Category: Technology

Tweet and Facebook Activism! Stop Congress From Destroying the Internet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The End of the Internet as We Know It Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will hold their first hearing on E-PARASITE, a bill written by Hollywood lobbyists that could end the Internet as we know it. They’ve had their say, now it’s our turn. Act now to protect Internet freedom by contacting the members of […]

 

The Innovation Deficit

Posted on by Cal Thomas

The death of one of the great innovators of our time, or any time — Steve Jobs — brings a question asked by Pete Seeger in another context. To paraphrase: Where have all the (creative) people gone; long time passing. Jobs and fellow computer innovator Bill Gates represent if not a vanishing breed, then at […]

 

LightSquared: Poster Child for Crony Capitalism

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Two high-level government officials have: revealed: they were pressured by the Obama administration to change their testimony to Congress in order to favor a wireless company linked to a high-level Democratic Party donor, and to sound supportive of Obama’s stated goal of bringing high-speed wireless to at least 98 percent of Americans within five years. General William […]

 

Obama Blames Job Loss on Technology, Internet and Efficiency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his Midwest Misery Tour, President Obama was back to blaming technology, the Internet, and ATMs again for America’s job loss. At a stop in Atkinson, Illinois Obama spoke about the need for education at an agricultural company named Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. He said that America is no longer a place where you can just […]

 

The 2011 Version Of Harrison Bergeron Mental Handicaps: Social Networking

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you’ve never read Kurt Vonnegut’s extraordinary short story Harrison Bergeron, then you should. It’s short, extremely well written, and it’s a poignant commentary on the Left’s never-ending efforts to pull down society’s most successful people instead of helping to build up everyone else. In the story, everyone is given handicaps to make them “equal.” […]

 

Want Proof of How Democrats Would Shut You Up, Tea Partiers?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On MSNBC, John Kerry told us that Tea Party ideas are not “real” ideas, not “factual,” and thinks that the media should stop reporting on anything that smacks of ideas or news coming from Tea Partiers. If this isn’t proof of how Democrats and leftists would use the power of government to quash free political […]

 

Info Age Arms Race

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Information is intell and intell is power. Thus – unlimited info = unlimited power! Oh, you know this is so. The very same cat that enabled two of Great Satan’s hyperpuissant fans to unleash “Shi Lang” upon a world worried about Collectivist China’s not so Peaceful Looking Rise – returns to continue to put steel […]

 

Don’t Film Me Bro: Getting Arrested for Filming People in Public Places

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The law has not caught up with cell phone cameras, Flip Cameras, compact video cameras, and the electronic age. Two stories being reported last weekend prove out how the ubiquity of video capture devices are often a gray area in the law. In one case a woman in Rochester, New York, pulled out her video […]

 

Comparing The GOP Presidential Contenders On Their Number Of Twitter Followers

Posted on by John Hawkins

Social media is more important than ever, blah, blah, blah. Measure of strength, blah, blah, blah. May disagree over how important this is, blah, blah, blah! Your mileage may vary, blah, blah, blah! Oh, and Ron Paul! Now, without further ado, a ranking of GOP presidential contenders (and some select “maybe they’ll runs”) based on […]

 

The Atlantic Magazine’s Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly, along with the rest […]

 

When Anti-Technology Kills

Posted on by Dennis Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA–This week’s headlines: Another huge, awful outbreak of food-borne bacteria. This time the worst, so far, in modern history; perhaps 2000 sickened, and about 20 dead. At least 500 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome. That means liver damage–and potential death from kidney failure. More than 1000 cases of severe diarrhea. Usually it is the […]

 

Political Candidates Ignore Social Media at their Peril

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Political campaigns are gearing up for the 2012 elections and candidates are wondering how much in resources they should allocate to social media. Many campaigns rely on volunteers or scarcely devote any resources to social media. Even though Obama’s defeat of John McCain in the 2008 presidential election was partly due to Obama deeply: integrating digital […]

 

NASA’s New Mission: Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Children

Posted on by Dave Blount

What does NASA do with our money now that Obama has pulled the plug on space exploration? Its new primary mission is to help Muslims feel good about themselves for their imaginary technological accomplishments, but another important objective is to brainwash gullible children with anti-human leftist ideology: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Web […]

 

Big Brother Bubba’s Ministry of Internet Facts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Clinton wants the government to “correct” what you say on the Internet, folks. Should the government listen to the former panderer-in-chief, we’ll go from Big Brother to Big Bubba on the ol’ Internet tubes. Bubba is not happy with what he claims is the “misinformation” on the Internet and he wants the force of […]

 

Why We Can’t Trust Government on Technology

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Free market advocates have for years been fighting the anti-capitalist left over government control of the Internet, a battle that has reached a temporary plateau when Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily decided that it was in full control of the Internet and by fiat implemented the left’s long-sought net neutrality rules. This isn’t the […]

 

Reading Books Is Apparently Bad For Globull Warming

Posted on by William Teach

All you folks who read books, you are killing Gaia, and need to immediately buy an e-reader (until the alarmists determine that they are bad for Gaia). From TerraPass Unfortunately, the business of publishing books, newspapers, and magazines has a large environmental impact. In addition to the tens of millions of trees harvested every year, […]

 

Apple Tracks Our Every Move — Blacks, Hispanics Suffer Most

Posted on by Dave Blount

It’s bad enough if Apple is violating our privacy by tracking our movements with its iPhone. But what’s far worse is that this constitutes racism: Friday on MSNBC’s daytime programming, host Thomas Roberts explained that in the wake of revelations the iPhone tracks your movements with its operating software, minorities, specifically blacks and Latinos are […]

 

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Attacks Apple iPad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago area Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is apparently as fickle as he is uninformed about economics and the Constitution both. In March we saw him praising the Apple iPad as technology so important that he wanted to have the federal government buy one for every American student. Only a month later he was calling the […]

 

FCC net neutrality mavens impose forced wireless broadband sharing

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Maybe now that Congress is done haggling over miniscule budget cuts they can return their attention to the Obama Administration’s net neutrality power grab. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is hell-bent on redistributing the networks built by AT&T and Verizon to every penny ante bit player who comes along. Why build your own wireless network when […]

 

From Nat’l Journal, One of the Most Biased Reports Seen in Some Time

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while a purported news report is so biased that it simply must be highlighted. Today’s award for the most biased report goes to National Journal for its left-slanted piece on Obama’s warning to the House GOP that he will veto any budget that cancels his FCC attempt to take control of the […]