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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.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge

Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge: "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.

Friday, September 7, 2012

The Carmel Pine Cone's first story of the week

The Carmel Pine Cone's first story of the week: “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Time as an asset, not just fact

"An actor chooses means from his environment, in accordance with his ideas, to arrive at an expected end, completely attainable only at some point in the future. All action aims at rendering conditions at some time in the future more satisfactory for the actor than they would have been without the intervention of the action. Time is a means that man must use to arrive at his ends. It is a means that is omnipresent in all human action."

--Murray N. Rothbard. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market

Friday, August 10, 2012

Gay Marriage: Killing the Democracy of the Dead | Crisis Magazine

Gay Marriage: Killing the Democracy of the Dead | Crisis Magazine: In his book, Orthodoxy, Chesterton wrote: “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of their birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”  Paul Kengor

Monday, July 9, 2012

France's bonds sell for negative interest rate; Socialist President Hollande exacerbates circumstance by giving organized Labor an institutional role in creation of legislation.

"Hollande said he wants the constitution to require politicians to consult with unions before making any major labor decisions. "No law from the domain of economic and social life will be able to be voted by the Parliament without a phase of dialogue and consultation prior to it," he said.

In Monday's bond sale, the treasury sold three-month bonds at -0.005 percent, and six-month bonds at -0.006 percent. The treasury agency says it's the first time they have registered negative yields."  Assoc. Press Website, today.

This is just the action Sen. Steve Sweeney took when he joined the Senate in New Jersey.  He shepherded through legislation to have unions at the table during the planning phase for all govenment construction projects.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Mother Church and the Nanny State | Crisis Magazine

Mother Church and the Nanny State | Crisis Magazine: "The new style of the federal government, in speech after speech, to replace freedom of religion with freedom of worship is not innocent of calculation, for while permitting ritual acts of devotion within the walls of a building, it would limit the right to express religious beliefs in public discourse. In Orwellian semantics, soon enough even the commandment to love the sinner but hate the sin becomes “hate speech.” There are some religions, like some governments, that are intrinsically hostile to freedom of religion."  Rev. George Rutler.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Ms. Taniguchi,

I'm a lawyer here in N.J. and I am degreed in Political Science from the Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill. I've been looking at the stuff Mr. Brown and others have been preaching for many years.

Your article fails to detail the recent evidence that most of the Doomsday conclusions from Climate Science are nothing but junk. Take a look at Mr. Delingpole's works ( http://jamesdelingpole.com/ ) and Creighton's "State of Fear". Delingpole notes the evidence from this new Century's data shows the Earth's temperature cooling. Note the recent "rebellion" of the N.A.S.A. scientists. Isn't total glacier coverage on Earth increasing? Why didn't you challenge Mr. Brown concerning such matters.

"Climatgate", showed purposeful, pervasive climate science academic dishonesty at work.

Bottom Line: Reason dictates that "Going Green" or preaching "Sustainability" are best described as either political agenda or a Druid-like, Mother Earth centered quasi-religion. As political or quasi-religious agendas the goal of proponents is systematic control of human populations.

Just because Mr. Brown is a S.J. native son he shouldn't be given an assist by you in pulling the wool over our eyes.

mike mulligan, esq.
pilesgrove, n.j.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Evolution, Human Dignity, and Crafting Public Policy | Crisis Magazine

Evolution, Human Dignity, and Crafting Public Policy | Crisis Magazine: "In secular discourse, the concept of morality can be no more fixed than a wax nose that can be manipulated and shaped by the one defining it. While one might not like the answer “thus saith the Lord,” it is hard to think that it is any less compelling than “because I say so.”  Blackburn.

Evolution, Human Dignity, and Crafting Public Policy | Crisis Magazine

Evolution, Human Dignity, and Crafting Public Policy | Crisis Magazine: “A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones.” —Charles Darwin
Quoted by W. Charles Blackburn.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Lawless Christians | Crisis Magazine

We consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
–Rom. 3:28
We have believed in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
–Gal. 2:16.

