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Mr. Greaney, a Certified Public Accountant, is CESJ's Secretary, volunteer Director of Research, and a member of the executive committee. He has audited profit and non-profit organizations throughout the world, with the American Red Cross, Georgetown University

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Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Parents should be allowed to cast as many votes as they have children: 1 of 14
"Power," as Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster pointed out in the Commonwealth's 1820 Constitutional Convention, "naturally and necessarily follows property." Virginia's Benjamin Watkins Leigh echoed the sentiment that same year when he declared that power and property could be separated, but not divorced. Either those w... More..
Personal Finance > Retirement Should Social Security be reformed to include personal retirement accounts?: 1 of 13
Social Security was instituted in 1935 as a way of caring for Americans who, due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the effects of the following Great Depression, had either seen their savings wiped out or depleted, or lacked the capacity to accumulate any savings in the first place. Social Security was originally intended... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Should the United States have universal health care?: 8 of 96
Agreeing with the statement that the United States should have universal health care usually forces you into a position of immediately qualifying that agreement. When, therefore, I say that the United States should have universal health care, I must amend that to say that the United States - and every other country in the wo... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Babies (Other) Should people be allowed to choose their baby's sex?: 5 of 58
There is something of a "law of unintended consequences" when dealing with human beings. Paradoxically, what people think they want is frequently what they end up hating. The ability to choose inevitably carries with it a certain "buyer's remorse" over the "path not taken." In a not untypical marital spat, it's common for on... More..
Personal Finance > Spending & Saving (Other) Everything you need to know about money: 1 of 11
One thing people discover about money is that it is hard to define. Many economists declare that money is simply the medium of exchange. Others add, "a store of value," and others, "a way of measuring value." Adding to the confusion, in many countries, such as the United States, there is no standard legal definition of money... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Should government candidates be required to hold press conferences and answer questions from the media and the public?: 1 of 11
One of the most dangerous ideas to come with the invention of the printing press is that a writer has an absolute right to know everything about everybody. When books were difficult to reproduce this tendency was kept under control, and the reading public was only assaulted occasionally by mindless gossip diguised as "invest... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Should Jerusalem be split between the Israelis and Palestinians?: 3 of 31
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict, religious differences aside, is rooted in a mistaken notion held by many people in the modern world. A preponderant number of people have the fixed idea that a thing can only have one owner, whether a private individual or the State. This has, in part, accounted for the rise and acceptance o... More..
Hobbies & Games > Hobbies & Games (Other) Dumpster diving: An introduction to the hobby: 2 of 20
The key to effective dumpster diving is the same as in any other hobby or business: creativity. From the perspective of America's foremost design science engineer, R. Buckminster Fuller, all waste is misdirected or unused resources, raw materials with which to create human artifacts to fill our wants and needs. To be a succe... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Archives US Elections 2008: How Mike Huckabee can unseat front-runner McCain for the Republican nomination: 1 of 10
The most obvious characteristic of all the presidential campaigns in the current race (whether hopeful, optimistic, or living in fantasy land) is the lack of a clear vision combined with a politically sound and economically feasible program. Huckabee - any candidate, in fact (viable or otherwise at this point) could unseat M... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should the U.S. government be running the affairs of automakers?: 1 of 10
In 1829 a man named William Cobbett wrote a book to help convince people trapped in the English wage and welfare system that they could better their lives and become small proprietors instead of "wage slaves" by emigrating to the United States. The book, "The Emigrant's Guide," presaged Alexis de Tocqueville's magnificant "D... More..