Talking Points

Nov 12, 2011

On the Sandusky Affair

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If you want to understand why 15 people at Penn State didn’t report child rapes . . .


Jul 25, 2011

Oslo and Neo-Conservative Bigotry

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Bruce Bawer, writing in the Wall Street Journal, is upset that the Oslo mass murder might make people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria seem like people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria.


Jul 4, 2011

Arpaio might as well eat them, too

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Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is literally roasting prisoners alive.


Jun 29, 2011

On LulzSec, Paranoia and Resistance

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It’s common in cases where defiance of the state is carried out for commentors to voice suspicions that the whole spectacle is a farce or “black op”… However, it’s easy to overstate such concerns. Here’s why…


Jun 15, 2011

Constitutions versus Law-and-Order Anarchism

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The primary flaw in the notion of constitutional constraints on government power is that the very nature of any political government is monopoly.


Jun 13, 2011

BAILOUTS: Matthew Yglesias, Intellectual Contortionist

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Over at ThinkProgress, notorious right-winger Matthew Yglesias is letting his Hamiltonian-Bismarckian colors fly with the post “Debt Ceiling Fight Risks Squandering The Legacy Of America’s First And Best Bailout”.


Jun 11, 2011

Police Accountability: Analysis and Revolutionary Theory in Sixteen Words of Copypasta

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Here’s a very terse market anarchist take on just about any police abuse/accountability story…


Jun 6, 2011

Schumer and Manchin versus The Silk Road and BitCoin

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It’s a pocketbook issue!


May 13, 2011

Is State Monopoly or Cartel Health Care Slavery?

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From an anarchist perspective, there are a huge number of problems with Senator Rand Paul, who’s obviously no anarchist — but when he’s at least partly right, he’s at least partly right.


Apr 13, 2011

About That Obama Deficit Reduction Speech

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In a speech outlining his administration’s approach to deficit reduction, U.S. President Obama hit four substantive points amidst the vast amount of rhetoric . . .