If you thought the Democrat Party couldn’t sink any lower, check out their latest power grab, from the Boston Herald: U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey wants the government to study and recommend ways to stop the Internet, TV and radio
Bastiat’s “Broken Windows” parable illustrates the absurdity of claiming that a broken window counts as economic “stimulus,” just because a little tornado of economic activity appears as the window is replaced. Most people over the age of five can at
In response to Carney Knew The WH Document Was About Benghazi – He Used The Talking Points Himself on Sept. 14, 2012: It’s pretty wild to watch Carney and the rest of the White House spin team give up all
The Obama Administration’s decision to relinquish American oversight of Internet domains looks worse and worse with every new development. At this point, the burden of argument is no longer on critics. Supporters of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with polling. On the one hand, it seems reasonable to want a snapshot of how the public feels about issues and candidates at any given moment; it’s easy to understand why political
If the Church of Global Warming still had any real credibility, the bombshell revelations by Harvard professor Robert Stavins in an open letter published Friday would be devastating. As it is, the fanatics will probably scream that Stavins has become
Last week, it was discovered – not by official investigators, but by outside watchdog group Judicial Watch, which spends its days waterboarding the Most Transparent Administration in History with Freedom of Information Act requests – that IRS scandal kingpin Lois
Strange to think of videogame cartridges turning up as archaeology, but a legend of the gaming world was just confirmed by a documentary crew working on a series to be broadcast over Microsoft’s Xbox network next year. Microsoft is
In response to Sen. Cruz Sends Letter to BLM Expanding on TX Att. Gen. Abbott’s Inquiry: Hang on a second, I thought this whole controversy was over, and the federal government now has unlimited power to seize whatever land it
In an earlier age, this would be shocking enough to bring network executives tumbling out of their offices. In today’s world of absurdly biased left-wing media, it’s a footnote. But for what it’s worth, the Chicago Tribune just busted CNN
In response to Obamacare Exchange ‘Cover Oregon’ Collapses in Failure: So… where did all that money go? Is anyone going to jail over this? Will anyone other than a few designated fall guys be inconvenienced? How about the geniuses who
There are many ideas and proposals packed under the rubric of “Net Neutrality,” but the core principle amounts to rent control on the Internet: all web traffic must be treated equally. In its undiluted, absolute form, this idea would work
One of the salient features of Democrat race-baiting is that participants believe themselves to be invincible. They can say any crazy, offensive, slanderous thing that pops into their heads, and there will never be a price to pay. Usually that
If you’ve ever been stuck in the agonizingly slow-moving, confusing queue to board an airplane, you might have found yourself thinking, “There couldn’t be a worse way to manage this circus!” That’s literally true. The standard methodology of boarding an
It’s not surprising to learn that various governments (not just the United States) account for the bulk of online mischief, but it’s a bit sobering to see the numbers laid out by a new Verizon investigative report, summarized by the
There’s something strange about discovering the moment at which HBO’s generally superb, but extremely graphic, “Game of Thrones” finally went too far for many viewers. Horrific violence, including torture, castration, and the violent murder of children? No problemo. Gratuitous nudity
While we’re on the subject of Democrats trying to re-define what “pro-life” means, maybe they should explain how the UK’s Josie Cunningham is not the final logical distillation of what “pro-choice” means. She’s 18 weeks pregnant, but announced she’d have
In response to Charlie Crist Says He’s Pro-Life by “His” Definition: It’s inherently comical to take a ludicrous hack like Charlie Crist seriously – his one and only “principle” is that he wants to win the election. In some ways,
Economic growth is shaped heavily by perception; there’s an old chestnut that says recessions wouldn’t be so bad, if people just refused to participate in them. The past few years have seen a number of obvious – not to say
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a “future shock” poll to learn how Americans feel about various impending technological developments. The generally serious nature of the poll questions is somewhat undercut by one finding that the technology people most look
It seems like only yesterday that the federal government assured us that none of its big public websites – and especially not HealthCare.gov, the ObamaCare exchange site – were at risk from the Heartbleed security flaw, which can allow hackers
Screen Rant marks the release of the Johnny Depp film “Transcendence” (which, alas, has “stinker” written all over it) with a fine list of killer artificial intelligence from previous movies. This is a subject dear to my heart, because I’m
Forbes mentions the Canadian incident in which the Heartbleed online security flaw was employed to loot taxpayer data from the Canadian Revenue Agency, which I wrote about earlier this week, but then adds another confirmed attack on UK parenting website
The search for extraterrestrial life begins with the assumption that it would require a homeworld broadly similar to Earth in a few key characteristics. One of these is temperature, so astronomers estimate a “habitable zone” radiating out from each star,
Klint Finley at Wired has a provocative idea: “It’s time to encrypt the entire Internet.” This would begin with more widespread use of the Secure Socket Layer protocol – which, at the moment, is not entirely secure, due to the