"Works of the law", as a phrase connotes that the good person on his own, without having faith in the resurrection attains little.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Pc media refuses to even ask Guillen whether being from Chavez' Venez. Is relavant to idolizing Castro

Monday, April 9, 2012

Juan Cole and Ivory Tower Anti-Catholicism

Juan Cole and Ivory Tower Anti-Catholicism: Santorum's ingenuity, as is the same with much Conservativism in America, is based upon there being a pervasive Madisonian "tyranny of majority" risk in so many aspects of life in America. He's all about there being no "consent of governed" in many areas of this life. PC notion runs rampant in such politized areas of science as environmental, cosmology and the social sciences including political science.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Israel's P.M.'s scary and no doubt accurate assessment of Middle East politics

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is quick to disabuse anyone who believes that the uprisings could also have positive consequences. The Arab rebellion is developing into an "Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave," the premier said in November. According to Netanyahu, the Arab world is "moving not forward, but backward," and anyone who believes Arabs and democracy are compatible is naïve."  Spiegel Online post.

Friday, April 6, 2012

(2/2) Concessions can't come only from us.
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Apr 6 2:17am
Msg: @IsraeliPM: We didn't achieve peace because the Pal's are not willing to make the necessary concessions.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

(2/2) must defend without compromise private ownership.
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Apr 3 10:29am
Msg: 1/2: @AtlasNetwork: RT @EconFree: Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery

Monday, April 2, 2012

Authority and Its Discontents

I wish I would hear an American Catholic priest preach 2d Thessalonians once. If memory serves: "If you will eat you must work." That's the "social justice" message that must be preached in America today. Bill Moyers' promo for his cable show touts that justice only comes when a society is free of economic inequality. He's manic.
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Authority and Its Discontents

“In the world you will have trouble, but be brave, for I have conquered the world.” (John 16:33)

Thursday, March 29, 2012

From Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."  B.H. Obama, President of the U.S.A.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

New EPA reg.s effectively ban new coal fired power plants. Man-made GW lunacy.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

(2/2) #Israeli society http://t.co/VbXzAQ2C
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Mar 15 3:20am
Msg: @IsraeliPM: PM #Netanyahu met with #Ethiopian community representatives to discuss their integration into

Friday, March 9, 2012

$4 Billion value of slaves, as a commodity, in 1861 eclipsed the value of ALL other property & indust. property.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Mar 2 11:16am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Dennis Miller Dedicates Thursday Show To 'Fearless' Breitbart: http://t.co/QOntMVAp

Saturday, February 25, 2012

New Jersey State Aid Fairly Distributed Among Salem County Taxpayers?

If anyone supposes "one man, one vote" as principle rule of this Republic mandates an even-handed distribution of government financing, as compared to the some other method of allocation of New Jersey State Aid, compare the Municipal State Aid and Municipal School State Aid figures of two different towns here in pastoral Salem County.  See attached.  Scan 001.pdf 

Know that the present scheme has been in place for decades now.  No innovation with this Year's allocations.

Salem City's State Aid "take", money other people in New Jersey pay to and for the direct benefit only of Salem City people, is $17,563,677.00. Population:  5,146.00, according to 2010 Census. $3,413.07 per person.

Compare Woodstown & Pilesgrove's State Aid "take", $7,406,715.  Population:  7,059, according to 2010 Census.  $1,049.26 per person.

I do not have the benefit of the figures on the total State tax "take" from Salem City taxpayers or from Woodstown & Pilesgrove taxpayers.  I suspect the State of New Jersey's tax revenue from Woodstown and Pilesgrove exceeds the revenue from Salem City taxpayers.  I'm not talking the total paid from all ratable properties.  The total taxpayer payments to the State of New Jersey are at issue, which is something quite different.

