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The Heartland Institute’s Steve Stanek interviews Vikrant Reddy, from the Right On Crime Initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, to discuss alternative conservative approaches to incarceration.
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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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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[...]
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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[...]
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A hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week investigated the Obama administration’s practice of concealing email communications.
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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.
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What happens when Congress is not in session and the Commander-in-Chief is AWOL? You get Syria.
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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.
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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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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.
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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[...]
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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[...]
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Martin’s life and death would be honored by promotion of racial harmony and good will.
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