Mark C. Ross
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Hoaxes and the media who sell them (opens the original)
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Here’s a short list. Did you fall for any? We’re all pretty familiar with the culture of deception that has infected much of today’s news media. Some of this is cynically driven by overt ideological agendas. Some is also the result of ingrained bias on the part of the compilers and presenters of “information” about current events, being largely imparted by the modern J schools that train and “certify” our journalists. True, some news sources are more objectively reliable than others, and it rema
The middle class isn’t really a class at all (opens the original)
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Throughout most of human existence, there were only two types of people: peasants and nobility. Eventually, a few peasants were able to acquire some wealth — by producing more food than they needed, which could then be sold or traded to others, and by developing other skills (crafts) that enabled them to make a variety of things that could be sold. Over time, the advantages of the middle-class lifestyle encouraged more and more of the peasantry to cultivate the various skills and discipline nece
The voracious parasite that infects us all (opens the original)
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I am referring to the ballooning government of today’s mega-state. As an especially valid example, I propose the current sales tax here in California. When I was a mere child, the tax rate went from 3 percent to 4 percent — and the squeals of displeasure were deafening. Nowadays, the rate is 10 percent and more, depending on local add-ons. Loyal defenders of big government will reflexively point to the cumulative effects of inflation to justify the decades-long ratcheting up of sales tax. They a
That pesky 14th Amendment (opens the original)
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The 14th Amendment requires a lot of interpreting...and that is the problem. When reading through the U.S. Constitution, the 14th Amendment marks a significant departure — not in intent, but in the first adoption of the language of complex legalese when compared to the previous language thereof. The entry just before the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the 13th Amendment, simply states in its entirety that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof t
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