use it more. The problem … [Read more…]
It took someone named Dread Pirate Roberts to create a way for people to buy and sell illegal drugs without the threat of getting hurt and with little threat of getting ripped off. His deep website, Silk Road, was the eBay of the underworld until it was seized by the FBI last week. When the … [Read more…]