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I've haven't been paying attention with even almost interest to the goings on in Iowa. It's depressing - like watching the paste eaters from grade school stage a production of A Christmas Carol. ...

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Welcome to the Mike-istan studios. Tonight, we have a debate between all of the men... umm, men and women... err individual things who will be running for president. Remember, come January 2013 o...

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Parts I , II , and III are here for those who wish to play along at home. A while back, Kevin of Smallest Minority posted his thoughts on the future , and more or less concluded we are doomed a...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2011/12/concord-bridge-or-fort-sumter-part-iv.html

A lot of libertarian types have their boxers in a wad from watching the police clear the squatters from the various "occupy" camps - especially the whole pepper spray thing. When amoral, power l...

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Acairfearann thoughtfully provided the following in response to Part III of my Concord Bridge or Fort Sumter series: Interesting, but I am not sure about the validity of the statement 'those who...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2011/11/saving-strawmen-from-further-beatings.html

Part I of my attempt to bring some order to my thoughts about politics and human nature is here , and Part II is here . At the end of Part II, commenter Fast Richard raised an interesting point...

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In the process of writing this post, I said to myself, "Damn Mike, those are some pretty strong words for a chubby guy in a recliner. Maybe you should tone is down some." When my reason, such a...

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Part I of my attempt to bring some order to my thoughts about politics and human nature is here . Things which are unsustainable obviously will not be sustained, and the current political order ...

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It was not unexpected. The Ohio voters decided it was an offer they couldn't refuse . Now, the inevitable consequences will start to accrue . Our electorate has decided "Fuck You Pay Me" sounds g...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2011/11/bust-joint-out.html

Joe Huffman used for a recent quote of the day a bit from Mike Vanderboegh's post titled "Choose This Day Whom you Will Serve ". Mr. Vanderboegh posits and Mr. Huffman concurs that hard times a...

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I was at a party a while back, and the subject of libertarianism came up. Considering the makeup of the crowd, the opinion of the topic was one of almost universal approval. Normally, I save my ...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2011/10/two-cheers.html

The president's executive order on student debt forgiveness is making all of the expected waves. It is a virtually empty gesture which will benefit the recipients little, and cost the taxpayers m...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-withdraw-my-consent.html

Saw Breda's link to the story about the Occupy Folk and their problems organizing a society. At first of course, I laughed at their dilemma. Who wouldn't? But then I realized theirs is the probl...

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He's your supervisor. The control freak bully who tells you about the big project coming up, then puts off every decision about the scope and goals of said project. He doesn't reply to your email...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-know-guy.html

... for a long time to try and get a handle not on what leftists believe - that's not really a problem - they will tell you what they believe until you are ready to stick a soldering iron in your...

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Over the past year, I have been discovering a little bit how they must have felt during the Stalin era: Every day you are confronted with stark evidence the country is falling apart around you, ...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-could-just-weep.html

A lot of people seem to be upset that Barbar is soaking up the tropical sun while the nation collapses. But having worked in places where having the boss out of the office is considered somethin...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2009/12/easy-there.html

Occasionally, one of the voices of importance will say in effect, "We are going to have to accept the fact of our own decline. We must accustom ourselves to returning to being just one nation of ...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2009/11/big-thought-saturday.html

Let's play a game called "What's in the box?" It works like this - imagine a box (duh... why do you think we named it that you big silly), inside is either: 1. A pile of gold coins; or 2. An angr...

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About last night... I haven't see this mentioned explicitly, but the next big fear for the Democrats is if things improve economically in Va. and N.J. - an alternative to their plans will have b...

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Hey! The economy grew at a blistering 3.5% last quarter. Pop the corks kids 'cuz were in high cotton. What ... are you just sitting there? Get up offyerbutt and go out and spend your windfall. B...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2009/10/jumping-for-joy.html

Mr. Beck writes that the new U.N. proposals for controlling small arms make for some interesting reading. I like this sort of thing because it lends it self easily to the game of "Internet Comp...

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You read a lot of these types of stories, and you can almost fill in the blanks after the first sentence. The basic template of the piece is... After repeatedly hitting himself on the head with ...

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I noticed on Ace , a story about the upcoming investigation into the CIA - headline: "Senate to investigate CIA's actions under Bush". I see they are not investigating the CIA's actions under Cl...

http://mike-istan.blogspot.com/2009/02/show-trials.html

when the lesser of two evils turns out to a totalitarian motherfu**er? Please note this bit of bipar***nship* found at The War on Guns . New republican rebranding slogan: Hey! We can be just a...

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