Author: Robert I. Grundfest

I love it when the media runs stories about huge multinational corporations that do not pay any income tax. Why? Because it inevitably leads to…crickets. Oh, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats will make angry speeches, but they disappear after a few days. Then the corporations fight back and say that they’re paying what… Continue reading No Taxation With Representation: Corporations Seem to Have Both

I think I’m rather glad that there’s nobody in the conservative movement who/s doing what Phyllis Schlafly did in the 1960s and 1970s. After all, why would we need a person who says that women should stay home, take care of their families and be obedient to their husband, while at the same time jetting around the… Continue reading Whither the Family?

I’m actually glad that the Mueller Report found no credible evidence of direct cooperation between the Russians attempt to infect the 2016 election and the Trump campaign. It would be terrible, shocking and dispiriting to know that an American presidential candidate was working with an enemy to undermine our democratic institutions. Then there’s the rest… Continue reading The Mueller Report Is Worse Than I Thought

A year ago, I wrote this post about Passover, Easter, and immigration. Here we are again, but the problem seems to have gotten worse. And by problem, I mean what the president says and does about people who want to escape violence. People who have a well-founded fear that their political views will get them jailed or killed,… Continue reading The Stranger Deserves Better

There have been a number of articles and posts lately about the rise of antisemitism around the world, with the main point being that we’re seeing a rise in attacks, defacements and comments that question whether Jews are really trustworthy citizens. That a US member of Congress, Representative Ilhan Omer was also guilty of saying such things is troubling, to… Continue reading The Anti-Semites Never Left

I know that I really shouldn’t even be acknowledging that Betsy DeVos has anything useful to say about education, but the vacant smile she wears when she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, which is pretty much most minutes of most days, is on brilliant display in this video where she gratuitously supports the idea that larger… Continue reading The Class Size Debate Really Shouldn’t Be a Debate

Have you seen the Mueller Report? Me neither. But I’ve certainly seen scores of  breathless posts, tweets and articles conjecturing on what it might say and what it might mean and what parts of it will be released or not released or released through a summary, which is merely Nixon’s “edited transcripts” using different words.… Continue reading The Mueller Watch Is Over