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Interview with Malia Zimmerman on the topic of More Guns, Less Crime.

Voluntary Alternatives to Taxation Stuart K. Hayashi Most Americans believe paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Yet this very nation was founded upon people evading taxes in 1776. When individuals don’t pay taxes, the government goes after them with guns, even though they haven’t used force on anyone else. Thus, taxation is an initiation of physical force against the individual’s right to life, liberty and property. Because taxation is forcible extortion, it violates your right to property. If you don’t pay taxes, you can be jailed, hence depriving you the right to liberty. And if tax “evaders” fight tax...

Don’t Buy it: Point Spread is Not a Viable Excuse for Resigning This Early in the Political Game Someone Got to Harris By Malia Zimmerman, 5/31/2002 6:57:48 AM Gov. Benjamin Cayetano reportedly was 35-points behind opponent Linda Lingle in political polls, even up through the final weeks of the 1998 gubernatorial campaign -– a race he ultimately won by around 1.5 percent of the vote. Former Gov. John Waihee also trailed far behind his Democratic primary opponent Cec Heftel in the 1986 gubernatorial election. Heftel lost a great majority of his support in the final days of the campaign because...