Kevin P. Tyson

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TYSON: Home for The Holidays

Kevin P. Tyson

One privilege bestowed on me as an accident of birth that I share with few others is that I am the child of genuine, unrepentant Stalinists. And you thought being raised by wolves was tough. I started consuming the Marxist canon at the age of thirteen, and I was, and remain, a quick study. As … Read more

TYSON: Break the Cycle or Change the System

Kevin P. Tyson

TLDR: The people who could be punished have been. Chasing more scalps won’t bring the money back and will burn cash we don’t have. The real failure is structural: the board slid into oligarchy. Everyone who played along shares responsibility, and recovery starts when we admit that, take a moral inventory, and rebuild the machinery … Read more

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TYSON: The Dumbest Meme Ever

Kevin P. Tyson

There are very few memes that are as dumb and insulting as this one.  It works because people conflate Antifa with being antifascist and therefore being pro-democracy, albeit while having a very hazy notion of what the term democracy means.  An old friend, whom I have known for more than half a century, posted this … Read more

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TYSON: Transparency First, Then Reform

Kevin P. Tyson

Claremont’s fix starts with sunlight, not another check I was born long ago and far away in the East Tremont neighborhood of The Bronx, which, in the early-to-mid 1950s was a dense, modestly priced, prewar landscape of five- and six-story walk-ups organized around a lively Tremont Avenue retail spine; bakeries, kosher butchers, candy stores, and … Read more

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OPINION: Claremont School District’s Financial Crisis

Kevin P. Tyson

Introduction: A System in Survival Mode Parents in the Claremont School District (SAU6) are living through a crisis that can no longer be brushed aside as a temporary budget hiccup. The district is not merely facing a “tight year.” It is confronting a full-blown financial collapse brought on by years of mismanagement, structural deficits, and … Read more

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Tyson: Vouchers and the Vision of the Un-Anointed – A Rebuttal to Andru Volinsky

Kevin P. Tyson

Introduction In his polemical essay against school vouchers, Andru Volinsky trades on well-worn tropes: that public education is a pillar of democracy, that vouchers threaten social equity, and that the Civil Rights Movement should be invoked to shield the status quo. Yet this rhetorical sleight-of-hand obscures deeper truths. Public education in America was not built … Read more

I Beg Your Pardon

Kevin P. Tyson

I am concerned by the large number of my longest-standing friends who have made statements to the effect that Biden’s lying and then pardoning his son is morally acceptable because who wouldn’t lie and pardon their own child. Viewed through the narrow lens of familial responsibility, this might make sense. But if one steps back … Read more

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The Social Contract, Positive and Negative Rights, and the State’s Encroachment Through Public Education

Kevin P. Tyson

In the landscape of political philosophy, the concept of the social contract plays a pivotal role in understanding the relationship between individuals and the state. Central to this theory are the ideas of positive and negative rights, each representing fundamentally different obligations of the individual, government, and society. While positive rights require the state to provide specific benefits … Read more

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New Hampshire’s Executive Council

Kevin P. Tyson

Readers of GraniteGrok are well aware of the Founder’s fear of tyranny and how they would perceive the current imperial presidency.  For those who don’t have their copy of the Anti-Federalist Papers handy, here are some quotes: Cato No. 4 (possibly written by George Clinton but definitely not by this George Clinton): “He is not … Read more

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TDS Variants

Kevin P. Tyson

For the last nine years, we have witnessed the evolution of the social pathology known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Numerous memes have circulated on the web featuring TDS victims in various stages of the ailment, from the motor and verbal tics, more commonly associated with Tourette syndrome, to the violent behavior most widely associated with sociopathy.

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Choice Choices

New Hampshire Needs Greater Diversity …

Kevin P. Tyson

New Hampshire needs more diversity. No, not diversity of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, disability, mental illness, cognitive ability, religion, or veteran status. We need a greater diversity of views among the people we elect to rule over us.

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The Feudal Model of State-funded Education

Kevin P. Tyson

I recently attended Ian Underwood’s presentation titled “Back to Schools” at the Sullivan County GOP Committee meeting, during which he argued coherently and consistently for separating the concerns of what to include in government-funded schools and what to exclude.

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Hitler was Literally Putin

Kevin P. Tyson

In a recent conversation in which I pointed out that the war in Ukraine was a contest between the first and second most corrupt governments in Europe, the other participant retorted, “So?”

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