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Robert Taylor
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lives in San Francisco, California. He spends his time reading voraciously, ranting, and advocating the virtues of economic and political freedom. He has written for multiple websites and hopes to play a small part in bringing a voluntary market society into fruition. He enjoys billiards, whiskey, and sabermetrics. He blogs at A Little Rebellion.

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Jesus, Anarchy, and the Golden Rule
9.8
Westernerd 2012-01-23 00:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR "So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." ~ Matthew 7:12 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy...
Gadaffi Is Dead, But Tyranny Lives
7.5
Westernerd 2011-10-25 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR  Gadaffi is dead. After 40 years of strongman rule, he was finally found hiding from angry rebels, dragged into the street as a prize, and shot in the back of the head. Libya is finally free, thanks to the benevolent power of the mighty US government, air power, and NATO allies.   The media has jumped all over this story, and one could...
Traffic Laws and Spontaneous Order
9.5
Westernerd 2011-10-17 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR When making the case for a truly free and stateless society built on the principles of the voluntary market order, one of the most common objections is the production and maintenance of roads. Roads, say the statists, are a public good that are essential for transportation and commerce and must be socialized, regulated, and controlled. It is true that...
Blurring the Line Between Citizen and Slave
9
Westernerd 2011-10-09 23:00
  Column by Robert Taylor.     Exclusive to STR  There has been a substantial amount of discussion concerning President Obama's drone attack in Yemen that killed Muslim Cleric Anwar Al-Awlawki. Awlwaki, who was born in the United States and was therefore an American citizen, was killed without the 5th Amendment provisions guaranteed to him by the US Constitution. The...
A Roadmap for the Lost Generation
9
Westernerd 2011-09-29 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor.   Exclusive to STR   "Society is a contract between the living, the dead and those who are yet to be born."  ~ Edmund Burke For the first time in history, the amount of student loan debt now exceeds the amount of credit card debt in America. For centuries, the US government has been heavily subsidizing student loans and propagating the myth...
Just Call Me a Capitalist
6.5
Westernerd 2011-08-22 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor   Exclusive to STR   In the current media climate of talking heads, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans from politicians, debate--both in public and in private--is severely hampered by a lack of proper definitions of the terms and ideas being discussed. One could definitely make the cynical argument that this process of dumbing down the language is done...
Government Regulation and Free Market Alternatives
9.5
Westernerd 2011-08-14 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR The failure of the state to adequately provide the services that are supposedly the sole domain of government is everywhere evident and an unfortunate fixture of American life. Instead of creating order, it has imposed chaos, cages, and climbing crime rates. While piling up bodies in the name of peace, it had made all of us less safe. But it is in...
Jesus, Anarchy, and the Golden Rule
9.8
Westernerd 2012-01-23 00:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR "So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." ~ Matthew 7:12 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy...
Government Regulation and Free Market Alternatives
9.5
Westernerd 2011-08-14 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR The failure of the state to adequately provide the services that are supposedly the sole domain of government is everywhere evident and an unfortunate fixture of American life. Instead of creating order, it has imposed chaos, cages, and climbing crime rates. While piling up bodies in the name of peace, it had made all of us less safe. But it is in...
Traffic Laws and Spontaneous Order
9.5
Westernerd 2011-10-17 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR When making the case for a truly free and stateless society built on the principles of the voluntary market order, one of the most common objections is the production and maintenance of roads. Roads, say the statists, are a public good that are essential for transportation and commerce and must be socialized, regulated, and controlled. It is true that...
A Roadmap for the Lost Generation
9
Westernerd 2011-09-29 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor.   Exclusive to STR   "Society is a contract between the living, the dead and those who are yet to be born."  ~ Edmund Burke For the first time in history, the amount of student loan debt now exceeds the amount of credit card debt in America. For centuries, the US government has been heavily subsidizing student loans and propagating the myth...
Blurring the Line Between Citizen and Slave
9
Westernerd 2011-10-09 23:00
  Column by Robert Taylor.     Exclusive to STR  There has been a substantial amount of discussion concerning President Obama's drone attack in Yemen that killed Muslim Cleric Anwar Al-Awlawki. Awlwaki, who was born in the United States and was therefore an American citizen, was killed without the 5th Amendment provisions guaranteed to him by the US Constitution. The...
Gadaffi Is Dead, But Tyranny Lives
7.5
Westernerd 2011-10-25 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR  Gadaffi is dead. After 40 years of strongman rule, he was finally found hiding from angry rebels, dragged into the street as a prize, and shot in the back of the head. Libya is finally free, thanks to the benevolent power of the mighty US government, air power, and NATO allies.   The media has jumped all over this story, and one could...
Just Call Me a Capitalist
6.5
Westernerd 2011-08-22 23:00
Column by Robert Taylor   Exclusive to STR   In the current media climate of talking heads, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans from politicians, debate--both in public and in private--is severely hampered by a lack of proper definitions of the terms and ideas being discussed. One could definitely make the cynical argument that this process of dumbing down the language is done...

 

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