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Some great new podcasts have been posted by the managing editors of Heartland's various Web sites. You can subscribe to them on iTunes or just listen to them online.



Budget & Tax News: interview with Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, discussing why states don't do economic development very well.

Environment & Climate…

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The leftist outfit with the Orwellian name "Free Press" put out the above video not as a parody, but as a piece of propaganda they think will win converts to their side — the side of government management of the Internet and "free" broadband for all (paid for by the U.S. taxpayer).



Oh, the horror of relying on Dial-Up because you can't adjust your family budget to pay around $50 a month (or less) for… Continue

Exactly one month after a federal court ruled the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet, the agency’s chairman unveiled a plan to nonetheless implement his ambitious National Broadband Plan—an avenue he called a “third way.”



FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said agency lawyers had found a way for the commission to strictly impose net neutrality rules on Internet service providers (ISPs), despite the… Continue

The Los Angeles Times reported this week that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is the “grandfather of net neutrality.” Stevens, readers may recall, uttered the infamous gaffe that the Internet was “a series of tubes,” among other howlers. While it is unkind to poke too much fun at war veterans and public servants who cannot fathom technological advancements that occur late in…

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted to adopt a Notice of Inquiry to allow the agency to more strictly regulate the Internet. The proposed rule would reclassify broadband as a "telecommunications service" under stricter Title II regulations, rather than the current looser regime of Title I, in which broadband is considered an "information service." The vote fell along partisan lines, with the three Democrats on the FCC voting yes and the two Republicans voting…

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The Heartland Institute managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News, released a statement on this timely article from the New York Times.

F.C.C. Questioned on Its Far-Reaching Plan to Expand Broadband Access

By MATT RICHTEL and BRIAN STELTER

Federal regulators on Tuesday made public the details of their… Continue

PELHAM, N.H. – A Massachusetts man may be the first person in the state to be arrested for texting behind the…

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By Alan Caruba



“Congress shall make no law, respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” - First Amendment, U.S. Constitution



What part of the First Amendment does the Federal Communication Commission, led by Chairman Julius Genachowski, and three of its five appointed… Continue

Apparently, those hints earlier this week that the Federal Communications Commission would back off its net neutrality agenda were just a bluff.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski did an…

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(UPDATE: Go here for a complete run-down of the issue at InfoTech & Telecom News). Continue

David Boaz (that's not him at left) has a must-read post at the The Cato Institute's blog about how we live in a wondrous technological age — and proof comes in that cell phone you have laying on the table over there. What was the key to bringing this about? The break-up of the government-imposed monopoly known as Ma Bell, and deregulation of the… Continue

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