Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a new initiative to promote the spread of internet usage world wide. He titled his
In this "State of the Culture Update," Will and Ed address and analyze the recent controversy involving Chris Christie labeling the...
The federal government wants to sacrifice Doug Parker’s plan to create the world’s largest airline on the altar of lower airfares. But it’s not willing to sacrifice its own policies to that same goal. Even as its Department of Justice tries to stop the US Airways-American Airlines merger with an antitrust lawsuit , the federal government continues to restrict competition in air travel.
August 12, 2013 -- The Tea Party Patriots and The New Hampshire Republican Leadership Institute are organizing an event that will bring together victims of IRS abuse to tell their stories and to inspire action against further government abuse. Aaron Day, CEO of The Atlas Society, will be a featured speaker. The Tea Party Patriots, a national tea party group, will be flying in victims from all over the country. These victims will be telling their stories of unbelievable abuse. The stories are appalling and need to be heard.
America is a country built by immigrants, but immigrants did not come here to build this country. Rather, they wanted—and still want...
When the Consumer Product Safety Commission went after its product, Craig Zucker’s company protested. Buckyballs may have injured people who
Doug Parker was CEO of a regional airline when he saw an opportunity: buy US Airways, which was bankrupt and at risk of liquidation. He pulled it off; the combined airline was called US Airways. This year, he saw a similar opportunity: buy the bankrupt American Airlines -- and create the biggest airline in the world.
In a recent column, Paul Krugman weighed in for the nth time against free-market-oriented Republicans Rand Paul and Paul Ryan
It's hard for an Objectivist not to be fan of Elon Musk...
In 2004, Ladar Levison founded a business to produce a product he believed in: private email . He encrypted messages before storing them..
If you’re used to thinking of antitrust law’s victims as huge corporations like Google and Apple, consider a case from Lubbock, Texas. The victim: the American Quarter Horse Association. The issue: who gets to decide what a quarter horse is.
Once, in late 2009 through early 2010, Apple tried to save the old-fashioned publishing industry . Now government lawyers, having convinced
A study published by an environmental organization claims the U.S. government is underestimating the number of birds killed by wind turbines. The Daily Caller apparently thinks this is a big deal .
Why would a president threaten to veto a bill that only does what he wants to do anyway?Earlier this month, President Obama announced that he would delay the enforcement of Obamacare’s employer mandate—the provision imposing a special tax on employers who don’t provide the sort of insurance the Affordable Care Act calls for. The mandate was to take effect in 2014; now it’ll take effect in 2015 instead.
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made those historic first footprints on the Moon. But the ensuing decades have been
July 16, 2013 -- Today's Investor's Business Daily carries a story by Ed Hudgins about the ongoing financial meltdown of the USPS. Hudgins argues for ending the U.S. Postal Service's monopoly:
Walmart is not a radical defender of its own rights, or of other people’s. It has obtained land through eminent domain....
Yes, riding to the rescue of the established publishers violated antitrust law, Judge Denise Cote has ruled in the federal government’s case against Apple Computer.A trial on damages has yet to be held , and the company says it will appeal.
You can’t turn your back on the FTC. While I was busy preparing for the Atlas Summit, the Federal Trade Commission found a new opportunity to make trouble for productive people. The people who’d been building Waze, a mapmaking and navigation service that draws on real-time contributions from its users, had sold it to Google for $1 billion—and the FTC told Google it wanted to examine the matter under antitrust law . This could ultimately lead to a demand that Google unwind the deal, which has already closed.
The military coup in Egypt is a blow to Islamist totalitarians and a slap at their facilitator, Barack Obama. After massive demonstrations
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a new initiative to promote the spread of internet usage world wide. He titled his
In this "State of the Culture Update," Will and Ed address and analyze the recent controversy involving Chris Christie labeling the...
The federal government wants to sacrifice Doug Parker’s plan to create the world’s largest airline on the altar of lower airfares. But it’s not willing to sacrifice its own policies to that same goal. Even as its Department of Justice tries to stop the US Airways-American Airlines merger with an antitrust lawsuit , the federal government continues to restrict competition in air travel.
August 12, 2013 -- The Tea Party Patriots and The New Hampshire Republican Leadership Institute are organizing an event that will bring together victims of IRS abuse to tell their stories and to inspire action against further government abuse. Aaron Day, CEO of The Atlas Society, will be a featured speaker. The Tea Party Patriots, a national tea party group, will be flying in victims from all over the country. These victims will be telling their stories of unbelievable abuse. The stories are appalling and need to be heard.
America is a country built by immigrants, but immigrants did not come here to build this country. Rather, they wanted—and still want...
When the Consumer Product Safety Commission went after its product, Craig Zucker’s company protested. Buckyballs may have injured people who
Doug Parker was CEO of a regional airline when he saw an opportunity: buy US Airways, which was bankrupt and at risk of liquidation. He pulled it off; the combined airline was called US Airways. This year, he saw a similar opportunity: buy the bankrupt American Airlines -- and create the biggest airline in the world.
In a recent column, Paul Krugman weighed in for the nth time against free-market-oriented Republicans Rand Paul and Paul Ryan
It's hard for an Objectivist not to be fan of Elon Musk...
In 2004, Ladar Levison founded a business to produce a product he believed in: private email . He encrypted messages before storing them..
If you’re used to thinking of antitrust law’s victims as huge corporations like Google and Apple, consider a case from Lubbock, Texas. The victim: the American Quarter Horse Association. The issue: who gets to decide what a quarter horse is.
Once, in late 2009 through early 2010, Apple tried to save the old-fashioned publishing industry . Now government lawyers, having convinced
A study published by an environmental organization claims the U.S. government is underestimating the number of birds killed by wind turbines. The Daily Caller apparently thinks this is a big deal .
Why would a president threaten to veto a bill that only does what he wants to do anyway?Earlier this month, President Obama announced that he would delay the enforcement of Obamacare’s employer mandate—the provision imposing a special tax on employers who don’t provide the sort of insurance the Affordable Care Act calls for. The mandate was to take effect in 2014; now it’ll take effect in 2015 instead.
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made those historic first footprints on the Moon. But the ensuing decades have been
July 16, 2013 -- Today's Investor's Business Daily carries a story by Ed Hudgins about the ongoing financial meltdown of the USPS. Hudgins argues for ending the U.S. Postal Service's monopoly:
Walmart is not a radical defender of its own rights, or of other people’s. It has obtained land through eminent domain....
Yes, riding to the rescue of the established publishers violated antitrust law, Judge Denise Cote has ruled in the federal government’s case against Apple Computer.A trial on damages has yet to be held , and the company says it will appeal.
You can’t turn your back on the FTC. While I was busy preparing for the Atlas Summit, the Federal Trade Commission found a new opportunity to make trouble for productive people. The people who’d been building Waze, a mapmaking and navigation service that draws on real-time contributions from its users, had sold it to Google for $1 billion—and the FTC told Google it wanted to examine the matter under antitrust law . This could ultimately lead to a demand that Google unwind the deal, which has already closed.
The military coup in Egypt is a blow to Islamist totalitarians and a slap at their facilitator, Barack Obama. After massive demonstrations