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LEADERSHIP.Former Chairman,Board of Directors of N.J. Lawyer,The Weekly Newspaper-Former Trustee, NJSBA Board of Trustees-Former Member, NJ Supreme Court District 3 Fee Arbitration Committee -Excellence Award Recipient, N.J. Council of Community Colleges-Former President, Salem County Bar Association -Former Board President, American Red Cross of Salem County-Former Board President, YMCA of Salem County-Former Woodstown Basketball & Little League Coach. -Professional Activities. -Attorney at Law, Practicing 23 years in Salem County-Former Solicitor, Pilesgrove Township-Present Salem County Counsel, County of Salem-Former Municipal Prosecutor, Carneys Pt. and Pittsgrove Townships-Former Arbitrator, Superior Court of New Jersey.Family -Oldest son of Jim and Katherine Mulligan, Retired Salem Co. School Teachers-Married to Dana Lynn Mulligan, nee Densevich,of Vineland, N.J.-Son, Francis A. Mulligan, attends Woodstown H.S. -Lifetime Salem County resident -Education.Penns Grove H.S., 1978; Salem Community College,1980; -University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,1982-Rutgers School of Law-Camden,1986. Memberships: Knights of Columbus,N.R.A.,PG Rotary Club.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: NBC News' Ed Schultz: Tea Party Republicans Are Like 'Sewer Rats': http://t.co/reGM9hNA
$18K avg per student; $28 Billion total expend. For education in N.j.

Friday, December 23, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama: 'I Think There's A Laziness In Me': http://t.co/272ysztf
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama's Our 4th Greatest President - Just Ask Him: http://t.co/MjlMrQY5

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: SEC Charges Ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs With Fraud: http://t.co/VgmuyNsC
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Ron Paul Unhinged: We Killed A Million Iraqis: http://t.co/oc9iAoQO

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Dennis Miller: Negative Newt Should Have Kept His Mouth Shut: http://t.co/CEj2UBuP

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Trump May Run As An Independent If 'The Wrong Candidate' Is Nominated In GOP: http://t.co/PFVQnvmn

Monday, December 12, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: DNC Chair: Unemployment Didn't Go Up Under Obama: http://t.co/o5dMDzto
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Newt Flashback 2008: 'I Did Fair Amount Of Work With Freddie Mac': http://t.co/VJ0olU2o
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: U.S., India And China Agree To Another Meaningless Climate Deal: http://t.co/LWU5rnYX
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama: 'Least Ethical Behavior On Wall Street' Was Legal: http://t.co/0pkXJ0cd

Saturday, December 10, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama Whines: 'We've Been Spending The Last Three Years Cleaning' Bush's Mess Up:

Friday, December 9, 2011

Rick Santorum's the man to trust who can beat Pres. Obama head to head. Jump on the pre-Iowa bandwagon!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Obama's Collectivist Legacy; Unknown Authorship

"The nature of the times" and "the hand he was dealt" is nothing more than a transparent excuse for the fact that Obama could have taken the problems the country was faced with and unleashed it. He and his party could have opened the country up to expansion, but instead they looked inward and backward to central planning, government programs, regulation and bailing out of the failed, tired, life-sucking unions in auto, food service and education. Obama is too busy building the national empire of the federal government to be bothered with the nation and the people as a total entity. The people are in the way of his plans, not even the means to his ends. That is the way Lenin and Stalin viewed their people. Lenin called his people "insects." Obama calls them "bitter clingers." This is an historic retrograde government at a time when the technology revolution is sweeping out of this country and freeing the world while this country is cracked down on by the federal government. Obama's approach is exactly wrong, just as the Soviet approach was exactly wrong and he isn't learning that it's wrong. Obama doesn't care about the fact that federal destruction and theft of the private sector is killing the growth that any live nation has to have to move ahead. Obama doesn't want to move ahead other than ahead to moving the country backward. Bike paths, walking, windmills, electric cars, less progress, less efficiency, less money, less freedom, less choice, less people, less production, less happiness. It's all about Obama and the country isn't about Obama, the Obama nation is killing the people and that is what he wants. He is creating the nature of the times and the hand he was dealt and making them all in his image, the image of the Soviet style death of civilization and progress."
 

