November 13, 2014 Ramussen poll: 61% Oppose Federal Regulation of the Internet. Americans really like the online service they currently have and strongly oppose so-called “net neutrality” efforts that would allow the federal government to regulate the Internet. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of American Adults agree the Federal…

Millennials hate Comcast and love net neutrality [a clever misnomer, that one]. What are they going to think when they find out Comcast loves net neutrality? “Net Neutrality” is a term coined by law professor Tim Wu of the University of Virginia in 2003.  Before I go further, do you remember that William F. Buckley…

Details of the making of this photo by Klaus Priebe here.

From the figures and graphs at tech dirt I calculate that for a musician to make the same as what you pay for an iTunes store music download, it takes about 55 downloads of the song. In other words, if the song downloads for $1.29 then 55 people have to download it for the musician(s)…

Ryan J. Reilly writes for the Huffington Puffington Post. This sort of thing prompted Sean Davis to write: Unfortunately, Reilly is hardly alone in his complete ignorance of how guns work. Our nation is facing an epidemic of gun-related misreporting. As a public service to those who have opinions about guns but don’t really want…

From An American Renaissance by Colonel Lawrence Sellin: The Obama years will be forever known as the Dark Ages of US history, a time of political, cultural and economic deterioration. We have yet to see if they will lead to the fall of the American republic. In the Obama years, the lie became not only…

Today is George Washington’s birthday.  I commemorate it by reproducing the following letter, from the National Archives. From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 Gentlemen: While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you,…

Asians must score 140 points higher on the SAT than their white peers to gain admission to the top universities. This is because Blacks are given a bonus of 230 points, Hispanics 185 points, and Asians are penalized 50 points. A Chinese mother asked, “How can this be possible?”  Steven Hayward has this answer: It’s…

Margaret Thatcher: “If you create a government bureaucracy in order to deal with a problem you’ll never be rid of the problem.”  Example: U.S. Department of Education was created by Jimma Carter in 1979 with the official mission is promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence.  Public schools in America have…