Anyone who has followed communications law and policy for a number of years – and I’ve been doing so for over thirty-five years – knows that the marketplace environment has changed dramatically in the last “number” of years. And undeniably – although at times some do try to deny it – the change has been in the direction of more competition and more choice for consumers.
With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!,”® so much odd and bizarre is happening in Washington in the “name” of “U.S. wireless competition criticism” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!”® oddities.
The Broadcasters are actually the beneficiaries of decades of government good grace – well beyond the uber-tilted Retransmission laws.
Scott Cleland has released a new video detailing the pressing need in America for a new communications law.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Is it too much to ask that Congress wakes up to a new day, and soon?
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
As people are literally being forced to live in the dark, there will be public outcry.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics · Random
Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Government · Regulation
Former Durham, NC district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case. Ex-Boston crime lab technician Annie Dookhan was prosecuted for faking test results and contaminating drug samples, to get accused dealers convicted. In both cases, charges against their victims were dismissed or are under review.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Steve Stanek says the most recent federal budget deal is meaningless! It’s a scam, a sham, a fraud! Congress hasn’t had an actual budget since 2009, and they barely have one now.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Dr. Chad Mathis joins The Heartland Institute to discuss his campaign for Congress in the state of Alabama. Mathis is also a surgeon, so he has a lot to speak of in regards to Obamacare; an issue that is increasingly concerning among the citizens of Alabama.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Shouldn’t it be the customers’ choice to decide whether they want the cheaper bulb that uses more electricity and delivers a light quality that many people prefer?
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The latest federal budget deal amounts to saving two days of spending over the next decade. A sliver of a sliver of savings.
Barely a week goes by these days without hearing of some new demand by the Environmental Protection Agency that borders on the insane.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?
Featured · Health Care · Politics
Even “moderate” Democrat Steny Hoyer wears blinders.
“The federal government spends approximately $10 billion a day, so they’re trying to make a big deal out of saving two days of spending.”
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