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Miller Time: Bye Bye Barney Frank: http://t.co/LuxirOw4

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: NBC News Host Asks: Does Gingrich 'Personify' Evil?: http://t.co/zhyPBMLN
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama To GOP: 'Don't Be A Grinch': http://t.co/nZKUj2Nx

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Christie Rips 'Bystander' Obama: 'What The Hell Are We Paying You For?': http://t.co/EvUXwNeP
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: DNC Portrays Mitt Romney As Flip Flopper In TV Ad: http://t.co/tdGvMxBS
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Congressional Candidates Forced To Address Insider Trading: http://t.co/C9BN6PcI
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: UK Embassy Under Siege In Iran: http://t.co/YpQw9FRc

Monday, November 28, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Newt Mocks Obama: I'll Let Him 'Use A Teleprompter' During Debates: http://t.co/Z49C1Wfm

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Romney On Immigration: 'I'm Not Going To Start Drawing Lines About Who Gets To Stay And Who
(2/2) Has To Go': http://t.co/zbkvvJPG
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Romney On Immigration: 'I'm Not Going To Start Drawing Lines About Who Gets To Stay And Who
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: CNN's 'Fact Check' Segment Full Of Opinion: http://t.co/Njug5sM4

Friday, November 18, 2011

(2/2) Demonstration?: http://t.co/9sUCZoCi
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Sent: Nov 17 9:33pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: At What Point Does An #Occupy Protest Become Nothing More Than An Organized Labor

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Schweizer: Pelosi Made 'A Couple Hundred Thousand Dollars' Days After Purchasing VISA Stock:
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Cain's Response To Challenge Over Libya Gaffe: '9-9-9?: http://t.co/90GNp0Pe
(2/2) Meeting: http://t.co/rHhbbS9l
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Sent: Nov 16 4:17am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Schweizer: Jim Moran (D-VA) Made 90 Trades One Day After Private Congressional Economics

Monday, November 14, 2011

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Bleak Street for U.S.

"Why the U.S. was downgraded:
• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
• Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
• New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
... • Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
• Annual family income: $21,700
• Money the family spent: $38,200
• New debt on the credit card: $16,500
• Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
• Total budget cuts: $385
Got it?"

Note:  Not independently verified.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Flashback: Biden Admits First Thing Obama Admin Did Was Call Jon Corzine For Economic Advice:
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Bill Press: 'No Difference' Between Herman Cain And Penn State Coach Sandusky:

Friday, November 11, 2011

Fwd:Sent: Nov 10 7:37pm
Msg: Sweeney spent $1,096,020.15.......ELEC REPORTS SO FAR..........REALLY HE DID.......SO FUNNY
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Sent: Nov 11 3:41am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: #OccupyRoseParade: Plans Underway To Disrupt Rose Parade With 'Human Float': http://t.co/TTIWRJ07

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Salem co takes Freeholder Bd.
Fwd:From: Dana
Sent: Nov 8 11:51am
Msg: District one pilesgrove. Over the 2 to 1 ratio
3 past NJSBarAssoc Pres.s,McGuire&Curtin&Greenblatt endorse Mulligan for NJSenate

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: NBC News' Race-Baiting Analyst: Cain's 'Predatory Black Sexuality' Is 'Very Threatening':
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Sent: Nov 7 1:57pm
Msg: The NJEA called every teacher over the weekend and told them not to vote for Sweeney

Saturday, November 5, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Rudy: Obama Owns #OccupyWallStreet: http://t.co/FjjkgrNN

Friday, November 4, 2011

Rush: junk & faked science is the attempt to codify Liberalism. 11/04/11

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Appeared on Chris Steegal's "Big Talker" 1210 radio show this morning. My thanks to Chris & Mike his producer.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

(2/2) Episodes,Political Humor & S... http://t.co/moXyCxTA
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Colbert Takes On #OccupyWallStreet: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Pelosi: 'Yes' Gov't Should Shut-Down Non-Union Plant: http://t.co/IeS2Et31

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Multimillionaire Michael Moore Denies He's Part Of '1%': http://t.co/WPy5CoYL

Nearly Half of States Link Teacher Evaluations to Tests-WSJ web post

"Nearly Half of States Link Teacher Evaluations to Tests

Many states have overhauled policies in the last two years to tighten oversight of teachers, using techniques including tying teacher evaluations to student test scores, linking their pay to performance or making it tougher to earn tenure, according to a report."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203911804576653542137785186.html?mod=djemPolitics_t

WSJ Web Post, today

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Appearing in Millville with Rich Hoch @ 4:00 pm on 1240 AM; Local Cable Ch. 2. Call in (856) 765-1240.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Salem County District 3 Republican Party Call Center Opens!


Hours:
-Every Week Night Through November 7, 2011, 5:00 p.m. to ____? 
-Every Weekend,11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location:
N.J. District 3 Republican Party Call Center,
Mike Mulligan's Law Office, 317 Shell Road, Carneys Point, N.J. 08069 
(856) 299-2600.

