Kara & Michael’s Blog

I’m sick of hearing about how marriage is a religious institution.  Historically - it’s not.  People have arranged themselves in groups since there have been people.  Those groups have arranged themselves into couples as time (and civilization) progressed for several reasons.

Legal Reasons.  How do you decide about property, children, benefits, heirs, insurance etc if people aren’t legally [...]

Key to a Good Marriage
Imagine – people don’t value having children in a society that doesn’t afford most people the opportunity to have them in a reasonable fashion.
Let’s see, little time off from work after one has children, the expense of childcare since most families are forced to have two adults in the workforce, the [...]

The cost of health care in this country is staggering. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States’s per capita healthcare spending, public and private, in 2002 was $5,267. Expanded to the entire population this amount represents almost 15 percent of the gross domestic product for the same year. But beyond that, it is twice [...]

I received the following claptrap in my e-mail box today, and I’m reproducing it verbatim in case you haven’t read it yet:
MG Vernon Chong, USAFR, forwarded:
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Well, I’m still alive, for what it’s worth. I’ve been ignoring the ol’ blog, largely because I haven’t had much of anything interesting to say. Sure, there’s been plenty to talk about between August and November, but how much of it will we remember ten years from now?
If our government (which, I will remind you [...]

On a more or less related note to my previous post about why the ACLU sucks, I’d like to explain why the Libertarian party has got it wrong (in my opinion).
First off: I am a registered Libertarian, and until recently was a dues-paying member of both the national and Maryland state Libertarian party. I couldn’t [...]

About a year ago, I became a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was proud of it, too — they have a long history of striving to uphold personal freedoms in a time when such important things are too easily overlooked. So I gave them a donation of $25 which entitled me [...]