The Other Big Brother, or They Don’t Read the Talmud in Bangalore
Is there a peephole in the wall of your employee washroom? Does your boss have access to your health records? Does your landlord know who you’re sleeping with? Does Target know how many of their...
View ArticleWhat, At This Point, Does It Matter?
Apparently, at this point, the shameful events surrounding Benghazi still matter to some extent, at least to Stephen Hayes, revealing President Obama’s lying and deceit on the matter, as well as to Bob...
View ArticleA Quotation By Jeane Kirkpatrick On J.S. Mill
In his essay Representative Government, Jon Stuart Mill identified three fundamental conditions which the Carter administration would do well to ponder. These are: “One, that the people should be...
View ArticleCost Shifting in Medicine
Many people believe that Medicare fees and private insurers fees are linked. If Medicare cuts its reimbursements, private insurers increase their payments, cost shifting, to make up the difference....
View ArticleHow About a Universal Basic Income?
Thinking utopian Also utopian: following the successes realized by Ducks Unlimited creating similar sustainable programs, selling randomly selected names and addresses of those receiving universal...
View ArticleGood Luck
To monitor compliance with these rules, the IRS and HHS are now building the largest personal information database the government has ever attempted. Known as the Federal Data Services Hub, the project...
View ArticleSoup Kitchen Woes
Our church has had a soup kitchen for many years. The last few years have been especially tough. With the extended Great Stagnation (choose your own term) that we are facing, donations have become...
View ArticleRepublicans Aid and Abet (Initiate) IRS Cover Up
Rep. Issa says that he knew about the IRS investigation a year ago. He even claims that he requested the investigation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said earlier this week in a little-noticed interview...
View ArticleThe Fourth Tower of Inverness
Jonathan Turley explains why the reactions of President Obama to contemporary errors and transgressions of our government have not been unlike the wonder of a small child at the transcendent magic of...
View ArticleMommy, Daddy, It’s All Your Fault, I Hate You!
Old Economy Steve writes the resentments of arrested adolescent development large as generational political philosophy. H. M. Stuart Alexandria
View ArticleMac Taylor Scores
Your genome is no more than a fingerprint, and Mac Taylor can add it to his collection if and when you are ever arrested, for anything, falsely or not. Mac Taylor may have been handed his walking...
View ArticleWho’s Been Sitting in My Chair?
You may be what is charitably referred to these days as an “old” if you remember this gentleman, but Jules Witcover is even older, old enough to be wondering Just when did political consultants start...
View ArticleCompany Privacy Policy Statements You Still Believe
Please place a check mark by any that apply: __ AOL __ Apple __ Ed’s House O’ Pies __ Facebook __ Google __ Microsoft __ Paltalk __ Skype __ Vinnie’s Discount Watches __ Yahoo __ YouTube H....
View ArticleHow the Eloi Came To Be
Ross Douthat: For us, the age of surveillance is more likely to drift toward what Alexis de Tocqueville described as “soft despotism” or what the Forbes columnist James Poulos has dubbed “the pink...
View ArticleRemember WikiPRISMLeaks?
No? Perhaps because it hasn’t happened yet. It isn’t scheduled to happen until next week, or perhaps the week after that. One excellent testimony to a perennial charge that the more we collectively...
View ArticleWhen Everything Is a Crime, Government [and Private] Data Mining Matters
Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson: You can’t separate the data mining, the culture of intimidation, and criminalization of daily life. NRO’s Charles Cooke: Nonetheless, who really needs “the...
View Article70,000 Pages of Tax Code? Really?
My libertarian friends claim that we are much more regulated now than we have ever been in our past. I find this unlikely as we used to actually set prices on many things in our economy. Prices for...
View ArticleWhy You’re a Slut, and Why You’re Confused
The “you’ve already been a slut for years” argument — You’ve been giving it away like a party girl to Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg for years, and now you want to protest that you still have virtue to...
View ArticlePaul Revere’s Metadata
Kieran Healy: I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit...
View ArticleWhere Should a Transgender Schoolgirl Be Allowed to Pee?
Adam Winkler plumbs the hardships faced by one Nicole Maines of Maine, born a boy biologically who now self-identifies as a 15-year-old transgender girl, as she navigates this question in school and in...
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