The news industry takes another hit this week as the Rupert Murdoch-owned digital newspaper, The Daily, announces that 29 percent of its workforce, 50 employees, will be laid off. News Corp launched the iPad-only publication (via iTunes) to great fanfare
Always eager to leap before an unattended camera, President Obama took advantage of a trip to the Verizon Center for a USA-Brazil pre-Olympic basketball game to give ESPN his opinion on the 1992 vs. 2012 Dream Team. “This is a
We’ve seen a lot of people and companies benefit illegally and/or unfairly from the policies of the Barack Obama Administration. The Obama Administration routinely picks losers at the expense of winners — the common thread amongst the losers being their
Network Neutrality is disastrous Internet policy, cooked up in the fevered swamps of university faculty lounges and Media Marxist grievance group offices. Every encounter with Reality has been for Net Neutrality and its proponents an abysmal failure. Net Neutrality is Socialism for
Many of the super-rich moguls of New York City own guns, according to the NYPD, and some people are enraged about it. Eugene O’Donnell, a John Jay professor and former cop, charged, “By definition, these are the least needy people
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing. And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu.
Mike Daisey lied about work conditions in contract manufacturing factories in China where iPhones and iPads are made. He lied on stage in a theatrical monologue (that itself was a bald rip-off of the medium invented by the late, great
We can almost always count on the Left’s knee-jerk, snap objection to almost anything that takes place in the free market. Almost anytime any two or more private individuals or the companies they represent reach a mutually acceptable agreement –
HBO’s “Game Change,” a telefilm alleging Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was over matched, under-qualified and possible mentally unstable, makes its world TV premiere March 10. The following night offers an elixir to that poorly sourced production. [youtube WVo_-RAiX3M nolink] “The
Another day, another Barack Obama Administration totalitarian diktat. In other words, whatever Obama wants – by any means necessary. Behold Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Which last week handed down from on-high a mandate that telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon
The Obama Administration has been an anti-Constitutional, anti-rule of law, unilateral power grabbing nightmare mess. Wonder why the economy remains a train wreck? This is why. If the American people and their businesses are overrun with new government taxes and
The Soros and SEIU-funded Media Matters is smarting over three losses these past two weeks. First there was the Simon Wiesenthal Center slamming Media Matters for America for its anti-Israel screeds, the second was Politico calling the propaganda site a
JENNIFER ANISTON NAMED SEXIEST WOMAN OF ALL TIME Nothing against Aniston, who gets better looking every year, but… ever? Here are the Top 100. No Angie Dickinson. Indefensible. In no particular order, my top picks: Ann-Margret, Tina Turner, Barbara Stanwyck,
Whenever I think of the Huffington Post newsroom I think of the frat house from “PCU.” That’s the only possible explanation for the is-it-or-isn’t-it-true story posted to HuffPo yesterday detailing how Eric Boehlert firmly believes that the bearded Verizon guy
The good news: the hippies and freaks in Zuccotti Park were finally swept away by law enforcement a few weeks ago. The bad news: they simply took their protests to other places–homeless shelters, other public parks, bridges, and now retailers.
As lawyers say, lets stipulate that the political system is broken. We have, in the past, railed against special tax incentives for business that are often outmoded, ill conceived, and are generally ineffective. These, more often than not, merely distort
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: The FBI has released photos, videos, and documents in the case of 10 Russian secret agents arrested–and quickly deported–in 2010. The documents are mostly heavily redacted and of no practical value to those interested
While Marxists spout equality and equal worth, they are not above claiming ownership of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Turns out some are more equal than others. UFT President Michael Mulgrew leads an #Occupy protest LaborNotes reports: “Unions and other
Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street
Team Obama is out and about mourning a “double-dip recession,” while Fed head Ben Bernanke is warning of a faltering economy. I have described the current economic environment as the front end of a recession. But Obama’s populist, class-warfare attack
As a preface, sometimes it helps to have been “on the other side” when trying to determine what the unions’ game plan is within the Obama Administration. What you are about to read comes from having been on the other
It looks like it is finally going to happen. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally gotten their net neutrality regulations through the bureaucratic mess, and now it [IS] only a matter of times before they start to take effect.
In recent weeks, I have been interested in Google and in the telecommunications companies. It’s not the typical “institutional left” topic on which I usually tend to focus. At least, not on the surface. The truth is, these industries ARE
As acting Department of Justice antitrust head, Sharis Pozen, said a couple of weeks ago, one of the DoJ’s main goals in working to block the AT&T / T-Mobile merger was to promote competition, not competitors. But would its suit
As acting Department of Justice antitrust head, Sahris Pozen, said a couple of weeks ago, one of the DoJ’s main goals in working to block the AT&T / T-Mobile merger was to keep price competition alive. But is it really?
