Daily Archives: September 11, 2016

Having eliminated organized crime, what kinds of crime are left? One major category is what might loosely be called "property crime." Of course, in one sense all crimes are property crime but I don’t think most people look upon assault or libel as property crimes. So let us confine ourselves […]

Every nation has laws and creates an organization or even several organizations to attempt to enforce those laws. The parts of the law that can be considered criminal law and the organizations that exist to enforce that law are considered to be the criminal justice system. The police, the courts, […]

Some of the most well-respected members of the community are criminals. No, I’m not referring to sex crimes between consenting adults or use of recreational drugs. I’m not even referring to fireworks or fishing out of season. I am referring to crimes that are worth many billions of dollars in […]

Crimes of violence in which physical harm is done to the victim are one of the most frightening of events for most people. The range of such crimes spans the depths of human depravity. Many of these crimes are products of mental illness which may be a result of genetic […]

One of the political hot buttons today is the subject of migration. Those who are well read in the history of the United States will recognize most of the positions taken and the complaints about the migrants by those who arrived earlier. What is not recognized is that those complaints […]

People have been playing games of chance and betting on the outcome of contests for thousands of years. Many people take great pleasure from gambling. For some, gambling serves as a diversion and a pastime which augments their pleasure in life. For others, gambling is a curse that draws them […]

We have all seen news reports of the professional sports figures doing various things over the years. The reports on the front pages are usually rather embarrassing. Usually there is money involved in some way in those embarrassments. Players gambling on games, players taking money to shave points, referees taking […]

As a young college graduate, my first job was as an insurance agent. My family had always considered insurance to be a good thing and, so far as I know, both my father and mother had insurance on their lives all the time I was alive. In the short time […]

I was born just a few months before the United States formally entered World War II. Some of my earliest memories include watching the troop trains and military equipment on the trains across the street in the switching yard. This and the stories my father told of his brother’s service […]

I hope you have just read the "POM and War" article for which this is the companion article. In that article we showed how physical object money (POM), money which is or represents physical objects, provides the motivation for war on the part of nations despite the damage and expense […]