Features:
-Three dedicated phone lines:
-Call lists, Salem, Gloucester & Cumberland Co.s;
-Two Computer terminals for internet access;

Refreshments & Candidate(s) Meet & Greet Daily.

Featured Race: LD 3 - Sweeney goes mushroom cloud on Mulligan, DiCicco prodigal - and GOP takes heart in voters' mood | Politicker NJ

Featured Race: LD 3 - Sweeney goes mushroom cloud on Mulligan, DiCicco prodigal - and GOP takes heart in voters' mood Politicker NJ

Saturday, October 22, 2011

(2/2) Control': http://t.co/JNuDeAVg
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: John Bolton: WH Removing All References To Islam In Terror Training Manuals, 'Form Of Thought
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Sent: Oct 22 11:27am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Banker's Wife Ditches Four Kids To Join #OccupyWallStreet Protesters: http://t.co/kHHwbxkt

Monday, October 17, 2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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Sent: Oct 16 1:54pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Lisa Fithian: #Occupy Organizer, Union Educator-And Israel-Hater: http://t.co/FmfS98ov

Saturday, October 15, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Condescending Obama Patronizes Congress: 'We're Going To Give Them Another Chance':

Friday, October 14, 2011

(2/2) Government: http://t.co/DvE76VBd
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Msg:@BreitbartVideo:Breitbart:I Have E-MailsShowingOrganizedPlanFor #OccupyWallStreet ProtestsTo Destabilize
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Sent: Oct 13 10:48pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Uh, Er, Um. The Most Eloquent, Uh. President, Er. In History?: http://t.co/XA5jN5hI
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Sent: Oct 14 3:06am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Uniformed Coast Guard Member Spat On By #OccupyBoston Protester: http://t.co/r1R578qx
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Sent: Oct 14 5:14am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: OK Kids, Time To Clean Up: http://t.co/p63kGZhD

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: How Did Obama Know About 'Fast And Furious' Before Holder?: http://t.co/sq6onzF5

Mike Mulligan supports the Opportunity Scholarship Act

A2810/S1872, title the Opportunity Scholarship Act ought to be passed by New Jersey's Legislature asap.  Tax credits to donors to a scholarship fund that supports inner city kids earning a good education is the deal & its been determined to be revenue neutral.  No threat to the public schools either. 
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: College Audience Shouts Down Frances Fox-Piven For Calling Tea Party Racist: http://t.co/0zwO6ych
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: #OccupyWallStreet Protester Rails Against Jews; Fellow Protesters Chant for Him to 'Heal':

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Military Cadets Cheer Romney After Slamming Obama: http://t.co/VYrPmLv7
Attending Pedricktown Day & then Deerfield's Autumn festival, today. Hope to see you.
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Sent: Oct 7 11:47pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Sharpton Falsely Labels Herman Cain A Birther: http://t.co/r5EvViuk

Friday, October 7, 2011

(2/2) Questions: http://t.co/qAipqmMS
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Sent: Oct 7 10:24am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Occupy Sacramento Protesters Have No Idea Why They're There; Badger Reporter For Asking

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama Feels Wall St Protesters' Pain: 'Expresses Frustrations American People Feel':
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Cavuto Challenges Kucinich's Occupy Wall St Support: 'Why Didn't You Celebrate The Tea
(2/2) Party?': http://t.co/p5wkADsc
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Cavuto Challenges Kucinich's Occupy Wall St Support: 'Why Didn't You Celebrate The Tea
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Cavuto Challenges Kucinich's Occupy Wall St Support: 'Why Didn't You Celebrate The Tea

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

(2/2) Yourself!': http://t.co/8wWspARV
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Cain To 'Occupy Wall St' Protesters: 'If You Don't Have A Job And You're Not Rich, Blame
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Sent: Oct 4 7:45pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: 'You're a Bum, Jew'; Man Berated By 'Occupy Wall Street' Protester: http://t.co/CMWOTcFY

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Blog Talk Radio Show; great stuff on James Delingpole's book "Watermelons, The Green Movement's True Colors"

