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
At our Atlas Summit last week , I had the chance to hang out a bit with John Stossel . Stossel wanted to know: why are liberty-lovers so worked up about the NSA spying revealed by Edward Snowden? As Stossel explains here , there are many worse things that governments do. So far, the NSA spying has probably broken up some terrorist rings. And otherwise, it hasn't harmed any American citizens as far as we know. The administration and members of Congress say the program is kept (secretly) under wraps, with independent judicial and Congressional oversight.
Economic power is the ability to buy and sell, the ability to make contracts. It's power exerted in the marketplace, in the context of trade. Political power is the power of government and power obtained through the political process, such as by getting laws passed favoring the your purposes. Both economic power and political power are instances of control over others. Social power generally is the ability to induce other people to do things you want. Each exercises control in a radically distinct way. Political power is rooted in an ability to harm others. By contrast economic power is rooted in the ability to offer others benefits.
If I’m revolutionizing your whole industry right out of business, do you have to cooperate? If cooperating means letting me sell your...
It's make or break time for the private space industry to show that it isn't essentially the new crony capitalism. In this "State of the...
Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) rightly warns about the demise of the GOP if his party does not help pass reasonable immigration reform..
Snowden released secrets about the U.S. government’s domestic spying to the public. He paid a high price for this deed, going from a
Republican Party self-destruction is on display in Virginia as the E.W. Jackson, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, is looking...
A soon-to-be-released study on future activities in space suggests that private Moon bases could be a reality as early as 2020...
James Comey, who is widely said to have threatened resigning as Acting U.S. Attorney General rather than sign off on the Bush administration
Even before 9/11, the National Security Agency went to Qwest Communications and asked it to turn over Americans’ phone records without....
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
At our Atlas Summit last week , I had the chance to hang out a bit with John Stossel . Stossel wanted to know: why are liberty-lovers so worked up about the NSA spying revealed by Edward Snowden? As Stossel explains here , there are many worse things that governments do. So far, the NSA spying has probably broken up some terrorist rings. And otherwise, it hasn't harmed any American citizens as far as we know. The administration and members of Congress say the program is kept (secretly) under wraps, with independent judicial and Congressional oversight.
Economic power is the ability to buy and sell, the ability to make contracts. It's power exerted in the marketplace, in the context of trade. Political power is the power of government and power obtained through the political process, such as by getting laws passed favoring the your purposes. Both economic power and political power are instances of control over others. Social power generally is the ability to induce other people to do things you want. Each exercises control in a radically distinct way. Political power is rooted in an ability to harm others. By contrast economic power is rooted in the ability to offer others benefits.
If I’m revolutionizing your whole industry right out of business, do you have to cooperate? If cooperating means letting me sell your...
It's make or break time for the private space industry to show that it isn't essentially the new crony capitalism. In this "State of the...
Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) rightly warns about the demise of the GOP if his party does not help pass reasonable immigration reform..
Snowden released secrets about the U.S. government’s domestic spying to the public. He paid a high price for this deed, going from a
Republican Party self-destruction is on display in Virginia as the E.W. Jackson, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, is looking...
A soon-to-be-released study on future activities in space suggests that private Moon bases could be a reality as early as 2020...
James Comey, who is widely said to have threatened resigning as Acting U.S. Attorney General rather than sign off on the Bush administration
Even before 9/11, the National Security Agency went to Qwest Communications and asked it to turn over Americans’ phone records without....