SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Citrix will present at WorldBlu LIVE 2013, the worlds premier gathering on freedom in the workplace, on May 16 in Denver, Colorado. Citrix Podio co-founder and Director of Brand Strategy Jon Froda will present the session Freedom at Work, Wherever Work Happens, focusing on the changing nature of work, evolving mobile workstyles and the new technologies influencing this shift. Continue reading
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Editorial: Massachusetts health care plan a model for fixes to Obamacare
Health Overhaul Benefits 5413.jpg This application obtained by the Associated Press shows the short form for the new federal Affordable Care Act. The first draft was as mind-numbing as a tax form. Last month, the Obama administration unveiled simplified application forms for health insurance benefits under the federal health care overhaul. Continue reading
Libertarianism goes mainstream
Stereotyped for decades as pro-pot, pro-porn and pro-pacifism, libertarians are becoming mainstream. Fair or not, Ron Paul epitomized to a swath of voters the caricature of a goofy grandpa who invests in gold, stockpiles guns, sees black helicopters whirling overhead and quotes Friedrich Hayek. His ride into the sunset combined with an evolving electoratess move away from hot-button social issues gives a new libertarian guard the opportunity to rebrand their governing philosophy as more reasonable, serious and compatible with the Republican Party. Continue reading
First Person: My Libertarian Realization
Editor’s note: Yahoo News asked young libertarian-minded voters to share why they’re drawn to the either the Libertarian Party or to libertarian political principles in general. Here’s one first-person account we received this week. FIRST PERSON | Although I have only considered myself a libertarian for a little over a year, I have never been more certain about one of my personal beliefs. Continue reading
Libertarianism Is a Stance, Not a Political Party
Editor’s note: Yahoo News asked young libertarian-minded voters to share why they’re drawn to the either the Libertarian Party or to libertarian political principles in general. Here’s one first-person account we received this week. Imagine a man almost $57,000 in debt. Continue reading
Libertarian Thought a Source of Optimism
Editors note: Yahoo News asked young libertarian-minded voters to share why theyre drawn to the either the Libertarian Party or to libertarian political principles in general. Heres one first-person account we received this week. FIRST PERSON | Eight years ago, I was a high school junior in Columbus, Ohio Continue reading
National Health Care Law Divides Mass. Senate Candidates
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) BOSTON (AP) Three years after it split Massachusetts voters in the 2010 special U.S. Senate election, the debate over President Barack Obamas health care law has lost little of its political punch. Continue reading
Health care divides US Senate hopefuls
BOSTON Three years after it split Massachusetts voters in the 2010 special U.S. Senate election, the debate over President Barack Obamas health care law has lost little of its political punch. Of the five candidates vying to fill the seat left vacant by John Kerrys resignation, just one has offered a full-throated defense of the law. Continue reading
Beverly Libertarian Daniel Fishman withdraws from Senate race
Beverly Libertarian Daniel Fishman has suspended all campaign activity and will not be submitting signatures to the Secretary of State for placement on the ballot in advance of the April 3 deadline, said the Fishman for Senate campaign Sunday. When I first entered this campaign there were no Republicans officially announced and the three most prominently mentioned Republicans had all removed their names as potential candidates, said Fishman in a press release. Continue reading
Putting health care law into practice
Welcome to the eye of the Obamacare storm. This year represents a deceptively calm interlude after the partisan war whoops of repeal and replace, and before 2014, when millions of Americans are supposed to get covered under the health care law. Its a year of nuts and bolts, trying to get many complicated moving parts in place for a policy that large swaths of the country still oppose Continue reading
Jonah Goldberg The right’s libertarian -conservative fusion is nothing new
“At CPAC, the Future Looks Libertarian,” read a dispatch on Time magazine’s website. “CPAC: Rand Paul’s Big Moment,” proclaimed The Week magazine. Meanwhile, the New York Times headlined its story about the annual conservative political action conference “GOP divisions fester at conservative retreat.” George Will, a man who actually knows a thing or two about conservatism, responded to the NYT’s use of the word “fester” on ABC News’ “This Week.” “Festering: an infected wound, it’s awful Continue reading
House approves S. Texas medical school
AUSTIN (AP) A widely celebrated effort to open a medical school in the Rio Grande Valley won unanimous approval in the Texas House on Tuesday but not before a tense exchange over what impact the facility would have on a statewide doctor shortage. Continue reading
New South Texas medical school plan passes House
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A widely celebrated effort to open a medical school in the Rio Grande Valley won unanimous approval in the Texas House on Tuesday but not before a tense exchange over what impact the facility would have on a statewide doctor shortage. The bill that would open a medical school as early as 2016 along the underserved Texas border is among the least controversial measures in the Legislature. Gov Continue reading
Libertarian plans to run for mayor in York
A fourth York City resident is throwing his hat in the ring for the chance to be mayor. David Moser said he’s hoping to offer an alternative choice to the three Democrats who will compete in the May 21 primary for their party’s nomination. Continue reading
Donald Dunn, Former Clinton White House Political Affairs Official, Joins Fuel Freedom Foundation
IRVINE, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 12, 2013) – Fuel Freedom Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign dedicated to breaking America’s oil addiction, announced today that Donald Dunn, fundraiser and political campaign strategist, has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Development. Dunn will lead the development and fundraising efforts for the foundation. Continue reading
Disgraced pol Monserrate gets month of freedom to fix diseased teeth
It seems that Hiram Monserrates teeth are as rotten as his reputation. Continue reading
Religious- freedom bill advances in Kentucky legislature
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Bills on abortion, "religious freedom" shot down by Democrats
Cathy and Randy Licht and their adopted daughter, Emma, who was born in China, listen to testimony Monday on Senate Bill 56, which would ban sex-selection abortions. Continue reading
Libertarian group offers political alternative
While political discourse is typically guided by Republican or Democratic stances on the issues, Miami University sophomore Matthew Stymacks encourages students to look beyond the mainstream party platforms. Stymacks’ organization, Miami University College Libertarians, will function as a discussion group rather than as an extension of the national Libertarian Party, he said. Continue reading
Libertarian candidate running for Cincinnati mayor
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