Out of Many One Nation Talk with Mike Mulligan 10/04 by Mike Mulligan Blog Talk Radio
(2/2) truth about Sweden! http://t.co/HsTP7snP
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Msg: @AtlasNetwork: NEW VIDEO: Is Socialism superior to Capitalism? Watch the interview that shines a light on the
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Ann Coulter: Wall Street Protests 'The Beginning Of Totalitarianism': http://t.co/0suoaqmh
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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Ron Paul Considers Obama Impeachment Over Alwaki Killing: http://t.co/EwM9Rml5
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Sent: Oct 3 10:14pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Mark Levin: Obama's Appearance With New Black Panthers Destroys Media's 'Perry Rock' Story:
(2/2) http://t.co/nZAwGGw5

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: BET Founder To Obama: Stop Demagoguing The Rich: http://t.co/tNpsW9G7

Saturday, October 1, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Gov. Christie To Decide Soon On 2012 Bid: http://t.co/HEj197dM

Friday, September 30, 2011

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Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Van Jones Promises 'October Offensive' Against Capitalism: http://t.co/iZnMmsGj
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Sent: Sep 29 11:54pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama: America Has 'Gotten A Little Soft': http://t.co/Z87jliPy
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Sent: Sep 30 6:45am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Anti-Capitalism Fury Spreads To West Coast: http://t.co/x0t1j7Yq

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Massachusetts Limits Alimony

Massachusetts abolished most lifetime spousal support, joining several states where alimony payments have come under scrutiny as payers argue they are struggling in the rocky economy.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204010604576595150755100270.html?mod=djemPolitics_t

Friday, September 23, 2011

Rescuing the Euro: The Fatal Mistakes of Berlin's Bailout Strategy - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International#ref=nlint#ref=nlint

Rescuing the Euro: The Fatal Mistakes of Berlin's Bailout Strategy - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International#ref=nlint#ref=nlint: We are witnessing a debacle of state debt accumulation. And this is not only a European phenomenon, but a global one. For many years, one could only wonder at how private individuals and financial institutions were willing to entrust their money to governments whose debts had long been considered non-refundable. In this debt world, finance ministers were celebrated when the new debt they took on was less than the previous year. That the total debt would continue to rise was, and is, self-evident.
Now the investors -- and not sinister "speculators" -- are ready to prepare an end to this mismanagement by refusing further credit. Rightly so. We should thank them for this insight, even if it has come rather late.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Truth of Ages

"The utopian schemes of leveling [wealth redistribution] and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional."

Samuel Adams
Meet LT. Gov Guadagno tomorrow at 6:00 at the Riverview in Pennsville NJ,as my Campaign's guest for $50. Bring a ck for $50.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent:Sep17 Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Howard Dean: Obama Signed Exec Order Mandating US Comply With Kyoto: http://t.co/Fj1U3njB

Friday, September 16, 2011

Rush: is Fund right? Pres. Obama's clinically depressed because of low T.
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Sent:Sep 15 11:40pm
Msg:@BreitbartVideo: Carney: Obama Not Briefed On Solyndra: http://t.co/BavlEPr1

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Sent: Sep 15 5:47pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Carville To Obama: Time To Panic: http://t.co/Im7vzfZ1
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent:Sep 15 10:45am
Msg:@BreitbartVideo: 'Enron II': Solyndra Scandal Threatens to Engulf White House:http://t.co/QQJFITHY
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Sent: Sep 14 7:43pm
Msg:@BreitbartVideo: Dem Rep: 'You Don't Deserve to Keep All' Your Money:http://t.co/iKGZmEOU

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Sent:Sep 14 9:31am
Msg:@BreitbartVideo: Explosive Report: Emails Reveal Obama White House Monitored Huge Solyndra Loan:http://t.co/bfKhmcN
Fwd:From: Twitter
SentSep 13 7:54pm
Msg:@BreitbartVideo: Israel Building Wall On Egyptian Border: http://t.co/Ac8804n
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent:Sep 14 12:44am
Msg:@BreitbartVideo:GOP Victory: Turner Winner In Weiner Seat: http://t.co/mh6LV7h

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

9/11, Not an Event Permitting Revenge to Take Control of a Disciple of Christ

I listened to Father John Picinic's Homily Sunday on a point concerning 9/11 breeding vengefulness. I thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; especially based on the part of Apostle Paul letter to the Romans that was the second reading during the Mass. Acting out of a sense of revenge is death to the disciple of Christ, DB's famous "cost of discipleship". Pure, willing surrender to great evil is demanded, as Christ's unique type of total victory is thereby insured. DB left the U.S. and returned to native Germany and opposed the Nazi's; he was jailed and prayed for his captors while presenting as a contented man; they hung him in the last days before Berlin fell. A true Martyr's death.

Forced Altruism is Tyrany

Mike Mulligan: I keep saying that forced altruism is a form of tyranny. The consent of the governed is paramount over "enlightened" norms of intellectuals, public officials and the clergy.

