Posts by Mary Theroux
Mary L. G. Theroux is Senior Vice President of the Independent Institute. Having received her A.B. in economics from Stanford University, she is Managing Director of Lightning Ventures, L.P., a San Francisco Bay Area investment firm, former Chairman of the Board of Advisors for the Salvation Army of both San Francisco and Alameda County, and Vice President of the C.S. Lewis Society of California.
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NASA’s Children’s Climate Change Website, and the book 1984: Creating Spies One Child at a Time
Who’s Behind IRS Targeting? Don’t Ask NPR
Once Again, Government Displaces Real Aid
Government Failure.gov
Elizabeth Warren: “We Are Not Resting Until at Least 50 Senators Are [Millionaire] Women”
Ban “Giving Back”
NSA Chief Recommends Severely Curtailing Spying. Obama Won’t.
TSA Vet Admits Scanners Are a Joke. And So Are You (to the TSA).
Believe It: NSA Collects and Stores Content, Not Just “Metadata”
Et tu, Angry Birds?
Arctic Blast Heroes: Chick-fil-A to the Rescue
Why Global Poverty Has Declined 80%: Economic Liberalization Begets Prosperity and Equality
Habeas corpus Still Dead, NSA Records Now Assist: Obama Signs NDAA 2014
Carpe Diem: Washington’s Foundations Are Showing Cracks
FBI Successfully Foils Another FBI Plot
You Didn’t Build That Business, and You Don’t Run It, Either
Remembering Nelson Mandela
Just Say No to Jobs for the Young and Unskilled
President Obama: “I’m really good at killing people.”
Nobel Peace Prize: FAIL
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Reading Higgs
The Difference between God and Congress
NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication
Obamacare: All Your Intimate Information Available to (Almost) Anyone
Neither Snow nor Rain nor Dark of Night Will Prevent the Post Office from Spying on You

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