It looks like the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) is up to its tricks again, trying for the third time to regulate pretty much every aspect of the internet like an old-style telephone company. Tom Wheeler, the FCC chairman, announced a 322 page set of new rules, but will not release it to the public. Yes […]
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Net Neutrality or Net Inefficiency
14 Feb 2015
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I wrote my last post just prior to the State of the Union Address and admitted to the foolishness of doing so. I am not writing today to toot my own horn, but I have to say, I was not too far off. Let me remind you of the promises of Huey Long’s Share Our […]
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Intuit, the maker of the popular tax software product TurboTax, has enraged customers this year in a move that significantly threatens their tax filing software dominance. Intuit changed their software this year such that it forced previous users of its Deluxe software (the mid tier product) to purchase the Premier software (the most expensive version). […]
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As we approach the new year and incidentally, Old Christmas (January 6), I thought I would leave you with a few “gifts.” These come from Federal, state and even local actions over the past year. I don’t really wish these on anyone, but they are current reality. Release of five more Guantanamo detainees, whose threat […]
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The Social Justice Crowd Part Two
04 Dec 2014
I was happy to see some response to my earlier blog on the “Social Justice Crowd.” Here I would like to offer some clarifications and responses to the responses. Let me say first that Bert Wheeler gave an excellent rejoinder regarding one of the major benefits of enterprises such as Walmart: It substantially increases the […]
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The Social Justice Crowd–Again.
02 Dec 2014
Kevin Williamson, writing for the National Review, has perfectly captured the sentiments I have expressed on the Bereans blog on several occasions, when he wrote that the “anti-Walmart” protesters are in reality just calling for the poorer among us to be stiffed. Williamson contrasted the elite culture, whim he labeled the “Rolex crowd,” with the […]
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Flood Wall Street – A Misplaced Trickle
24 Sep 2014
While Sunday’s “People’s Climate March” is being described as the largest climate protest event of all time with organizers claiming over 310,000 participants in New York City, the more radical protesters saved their skills for Monday’s “Flood Wall Street” protest. Around 1000 protesters spent the day trying to get in the way in and about Wall […]
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We often debate the role of government in the economy, with most of your Berean bloggers taking a skeptical view of government beyond the biblical role of avenger of evil that God calls out in Romans 13. Government is an institution that, while populated by people marred by the fall, is nevertheless ordained by God […]
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On September 2 and 3, Cedarville University hosted theologian Wayne Grudem and economist Barry Asmus, who presented talks aimed at students and faculty on economics and human flourishing. Much of what they said related to their relatively new book, The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution. To summarize the book’s argument, the authors assert that […]
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The “Cronies” versus the “Smithians”
14 Aug 2014
Cronyism and Sports Sometimes I feel as if I am just trying to “stir the pot” as it were and make my sports-loving friends angry. So let me say before I continue that I love sports of many kinds—college football and basketball, cross country, track, bicycling, and a few others to a lesser extent. But […]
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Jeff Haymond
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