Question You’ll Never Hear at Democratic Debate: How Much of My Money Should I Be Allowed to Keep?
www.breitbart.tv

Tom Mattioli and Andy Merendino like this.

Tom Mattioli: The thing is, altruism cannot even BE "forced". Otherwise it's not altruism, it's merely "coercion"!

Mike Mulligan You're right of course. But the altruistic member of Robin Hood's band of merry mem forces others to behave as the oppressor claims altruism demands. See it? Think of public schools "requiring" public service of students in their off hours. The quality of virtue is perverted.
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Facebook Exchange, September 13, 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011

Fwd:From:Twitter
Sent:Sep 12 9:43am
Msg:@BreitbartVideo:Analyst:Europe on Brink of Bank Failures, Germany Will Dump Euro: http://t.co/ptf7cV2

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sen. Sweeney's Famous $20,000,000.00+ "White Elephant" Equestrian Monstrosity

Think also about the unfortunate taxpayers of West Deptford who are saddled with the RiverWinds debacle. Without private ownership of such grandiose projects there (i) is no incentive to give the best service to consumers, (ii) is no need to win a profit, (iii) is no tax revenue, (iv) is a "crowding out" of private sector investment. What price jobs, Senator Sweeney & President Obama?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20110911_Gloucester_County_s_DREAM_horse_park__Underachieving__meeting_goals__or_overreaching_.html?page=1&c=y

Gloucester County's DREAM horse park: Underachieving, meeting goals, or overreaching? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/11/2011

Gloucester County's DREAM horse park: Underachieving, meeting goals, or overreaching? Philadelphia Inquirer 09/11/2011
Fwd:
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Sent: Sep 11 12:15pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Bush Greeted with Cheers, Applause at 9/11 Memorial: http://t.co/MBoFyey

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

What's the only difference between MrSweeney&JimmyHoffaJr? One is a NJ St Senator. True.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Words to live and lead by.

“You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.”
- Donald T. Regan
Taking Franman to Mummies @ Franklin Institute; then Sang Kee for the best Chinese

Friday, September 2, 2011

Clear, concise statement of existing law concerning counter-terrorism initiatives, by CFR.

"As a matter of domestic law, the legal underpinning for U.S. counterterrorism operations and the targeted killing of members of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and its affiliates across the globe is the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the U.S. Congress passed just days after 9/11. The statute empowers the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force" in pursuit of those responsible for the terrorist attacks.
The United States has had an official ban on peacetime assassinations since 1976; however, targeted killings are not subject to the prohibition because of the AUMF, insofar as U.S. responses to the events of September 11, 2001, are concerned.  In addition, by classifying terrorism as an act of war, rather than as a crime, the government is not bound by the legal constraints of due process."
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Attending Franklin Twp Republican Party meeting tonight.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Monday, August 29, 2011

NYTimes poses ugly should get affirmaction,meaning more libs must be ugly-Rush
Rush:16mph avg sustained winds in NYC.. EVID OF MEDIA HYPE to create fear
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Union CBA Concessions Create an Un-Prepared Bunch for Regular NFJ Season

NFL's CBA creating sissies? Can't hit twice 1 day? Candy asses making the union decisions aren't as tough as us PGHS Red Devils from74-78. Double sessions & hitting in the beginning of a season get you ready-concerns of long-term negatives of too much hitting aren't relevant.

Woman missing after car swept underwater in NJ

Woman missing after car swept underwater in NJ
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Democrats stick Salem County for Willow Grove Lake Dam renovation while having no liability.

Myself as County Counsel, County Engineer Chris Rehmann, Assis. Bridge Superintendent Bill Miller & Roads Superintendent Speedy Hogate developed an approach that successfully thumbed the County's nose at dubious claims by NJDEPE and others that the County had liability according to the Safe Dam Act to repair somebody else's problem.  We saved hundreds of thousands of Salem County taxpayer dollars!Counties own bridges, not earthen embankments or water control structures which property owners attached long ago to create ponds and lakes to fuel mills or irrigate cropland. 

The Salem County Democrat Administration either can't or won't figure it out. Salem County Democrats have been browbeaten by a Cumberland County judge to help fund an engineering study in concert with Cumberland County for renovation of the Willow Grove Lake.  No dummy, Cumberland Co.'s atty. Brendan Kavanagh says Salem County will pay 70% of the dam repair costs.

