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With all of the attention focused on the momentous battle over net neutrality at this week's Senate Commerce Committee markup on the com...

Sometimes really bad ideas have adverse consequences that extend even beyond the most immediate detrimental impact of the bad idea. As I hav...

The Wall Street Journal has a editorial this morning entitled "States of Plenty" [subscription required]. It is all about how, du...

Earlier today Governor Ehrlich vetoed SB 1, the bill passed by the Maryland General Assembly's bill to deal with the BG&E electricit...

At bottom, the net neutrality proponents' arguments are as much about sowing confusion as anything else. And there is a certain line of ...

According to an item in this morning's Washington Post, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has pulled from this Wedsnesday's FCC meeting age...

Like the President and members of Congress, when FCC commissioners are sworn into office, they pledge that they "will support and defen...

With sophistic slogans such as "Save the Internet," not to mention the seemingly appealing "Net Neutrality" label itself...

In a column in CNET published on June 1 entitled, " Watch Out We Don't Neuter The Net, " I stated: "Strict Net neutrality...

The Maryland legislature is set to convene tommorrow to consider what to do about the impending BG&E rate hikes. According to the Washin...

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