Recent content by Juan McCain

Congressman Ron Paul needs to sign this House discharge petition as well.

It seems more of a case of the state law to allow prescription of cannabis vs. the federal standard (which WalMart is relying on here). Tort is usually a "state law controlling" sort of thing.

After five years of employment, a vested employee may have some contractual rights which WalMart chose to ignore - so stupid, intolerant and a violation of a legal right all seem possible. Can they legally use a treatment modality prescribed for him as a grounds for termination ?

In general, I am not so sure that there is never any employee v. employer justice in a libertarian society. Individual liberties of an employee while not on the job vs. the employer that can always do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, however it wants - I don't see it. Anyway, here...

I can agree with the statement as a minarchist all I'd want to, it is basic but it doesn't exist - it doesn't happen that way. A corporate employer needs to be part of all medical decisions you undertake - if they want to - and you should be on that employer's specified diet as well - if you...

Hah , , , yeah, I was all signed up for a Tancredo ticket . . . which I could have picked up at their tables and used to not take up an RP ticket for someone else, but I had volunteered for the GOP on Saturday at the event so had a free ticket and my vote for Ron Paul anyway.

I can imagine most can reach their threshold at some level of discrimination. f'r instance . . . woman. If the employer feels there would be less work done / more off-time requests yadayadayada, they should be able to not hire woman if they don't want to - for better or for worse.

An employer that has already taken the leap of hiring or keeping someone with a brain tumor . . . that employer should decide what treatment modality is acceptable to be used by the physician and that patient/employee outside of the workplace ?

Well, I'll agree . . . but the argument also goes that buses do require an effective organization and logistics . . . Yes - we can do that.

To discriminate on an employee based on what a doctor prescribes . . . ? No, employers do not make that decision for employees without legal challenges.

A 5 year employee that tested positive for cannabis after what sounds something like a twisted ankle is fired from a WalMart in Michigan although he is registered to use medical marijuana. As some of the comments point out . . . if he was on an opiate or big pharma pain killer instead, he would...

A majority of Iowans that vote in the straw poll may not spend the night in Ames . . . It is a bussed event. It is about getting Iowa residents to Ames to cast their vote. Booking charter buses may make more sense.

Only about 13 months until the Iowa GOP Straw Poll in Ames . . .

10 alleged Russian secret agents arrested U.S. says they posed as civilians, tried to infiltrate policymaking circles http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37982175/ns/us_news-security/ "The suspects allegedly worked for the SVR, Russia's intelligence service and the successor to the Soviet KGB. ...

I could be wrong, but I just don't see it that way at all . . . http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/23/what-the-taliban-thinks-of-mcchrystal-s-ouster.html http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/22/rolling-stone-author-discusses-general-mcchrystal-interview.html