According to the Safe Dam Act, if you don't own, control or maintain the water control structure you can't be liable.  Tell the fabulously wealthy property owner, The Nature Conservancy and NJDEPE to drain the water in Willow Grove Lake for good.  They'll fix the Dam and the taxpayers won't be hoodwinked into paying for anything but their due, renovation of great but old & crumbling WPA bridges throughout the county.
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Friday, August 26, 2011

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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Monday, August 22, 2011

The New Bishop Sheen for the 21st Century

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Spending other people’s money on other people

Spending other people’s money on other people: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” F.A. Hayek

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Electricity Consumers in NJ, Understand the Cost of SRECs You're Paying!

"real costs would range between $168 million and $289 million a year".  Michael Flett, Flett Exchange, "Is the Solar Sector Headed for a Fall?", NJ Spotlight, http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0803/2327/

Monday, August 15, 2011

Judicial Watch Challenges Obama Admin's 41 Alleged Unconstitutional Czar Appointments

http://www.judicialwatch.org/czar-investigations

Taranto's WSJ, Best of the Web, 08/15/11

"Bottom Stories of the Day

-  "Argentine President Overcoming Doldrums"--headline, New York Times, Aug. 14

-  "Mitt Romney Discloses Massive Personal Wealth"--headline, RollCall.com, Aug. 12

-  "Another News Outlet Publishes an Unflattering Bachmann Photo"--headline, HotAir.com, Aug. 14

-  "Obama Team Sharpens Attack on Republican Field, Defends President"--headline, FoxNews.com, Aug. 14"

Compare North Carolina taxes; 6.5 acre building lots have taxes of +/-$350.00!

http://www.loopnet.com/profile/3653436580/Mike-Mulligan/listingslink

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Look to Expansion of Money Supply & Devaluation of Dollar to Assess Inflation; Product Price Stability Fools Us.

Featured Article: The Definition of Inflation

Put very simply, inflation is defined by the expansion of the money supply. In the United States the money supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank, therefore the Federal Reserve Bank is the source of any inflation that creeps into the system.

The Federal Reserve Bank has many ways in which it can increase the money supply but one of the most well known ways in which it does this is simply by reducing interest rates. By reducing rates, the cost of borrowing from the Fed becomes cheaper, and therefore more borrowing is triggered.

When the Fed does increase the money supply, they use many terms to try to disguise what they are doing. Some of the terms used include: monetary easing, increasing liquidity, quantitative easing, increasing the monetary base, among others. However, when the Fed uses any of these terms what the Fed is saying, in essence, is that they are increasing the money supply and therefore creating inflation.

One of the misconceptions of inflation is that inflation is an upward price movement of goods and services in an economy. However this definition is wrong, and demonstrates the lack of understanding about what inflation really is. Upward price movements of goods and services are a symptom of inflation but not inflation itself.

In fact, when the Federal Reserve Bank increases the money supply and therefore creates inflation it doesn't always result in an immediate increase in the price of goods and services. The money printing by the Fed can result in asset bubbles in other sectors of the economy well before an upward movement of prices is seen in goods and services.

This was demonstrated in the past decade by the numerous asset bubbles that were created as a result of loose monetary policy of the fed over the past decade or so. These asset bubbles included the NASDAQ bubble, the real estate bubble, and most recently the bond bubble.

However there are a finite number of asset classes that can be inflated before inflation ultimately reeks havoc on the prices of goods and services within an inflationary economy. This is the most dangerous consequence of inflation, and if inflation is not kept under control, spiraling costs of food and energy and the hyper-devaluation of a currency can be the most disruptive consequences of inflationary policies.

InflationNationWebsite, Featured Article (author not identified).  08/14/11

Friday, August 12, 2011

Come out to the Salem County Fair this evening

No Free HealthCare for West Deptford Elected Officials is a Good Start

 
Months ago I called on Sen. Sweeney to join me in advocating no pension benefits for part-time elected officials. This action to take away free medical insurance is part of a package that is necessary to rid the system of career politicians. You don't need term limits if you take away pensions and free medical care for part-time elected public officials.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

See You at the Salem County Fair & the Bridgeton Semi-Pro Baseball Tourney

The Salem County Fair is every night this week at the County Fairgrounds on Rte 40.  See you at the Salem County Republican Party venue.

Wednesday evening is the Bridgeton Semi-Pro Baseball Tournament at Alden Field in the City of Bridgeton Park area.

