Even with the changes proposed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, this bill will essentially criminalize the Internet, making it impossible to upload and share content. Any service that allows for storing files or posting hyperlinks could be targeted, and on the Internet, […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Hill . By Bill Wilson — What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed […]
By Bill Wilson — Nightly Americans are bombarded with countless “news” stories of the fight in Congress over government spending and the latest crisis-filled battle over funding the government. As the country drags itself toward the next so-called deadline of Dec. 16, the din is likely to […]
By Bill Wilson — Twenty-seven years before a massive Japanese carrier task force set sail from Hitokappu Bay in Iturup to attack the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, a single Japanese ship steamed southeast into Chuuk (then called “Truk”), a tiny island with a deep lagoon […]
The Senate shot down a cloture motion on Obama nominee Caitlin Halligan to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court. Senate Republicans have done the right thing by blocking a radical, unqualified ideologue, Caitlin Halligan, from taking a seat on the federal bench. Along with Goodwin Liu, Halligan’s nomination marked a move by the Obama White House to […]
The Senate should reject cloture on D.C. Circuit Court nominee Caitlin Halligan. Not only does she have no prior experience as a judge, Halligan is yet another judicial activist who makes up the law as she sees fit, making her unfit to serve on the […]
By Bill Wilson — The global financial elite have finally taken off their masks and just flat out told the world that the solution to Europe’s debt woes is too simply turn on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) printing press to refinance the debts of Greece, Italy, […]
By Bill Wilson — Obama’s Labor Department report on the unemployment rate no longer passes the smell test as an accurate indicator of economic activity. The fact that the rate dropped almost half a percentage point to 8.6 in spite of the fact that the economy created […]