Is there consent among the governed here or Statewide to such an unjust allocation? 

My impression is the scheme is the product of the old adage of the "squeaky wheel".  Keep asking for the State to send money and it will.  And who says this isn't a Christian and Communist friendly country?   It's just application of the Christian (but compare please 2d Thessalonians; paraphrased as:  If you want to eat you must work) and Communist principles of "to each according to their need, from each according to their ability". 

I believe that when secular government mandates such an expensive scheme of income redistribution it cannot do it on the sly.  The support of the governed must exist or tyranny occurs.

Finally, do not fail to note that this is the proposed distribution scheme of a Republican Govenor who has been accused by many on the Left of Draconian methods and lack of sympathy for the plight of the disadvantaged in society.

Michael M. Mulligan, Esq.,
Pilesgrove Township

Friday, February 24, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Feb 24 10:55am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: World's Most Famous Atheist: Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist: http://t.co/KVJsoQDk

State Municipal Aid to Salem County towns exceeds $16 Million.

A rough count confirms in excess of $16 Million in municipal aid to Salem County towns.  Penns Grove's figure is not yet determined so the number probably exceeds $17 Million.  Of that, $12.5 Million +/- goes to L.A.C. and Pennsville Townships.  Surprising to me.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Fwd:
From: Twitter
Sent: Feb 22 9:43am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Santorum: Climate Science 'Political Science': http://t.co/SWHImE5D

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Feb 11 10:45am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Shrum: Rush, Tea Party 'Can't Deal With Fact That Black Man Is President': http://t.co/P6XiPWS3

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

(2/2) will emerge, but it's too early to say
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Feb 8 10:42am
Msg: @IsraeliPM: PM #Netanyahu: what will the Islamic wave bring to the #MiddleEast? We hope that real democracies

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Feb 7 10:59am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Boxer: Republicans Are McCarthyites, Planned Parenthood Like YMCA: http://t.co/pcqzjR3G

Friday, January 20, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 20 9:53am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Obama Teases Mickey Mouse Over Big Ears: http://t.co/zmNaLngR

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Romney, Santorum & Gingrich didn't play 90 rd.s golf in 2 yr.s while the country' had it real tough- Russ Limbaugh, 5 min.s ago

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

"It is important to realize that Fascism and Communism were socialist dictatorships". L. Von MIses.
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 17 3:10am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Clyburn: Romney Reminiscent Of Racists Who Kept Rosa Parks In Back Of Bus: http://t.co/mPlh1HGe

Monday, January 16, 2012

Lest we forget...! MLK was a great Republican & the Republican Party was villified in the Mid-19th C. as the "black" Repub. Party
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 16 2:20pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Political Pulpit: Obama's Top Adviser Uses MLK's Church To Bash GOP: http://t.co/GO8WQbfO

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 15 2:05am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: CBS News: 11 More Solyndras In Obama Energy Program: http://t.co/9nvLgdBs

Friday, January 13, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 13 5:33pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Oprah On Obama: 'Masterful Leader': http://t.co/ojXuLByt

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 11 3:06am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: DeMint: Romney Will Win South Carolina: http://t.co/7i8AmUQc

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

(2/2) http://t.co/gLbU30c9
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 10 5:03pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Sununu: Gingrich Making 'Serious Mistake' With 'Anti-Free Enterprise' Message:
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 10 1:50am
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Huntsman Surge: Goat Endorses Utah Governor: http://t.co/4yR8Rkon

Friday, January 6, 2012

Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 5 10:09pm
Msg: @BreitbartVideo: Iowa Vote Count Typo? Santorum May Have Won: http://t.co/zNdhZ90l

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

(2/2) to expose the truth. http://t.co/Ma8fheHC
(1/2)
Fwd:From: Twitter
Sent: Jan 3 2:12pm
Msg: @AtlasNetwork: French unions are mainly financed by public funds, but the National Assembly vaporized a report