The wound of the last night’s victory of Magic Wand politics is too fresh to discuss, so The Free Agent will instead encourage the use of the word political in general. She means that to substitute for words like socialized, universal, and especially, government. In The Free Agent’s circle, the adjective government is understood to […]
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At this writing a substantial minority of Americans support the Democrats’ existing health-care bills. Most of us agree that the American healthcare system needs change but we have a wide variety of ideas about the specifics of the changes that are needed. Some make the case that only a single payer system can reduce transaction
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As of today, 83,904 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, the oldest and most cost-effective organ transplant surgery, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which comprises data from all transplant programs in the country. In 2006, there were 18,052 kidney transplant operations performed, and while that figure has been trending up from
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Contrary to rumor, the print edition of Serf City is not dead. Despite being forced by The Man to purge our plastic newsracks from the streets of NYC, we are moving forward with the next paper issue. Ernie Hancock, godfather of the r3VOLution and candidate for Libertarian Party national chairman, has proposed that we round
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The Free Agent has been mulling over the elegant parable offered by M. Frederic Bastiat in “That Which is Seen and That which is Not Seen” in opposition to pointless destruction (and brilliantly, to trade barriers, “nothing else than a partial destruction”). The story is this: A shopkeeper’s son carelessly breaks a pane of glass,
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I don’t know about you but when I think of a Town Hall I think of a two-way interactive discussion. I think of a give and take conversation where concerned citizens share ideas and opinions. It doesn’t necessarily have to be sweet and polite – but it needs to be an open forum. In the invitation
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Do you support gay marriage? The knee-jerk libertarian answer, “why do we authorize the state to recognize or withhold recognition for personal relationships?” while true, doesn’t really advance the conversation. A more thoughtful response is to ask what is this “marriage” fuss is about anyway? After all, anyone can call themselves married, you can call
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Throughout The Free Agent’s career, she has fascinated youthful admirers with her stories about the olden days, i.e., the 1970s. (Extremely precocious, she was able to absorb and analyze current events even as she changed her own diapers.) She is reminded of that unfortunate era by recent events like increased money supply beyond economic growth
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The Tax Foundation’s Bill Ahern posted this yesterday saying that the jobs bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate would pay companies for the wrong things. The short article is full of great links so you should really read it for yourself, but here are the bullets. Firms that claim the credit would have hired the
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The infamous Christopher Guest-produced ad for this year’s census, featuring a stable of his favorite actors, debuted during the Super Bowl at a cost of $2.5 million, and packages the 2010 census as kind of a big national family reunion. A census for the Facebook age. Fortunately, it’s also a census for the twitter age,
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