GOP Draft Platform Blasts Obama for Putting 'Survival' of Internet at Risk
Institute for Policy Innovation President Tom Giovanetti tweeted that the 2016 draft GOP platform's language on "protecting Internet from taxation and regulation is INADEQUATE" and proposed language that IPI would prefer.
After Britain, Could Texas Secede Next?
Many Texans can empathize with Brits who went to the polls and said we want our freedom back.
Only Congress Can Stop FCC's Sweeping Regulation of the Internet
The FCC’s regulation of the Internet must be viewed as being in direct contravention of Congress’ deregulatory intent, and as the biggest U.S. re-regulation in decades.
With FCC Set-Top Box Overreach, Time Is Now For Congress to Rein in Agency
The FCC's new set-top box regulations do not address any problem, but would create a whole new set of problems by redesigning the wildly dynamic and innovative video industry according to the whims of Chairman Tom Wheeler, and it's time for Congress to rein in the rogue agency.
Here's the President Donald Trump Most Resembles
The former Republican president who Trump most resembles isn’t Reagan, but Herbert Hoover, who served from March 1929 to March 1933, when his reelection bid was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Only Congress Can Stop FCC's Sweeping Regulation of the Internet
Only Congress can undo the FCC's broad assertion of power over the Internet and return to the light touch regulation that facilitated the Internet revolution in the first place. Congress should act.
Trending Topic: Let the Market Work
If customer feedback leads Facebook to design a more robust and transparent system that ensures fairness to all its users, that is a market success, not a market failure. Let’s let it play out.
Obama's Plan To Benefit Overtime Employees By Spending More Of Other People's Money
Once again, President Obama has shown how generous he can be with other people’s money. Usually he’s dishing out taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars, but this time it’s coming from employers—an estimated $12 billion over 10 years.
Trending Topic: Let the Market Work
If conservative concerns lead Facebook to design a more robust and transparent system that ensures fairness to all its users, that is a market success, not a market failure. Let’s let it play out.
Only Government Could Oppose Ride-Sharing
Who could oppose a new service that is universally loved by its participants? Government, of course—especially government at its worst.