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The FCC might be able to Regulate Broadband, but not
this free lunch: The Independence Institute will host a panel
discussion and luncheon on the issue of 'Network Neutrality' on Wednesday,
May 26th at the Pinnacle Club in Denver. Panelists and
speakers include Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Atwell
Baker from the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) and Chairman of
the Colorado Public Utilities Commission Ron Binz.
But you have to hurry! Seats are filling up fast! After all,
how often do you get to rub shoulders with FCC regulators??
The event consists of remarks by the FCC Commissioners and a
panel discussion from 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, followed by a FREE
lunch with a keynote address by Chairman Binz. The Pinnacle club is
located at 555 Seventeenth Street on the 37th Floor in Denver. The
event is free and open to the first 150 RSVPs. To RSVP online go
here or call Mary MacFarlane at (303) 279-6536.
Speaking of Net Neutrality... Do not miss
this week's Devil's Advocate. We will be discussing whether
the FCC should regulate broadband via these net neutrality rules.
Joining me will be Independence Institute telecomm guru Barry Fagin and
Tony Shawcross from Denver Open Media. Tune in
Friday night at 8:30pm, with a repeat showing Monday afternoon at 1pm.
Did you just say Devil's Advocate? What
the...? Yep, after over a decade hosting Independent
Thinking we decided it was time for a facelift. After getting a
few bids to get me a facelift to improve the program, the bookkeepers
suggested it would be about a million dollars cheaper to just update
the show. Tune in this Friday night to Channel 12 at 8:30 and check
out a new set and a less-wonky title. Somehow after years of being
comparing to the evil one, Devil's Advocate just seemed to
hit the spot.
A Message from Mothers Against Debt (MAD):
>From Transparency Czarina Amy
Oliver,
This what we have done to our children with our
reckless spending and massive national debt.
Sadly this video is already out of date. Since this video was made, our
national debt has climbed another $1700 per person.
Please share this wonderful, but frightening video with as
many people as you know. It's about time we start talking about the
massive amount of crippling debt we are enslaving our children and
grandchildren with.
Our fight to bring Health Care Choice to Colorado
continues on. But first the we do the court fights to win
back our constitutional right to petition government with paid
petitioners. Read the story in the
Post and Vincent
Carroll's take.
Former NY Governor George Pataki was in town yesterday
spreading the word about the need to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Watch the Fox News video.
What Fresh Obama Care Hell Is This? So here's
a nasty little
surprise from deep in the bowels of Obama Care:
Section 9006 of the health care bill -- just a few
lines buried in the 2,409-page document -- mandates that beginning in
2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to
contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they
buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year. The stealth
change radically alters the nature of 1099s and means businesses will
have to issue millions of new tax documents each year.
It's things like this that help explain Nancy Pelosi's motivation when she said,
"But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away
from the fog of the controversy." Look for more unbelievably bad
tidbits to emerge now that the "fog of controversy" has been lifted
from the Obama Care bill.
RSVP's Welcome for the 8th Annual ATF Party!
Registration for the most politically incorrect event of the year is
now open - this year's Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms party! The event is set for Saturday, July
17th at the swank Kiowa Creek Sporting Club. This
year's guest speaker is the brilliant and always straight shooting
editor-in-chief at Reason
Magazine, Nick Gillespie. Come on out and drink, smoke, and shoot
with us... while it's still legal! RSVP here
online or call us at 303.279.6536.
Don't Be Like California (Or Greece): Writing
about the fairly frightening similarities between Greece and California
over at Reason
Online, Tim Cavanaugh asks, "What do Europe's most bankrupt
nation-state and America's most bankrupt united state have in common,
aside from being bankrupt?"
Good question. Cavanaugh continues:
...it turns out that Greece, that sun-drenched
paradise on the Aegean, and California, that sun-warmed El Dorado on
the Pacific, are the worst places to do business in their respective
economic zones."
So how did California come to resemble a fiscally-wrecked European
social-welfare state that needs a massive bailout?
Independence Institute Senior Fellow Barry Poulson gave a heads up last
year in the Denver Post:
The Golden State's GANN Amendment, a precursor of
TABOR, limited the growth of state revenue and spending to the sum of
inflation and population growth. In the late 1980s, the California
legislature abandoned the GANN Amendment. As a result, state spending
in California increased more rapidly than personal income and taxes
were increased to one of the highest levels in the country. Business
investment and jobs left the state for other states with better tax
climates.
The moral of the story is of course, don't be like California.
Must hear podcast: Dave Kopel interviewed
Brown University history professor James T. Patterson about his book
examining the tragic rise of illegitimacy rates, and the American
political elite’s refusal to address the problem for decades.
Perspective: In this week's op-ed, Dave
Kopel, along with two other scholars, insist that Mexican President
Calderon's visit should not lead to support for the OAS's
Firearms Convention. The article lists five very specific reasons
for why the convention is not in our best interest, and should not be
attended or supported in anyway.
Until next week...
Straight on
Jon Caldara
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