John Stossel did an interesting story on Friday’s 20/20 about voting. He asked whether uninformed voters shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Watch a portion of the segment here:
The piece unfortunately focuses on young voters, but certainly the message holds true for voters of any age who are, by and large, uninformed on the […]
As part of the lengthy, ongoing debate about the voting age on Facebook in response to NYRA-Southeast Florida’s awesome voting age ad, one person (trying to sound much smarter than he is) posted something about women & youth. While this isn’t the best articulated version of this argument it is one that we get […]
So I came across an entry today written back in July by Brent Allison, NYRA member and NYRA founder actually. In it he provides a critique of NYRA and the youth rights movement for focusing mostly on negative rights and lacking a clear “theory” or “narrative” for the movement. He says:
In short, the […]
While NYRA isn’t in the business of generational warfare, we have seen our share of artillery barrages from older generational warriors. So now and then it doesn’t hurt to peak out from our trenches and fire back. A fascinating new study gives us some nice ammo:
Political science professors Richard R. Lau of Rutgers […]
What should be NYRA’s and any other youth advocate’s top priority now is HR 5876 (read full text here) Take action on the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008 here.
Bill could give federal oversight to private clinics for children and would require FDA inspections
In a move that could have implications […]
MADD just sent out the following e-mail to their supporters. They want to give Grand Theft Auto (GTA) an adults only rating because it features the crime of drunk driving (apparently all the murder, car jacking and other crimes in it are just fine with MADD). “Drunk driving is not a game and […]
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/COL04/804280375
If you watch much television, you’ve probably heard of a product called Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
And if you ask Christopher Ratte and his wife how they lost custody of their 7-year-old son, the short version is that nobody in the Ratte family watches much television.
The way police and child protection workers figure it, Ratte should have […]
Last night Instapundit picked up my appearance on Fox News a week or two ago:
SEVEN STATES THINKING OF LOWERING THE DRINKING AGE: They should. And the Federal government should get out of the business of trying to regulate state drinking ages, a subject of no legitimate federal concern whatsoever. it’s also telling that MADD wouldn’t […]
Interesting article critical of women. Basically makes the case that women are crazy and inferior to men (and written by a woman to boot). I find it interesting not because of the central argument of the article, but some of the evidence she provides and what implications it has for youth rights. […]
Tom from SSDP gave me a head’s up about an excellent op-ed in the New York Times today written by Anya Kamenetz. She basically makes the Epstein argument that we should create competency tests to grant rights to youth younger and in a more flexible fashion. Specifically she mentions voting, drinking, and credit […]