Opinion
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A Health Care Revolution Is Underway … No Thanks to Government ‘Help’
Opinion -Although presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) have wide differences in their positions on health care, it may not matter much what they or other politicians have to say on the matter. -
Obesity Has Many Causes … and Wide-Ranging Market Solutions
Opinion -The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It by Eric Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman John Wiley & Sons, 2008 274 pages, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN: 978-0470124666 available on Amazon. -
Allowing Interstate Purchase Could Reduce the Number of Uninsured, Analysts Say
Opinion -Analysts investigating why so many people are uninsured are increasingly concluding state regulations on the insurance market are one of the biggest causes of the problem, by making insurance unaffordable for many people. -
Consumer Power Report #138
Opinion -The chickens are coming home to roost.I won't spend a lot of time on Ted Stevens. He will be tried and found guilty -- or not. -
Congress Threatens to Regulate U.S. IT Firms Operating Abroad
Opinion -The overseas activities of U.S. information technology firms have come under increasing scrutiny as the U.S. Senate considers regulating the firms more closely. -
U.S. Slipping in Tech Innovation
Opinion -America's position as a technology innovation leader--and hence a prime destination of venture capital funds--may be under threat. That's the conclusion of a recent survey of venture capitalists at Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association. -
Prominent Senator Calls on Google to Remove Terrorist YouTube Videos
Opinion -In an explicit bid to restrict content on the Internet, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has asked YouTube to remove Islamic terrorist videos from the highly popular video Web site. -
DC Summit Takes Up Community Wireless
Opinion -Panels at the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Washington, DC recently aired the human rights implications of broadening Internet access. -
Overstock, Amazon Fight Online Sales Tax
Opinion -Overstock.com has become the second online retailer to mount a legal challenge against a New York law that effectively defines them as state-based merchants, forcing them to collect sales tax on purchases made by consumers who reside in the Empire State. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #7-13
Opinion -Everyone’s a Critic A Durham, North Carolina lawyer sued his local newspaper in June for breach of contract because it fired 70 staffers. -
San Jose Airport Unveils Free Wi-Fi Service
Opinion -Mineta San Jose International Airport has begun offering travelers free wi-fi Internet as an alternative to the paid access previously available at the site. -
Sixteen States May Ban Banning Texting While Driving
Opinion -Citing an alleged rise in automobile accidents, 16 states--including Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York--are considering legislation to ban text messaging, or "texting," while driving. -
‘Affiliate’ Rules Are Complex
Opinion -The language describing the process by which an "affiliate" is defined as a "nexus" in New York's controversial new law redefining out-of-state merchants as in-state has proved complicated enough to require the New York Department of Taxation to issue a -
Poll: Americans Don’t Believe We Cause Warming
Opinion -Fewer than half of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center believe humans are causing global warming, and a declining number even believe the Earth is experiencing a warming trend. -
Nuclear Power Set to Surge in South Carolina
Opinion -The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G), a South Carolina water and electricity provider, has entered into agreements with Westinghouse and the Shaw Group to build and maintain two new nuclear power plants. -
Global Warming Game Tells Children They Should Die
Opinion -Are global warming alarmists encouraging children to commit suicide because their carbon footprints supposedly are harming the planet? -
HHS Devises Another Strategy for Health Information Technology
Opinion -The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), a division of the U.S. -
Texas Governor Announces Trauma Research Grant
Opinion -Initiating an intensive taxpayer-supported effort to support injury trauma research and awareness, Texas Gov. -
Bandwidth Experiment Raises Concerns
Opinion -Time Warner Cable, Inc., has begun a metered bandwidth experiment in Beaumont, Texas, establishing limits on the bandwidth its customers may use and charging additional fees for those exceeding preset limits. -
Nielsen: Households Not Ready for Digital TV
Opinion -According to survey data from Nielsen Media Research, nearly 10 percent of U.S. households are not ready for next year's transition from analog to digital television (DTV). In addition to the 9. -
FCC May Regulate Wireless Termination Fees
Opinion -Complaints about the wireless industry's fee policies on early contract termination have prompted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin to announce hearings on the matter. -
Google, DoubleClick Merger Raises Concerns
Opinion -Questions about how a merged Google and DoubleClick would handle privacy concerns arising from the combined companies' massive collection of personal data have been raised by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the lead Republican on the U.S. -
Congressmen See Energy Answer in Oil Shale
Opinion -Western congressmen, fully aware of rich oil shale resources concentrated in the Badlands of Wyoming, eastern Utah, and extreme western Colorado, are supporting legislation to remove federal prohibitions on oil shale recovery. -
EPA Supports Cap-and-Trade at Senate Mercury Hearings
Opinion -Reductions in mercury emissions from U.S. power plants should be attained through cap-and-trade mechanisms, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials testified at May 13 hearings before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
