By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 11th at 12:30 AM  | 

Remember the Google Wi-Spy Street View scandal? A seemingly-harmless survey of the country turned into a massive snooping operation, and the FTC smacked them for over 20 million dollars. Well, not only is FCC now wasting money with a survey of Internet speeds, but it turns out that the FCC program runs the risk of warrantless snooping of its own!

We need strong, reformist regulators to be appointed in the next administration to stop stuff like this.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 18th at 10:30 PM  | 

Instead of the transparent Obama administration we were promised, from the Obama FCC, what we have here is failure to communicate. We need to continue to cut the FCC out of the loop, the old regulations are harmful when it comes to retransmission consent and the whole cable company/local broadcaster nexus. Clear it out, deregulate, restore the free market, and the public will benefit.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 10th at 01:30 AM  | 

Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is using his committee to further his bill, SOPA. SOPA is very bad. It threatens due process and prior restraint of speech as it censors the Internet, and risks putting Internet-based business out of business. Darrell Issa is leading House efforts to oppose SOPA. He’s on the Judiciary Committee, but he’s not in charge. However he does | Read More »

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 20th at 10:30 AM  | 

If I had voted for a bill that not only screwed my party, but also screwed the country, I would keep a low profile.  If I had passed a bill that was unworkable for businesses and helped preserve the entities that precipitated the housing crisis, I wouldn’t show my face in public for a while.  Evidently, there are five GOP senators, some of which have | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 12th at 03:30 AM  | 

As I began work on tonight’s late Tech at Night, reports came out of an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. As Japan continues to deal with an unimaginably strong earthquake and then a devastating tsunami caused by that quake, I hope nobody takes those special circumstances and tries to argue against clean, effective power generation technology in the general case. | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 15th at 09:00 AM  | 

What do you call the Senate’s Omnibus Spending Bill?   An Earmark Bonanza — An Earmark-A-Thon — The Earmark-bus.  Clearly, this bill is an outrage to the taxpayer and conservative Senators.  The Senate is about to vote on an Omnibus Spending Bill funding the federal government for the year.  House and Senate appropriators crafted a bill in secret and, just yesterday, provided text to Senators and the American people.  | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 20th at 11:30 PM  | 

Good evening. I’m starting on tonight’s Tech at Night earlier than usual. That’s because I have much to cover. Sometimes a whole bunch of interesting stories just pop up all at once, and I don’t want to leave any out. So let’s hurry up and start. For all the way the far left is flipping out over the Fox/Cablevision dispute – in which Cablevision refuses | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 25th at 08:00 PM  | 

Good evening. Welcome to the special, totally planned, and not at all a fallback because I wore out after a week of catching up after the RS Gathering, Saturday edition of Tech at Night. I did want to make sure we all read about this poll by Hart Research Associates which shows over 75% of likely voters (MoE should be about 3.4 for a sample | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 29th at 10:00 AM  | 

The Senate is debating a bill today that includes bailouts for small business, TARP, Jr.  The debate between right and left on this legislation is a great example of the big government versus small government approach to economic growth.  H.R.5297, officially titled the “Small Business Jobs” bill, will spend another day on the Senate floor as the left pushes to retain the TARP bailout model for | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 12th at 09:00 AM  | 

Congress is preparing a massive push to get legislation passed this month before the long August recess.  People prepare in different ways.  President Obama prepared for the legislative push with a round of golf while the President’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blamed Republicans for all of the Obama Administration’s problems.  This should be an interesting month of political posturing before Congress disappears for a month of | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 30th at 11:00 AM  | 

Clearly, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court Elena Kagan does not believe in a limited federal government.  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked her whether the federal government has the power to tell Americans that they have to eat “three vegetables and three fruits every day.”  Kagan declined to use that question as an opportunity to state that the federal government has limited powers and used the question as | Read More »

By: The Directors (Diary)  |  May 19th at 05:00 AM  | 

Let me draw up a scenario for you. You’re a long-term incumbent Republican in a purple state that may or may not be trending blue. You’ve always been a moderate and coasted to easy elections in the general. However, a bunch of rabble-rousing conservatives and tea partiers, the kind of people you never liked anyway, have propped up some firebrand conservative candidate, and the polling | Read More »