‘Stiletto (Blog)’ Archives
Technocracy: Government Machines That Can ‘Read Your Mind’
Think Minority Report was just a good story that became a mediocre movie? Think again. The Government's new "FAST" technology is the subject of my WND Technocracy column this week. Recently in Technocracy, we discussed the technology of popular-culture libel – the drive by liberals to create and disseminate propaganda that asserts their [...]
Technocracy: Obama’s Hope to Control the Net
My WND Technocracy column this week is once again about the concept of "Net Neutrality." Technological industries grow, develop and evolve amazingly quickly. Centralized government-control schemes suffer from a single, overarching problem that will and does kill this innovation and evolution wherever such controls are applied. That is that [...]
Technocracy: When Technology Enables Despotism
My WND Technocracy column this week compares telematics services used in cars with the new "smart" utility meters that are becoming more prevalent. Both are a means to connect you more completely to governing authorities... and both will ultimately infringe on your civil liberties. A "government interest" in something ought to worry you no matter [...]
Technocracy: To Leftists, Dissent Equals Hate
In my WND Technocracy column this week, I discuss the fact that, to a left-winger, to disagree is to engage in an act of violent "hate-speech." As the vote on Obama's socialization of American medicine loomed, Democrats couldn't resist claiming that they'd been called unkind names by those dangerous, racists tea-party people (whom they derisively [...]
Technocracy: The Social-Networking Police
My WND Technocracy column this week is about the disturbing trend in government surveillance of social networking sites. You read that correctly. Even though the law has not been broken, these "social networking police" believe they have the authority and obligation to harass citizens at home. This harassment is based solely on the idea that [...]
Technocracy: No, Liberals AREN’T Smarter Than Conservatives
In my WND column this week, I tackled the notion that "science" has somehow "proven" liberals to be smarter than conservatives: Simple lies, distortions and urban legends propagated about conservatives and libertarians all pale in comparison to what is the most coveted of all libelous popular-culture mechanisms. I refer, of course, to the study. [...]
Technocracy: Self-Defense Shooters Motivated by Fear?
Are self-defense shooters motivated by fear? Duane Thomas, an experienced gun writer, claims so in the March 2010 issue of Dillon Precision's The Blue Press. I was so irate over this that I devoted my WND Technocracy column to it. Far from being motivated by fear, students of self-defense who train with weapons do so out of a sense of [...]
Technocracy: Does Intellectual Property Exist?
Does intellectual property exist? It does, and it must. That's the topic of this week's Technocracy, my WND column: You can't eat admiration; you can't spend applause. If we say there is no intellectual property, we're saying that the author of a book, the composer of a song and the director of a movie aren't adding any effort. Their work has [...]
Technocracy: We’re All On Obama’s Enemies List
My WND Technocracy column today targets Barack Hussein Obama's disdain for your civil liberties: Despite whatever muddled bureaucratic maneuvering and political posturing may take place, President Barack Hussein Obama is motivated by one overarching goal: the gradual but ultimately total destruction of the American people's civil rights. Whether [...]
Technocracy: Vaccine-Autism Link Is Falser Than Ever
My WND Technocracy column addresses the myth of vaccine-caused autism once more, in light of the recent retraction by Lancet: The irony is that Ms. Cournoyer and her fellow conspiracy theorists have never been more wrong than they are today. Lancet, the medical journal responsible for first promulgating this unsupported link between vaccines and [...]
