Paul Allen is attempting to use the government’s byzantine patent scheme as a way of stealing real physical property from a host of companies on the grounds that they’re using his “intellectual property”: Paul Allen, entrepreneur and cofounder of Microsoft, has filed a lawsuit against 11 companies for infringements on his Web search patents. Announced ...
Today, we in the United States celebrate our day of independence from the distant, taxing tyranny of Great Britain and it’s imperial monarchy. Our founding fathers, libertarian radicals all, were not patriotic to their government. Indeed, they declared ...
The president is pushing hard to borrow $50 billion more dollars from China so that he can funnel it to bloated unionized state bureaucracies in the name of an “emergency measure” to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters”. This ...
Just in case you’re weren’t absolutely certain that the tax man was an evil supervillain, PA is making it completely clear. Get a load of that tagline: FIND US BEFORE WE FIND YOU Wow. Seriously. Are they kidding? I’ve come to believe that big government ...
If you don’t live or work in New York City, there’s probably good chance you’ve heard that this city has some of the best food in the world. No matter what your taste may draw you towards, New York City’s got it. Seriously, it’s amazing. Well, if NY Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has his way, the city of food ...
There really is no area of life too small to avoid interference from the tyrant busybodies in government. Not even the provision of free donuts by a local B&B Do It Center. CNBC Reports on the latest episode in ludicrous food fascism: For more than a dozen years, the B&B Do It Center in ...
Thomas Geoghegan complains in the NY Times about the allegedly “unconstitutional” senate filibuster and its role in holding up the healthcare bill: But the Senate, as it now operates, really has become unconstitutional: as we saw during the recent health care debacle, a 60-vote majority is required to overcome a filibuster and pass any contested bill. ...
The administration is seeking a new tax on banks to, allegedly, help pay back the TARP funds. In one sense I welcome anything that raises the cost of interacting with the government. It SHOULD hurt to socialize your losses on the taxpayer (or better yet, it should be impossible). And I’m certainly not interesting in ...
Behold the REAL regulation of a free society: reputation. Despite the two companies' somewhat spotted history together, Greenpeace has awarded Apple four giant gold stars for its efforts to rid its products of brominated flame retardants (BFR) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). (BFRs and PVC have long been on Greenpeace's ...
First, a little backstory. I work in Manhattan and have since I graduated college in 1999. I was headed into the city for my daily commute the morning of September 11th, 2001. I know people who’ve lost family in that horrible attack. So I’m pretty sensitive to everything about 9/11 and terrorism generally. Last sunday, December 20th, ...
