commerce
‘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...

commerce
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...

economicspolicy
Obama Goads Senate, Presses Net Neutrality Issue

As I noted here last week, the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate ensures that Cong...

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
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...

culture-and-economics
Kickstarter Gives in After Successful Crowdfunding of Gosnell Film at Indiegogo

The online crowdfunding site Kickstarter has been brought to heel by documentary filmmak...

education
Divided by a Common Language — Thoughts From a Century Ago

Even before the colonies split away from England, the British tended to treat America as s...

philosophy
‘Democratic Socialism, the Great Utopia of the Last Few Generations, Is Unachievable’

By Mike Gray The title quote is from F. A. Hayek in his The Road to Serfdom. Over on Rene...

movies
Cracking Up — ‘A Great Little Popcorn Flick’

At the LA Times, Susan King offers a short review of a classic sci-fi sleeper: It’s a wo...

noteworthy
The Recovery, County by County

An interactive map of the "economic recovery" we're currently "enjoying" thanks to the tim...

books
Gnostic-in-Chief?

On WorldNetDaily (WND), Ellis Washington shows us how a first-century religious heresy is...

philosophy
‘Why Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism’

In his decision in the controversial 2005 Dover Area School District case, a clueless dist...

philosophy
Free Will vs. Determinism and the Unborn

Dominic Statham at CMI calls our attention to a recent NAS paper that trips over the ancie...

commerce
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...

scitech
Evolution—You’d Think That After a Century of Torture Somebody Would Admit the Truth

Brian Thomas at ICR reports that "100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution": Fruit f...

philosophy
Are You Sane? You May Soon Be the Only One Who Is

Reuters, a not altogether reliable news agency, reports that the new edition of the Diagno...

people
Reagan v. Obama Smackdown on Socialized Medicine

Well, it's sort of a smackdown, with a dead man exhibiting far more good sense than a livi...

journalism
The Ugly Face of Intolerance—From the “Victims” of Intolerance

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is conducting a summer tour of twenty-three c...

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

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

journalism
Can What We Read about Scientific Matters Be Trusted?

If you think scientists and the media that "report" their findings are somehow "objectiv...

scitech
Is It Too Soon to Worry about an American Police State—or Too Late?

By Mike Gray On The Freeman Online weblog, Wendy McElroy sees something profoundly un-A...

journalism
Klavan on Media Diversity

Well-said by novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Andrew Klavan, on who's really for diver...

commerce
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...

commerce
Is Google Obama’s Halliburton?

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

journalism
TWA 800 and the Bodyguard of Lies

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of li...

people
Can Being a ‘Global Warming Denier’ Make You an Enemy of the State? Frank Tipler Says Yes

Frank Tipler, a cosmologist, and Freeman Dyson, a polymath, are among those credentiale...

philosophy
DNA, Nature’s God, and America’s Political Freedom

On the Discovery Institute's Evolution News & Views weblog, Stephen C. Meyer unites sc...

journalism
WaPo ‘Conservative’ Blogger Dumped

The Washington Post's phony house conservative has resigned under fire. Good bloody riddan...

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...

web
YouTube Relents, Reposts “We Con the World” Video

The Flotilla Choir produced an extraordinary bit of musical satire following the inciden...

web
“We Con the World”

A nice bit of political satire is loose in the blogosphere: the Flotilla Choir's rendition...

commerce
Ricochet, A Pay-to-Play Blog

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

commerce
FCC Can’t Force Net Neutrality, Court Rules

A federal appeals court struck a blow against the desire of the Federal Communications C...