Category: Politics
-
HIV Cure?
by Jason Stotts The Huffington Post is reporting that a man who underwent stem cell treatment for leukemia has had his HIV cured as a result: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,”…
-
DADT On Its Way Out
by Jason Stotts The Senate today voted 65-31 to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the policy that banned openly gay members of armed services. This is great news and they need to speed this process along and make it official. WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the ban on gay…
-
Major Setback for Obamacare
by Jason Stotts In case you somehow missed the news, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that individual insurance mandate of Obamacare unconstitutional. While this puts us down 2-1 for federal cases on Obamacare, hopefully it will be overturned by the Supreme Court as the clear violation of rights that it is. (NYTimes, Bloomberg)…
-
TSA Encourages Child Molestation
by Jason Stotts One overlooked problem, among oh so many, with the TSA new “protect via sexual assault” policy is that it will encourage child molestation. An article on Raw Story (I’m not actually familiar with this website) quotes child abuse expert Ken Wooden on the dangers of the new TSA policy: Telling a child…
-
Stuxnet
by Jason Stotts In case you haven’t heard about it yet, you should definitely check out this news article on FoxNews about the computer virus stuxnet, which has all but crippled Iran’s nuclear program. Simply put, Stuxnet is an incredibly advanced, undetectable computer worm that took years to construct and was designed to jump from…
-
Global Warming Continues to Fall From Grace
by Jason Stotts In yet another heavy blow to the AGW camp, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has announced that it is closing it’s doors. According to the National Review Online: Global warming-inspired cap and trade has been one of the most stridently debated public policy controversies of the past 15 years. But it is…
-
On Marijuana 2
by Jason Stotts This November in the California election, a momentous event is transpiring: the people are getting the chance to vote on whether they want to legalize marijuana. If Prop 19 passes, it will make it legal for any adult in the state to use marijuana, in the same way that they use alcohol,…
-
On the Newest Schism
by Jason Stotts I find it sad and disheartening for the Objectivist movement that schisms are so common that we must name then and specify which we are talking about. I’ve been trying to stay out of the McCaskey v. Peikoff dispute as much as I can, and I am still reserving judgment until more…