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Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet

  • by Seton Motley
  • May 10, 2013

FCC Chairman-to-be Wheeler could do immense good if he ended his predecessor’s existing and prospective power grabs and kept the FCC within its legal authority limits.

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Sorry Left, U.S. Actually Does the Internet Better Than Europe

  • by Seton Motley
  • May 9, 2013

The Left wants the Internet and cellular market much more heavily regulated – like they do in Europe. Again, the Barack Obama Administration is (in unilateral, Congress-free fashion) delivering.

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‘Fair’: Government Taxing Businesses to Fund Competitors to Their Businesses

  • by Seton Motley
  • May 9, 2013

President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business.

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Only Government Complains About Having More Customers

  • by Seton Motley
  • May 1, 2013

Every private sector company spends every waking second (and many sleeping ones) trying to get new customers.  It’s a relentless pursuit of improvement.  Of their goods and services, customer service,[...]

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Federal Government Looking to Tax Internet – And Let States Do It Too

  • by Seton Motley
  • April 23, 2013

The Big Government, Never-Enough-of-Your-Coin-Coalition – Internet Division – is at it yet again. The Barack Obama Administration has since it’s inception been very active in over-regulating the Web – for[...]

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The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100

  • by Jim Lakely
  • April 17, 2013

My enduring question for progressives is one they typically avoid answering, especially those holding elected office: In your perfect world, where, exactly, would you position the top rate?

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Obama Again Picking Private Sector Losers at the Expense of Winners

  • by Seton Motley
  • April 17, 2013

The Barack Obama Administration is fabulously successful at choosing terribly in the private sector. Solyndra.  Fisker.  The Chevy Volt.  Ener1.  A123 Systems.  Beacon Power.  Abound Solar.  Evergreen Solar.  And on,[...]

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You Can Have a Big Economy, or a Big Government – Not Both

  • by Seton Motley
  • April 10, 2013

President Barack Obama has for five-plus years said and done two contradictory things regarding the United States’ economy. 1)  He has repeatedly said that he wants the private sector to recover –[...]

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Paul Ryan’s House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray’s Senate Democrat Budget

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • March 20, 2013

The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences between the two[...]

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Central Banks Buy Gold, Print Money

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • March 18, 2013

Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have[...]

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The Coming Sequester Lies

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • March 8, 2013

Almost a week since the dreaded sequester went into effect, and look out your window. To quote President Obama the day after Obamacare was passed, the sun is still shining, the birds[...]

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Heartland’s Ross Kaminsky on Kudlow: Wall Street Cheers Sequester

  • by Jim Lakely
  • March 1, 2013

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Ross Kaminsky was a guest last night on the always smart and informative Kudlow Report on CNBC. Kudlow asked him on the program to talk about[...]

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To Attack the Internet, Obama Admin is About to Lie About It. Again

  • by Seton Motley
  • February 27, 2013

The mostly regulation-free Internet has become a free speech, free market Xanadu. So of course President Barack Obama and his Left want to regulate the daylight out of it.  In their[...]

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Sequester Hysterics

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • February 22, 2013

President Obama told America the morning of February 19 that if the sequester goes through on March 1: “It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research….[...]

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Enough of This Glumness: There is Light at the End of the Obama Tunnel

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • February 3, 2013

Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage has been framed far worse for conservatives and[...]

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