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‘Choice Is a Powerful Thing’: Uber Super Bowl Promotion Reflects Value of Economic Liberty

Choice is a powerful thing. That was the subject of an e-mail I received from an unlikel...

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Minding the Gap Between Rich and Poor

Are you a 1-percenter? Like it or not, if you earn at least $370,000 annually in the Un...

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FCC’s OTT Reclassification Portends More Trouble for Cable, Satellite Providers

As I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, a variety of factors is breaking down the cur...

commerce
Republican Senate Takeover Reduces Likelihood of Net Neutrality Mandate

The upcoming Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate could have significant effects on t...

commerce
The World-Changing Possibilities of Apple Pay and Other Electronic Payment Options

Advances in information technology have not only transformed the media and the nation's cu...

commerce
New CBS Streaming Service Reflects Rapidly Changing TV Market

Hot on the heels of the announcement of a new streaming service from cable channel HBO ...

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HBO Streaming Announcement Is Good News for All Entertainment Consumers, Not Just HBO Watchers

Acting on plans reported here a month ago, entertainment channel HBO has decided to end it...

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Misguided Attacks on Suburbia Undermine Essential Values, Affront Critical Voting Bloc

Writing in The Orange County Register, the distinguished urbanologist Joel Kotkin notes th...

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Google Introduces Encryption by Default, Protecting User Data

Quickly following the lead of Apple, Inc., Google has announced that it too will encrypt i...

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Apple’s New Security Policy Is Great News for iPhone, iPad Users

Apple Corp. last night announced that it is implementing a new security protocol that will...

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HBO, Showtime Comments Portend Ominous Scenario for Cable/Satellite Companies

As TV viewers increasingly move to online programming sources such as Netflix, Hulu, and...

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Hillary’s Literary Flop: Another Reason for Democrats to Hate Free Markets

Hillary Clinton's memoir, Hard Choices, has failed the one test even the Obama White H...

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Those Unspeakable Truths about Illegal Immigration? Victor Davis Hanson Speaks Them

On Pajamas Media, Victor Davis Hanson notes six aspects of illegal immigration—those pro...

books
Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry

Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...

art
For One Museum, Patriotism Doesn’t Draw a Crowd

Even where one might think it to be popular, patriotism is not an easy sell. In Georgia, s...

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Milton Friedman, Thou Should’st Be Living at This Hour!

Gary Wolfram, in a commentary on The Business & Media Institute website, notes: Today,...

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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood t...

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Wish Upon a Star—The Chimera of Cost-effective Solar Power

According to Jeff Perren at Pajamas Media, the President is wishing upon a star—the su...

books
Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

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Is Google Obama’s Halliburton?

I'm not prone to spreading conspiracy theories, but the recent story referenced in the pos...

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‘Inception’ Gets Big Reception at U.S. Box Office

Christopher Nolan's mindbending sci-fi thriller Inception opened spectacularly at the U.S....

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Entertainment Prices Outstrip Inflation

Entertainment prices are rising much more rapidly than the overall inflation rate. (more...

books
U.S. Publishers Head Overseas for New Crime Novels

Foreign menace strikes! Overseas crime novels are flooding U.S. shores, as American publis...

commerce
Court Gets It Right in YouTube Case

A U.S. District Court has ruled that copyright holders have to point out actual alleged vi...

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Report: Audience Interest in 3D Films Declines

The box office appeal of 3D films is waning. (more…)

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Traditional and Christian Themes Dominate U.S. Cinema Ticket Sales

It was a solid weekend for traditional-themed movies at the U.S box office. The entertain...

books
Convincing a Book-Loving Luddite to Pick Up a Kindle

Hi. My name is Daniel Crandall, and I’m a Biblio-holic. When I go into a bookstore I of...

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Ricochet, A Pay-to-Play Blog

The internet has one more venue for conservative thinkers. It’s an interesting entrepr...

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Bronte Films on the Rise

Filmmakers are moving on from Jane Austen to the more romantic and emotionally explicit no...

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‘Rockford Files’ Remake Shelved

NBC has stopped work on its proposed private-eye series The Rockford Files—as we had sug...

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Rodriguez Race War Film Supported by Taxpayer Money

While countless households struggle to make ends meet, Texas taxpayers have been forced to...

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Arts Subsidies Are Unnecessary When Low-Rent Neighborhoods Are Abundant

The Huffington Post reports that the high priestess of punk and poetry, Patti Smith, recom...

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‘Dragon’ Returns to Top U.S. Movie Spot, ‘Losers’ Stumbles

Kids' stuff and romantic comedies are still gold with U.S. audiences. After a week at num...