Hope to see you in attendance.
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Monday, August 8, 2011

End Part-Time Elected Officials Pensions Funded by Taxpayers

PRESS RELEASE
FROM: Michael M. Mulligan, Esq., Candidate for N.J. State Senate, District 3
DATE: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
PLACE: 317 Shell Road, Carneys Point, N.J.
Today is a perfect opportunity to confirm a promise I made months ago when I first entered the Senate race to the Greenwich Patriots Tea Party.
I am committed to support, and personally introduce legislation if elected to the State Senate, ending taxpayer funded pensions to part-time elected public officials at all levels of government. New Jersey State Senate and Assembly members included.
Ending pensions for part-timers will help safeguard the public treasury.
Another beneficial effect will be to increase the turnover of members of governing bodies of local and state government entities. The same goal supports a policy of advocating term limits for elected public officials.
The professionalization of politicians causes a loss of ability to personalize the interests of the electorate. Professional politicians strive to maximize personal political power and privilege.
/s/mike mulligan
 
 
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Monday, August 1, 2011

The Answer to Paul Krugman's Side of the Debate

Bloody Keynesians

by Don Boudreaux on August 1, 2011
Reading Russ’s latest post, in which he quotes Paul Krugman, reinforces the impression that I’ve always had of Keynesian economics and continue to have to this day: it mistakes a symptom for an underlying problem and then proposes to treat the symptom.
It’s as if a person who is bleeding to death because of a gunshot wound in his stomach is brought to a physician.  The physician correctly realizes that the patient is losing massive amounts of blood and, also, correctly understands that such blood loss is dangerous to the patient’s health.
So the physician prescribes massive infusions of blood, period.  If the patient doesn’t recover, the physician orders that the volume of blood-infusions be increased.  If the patient dies, the physician will forever blame himself for not increasing the volume of blood-infusions even further.
If the patient does recover, the blood-infusions will be praised for saving the patient.
The big hole in the patient’s stomach is called a “micromedical” problem.  It might well be a significant problem, the physician concedes, but our physician is  trained to diagnose and cure one specific “macromedical” problem only, which is the problem of bleeding.  Micromedical problems are fundamentally distinct from the macromedical problem, which is insufficient blood coursing through the patient’s body.  (Blood, after all, is vital to a person’s vitality and vigor.)  When a patient who had until recently been quite healthy begins losing blood, the consensus of many physicians is that by far the most important treatment – certainly a necessary one, and, generally, a sufficient one – is to keep pumping more and more new blood into the patient until his health is restored.
Questions of precisely why, where, and how the patient is losing blood aren’t as important as is the realization that the patient is losing blood.  “A bite by a spirited animal” is the famous phrase that is typically used to explain the mysterious bleeding.
It’s very simple, really.
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Like any analogy, this one isn’t perfect.  For example, in economies repairing the microeconomic wounds goes a long way by itself toward restoring demand for goods and services, while in wounded human beings (to whom mortality come much more quickly than it does to economies) blood transfusions often are necessary, even though they are seldom a successful treatment for the underlying problem that caused the loss of blood to begin with.

WSJ-Best of the Web today. Mr. Taranto's right on the mark, as usual.

Fine! Call My Bluff!

Obama maximizes his losses by going all in on a weak hand.

By JAMES TARANTO


Remember a few weeks ago when President Obama reportedly said to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: "Eric, don't call my bluff"? Lots of commentators said that this was a "tell"--that by referring to "my bluff," Obama was admitting he was bluffing.

Actually, his play was even worse than that. A bluff is a pretense. The bluffer knows he has a weak hand but bets as if he has a strong one in order to induce his opponents to fold. Obama had a weak hand but thought he had a strong one. His next words to Cantor, according to Politico, were a vow to "take his case 'to the American people.' " He actually believed--for all we know, he still believes--all that World's Greatest Orator nonsense.

Thus he ended up maximizing his losses. Last weekend congressional leaders appeared to be on the verge of striking a deal, but Obama scuttled their efforts and commandeered the airwaves for a prime-time address. As we predicted, the American people were unmoved.

Obama had looked at his cards and seen that he was holding a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 5. He was sure he had an ace to complete the straight, but in reality he was looking in the mirror. By the time he realized how weak his hand was, there was no time left to improve it or to bluff. Faced with an imminent liquidity crisis--which would have been a political disaster for him as well as an economic one for the country--he was forced to agree to a deal more or less along Republican lines.

From the standpoint of a small-government conservative, the agreement is far from perfect, but it's probably the best possible outcome as long as a left-wing Democrat is in the White House and his party has a Senate majority. One measure of that is the rage it has provoked on the liberal left.

