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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep90) – Center of the American Experiment, Stadium Subsidies, and NY Universal Health Care
by Donald Kendal May 26, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #90 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Mercatus Center, and Empire Center.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedLegal AffairsPodcast
In The Tank (ep89) – Gov Regs Increase Car Prices, Amtrak Nonsense, and How the Gov Ruins Paradise
by Donald Kendal May 19, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #89 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Heritage Foundation, the Center of the American Experiment, and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google’s Growing US Search/Android Share Complicates FCC’s AllVid Proposal
by Scott Cleland May 29, 2016As more evidence comes to light exposing Google’s much increased search and Android dominance in the U.S. since the FTC closed its search and Android antitrust probes in January 2013, it only becomes clearer that the FCC’s AllVid proposed rulemaking to “Unlock the [set-top] Box” is obviously anticompetitive overall, not pro-competitive as the FCC naively claims.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
AllVid Deja-Vu: Google-YouTube’s Forcing Video to be Open to Piracy Again
by Scott Cleland April 15, 2016Google’s puppeteering of FCC-sponsored piracy in the FCC AllVid set-top box proposal is not the first time Google has anticompetitively used piracy promotion to gain an anticompetitive market advantage for YouTube’s monopsony power — i.e. its market power from being the only repository in the world where one can access a copy of most every video created whether it is legal or pirated, and where Google often promotes pirated videos near the top of its search results.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Joseph Bast Joins Unbiased America to Tell The Truth About Heartland and Climate Change
by Donald Kendal March 17, 2016This week, Heartland Institute President and CEO Joseph Bast joined the Unbiased America show to talk about the new book, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming. Unbiased America is a weekly video podcast featuring a panel of several liberty-minded individuals who strive to “create a platform for discussion and debate.” Bast dismantles the claim that 97% or scientists have arrived at a consensus that man is causing catastrophic global warming.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC’s Googleopoly Gatekeeper Navigation Device Set-up
by Scott Cleland February 20, 2016iven Google-YouTube, the world’s dominant Internet video distribution platform with ~1.6 billion viewers in 70 countries and 75 languages covering 95% of the world’s population, and given Google-Android is the world’s dominant mobile operating system with >80% share, the only thing Google lacks in the Internet video business is a willingness to pay a market-negotiated rate for the licenses and rights to use and profit from the world’s most valuable video content, and to be a responsible corporate steward to protect the premium content from the devaluation of piracy.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
When Government Makes Your Choices for You – You End Up with No Choices
by Seton Motley February 9, 2016Any and every tax, law and regulation – is government placing itself between you and the free market. And, conversely, between the free market and you. And, of course, it makes the market less free. It’s inherent. The bigger the tax – the less money you have for the market, and the less money marketeers have to operate. The bigger the laws and regulations – the less freedom we and the marketeers have to maneuver.
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FeaturedLiberty
VIDEO: The Heartland Institute’s 31st Anniversary Benefit Dinner
by Donald Kendal November 24, 2015The Heartland Institute’s 31st Anniversary Benefit Dinner held on October 8 was a great success! Advocates for liberty and limited government came from all around to help Heartland celebrate 31 years of fighting for freedom and individual rights.
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My husband and I couldn’t compete with the new computers in the children’s area. Each time our little people refocused their attention on reading, some beep or boop would emanate from the screens, and they were distracted.
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EconomicsInternet/Telecom
Online Video Competition’s Tipping Point Just Tipped
by Scott Cleland April 10, 2014They’re all actively preparing to enter the over-the-top online video business with their own streaming service or proprietary online programming to compete with Netflix, Hulu, and facilities-based pay-TV providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Dish, AT&T, Verizon, and others.
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Our friends at the Foundation for Excellence in Education have just released the first in a series of new, animated policy videos, starting with A-F school grading. Everyone knows the…
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Several school districts in Oklahoma are flatly refusing to comply with a new state law offering school vouchers to parents of children with disabilities. The Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for…