Video: Scott Cleland on Why We Need a New Communications Law
Scott Cleland has released a new video detailing the pressing need in America for a new communications law.
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Presidents Day and Tevi Troy’s Book a Perfect Match
The Heartland Institute last week hosted a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who talked about his new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200[...]
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Why Are the Media’s ‘Consumer Interest Groups’ So Leftist and Anti-Consumer?
The Media’s double standard when describing political advocacy organizations is as obvious as it is unsurprising.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Politics · Regulation
The Right Response To Obama’s Inequality Concern Trolling
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
Featured · Government · Media · Politics · Random
Et tu, Cardinal Dolan? “Less Eligibility” as justification for Obamacare
The media is giving mixed reports of Cardinal Dolan’s interview on Meet the Press with David Gregory. According to Fox News, the Catholics oppose Obamacare and, according to NBC News, the Catholics embrace it.
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.
Journalism in a Digital World
It is a rule that new technology replaces old technology.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Media · Politics · Regulation
As Government’s Power Grabs Grow, Media’s Coverage Diminishes
The Barack Obama Administration has been on a five-plus-year-long Collect-As-Much-Information-On-Us-As-Possible spree.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
Conservatives Reach Common Ground On A Carbon Tax, And That’s The Problem
“By the end of the debate, the two opposing sides reached some very significant common ground. Most importantly, Inglis and Moylan conceded several prerequisites had to occur before they would support a carbon tax proposal…Nevertheless, serious obstacles remain.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
America’s Private Video Market Success
It’s hard to be a “public interest” group when private interests better serve the public. Free Press, which effectively defines the “public interest” as being against private interests in media, communications[...]
The Know-it-Alls Now Know Nothing
Do you believe, as this administration wants you to, that our leaders don’t have a clue as to what is happening unless it appears as a trending topic on twitter? [...]
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Absolute Rights – and Wrongs: Is It Really All About the Kids?
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of[...]
Signs of the Times: New York Times Kills Green Blog
Fewer and fewer people care about the apocalyptic claims and outright lies of the environmental movement these days. The end of the world is nowhere in sight unless a stray[...]
Talking Gun Control on Fox Chicago Sunday
Rarely do I feel better after speaking with a gun control advocate than I do today. (See the clip below.) I have just returned from taping a segment of Fox[...]
Environment/Energy · Media · Science
More MSM Misinformation on Fracking
According to reports from the media, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey have scientifically linked hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to the recent rise in Midwest earthquakes. But the[...]
Hurricane Irene: A Weather Newsgasm
What major weather events and especially earthquakes tell us is that we live on planet Earth on its terms, not ours. Put another way, we don’t “control” the weather or[...]
Be Careful Where You Get Your News (The MSM is Worried You’ve Wised Up)
Heartland friend Brian Fojtik has an interesting post at Pundit League about the development of the modern media that is worth checking out. Technology and changing TV-viewing habits have led[...]
Good Ending to a Bad Situation: Privatize NPR
The Juan Williams ballyhoo should be given a proper happy ending, or so says one Slate Magazine writer. Slate.com’s resident power-Libertarian Jack Shafer takes on National Public Radio in his[...]
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