A New York Times editorial calls the deal "a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists. . . . This episode demonstrates the effectiveness of extortion. Reasonable people are forced to give in to those willing to endanger the national interest." Haha, remember "civility"?

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman is even huffier: "By demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, [the deal] will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status. . . . What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question."

Roars Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect: "The United States has been rendered ungovernable except on the extortionate terms of the far-right. For the first time in modern history, one of the two major parties is in the hands of a faction so extreme that it is willing to destroy the economy if it doesn't get its way. And the Tea Party Republicans have a perfect foil in President Barack Obama."

And, as Roll Call reports, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the Kansas City, Mo., Democrat, said early reports of the new deal appeared to be 'a sugar-coated Satan sandwich.' " Hey, it's better than peas!

It was left to the cynically detached Maureen Dowd, of all people, to say something with a grain of truth:


***** QUOTE *****
Consider what the towel-snapping Tea Party crazies have already accomplished. They've changed the entire discussion. They've neutralized the White House. They've whipped their leadership into submission. They've taken taxes and revenues off the table. They've withered the stock and bond markets. They've made journalists speak to them as though they're John Calhoun and Alexander Hamilton.

Obama and [Speaker] John Boehner have been completely outplayed by the "hobbits," as The Wall Street Journal and John McCain called them.

What if this is all a cruel joke on us? What if the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it?
***** END QUOTE *****

Dowd is right about the Tea Party's achievement. She is wrong (and thinking wishfully) to suggest that the Tea Partiers and Boehner have a fundamentally adversarial relationship. True, last Thursday they were at cross-purposes over tactics, and it was quite possible that the impasse would end up wrecking the GOP's negotiating position. That it did not is testimony to the effectiveness of Boehner's leadership.

But let's ponder Dowd's interesting speculation that "the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it." Surely this is not a timeless truth. It was not the case in the 1930s or the 1960s. Or even in the 1990s: Bill Clinton's early setbacks notwithstanding, he proved a much more effective political leader than Newt Gingrich.

Times have changed. In the 1930s, government was small. Expanding it massively in order to solve problems might or might not have been a good idea, but there's no denying it was innovative. Today government is sclerotic. Those who believe more government is the solution to America's problems are at best unthinking reactionaries. The Tea Partiers, having clearly identified this problem, are today's true progressives (to employ the term in its literal rather than ideological sense).

They are not, however, "good at government"--or, more precisely, at politics. Their purism cost the GOP as many as three Senate seats last year, and if a competent Democrat were in the White House, it probably would be helping him to re-election right now. The experience of 1995-96 is instructive here. Gingrich had the Tea Party's worst qualities: grandiosity and impatience. He was no match for a president who knew how to play the game.

Today's Republican House has two great strengths that Gingrich's lacked. One is the Tea Party's clarity of purpose. But the other is experienced leadership. Gingrich was highly effective in the minority--an Alinskyite community organizer, if you will, taking on entrenched power by exposing its weakness and corruption. Neither he nor any member of his caucus had ever served in the majority. Between them, Boehner and Cantor alone have 18 years in the majority.

Contrast that to Barack Obama. In addition to a left-liberal ideology that is decades out of date and a Gingrich-size ego, he came to the presidency with virtually no relevant experience. True, he has the "mainstream" media on his side, but that almost certainly hurts him more than it helps. Their flattering but false narratives--he was the "adult in the room," polls clearly showed the American people were on his side--likely encouraged him to mistake his weaknesses for strengths.

There is a danger now that Republicans will fall into the trap of overconfidence. Sarah Palin posted a Facebook note a week and a half ago declaring Obama a "lame duck president." But in the 15 months and five days before he can actually earn that designation, there will be other battles. It is not inconceivable that Obama will fight them more effectively, having learned some lessons from his failure in this one.

Speaking on the House floor Saturday, Politico reports, silly Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi invoked "Star Wars," declaring that Boehner "chose to go to the dark side." The Tea Partiers could do worse than to follow a bit of counsel from that classic movie: "Great, kid. Don't get cocky."

Mike Mulligan (10)

Mike Mulligan (10): "'Fairness' in public policy approaches should focus on identical % obligations for taxes and equality of opportunity-alone. That's it."

Time to Regionalize Public Sector Services, Not Study Sharing Them as Mr. Sweeney Says

My opponent Mr. Sweeney was recently praised for legislative work to authorize studies concerning municipalities sharing services.  It's time to regionalize public sector services, jumping right over sharing them between towns.  Legislation to authorize county-wide police, fire, trash and land use regulation should be drawn and debated in the Legislature.  I would do as much if elected to the State Senate.