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a seventy-two hour work week

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2006, 8th April, 2011
You may have noted that I have been speaking often of Gary North lately. That’s because he’s a very systematic thinker who gathers ideas and makes them known. He’s a freakishly prolific writer. He wants to take over the world and fill it with the sort of rules and practices and habits and values he [...]
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more fun with gentle totalitarianism

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1432, 13th January, 2011
Some smart guy whose name I can’t remember at the moment described the regime Americans live under as “gentle totalitarianism.”  While normal totalitarianism, if you’ll accept an awkward phrase, is run by a crushingly cruel government that demands complete control over the tiniest details of the lives of its citizens, the gentle totalitarianism here is [...]
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tolerance and religious rights in new zealand

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1315, 28th July, 2010
The New Zealand government, we are told by the MandM blog, is forcing re-education for officials of a religious school who hired fired an openly homosexual preacher teacher.  And this reminds us that “Human Rights” laws are generally divided into two types:  (1) non-invasive, such as a law which prohibits assault or government discrimination against [...]
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