Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs
Real vs. Contrived ‘Modern’ FCC Policy Thinking
Just like the wisdom that one cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear; one cannot make “modern” FCC policy from obsolete communications law.
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Economics · Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
It’s the President’s Fault
Day 4 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping. The Great Government Shutdown[...]
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Media · Podcast
Right- to- Work States Have Stronger Growth
Steve Stanek interviews co-author, Machael Lafaive, from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, regarding his recent study entitled, “Economic Growth and Right to Work Laws”. The study contains an analysis[...]
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs
House Committee Grills DOE Loan Program Director Over Secret Emails
A hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week investigated the Obama administration’s practice of concealing email communications.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics · Taxes
DOE Hid Info About Loan Recipient’s Bad Condition in April House Hearing
In a typical Obama administration “hope-they-don’t-notice” Friday announcement, DOE told American taxpayers that $42 million dollars won’t be paid back.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
‘So Far Out on a Limb It’s Pathetic’
What happens when Congress is not in session and the Commander-in-Chief is AWOL? You get Syria.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Regulation
Whatever Happened to Microsoft?
Reading through David Kopel’s book today, I’m struck by how prescient he was a dozen years ago in his forecasts of changing technology, emerging competition, and the deadening influence of antitrust law in this arena of rapid change.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Capricious Net Neutrality Charges Part 32, FCC Open Internet Order Series
The fact that U.S. senators and representatives imagine that a billing dispute among companies could be considered a net neutrality violation illustrates how arbitrary and capricious net neutrality politics and the FCC’s Open Internet order have become.
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State Secrets: Huma Abedin’s Ambiguous Role
The State Department has now joined ranks with the NSA, the IRS, and the Justice Department as important government agencies in which the public is rapidly losing trust.
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
Campaign Seeks to Outlaw Low-Skilled Labor in Seattle
Seeking to surpass San Francisco, Seattle residents are trying to establish the largest ban on low skilled labor in the country. Earlier in the year, San Francisco raised its wage[...]
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Citizen Journalist
The next time you’re reading the daily newspaper, listening to the radio, or watching television, what you’re not likely to receive is news that will do harm to the progressive agenda.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Putting Bicycles Ahead of People
The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission (MVRPC) has begun seizing people’s private property for its latest “essential” project – a $5-million bike path extension!
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Politics
The Solution to Government Snooping? Privatize Collection and Search of Data
Pro-data-grab politicians say the government uses the data and its search capabilities for things like finding American citizens who are interacting with identified international terrorists. The private companies can easily do these searches when asked by the government.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You
Net Neutrality mandates that the government regulate the entire Web. Which means the government lords over every single website on the planet. No First Amendment problem there, right?
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Cybersecurity can be achieved without Big Government
There is no reason the law should favor state power at the expense of individual rights in combating computer crime or defending the nation’s information systems from foreign attack.
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Caskets and Monks: A Ray of Hope for a Throwback to Economic Liberty
An opportunity to move back toward reinstituting the protections of economic freedoms (and away from the unbridled deference paid to police power legislation) has presented itself in the Great State of Louisiana.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
CREDO Mobile and Citizens United: Why I can’t take most ‘reformers’ seriously
Clearly the folks at CREDO Mobile aren’t at all happy with the idea of incorporated entities engaging in politics and public policy debates – a threat to democracy, and all that.
Economics · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Richmond, Calif. Plots to Seize Mortgages and Enrich Private Interests
The New York Times today reports on the city of Richmond, California and what can perhaps best be described as a hare-brained scheme to ‘fix’ the problem of underwater mortgages[...]
Featured · Legal Affairs · Media
Stand Your Ground, Post-Trayvon Martin America, You’re Not Racist
Martin’s life and death would be honored by promotion of racial harmony and good will.
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The Meaning of the Zimmerman Trial
We need more of the common sense, free of intellectually corrupting “political correctness,” displayed by the Zimmerman jury among our national leaders.
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