Archive for December, 2010
Conservatives Plan Countermeasures to Neutralize FCC Internet Edict
Following the Federal Communications Commission’s party-line adoption of a new internet regulatory scheme, conservatives are already plotting to challenge and oppose implementation of the new policy at every turn. Critics say the still-unpublished “net neutrality” regulations mark an unprecedented federal intrusion into the realm of internet operation. They’re condemning the three Democratic commissioners who supported [...]
Full StoryBlack Education Disaster
Harvard University Professor Stephan Thernstrom’s recent essay, “Minorities in College—Good News, But…,” in Minding the Campus (11/4/10), a website sponsored by the New York-based Manhattan Institute, commented on the results of the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress test: The scores “mean that black students aged 17 do not read with any greater facility [...]
Full StoryInternet Access Is Not a ‘Civil Right’
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our “access” to x, y or z, what they’re really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to “increase” Internet “access.” Call it Webcare. By a vote of 3-2, [...]
Full StoryUncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca
often bash government. I say it can’t do anything better than people in a free market. But the government is unequalled in producing one thing: negative unintended consequences. Show me a government activity, and I will show you bad results that even the program’s advocates probably don’t like. Here’s one example. Congressmen say our government [...]
Full StoryReid and Pelosi Finally Get Mugged by Public Opinion
by Michael Barone Elections have consequences. The consequences of the November 2010 elections — and one might add the November 2009 elections in New Jersey and Virginia and the January 2010 special Senate election in Massachusetts — became clear as lights shined over the snow at both ends of the Capitol on Thursday night. At [...]
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