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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 10:54amSanction this postReply
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That's brilliant! With your permission, Dr. Machan, I'll try to get a copy of your article into the hands of some of the people that need it.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 11:15amSanction this postReply
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Excellent.

I hope the Teaparty candidates, if they are truly limited government advocates, don't fall for the following trap waiting for them, in the same way that the establishment GOP fell in, head first.


"Tell us what your plan is to run our centrally planned, command and control , totalitarian 'the' economy? Otherwise...you are simply the party of 'no' with 'no' ideas..."

I'm hoping they finally turn out not only to be the party of no, but the party of 'Hell, no.'



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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 5:12pmSanction this postReply
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Outstanding article. This is my first post here after quite a bit of reading and observing...

I have often felt that many of the issues that politicians debate and use to divide us should never be political issues in the first place. You state that very eloquently in this article Dr. Machan.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 11:29pmSanction this postReply
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Of course, if the topic that "isn’t a part of politics proper, not in a free country" is part of existing law, then it IS, at least temporarily, a part of politics in that it will take a political act to repeal it.

The default is that the federal Department of Education; minimum wage laws; gun control laws -- these and other things will continue ad infinitum if existing law is left intact.

So, this tactic of non-silence would either mean not talking about ridding ourselves of injustices, or violating the tactic to discuss how to get to a proper politics.

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Monday, September 20, 2010 - 10:47amSanction this postReply
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Perhaps the discussions and actions need to be restricted to the elimination of the regulation that should not have been part of the landscape in the first place.

If I were in politics, my views on [fill in the blank here - minimum wage, education as you list,gun control, as well as others...] would be unimportant. It would be important that I take action to remove regulations and laws regarding those issues from the books. So in that sense, discussion and action seem like they would be necessary, yes?



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Monday, September 20, 2010 - 3:54pmSanction this postReply
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Welcome to RoR (as a participant), Michael.

Ed


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 8:49amSanction this postReply
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Thank you very much Ed.

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