Joseph Ashby: Investment in Decline

Pinning a nation's economic hopes on bridges to nowhere gets nowhere.

As the young year progresses, the dominoes of American decline continue to fall. From a White House soiree with Red China to President Obama's "investment"-plugging State of the Union to the Administration's response to Egypt's uprising a rudderless America is on full display.  If 2010 was the year of national legislative suicide ... MORE

Peter Suderman: Julius Genachowski, Internet Cop

Obama's top man at the FCC tries to regulate the Net. Robert McDowell becomes effusive when talking about the World Wide Web. “The beauty of the Internet is that it has been somewhat lawless,” says the Republican, one of five appointees who run the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The lack of government mandates, McDowell says, has made the Net “the greatest  ... MORE

VIDEO: Licensing Gone Wild: 82-Year-Old Barber Shut Down

Another example of tail-chasing bureaucrats creating more unemployment.