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Keiko Ivinson

The Twists and Turns of a Free Market

Keiko Ivinson Feb 13, 2016

As often as the word “freedom” is thrown around, the phrase “free market economy” is equally tossed about. Free market: it sounds like it should be an economy in which participants have a degree of freedom, or are generally liberated. Yet…
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Freedom to Move in the Face of Danger

Keiko Ivinson Feb 11, 2016

Today I felt like packing my bags and taking a vacation from this cold winter weather and the obscene stack of readings glaring at me. Unrealistically, I dreamed about just heading to the airport and hopping on the next flight that would…
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The Extent of Healthy Religious Freedom: A Compromise

Keiko Ivinson Feb 7, 2016

In many countries such as Canada, the US, France, the UK and so on, religion falls under the upheld fundamental freedoms. In Canada and the US for example the freedom of religion and conscience includes the practice of one’s religion. Of…
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To Speak or Not to Speak: The Issue of the Freedom to Free Speech

Keiko Ivinson Feb 3, 2016

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”…
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An exploding North Korea: unifcation talks spurred by catastrophe

Keiko Ivinson Jan 30, 2016

After a major H5N1 (Bird Flu) outbreak, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea fell into disrepair with Kim Jung Un’s execution and the rise of civil war. This was compounded by a widespread famine caused by the H5N1 epidemic which left…
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Insurance as criminal? The US Supreme Court on federal healthcare

Keiko Ivinson Jan 29, 2016

It is 2012 for the United States Supreme Court committee, which in its latest session debated healthcare in the US with the case National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. This committee, divided into two sections - Counsels…
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Roots of Liberty: An Intro to the Freedom Formula

Keiko Ivinson Jan 27, 2016

“So that however it may be mistaken, the end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom: For in all the states of created beings capable of Laws, where there is no Law, there is no Freedom. For Liberty is to…
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