Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Sean Kennedy
According to its website, the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) was established in 1986 to promote economic and social advancements and encourage contact, dialogue and reconciliation between nationalists and unionists throughout Ireland. In a review of a glowing book about IFI released in January 2009, author Sean Donlon admitted, “While the fund will continue its [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
As we at CAGW have been pointing out for years, government-funded high-speed rail (HSR) is a really bad idea. It’s wasteful, it does very little to improve traffic congestion, its environmental benefits are negligible at best, and its projected costs are typically very conservative. Politicians love it, since they get huge, impressive-looking projects to take [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
In a truly ridiculous move, President Obama yesterday sent a letter to Capitol Hill urging Congress to eliminate “unwarranted” tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. This comes on the heels of his earlier move to sic his Attorney General Eric Holder on the usual suspects, “oil speculators,” always the favored bugabear when gas prices rise. It [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
The Boeing Corporation is feeling the long arm of the Obama administration’s zealous nanny-statism. There is, apparently, nothing which this administration doesn’t feel entitled to regulate, including the internal business decisions of America’s corporations; the National Labor relations Board (NLRB) has decided to stick its nose into Boeing’s business and investigate whether the company should be permitted to move [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2011 by PJ Austin
An April 22, 2011 Wall Street Journal article exposed new concerns regarding the safeguarding of private customer data collected by Google and Apple smartphones: Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
On the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice’s questions about whether or not Google Apps for Government was certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the Los Angeles Times on April 14, 2011 reported on the massive problems facing the city in its efforts to migrate to that same Google system. The DOJ [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2011 by Erica Gordon
Later today, the House of Representatives will vote on both H. Con. Res. 37, the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) FY 2012 Budget Resolution, and H. Con. Res. 34, the House Budget Committee’s FY 2012 Budget Resolution. Both of these plans would take significant steps toward trimming the size and scope of government and reducing the national [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
This wonderful article by Donald Honig – the self-described left-leaning co-founder of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council – gets at the heart of what Net Neutrality would mean if it were enforced: less choice for consumers, especially those with low incomes. Honig wrote his piece in response to Malkia Cyril’s diatribe against wireless carrier [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will begin consideration of new rules on data roaming, which would regulate the agreements between wireless service providers. Currently, these agreements are private contracts that allow data to be carried on other networks on behalf of consumers; the new rules would get the government involved in establishing the prices for [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2011 by dbourg
CAGW’s fans on Facebook selected Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as the 2011 April Fool for his absurd belief that a federally-funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada (pop. 17,000) constitutes essential government spending. Now grab your rhyming dictionaries and saddle up for our very own Cowboy Poetry Contest! If you’d like to participate, compose [...]
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