The Open Market Blog

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/23/2009

I’d be impressed if a policy issue in Washington actually ever WENT AWAY. But it seems like we have to dust off the same arguments…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/06/2008

President-elect Obama inherits a massive federal regulatory state, much of which pre-existed the gargantuan “Bailout to Nowhere.” Reforms to make agencies more…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/05/2008

OK so I’m a latecomer to the show, a multi-Emmy winning hit on AMC. Got a kick out of leading ad-man Don Draper’s encapsulation of…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/05/2008

It seems few would deserve it more than author Michael Crichton, author of numerous books on sweeping techno-thriller themes that were irresistable candy to a…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/10/2008

Funny how the biggest beneficiaries of combustion often like to get behind laws that will hinder the rest of society, but them–not so much.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/27/2008

GAO FINDS FEDERAL DATA PROTECTION LAGGING “The GAO says that despite a steady stream of embarrassing computer security breaches, many major U.S. federal…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/16/2008

Too little in today’s environmentalism is about bringing environmental amenities into the realm of wealth creation and private stewardship required to actually protect them. “…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/27/2007

—As CEI’s prez Fred Smith will tell you. Over the holiday, our friend Sally Pipes at the Pacific Research Institute penned a Washington Post oped…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/04/2007

The “Green Hanukkia” campaign is urging Jews to burn fewer candles this Hanukka to help the environment, since–yep–candles spew carbon dioxide (15 grams!). But…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/12/2007

Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek notes that on Friday [Nov. 16], nobel economist Milton Friedman will have been dead for one year. He forwarded…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/23/2007

Alan Weisman, author of World Without Us describes what would happen to the planet if we weren’t on it in this interview. I would…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/22/2007

An engaging oped in yesterday’s Washington Post Outlook section is entitled “I Just Couldn’t Sacrifice My Son.” It’s about the state of public schooling…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/19/2007

I don’t think it would lessen the car’s horsepower any. Anyhow—enjoy The Six-Volt Battery Hack.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/18/2007

From the “nut neutrality” department. At the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit yesterday (very excellent events, by the way), Sen. Byron Dorgan had…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/15/2007

The New York Times highlights the pro-capitalist literature of Ayn Rand today, citing several prominent businessmen influenced by her. The title above is her…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/13/2007

Here’s an idea; have your kids pick up trash and play with it. Gadget site hizs.com says this little plastic octopus “reinforces environmentalism in…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/13/2007

When the sun swells into a red giant in about 5 billion years, “Earth Might Survive Sun’s Explosion,” observational evidence of other star systems…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/12/2007

OK going off topic. I just learned from a friend that one of my favorite musicians died Sunday nite, September 12. The great Hughie Thomasson…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/12/2007

Richard dissected them below. Simple living is one thing, but Free-lunch foragers seem irretrievably ridiculous and hypocritical. The dripping contempt for capitalism, while…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/11/2007

A study in the journal Nature Neuroscience finds evidence of differences in the way information is processed in the brains of test subjects of…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/09/2007

A new Parents Television Council report bemoans the supposed demise of the TV “Family Hour.” This response essay by Adam Thierer sets the…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/15/2007

Gotta love the Net Neutrality ScareTicker: “It has been… 1548 days 12 hours 40 minutes … without a “net neutrality”…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/14/2007

The Progress and Freedom Foundation’s Scott Wallsten notes the urgency of franchise reform as the path to greater broadband access and availability. The FCC’s recent…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/07/2007

While the big telecom firms and some free speech and civil liberties groups may clash over issues like net neutrality, they agree over the fact…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/19/2007

Jack Shafer ponders the case for abolishing FCC in Slate’s blog.  He wonders what things would be like if the philosophy of FCC’s control…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/07/2006

Several public policy groups are beginning to set up limited operations within the virtual realm called Second Life; lectures, publications, that sort of thing.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/28/2006

The European Union claims that unsolicited email –spam– accounts for between 50 and 80 percent of all Internet traffic. But that can’t be true,…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/17/2006

The Antitrust Modernization Commission will report recommendations for streamlining the nation’s antitrust laws sometime in April 2007; while the ponderous commission has been around…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/27/2006

As often happens to successful ventures, Starbucks now faces critics who challenge the company’s leasing contracts, which specify competitors may not occupy the…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/25/2006

Contrary to the network neutrality agenda presented in this Newsforge article by some anonymous individual going by the name of James Glass,…