What 'Extraordinary' Statement?
Angelo Mike
2007-05-16 16:00
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May 17, 2007
I normally never watch political debates, the reasons for which being obvious for anyone who is familiar with my views on politics. I simply don't have the patience to watch liars and thieves try to enhance their own prestige and overrate their powers of compulsion and coercion.
Gun Control, Crisis and the State
Angelo Mike
2007-04-29 16:00
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April 30, 2007
Last week's shootings at Virginia Tech have been the catalyst for reinvigorating the gun control debate. This is both predictable and regrettable, as this is no loss for the state and its subdivisions, but an asset. It's only a loss for the family and friends of the students murdered and the decent members of society who recognize their loss.
The Present Peace Movement
Angelo Mike
2007-04-16 16:00
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April 17, 2007
I recently attended a peace conference at Catholic University . Among the topics discussed were the concept of social contract and peace, Ugandan mass murder, Darfur 's genocide, and the Iraq war. It was refreshing to see the few dozen people attending talks and roundtable discussions who were dedicated to ending violent conflicts, whether gang violence in Latin...
Liberty's Need for Economics
Angelo Mike
2007-04-09 16:00
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April 10, 2007
Economics is frequently dismissed as being the subject of mere opinion, whim and arbitrariness, or mathematics and statistics. Often when I mention that I'm an economist, I'm asked about cost/benefit analysis, the stock market, or what economics is in the first place. People know economics not as a philosophical science, which traces its thought back to Aristotle...
Stockholm Syndrome and the State
Angelo Mike
2007-03-26 16:00
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March 27, 2007
Why is it that people will often do nothing when crime is committed in front of their eyes? Why will they not speak up when it is committed against them? Why do they cooperate with criminal aggressors who threaten them with violence should they not live how gangsters wish, and instead laugh with them and act as if their captors are treating them justly? Why, when...
My First and Last Time in Political Activism
Angelo Mike
2007-03-04 17:00
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March 5, 2007
I did a very stupid thing today that I'm hoping you all can learn from so you don't make the same mistake. I thought I would experiment with what I should have realized would just be an illusory, narcotic high.
A Radical Proposal for Education
Angelo Mike
2007-01-31 17:00
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February 1, 2007
It is a simple fact that the more successful a person becomes; the more he or she advances in a career. The better at maintaining healthy relationships they become, the more they have worked absent of and in opposition to all the time and energy spent in school.
When the State Makes Pedophiles Deserve Defense
Angelo Mike
2007-01-25 17:00
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January 26, 2007
H.L. Mencken once said that the problem with the government is that in order to defend ourselves against it, we frequently must defend those within society who are the least popular. They are those who it is easiest for the government to go after, such as drug dealers, drunks, gamblers, gays, perverts, pornographers, prostitutes, johns, and the like. But even...
Government-Sponsored Sex
Angelo Mike
2006-12-25 17:00
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December 26, 2006
If you've looked at the news on TV or the Internet lately, you've probably seen a crisis in sexual conduct. A recent study alleges that 9 out of 10 Americans age 44 have had premarital sex. The story's been on political talk shows and responded to by conservative and liberal groups.
Wage Inequality and Justice
Angelo Mike
2006-12-19 17:00
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December 20, 2006
With Democrats and their constituents getting more media coverage after their victory in the recent elections, we are hearing more and more about the problem of corporate bosses plundering the already shrinking middle class in order to give themselves bigger salaries and bonuses.
Voluntarism, Coercion and the Poor
Angelo Mike
2006-12-03 17:00
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December 4, 2006
People often complain that without state welfare, the poor and vulnerable would be 'out on their own' because, for whatever reasons, markets don't value poor people. But the question really is, are they no less vulnerable (and is the rest of society now in danger) when put in the hands of the state?
Religion and Politics Don't Mix
Angelo Mike
2006-11-30 17:00
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December 1, 2006
. . . but not necessarily for all the reasons that some would think.
It is objected by some market anarchists that religion is opposed to freedom and its vehicle is the state and vice versa. However, reality shows quite a different story.
The 'Anti-War' Draft
Angelo Mike
2006-11-28 17:00
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November 29, 2006
Charlie Rangel is deranged, an idiot, and a despicable politician (admittedly, whenever I mention a despicable politician, I give people free range to take their pick as to whom I'm referring).
Attempted slave driver and Congressman Charlie Rangel has a plan which manages to somehow do the impossible: to do one thing and that thing's very opposite.
Discussion With a Defender of the State
Angelo Mike
2006-11-19 17:00
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November 20, 2006
Below is part of an online discussion I've had with my Ethics and Public Policy teacher (Professor Kirsch) and her objections to anarchy. It first went online on the class' online discussion forum so that anyone could participate. Her first comments that I quote were directed at my previous posting about how taxation is theft and thus illegitimate.
The Pagan Cult of Voting
Angelo Mike
2006-11-15 17:00
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I was in a campus economics meeting in which I was given an opportunity recently to speak about any books I had been reading on the subject, and mentioned Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed. Since I was not a speaker at the meeting, but merely a guest, I very briefly outlined Hoppe's anarcho-capitalist position and his examination of the economics of monarchy and...
Lou Dobbs Wants You to Lose
Angelo Mike
2006-11-12 17:00
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November 13, 2006
Lou Dobbs' latest column has managed to do it again--to turn every political issue into one in which the middle class' entire future is at stake; one in which they succeed at the expense of everyone else. I wonder how he would feel if he knew just how much damage he is doing to the very middle class he's so enamored with.
Lou Dobbs: Patronizing, Separatist, Statist
Angelo Mike
2006-11-06 17:00
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November 7, 2006
I'm sick of Lou Dobbs. I'm tired of his pompous moralizing, as well as his bizarre fixation on the middle class, as if we're this discretely hidden group of people with our group status tattooed on our arms for corporate America to disparage.
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