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January 21, 2010
Can You Hear Me Now? Are You Even Listening?
With insurmountable majorities in both Houses of Congress, Congressional Democrats had the votes to jam through any piece of legislation they liked.
January 14, 2010
Regulating Everything from Bits to Business Plans
[The following is an excerpt from IPI’s comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to regulate the practices of Internet service providers (ISPs)]
The intent of Congress to increase competition and innovation in communications through the Telecom Act of 1996 is finally being realized.
January 12, 2010
The Real Cost of a Presidential Election
Presidential elections are expensive—something liberals never tire of reminding us every four years when they push for some way to nationalize the cost of presidential elections.
January 7, 2010
Content and Discontent
When you watch a dog chasing its tail around and around in circles, the obvious question posed to the dog is “what are you going to do with it if you ever catch it?”
Well, politically liberal activist groups have been chasing their own tails for years, criticizing content and media companies for, well, just about everything they do, and of course all in the name of “protecting consumers.
December 17, 2009
Evergreen or Lump of Coal?
While global leaders burn tons of carbon jetting off to meetings about how we can reduce our carbon output, back at home real work is getting done to protect the environment.
December 14, 2009
Hard Choices
President Obama keeps claiming he’s willing to “make the hard choices.
December 10, 2009
Media Control
For years one activist organization after another has expressed concern about the “control” of the media.
December 8, 2009
Sink the Bismarck
President Obama’s claim that health care costs are growing so fast that “doing nothing is not an option” would be a little more believable if he could point to a country that has been able to “bend the curve” on health care spending.
December 3, 2009
Keeping the Populace Alarmed
The American Cancer Society, World Health Organization, the Food and Drug Administration and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection all agree: A survey of the recent scientific literature shows there is no clear evidence of any link between mobile devices and health problems.