War in the Persian Gulf
The disordered society is full of loyal patriots. ~ Lao Tzu If your goals are legitimate, you do not need …
Author Archives: Steven Greffenius
Now we know how successful charter schools have been
Do you think teacher’s unions, and supporters of teacher’s unions, would criticize charter schools if they weren’t working? From the …
Social Security: godfather of all pension plans
It makes me tired to think how much the feds tax us, primarily to make us dependent on them for everything.
Jolly bankers love you and me
Ten years ago, funds allocated from the U. S. Treasury for the Troubled Assets Relief Program flowed to banks to keep them afloat.
Russia rides again
Clinton told all of us, “You know what to expect with me. You will get more of the same. You can’t say that about my opponent, can you?” Voters opted for unpredictability over stability. “Let’s see what happens.”
New legal theory: whistleblowers and accomplices guilty of espionage
The difference between an intelligence apparatchik and a member of a crime syndicate is that the former draws pay from the public treasury, while the latter steals it. Secrecy is essential either way.
Nature of our partisan battles
What can we make of the latest constitutional crisis? Most prominently, it is a grudge match. Democrats on one side …
Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington
I like that capital G on Government. That’s exactly what the internet needs: new, Government-imposed rules to prevent companies like Facebook from mismanaging their responsibilities.
Propaganda wars
Propaganda wars have always been nasty. We are in the middle of another one.
ICE appoints itself supreme authority for detainment and deportation
As the sanctuary movement illustrates, federal authority in immigration cases is not welcome in many places. It is certainly not welcome here in Massachusetts.
Do we all belong to anything?
Government wants you to think it is looking out for you. It does not want you to discover the basilisk in the basement.
Vaccination and causes of autism
You cannot force people to put something inside their bodies against their will. You can no more do that than force them to kill themselves.
