Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom
The Left’s Ever-Expanding, All-Encompassing Net Neutrality
Network Neutrality is socialism for the Internet – it guarantees everyone equal amounts of nothing.
Tagged: crony capitalism
Government · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
Sprint’s Crony Socialist Hypocrisy
Crony Socialism is, in part, the government cutting special deals for certain companies – at the expense of other companies, and the free market. It is particularly pathetic when companies publicly troll for this treatment. It’s almost as if they’ve given up on actually, you know, trying.
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Featured · Government · Liberty · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Yaron Brook on the Principles of Liberty – Part 2
This weekly podcast features the second half of a conversation between Jim Lakely, Heartland’s communications director, and Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute. In this half of the interview, Jim and Dr. Brook discuss President Obama’s treatment of capitalism, corporate cronyism, and the morality of libertarianism.
Anytime is a Good Time to Remove Ridiculous Regulations
The Broadcasters are actually the beneficiaries of decades of government good grace – well beyond the uber-tilted Retransmission laws.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Obama’s Climate Change Lies
The president is lying when he talks of “climate change” by which he means a warming cycle. He is lying when he blames it on carbon dioxide which plays no role whatever in climate change.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
If You Like Your Light Bulb, You Can’t Keep Your Light Bulb
As people are literally being forced to live in the dark, there will be public outcry.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Bag the Plastic Bag Tax
Legislators in Harrisburg are considering a proposal from state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Wayne, that would make Pennsylvania the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags.
Harry Reid’s Green Energy Goldmine
We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. Twenty of the 33seats up in 2014 are currently held by Democrats—more than half of whom are in trouble.
EPA, IPCC Push Ahead Even as Global Warming Theories Crumble
Ten days ago the EPA issued its proposed rule for the implementation of regulations of carbon dioxide on utilities’ coal-fired power plants. There is no reason for costly government-imposed limits on such emissions, as the global warming they were supposed to cause has been absent for 15 years.
Why Are Car Dealerships Still a Thing?
In a world of one-click ordering from Amazon and iTunes, why can’t I just purchase the exact car I want on my terms? The answer is simple: Most state governments have made it illegal
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
“It ain’t just the metadata.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Politics
With Tens of Millions of Phone Records Grabbed – It’s the Government, Stupid
Because Congress in many areas hasn’t yet addressed the gaping hole of protecting our data from Big Government, we are left exposed and subject to huge, illegal power grabs.
The Left – Feeble Arguments, Weak Shots, Conspiracy Theories and Zero Debate
Last Monday at Red State, I wrote: How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate In which I referenced a bit of good news on the Internet[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation · Taxes
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Sorry Left, U.S. Actually Does the Internet Better Than Europe
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.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
‘Fair’: Government Taxing Businesses to Fund Competitors to Their Businesses
President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Only Government Complains About Having More Customers
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,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Liberty · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Crony Capitalism: By-Product of Big Government
Heartland‘s Steve Stanek speaks with Randall Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University and Senior Fellow at the James Madison Institute. Economics professor and author Randall Holcombe explains[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Federal Government Looking to Tax Internet – And Let States Do It Too
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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Readable Links- Who Owns the Land?
- The terrible economic burden of occupational licensing
- Competition, disruptive innovation, and men's razors
- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
- Popular Technology.net: 1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm
