These guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
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March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyClinton Unclassified
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Hillary ClintonYes. ==== March 11, 2015 7:28 p.m. ET The political world is still unpacking Hillary Clinton’s stonewall of a press conference on her emails as Secretary of State, with Politico summing up her overall message on Tuesday as “Go to Hell.” That’s putting it politely, but it does capture the Clintonian contempt for the media and anyone else who questions her desire... Read more
Hillary Seems Tired, Not Hungry.
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Hillary Clinton, NoonanA not unique perspective, but valid nonetheless. ========= By Peggy Noonan Updated March 13, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Maybe we’re not stuck in Scandal Land. For a while I’ve assumed Hillary Clinton would run for her party’s nomination and be a formidable candidate in the general election. After Tuesday’s news conference I’m not so sure. Did she seem to you a happy, hungry warrior? She couldn’t... Read more
Economics of Growth and Prosperity
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Business, EconomicsI simply shake my head… ========= William Baumol,Robert Litan, and Carl Schramm, “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity” (2007): The most astonishing thing about the extraordinary outpouring of growth and innovation that the United States and other economies have achieved over the past two centuries is that it does not astonish us. Throughout most of human history, life... Read more
How Pizza Became a Growth Stock
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Business, EconomicsLots of companies like this one. Or maybe, lots of companies have the opportunity like this one. ============= By Stephen Moore March 13, 2015 6:39 p.m. ET Here’s a question that has been puzzling Patrick Doyle, the CEO of Domino’s, for months, as he puts it: “How do we list the calorie content of our pizzas on a menu when we have 34 million... Read more
Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really)
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Environment, Global Warming, Politically correct, ScienceI think the right honorable gentleman makes some very keen observations. === By Matt Ridley March 13, 2015 5:33 p.m. ET The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot... Read more
