Category Archives: FreeState Now

TruthOut: Laurie Jo Reynolds & Stephen F. Eisenson: ‘Tamms is Torture’

Source:FreeState Now I’m not against solitary-confinement by itself because inmates who represent a serious threat to staff as well as other inmates and at times to themselves and because of this must be isolated until they not longer represent that … Continue reading

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Reason Magazine: ‘How Medicaid & ObamaCare Hurts The Poor’

Source:FreeState Now It’s not that we have a Federal health insurance program for the poor that’s the problem. But how it’s setup and run that is the problem because Medicaid was never setup to be run affordably and efficiently. The … Continue reading

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CATO Institute: Ilya Shapiro: ‘ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Violates Federalism’

Source:FreeState Now I would’ve gone farther to bring down healthcare costs with things like preventive care, taxing junk food and drink, getting junk food and drink out of public schools, encouraging people to eat healthy and exercise, mandatory physical education … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Times: Healing Medi-Cal

Source:FreeState Now A lot of states are swamped in deficit and debt thanks to high unemployment. With a lot fewer people working and paying taxes as we had four years ago. And instead of working and paying taxes, they are … Continue reading

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Reuter: The Trail With Samuel P. Jacobs: Rick Santorum vs. Mitt Romney

Source:FreeState Now Alabama has already been called for Rick Santorum by NBC News and now CNN. Rick Santorum has been been holding a slim but steady lead over Newt Gingrich. Whose actually in 2nd Place in both states, not Mitt … Continue reading

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Democracy Now: Kevin Phillips- On Roots of American Revolution, Future of American Politics

Source:FreeState Now When you think of the United States of America, you think of a government that has separation of powers and checks and balances. And why is that, because the United States was founded on the notions that absolute … Continue reading

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Democracy Now: Gloria Richardson Looks Back at the Rift Between Malcolm X & Martin L. King

  Source:FreeState Now I believe the main difference between Malcolm X and Dr. King had to do with different approaches. Dr. King’s approach was slower because it involved more people, more negotiating and was completely non-violent. But at the end … Continue reading

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MSNBC: Lockup- Corcoran State Prison

Source:FreeState Now This is about the gladiator fights that went on at Corcoran State Prison in the California in the early and mid 1990s. That were run by Corcoran guards and set up by them. Where guards there would find … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Martha Burk: ‘The Gender Pay Gap’

Source:Liberty Pen– author Martha Burk talking to John Stossel. Source:FreeState Now “Feminist author Martha Burk (“Cult of Power”), educator Warren Farrell (“Why Men Earn More”) and Sabrina Schaeffer of the Independent Women’s Forum discuss the reasons men are often paid … Continue reading

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Talking Points Memo: Joe Scarborough: ‘FOX News, MSNBC, Exactly the Same’

. Source:FreeState Now Joe Scarborough is right in the sense that MSNBC prime time and Fox News both represent political perspectives in America. They are both mouthpieces for different ideological movements in the country. Fox News is essentially the official … Continue reading

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