12.13.2011

House Judiciary Committee Should Defeat Manager’s Amendment to Internet Censorship Bill

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, […]

12.13.2011

Internet piracy bill: A free speech ‘kill switch’

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 […]

12.09.2011

The Real False Choice

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 […]

12.07.2011

China’s Startling Strategic Play in the Pacific

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 […]

12.06.2011

Senate rejects cloture on D.C. Circuit nominee Caitlin Halligan

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 […]

12.05.2011

The Senate Should Reject Cloture on D.C. Circuit Nominee Halligan

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 […]

12.05.2011

To Print or Not to Print, That is the Question

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, […]

12.02.2011

Unemployment rate no longer valid economic indicator

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 […]

12.01.2011

Creating Debt, Not Wealth

By Bill Wilson — Markets were awash with irrational exuberance on Nov. 30 upon an announcement by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to lower interest rates for “temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements”.  Particularly, this will lower the cost of dollars in Europe, which is thought will help with any potential liquidity shortfalls there. Whether that will work or not […]

11.30.2011

Eric Holder should resign or be fired

By Bill WilsonEric Holder’s Nixonian levels of paranoia penetrating the upper reaches of the Justice Department notwithstanding, there is indeed a growing chorus of elected officials calling for the Attorney General to step down — and with good cause. One Border Patrol agent and at least 300 Mexicans are dead because of the Justice Department’s operation to funnel guns […]

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