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Internet/Telecom
Big Tech or ISPs: Who Collects and Monetizes Your Online Data (Much) More?
by Seton Motley June 15, 2020The coin of the Internet realm – is your digital data. Everything you do is tracked and monetized.
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Looking for accurate statistics on COVID-19? Check this article out from Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold!
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Google proves the adage that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – U.S. Rep. Pete Roskam (R-IL): Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech
by Jesse Hathaway June 20, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by U.S. Rep. Pete Roskam (R-IL), the sponsor of the Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedInternet/Telecom
The Marketplace Delivers More Data
by Bartlett Cleland May 1, 2016The Oxford Dictionary defines capitalism as “an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.” A new poll on the topic from Harvard received some attention yesterday, garnering headlines about millennial’s view of capitalism. The poll is challenging to interpret given that most people likely have a connotative sense of capitalism, but helpfully Harvard dug a little deeper by interviewing a group of people regarding their view of capitalism. As it turns out those who were wary of capitalism were not so much rejecting it but rather were concerned that today it seems unfair and leaves some people out.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
A Few Facts For Climate Alarmists Waging War Against Astrophysicist Willie Soon
by Ron Arnold April 20, 2016Dr. Willie Soon is an astrophysicist in the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began as a post-doctoral fellow in 1991 and took his scientist position in 1997. His subsequent career is a textbook example of speaking truth to power and bravery facing the consequences.
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government agency tasked with auditing, evaluating, and investigating government affairs for Congress, faults the Internal Revenue Service for failing to properly secure taxpayer data, leaving taxpayers’ private information at the mercy of hackers, both domestic and foreign. The report, delivered to IRS chief John Koskinen on March 28, says the IRS has failed to make recommended improvements to its financial and information-technology procedures.
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EducationFeatured
Do Parents Want Their Children on Uncle Shrink’s Couch?
by Robert Holland March 5, 2016Uncle Sam is becoming “Uncle Shrink” to millions of schoolchildren, including many preschoolers, who are now subject to various psychology-focused educational components that have been implanted in federal education legislation over the past decade.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Terry Miller: America Drops on the Economic Freedom Index
by Jesse Hathaway February 17, 2016In this episode of the Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis director and former U.S. ambassador Terry Miller, about a recent survey of economic freedom indicators all over the world.
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EducationFeatured
What Passes for Anti-School Choice Rhetoric is Frightening
by Timothy Benson February 17, 2016The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss has inadvertently done the country an invaluable service by allowing the rest of us to travel through the looking-glass into a universe where things are the opposite of real life: the world of far-left thought on education.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Can “Bright Line” FCC Title II Discrimination Bans Be Just and Reasonable?
by Scott Cleland February 12, 2016Net neutrality absolutists are overreaching yet again in their push for a practical FCC ban of ISP zero rating offers under the FCC’s case-by-case “General Conduct Standard” review, by claiming violations of the “bright-line rules” in the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization.