Why does it always have to be California? New York? Massachusetts? Why not New Hampshire ? New Hampshire: The Land of “Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils.” The home of Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, Mary Baker Eddy, Franklin Pierce, Robert Frost, Maxfield Parrish, Alan B. Shepard Jr, J.D. Salinger, Ken Burns, and Dean Kamen. Home
On behalf of all the thousands of consumers of publicly owned, government regulated, monopolistic utility companies from Texas to Oklahoma and Missouri to Maine who lost power over the last week during the ice storm and found their service lacking, I would like to open up the bidding process to competitive companies that will fill the needs of
Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron, writes in the Guardian of a borderless state of freedom with regard to film-makers that perhaps presages a wider movement in many other markets: “My hope for the future is for people to start cutting loose from those geographic roots, to begin moving towards a state of freedom, of rootlessness. I feel this
C.S. Lewis’ stories of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” books taught Justin Marshall about free society vs. totalitarian rule. Now, he hopes new writers can capture young people’s imaginations, and he’s promoting a contest that would pay a winning writer to do just that. Marshall, who works for Midland’s Mackinac Center for Public
Although not generally a vain person, I once named a law after myself: according to Woods’s Law, “whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer them, someone — in the name of helping the poor — will
Probably not. However, the Justice Department weighed in on the net neutrality debate, stating in part : The Department also noted that differentiating service levels and pricing is a common and often efficient way of allocating scarce resources and satisfying consumer demand. The U.S. Postal Service, for example, allows consumers to send packages
The Economist has an interesting story on how markets drive goods and services to zero price in the presence of relentless innovation — with the web as the example in question.
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