FreedomTalks

From the Los Angeles Times, we learn:

Many seniors have yet to sign up for Medicare drug coverage because they are confused by the array of plans — each with its own premiums, co-pays, deductibles and lists of covered drugs and participating drugstores. But others are making a calculated choice to opt out — and [...]

Critics of tax relief often allege, incorrectly, that deficits will increase when taxes are lowered. In support of this claim they often point to the deficits of the Reagan and Bush II administrations. But notice how they ignore a key point: tax relief can contribute to deficits only if revenues decrease. But if revenues don’t [...]

So reports the San Antonio Business Journal:

The Texas Cable and Telecommunications Association filed a lawsuit — this time in state district court — to challenge a state telecommunications law that allows telephone companies to apply for a statewide franchise license to offer television services.
Why, you might ask, is the cable monopoly asking the [...]

Read the article here.
Pay $50, wait 10 days and your company, too, can be a new video competitor in South Carolina.
Those are among the statewide franchising details included in parallel bills filed in South Carolina, the latest state to take up cable franchising.
While debate on that bill gets going, pro-state franchising forces [...]

We all know about the pork, the outrageous spending, and the waste of taxpayer money. Old hat, it appears. For declassified documents now reveal that Paul Fellencer Sr. tried to blow the whistle on could have been $200 million of wasteful spending by the Department of Defense. And he was ignored. Let’s look at some [...]

The City of Sand Springs will soon seize a church to make way for a strip mall. Under the infamous Kelo ruling, local governments can seize private property if it believes that the seizure can generate more tax revenues. An amicus brief from the Becket Fund warned that since Churchs, Mosques, and Synagogues don’t generate [...]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently voted to confirm a new standard for 802.11n Wi-Fi, which allows transmission speeds of up to 6 times faster than current wireless.
This is one more good reason to reject municipal Wi-Fi (for others, see here). Every single method of data transmission - from zip drives to [...]

If we eliminate red tape in telecom, we are told by statists, monopolies will run roughshod over consumers. Evidence that phone and cable are innovating “triple play capabilities” in voice, data, and video proves this doomsday scenario flatly false. And now, from the Technology Liberation Front, we learn that satellite has entered the race for [...]

The government uses your taxes to … encourage you to pay your taxes. According to Forbes:

The federal government spent $152 million over a 30-month period to cajole Americans into paying their taxes, taking their medicine and staying in school. Agencies involved in public service announcements insist it is money well spent.
A $40 million [...]

John Stossel debunks the myth that public schools are underfunded. Of course, if that’s true, then the primary argument against school choice - namely, that vouchers would drain critical funding for public schools - also falls apart.

The truth is, public schools are rolling in money. If you divide the U.S. Department of Education’s figure [...]