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My response to the new healthcare legislation

jvallery — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:54:55 +0000

When has the government done anything better than a private organization? Why would they be able to manage healthcare better? The problem with our healthcare system is too much government intervention. I don’t believe for one second that the members of congress who opposed this bill are also opposed to helping those in need. I believe that they understand that trying to legislate a solution to a problem as far reaching as healthcare would ultimately prove disasters.

The future of American politics, what do Ron Paul supporters do after he loses?

jvallery — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:06:33 +0000

I won’t be able to caucus for Dr. Paul today because I am a registered Libertarian. I would have had to change my voter registration way back in December to Republican in order to participate. That doesn’t stop me from supporting him. I’ve donated significant money to his campaign and I have advocated him at [...]

Libertarian point of view on digital rights management

jvallery — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:29:06 +0000

I’ve been doing some thinking the last few days about DRM and I can’t seem to come to a conclusion on how I should feel about it. Generally with any issue I can look at it with my moral lens of libertarian ideas, and it becomes very clear what is right and wrong. In this [...]

Review of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Immigration

jvallery — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:22:06 +0000

Penn and Teller did it again, this was a great episode. I’m glad to see them taking on the immigration issue. Most American’s are opposed to immigration, and support stricter border controls. I think changing that opinion will be a hard pill for most American’s to swallow. Penn and Teller are critical of the government’s [...]

Gun control in America

jvallery — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:25:42 +0000

I’m sure you could take a guess and figure out that I am an atheist, a libertarian, and generally considered a nut job by my peers. I find it interesting how seemingly separate areas of ideology (religion and politics) so often intersect when you become a free thinker. Almost every libertarian I know is an [...]

Review of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Wal-Mart

jvallery — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:14:20 +0000

I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of Penn and Teller. When I heard that they were going to be covering Wal-Mart on an upcoming episode of Bullshit I was extremely excited. Like many small and medium size towns across the country, Wal-Mart hysteria has come to my home town of Longmont, Colorado and [...]