The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/28/2007

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today on the SCHIP health-care bill, which would expand health care coverage for children, and even some…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 09/28/2007

The United States Patent and Trademark Office, after finally having done something right for a change, recently reversed a…

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/28/2007

Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey is a proponent of ethanol because he believes it can help make the United States more energy independent. Never mind…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 09/28/2007

The Washington Post carries a story about a minor dust-up between Naral Pro-Choice America and Verizon. Naral wanted to use Verizon’s mobile network to…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 09/27/2007

Google's bid to purchase the Internet advertising firm DoubleClick was scrutinized today in hearings by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill), Chairman of the Congressional Subcommittee…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/27/2007

Minor abuses at the FCC, such as the one mentioned in my last post, warrant at least investigating how the FCC assesses fines, if not…