Closing the Internet Frontier

Tuesday, March 16th 2010
by Tom Doheny
in Limited Government

Share

Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, George Gilder commented on the new tactics being developed by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the Internet. Akin to the failed attempt to force cap-and-trade through Congress last year, Washington is now seeking to use a government agency to circumvent voters and manipulate access to broadband.

READ MORE

AFP Foundation Exposes Radical ‘Media Reform’ Group Free Press, Using Their Own Words

Tuesday, February 16th 2010
in Technology

Share

One of the groups pushing for taxpayer-funded national broadband Internet, Free Press, is led by people who have called the United States a “terrorist institution” and called for the “overthrow of the capitalist system.” These quotations and more are revealed in a new report from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.

Free Press is holding an event Feb. 17 on Capitol Hill to pressure the Federal Communications Commission on their national communications priorities.

READ MORE

Say Anything: Obama Heads to Copenhagen

Wednesday, November 25th 2009
by Tom Doheny
in Energy

Share

The White House confirmed this morning that President Obama will be traveling to Copenhagen to promise the world dramatic cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The President plans to promise a 17-percent reduction in emissions, compared to 2005 levels, a figure derived from the House version of the cap-and-trade bill. Among its many flaws, the bill, which has stalled in the Senate, would allow the president to impose carbon tariffs on imports from countries that have not reduced emissions.

READ MORE
123456789…next ›last »