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Mark Baisley is CEO of Slipglass, a cyber security product and services firm.
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Mark Baisley (May 28, 2012)
Imagine a nation so founded in hostilities that its state song is a poem about war, put to music. There is such a country whose national anthem contains lyrics like,... more
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Mark Baisley (May 18, 2012)
The topic of same-sex marriage has appeared on the front page of major news sources ever since Joe Biden, that giant of ideological thought, outed Barack Obama’s suppressed... more
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Mark Baisley (May 07, 2012)
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 30, 2012)
Last week, the United States House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, or CISPA for short. The United States Senate has... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 22, 2012)
It certainly began well. Anyone who has walked The Freedom Trail will tell you that Boston holds a unique concentration of American history. Over the course of... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 17, 2012)
This week, when I sat down to compose my weekly TownHall missive, my chair was an aisle seat on a flight to California. Somewhere over Utah I got to thinking how... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 09, 2012)
The same region of the world that gave us the legend of Santa Claus also gave us the fable about a rabbit that lays eggs. I only recently learned that the Easter Bunny... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 01, 2012)
This past week, America was subjected to the high-stakes game of legislative rock paper scissors. The players to watch on the scissors team were Ruth Bader Ginsburg... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 18, 2012)
I love my wife. Maryann is a remarkable and substantive person, elegant and astute; an artist by profession. On Wednesday, she was quietly engrossed in... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 12, 2012)
This battle we are engaged in with the Democrats to retain some semblance of freedom tells me that the generations have made a lot of assumptions about American’s ability to... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 04, 2012)
I have been writing and rewriting a book for over 20 years that captures my study of political theory. The goal of publishing that book will be to advance a universal... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 26, 2012)
I have been writing and rewriting a book for over 20 years that captures my study of political theory. The goal of publishing that book will be to advance a universal... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 19, 2012)
I have been writing and rewriting a book for over 20 years that captures my study of political theory. It is titled, The Theory of Political Relativity. The... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 13, 2012)
For nearly four years running, the U.S. art community has suffered significant decreases in sales. The first noticeable signs of a retreat from personal art investing... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 06, 2012)
On Friday, I received an email from a local public school teacher who is also a Republican. The objections that she expressed were to me in my role as chairman of the... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 29, 2012)
The trademarks for America’s major political parties, the elephant and the donkey, were adopted from a series of cartoons that caricaturist Thomas Nast began publishing in... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 25, 2012)
Like getting a tattoo of Michael Jackson, dating OJ Simpson, or singing “Feelings” on a karaoke machine at the company picnic, the original formation of labor unions must... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 15, 2012)
In his book How to Stop Dialogue In Its Tracks, Sacha Baron Cohen provides three awkward statements for guys that can be employed to bring a lousy date to a quick... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 13, 2012)
One of the most striking images to come across the news wires so far in this young year was the photo of an Iranian fisherman embracing his heroes, crew members from the... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 02, 2012)
As a junior in high school, I once locked eyes with the homecoming queen. We just stared directly at each other from 50 feet apart while our classmates bustled around... more