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FCC to Vote on Cable TV Regulation
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Uncertain Antitrust Trajectory
The proposed XM/Sirius satellite merger — awaiting OKs from the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — represents the antitrust establishment’s latest target……
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Milton Friedman on Greed
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A better balance between life and death
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In support of school choice–with guilt
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Economic Reality
Scott Cleland’s Sunday Commentary column, "Ultimate Internet gatekeeper?" described the potential Google acquisition of DoubleClick as a dire situation that would offer "no real…
Letters
Letter in Opposition to Price Controls on Special Access Services
Full Document Available in PDF Dear FCC Chairman & Commissioners: …
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Wonder if a battery “hack” like this would work on my Honda Hybrid Civic Hybrid?
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Europeans Use Antitrust to Thwart Competition
The European Union’s highly politicized business environment increasingly threatens competitiveness and consumer welfare across the continent. The Court of First Instance upheld…
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When we say “infrastructure socialism,” we mean it.
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To show “how desperately the world needs prime movers and how viciously it treats them”
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Here’s something I’ll keep off the gift list
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Now THIS is global warming!
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Hughie Thomasson of The Outlaws dies
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I still can’t get these “freegans” off my mind.
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Left Brain, Right Brain 2.0
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Who killed TV “family hour”?
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Private Public Matters
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Ra
Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Contents…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2007
Executive Summary…
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The Flexibility Solution
Full Document Available in PDF America has not done enough to protect the networks of…
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Washington’s Ten Thousand Commandments
Congress is currently considering the president's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 20% of nation's GDP, the budget process at…
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadband Industry Practices
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The Net Neutrality ScareTicker
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Need. More. TV. sez PFF
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More on the surveillance society
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Can Congress Tell a Virtual World from the Real One?
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Internet itself occupied several years…
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Imagine no FCC?
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The FCC’s challenge: Separating speech and state
WASHINGTON – With a stop-off in Nashville, Tenn., in December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues a series of hearings debating government’s role in determining…
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Time for a virtual games Declaration of Independence
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Net itself occupied several…
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Amazingly efficient merger approvals, cont.
Congress leaves town today, with just two appropriations bills completed (that can be a good thing!). Agencies aren’t going anywhere, but there must be something…
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Regulation Before Occupation
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Creative Destruction, The Musical
Alex Singleton’s LibertarianHome blog (go bookmark it) today highlights a new Economic Research Council report on the British pop music business called Creative…
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Unleash the media
With a stop-off in Nashville on Dec. 11, the Federal Communications Commission continues a series of hearings debating government's role in determining the…
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What Spam? It’s against the law.
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Antitrust at the Speed of Government
Microsoft met a November deadline imposed by EU officials for sharing “interface’ and “compatibility’ information about its operating system to workgroup server market competitors who…
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Good Government! (Sit!…Stay!…)
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Power Lies
The lede of this Washington Post article [“Loudoun Excluded From Utility Route“] is jarring to me: Dominion Virginia Power has excluded most of Loudoun…
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Gambling with freedom
Your after-tax income belongs to you. You are free to spend it, invest it, waste it, burn it, or tithe it away—and none of…
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COPA: “So Much Easier than Parenting”
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), signed by President Clinton eight years ago, has yet to be enforced. Kids have grown up waiting to be…
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Giving Chase in Cyberspace
Full Document Available in PDF In the debate over identity theft and online security, commentators…
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No “Grounds” for Antitrust Charges against Starbucks
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Splinternets
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Regulatory State
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Statement on the “Audio Flag” Provisions of the “Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment”
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2006—Among the provisions in the "Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act" being marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee…
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Data Mismanagement
Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, now say that Sarbanes-Oxley can be unduly burdensome on business. The law that, in…
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Sunset the FCC
Reforming telecommunications law is a favored subject in the halls of Congress this year. Hot issues include streamlining video franchising and addressing the "net…
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Antitrust Skeptic’s Bibliography
For more than two decades, the willingness of policy makers to rethink the presumption that economic regulation automatically benefits consumers has driven the deregulation of…
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U.S. tech: Get to China
We once scorned the idea the Internet could be censored. Many politicians have tried to stop porn, but always to no avail. Spam still…
Products
No Regulation Without Representation
The exact cost of the federal regulatory state may never be fully known. As with taxes, firms generally pass along to consumers some of their…