Publication Type
February 9, 2012
Throwing out the Baby with the SOPA Bathwater
Stakeholders of goodwill should go back to the drawing board and come up with an acceptable solution to the problem of offshore websites profiting from piracy and counterfeiting.
February 2, 2012
Please, No Politics in Vaccine Recommendations
January 26, 2012
A Homegrown High-Tech Industry That Creates Jobs and Trade Surpluses
January 19, 2012
Next Up for Big Government - Raise Your Taxes, Destroy Tax Software Industry
The IRS blames tax preparation software for "tax gap"
January 12, 2012
Conditional Spectrum Only at the FCC
Instead of guarding their own turf, the FCC should begin to guard American innovation by freeing up the raw materials without FCC dreamt-up conditions.
December 16, 2011
Beggar Not Thy Neighbor
Broadly speaking, a “beggar thy neighbor” policy in economics is one in which one group tries to improve its economic position in a way that tends to harm the economic position of another group.
November 18, 2011
Spectrum Spectacle
Regardless of one’s views on the deficit, our national debt and the various “solutions” being proposed, and regardless of one’s views on the spectrum (radio frequencies allocated to various uses) debate (how to find “more” spectrum), what should be obvious is that spectrum policy cannot merely become a subset of budget policy.
October 21, 2011
All Might Be Fair In Love, But Not In Mobile Communication Taxes
Rumor has it that the Wireless Tax Fairness Act may be up for a vote this month in the US House of Representatives.
October 6, 2011
The Definition of Municipal Broadband Insanity
For years, municipalities around the country have tried and failed to either set up communications networks or to partner with private companies to get into the business of video and telecommunication services.
September 8, 2011
A Chill Wind from the West
“Officials were concerned that the protestors ‘would use mobile devices to coordinate their disruptive activities and communicate about the location and number of…police.