What I Saw and Heard at the Anti-War Protest
Robert Kaercher
2011-10-17 23:00
Column by Robert Kaercher.
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“Obama! Hey, hey! How many kids did you kill today!?”
That was the chant of many among the 200-300 anti-war protesters on October 8th, including myself. This was right in front of President Barack Obama’s national 2012 campaign headquarters, overlooking that most eye-catching of public boondoggles, Millennium Park...
What You Can Do to Detoxify Political Debate
Robert Kaercher
2011-01-20 03:00
Column by Robert Kaercher.
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Now, about that mass shooting at that Safeway in Tucson, Arizona….Wait, where are you going?
Yes, yes, I know that at this point you’ve probably read and heard about as much as you can stand anymore about all the political fallout that has followed that horrific tragedy. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik decided to do some...
Dear Mr. Mamet...
Robert Kaercher
2009-03-10 16:00
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To: David Mamet
New York , NY
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
From: Robert Kaercher
Chicago , IL
The Sickness
Robert Kaercher
2007-06-12 15:00
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June 13, 2007
'Sometimes it is difficult to escape the conviction that there is a sickness so deep in the soul of the American people that they are beyond redemption.'
-- KARL HESS
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a little slow.
A Reply to Milsted: The Need for Anarchists
Robert Kaercher
2006-01-26 16:00
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Yesterday''yesterday' being Wednesday, January 25th'Strike The Root posted on its homepage a link to Dr. Carl Milsted's piece 'The Need to Be Anarchists,' which he wrote for The Free Liberal, of which he is senior editor.
The State: The God That Always Fails
Robert Kaercher
2005-07-11 15:00
This past Thursday, a series of explosions rocked London 's mass transit system. A group with ties to the nefarious al-Qaeda reportedly claimed responsibility for setting off the bombs that exploded at three different points of the London Underground railway, as well as on a double-decker bus that was decapitated by the blast. The official death toll is somewhere around 50 human lives lost as I...
Neoconomics in One Lesson
Robert Kaercher
2005-05-23 15:00
Imagine, if you will, the following scenario:
I get together with a gang of my best and most loyal buddies, and armed with sledgehammers, we break into your house and smash up all your furniture. Why we do this is insignificant. We believe we have an 'obligation'--nay, even a 'right'--for a wide variety of reasons to our own personal liking. We like what we do and we do what we like, so we...
An Open Letter to Cathy Young
Robert Kaercher
2005-05-01 15:00
I received the June issue of Reason magazine in my mailbox this past weekend (as a subscriber I generally get the latest issue before it hits most newsstands), and not surprisingly, I discovered yet another egregious example of the magazine's pretentious liberposing, yet another attempt to offer a rationalization for the expansion of government power under the facade of protecting 'freedom.'
The New Freedom
Robert Kaercher
2005-01-30 16:00
'Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which ideals of the new regimes are expressed.
Pat Tillman and the Nihilistic Myths of the State
Robert Kaercher
2005-01-11 16:00
Just when we libertarians and market-anarchists thought that the fallacy and folly of government and statism was once and for all clearly exposing itself for all Americans to see'a hapless military quagmire in Iraq, numerous reports of Social Security nearing bankruptcy, electronic voting machines mysteriously favoring one presidential candidate over another'along comes Mother Nature to show us...
Pat Tillman and the Nihilistic Myths of the State
Robert Kaercher
2004-12-08 16:00
'I'm (expletive) Pat Tillman, damn it!' he was heard to cry as bullets tore through his flesh and his body crumpled in a heap on a ridge in Afghanistan . Tillman, like thousands of other young American soldiers, was deployed there to combat the Taliban, who were identified as providing aid and comfort to al-Qaeda, the radical Islamist terror network responsible for the 9-11-01 attacks.
'I could...
Voters Anonymous
Robert Kaercher
2004-11-08 16:00
As I noted in my recently posted root-striking debut, I went ahead and voted in this past election in spite of my conviction that to vote at all is morally dubious at best. However, I followed my plan to vote only for libertarian-minded minor party candidates (all three of them). It was one last, final and admittedly self-indulgent expression of contempt for the whole shameful, deceitful fraud...
Election 2004: Giant Douchebag vs. Turd Sandwich
Robert Kaercher
2004-10-31 16:00
As a long-time fan of the outrageously over-the-top, crudely animated satirical cartoon series "South Park" on cable's Comedy Central, I happily tuned in last Wednesday night for the premiere episode of the show's newest season. The show's co-creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, can usually be counted upon for a satirical send-up of The News Item(s) of the Week, and they did not...
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