The New York Times reports this morning on a new internet telephone service from Pudding Media, promising "free, unlimited calls to any phone in North America."  As you might expect, there's a catch, or more precisely, a detour.  You see, a funny thing happens as your digital banter bounces across the Net: every word is routed through Pudding Media's servers in Fremont, CA, where voice recognition software picks up key words, and triggers relevant advertisements to appear on your screen. 

Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers filed a lawsuit against God on September 14 in Douglas County Court to make an important point about the state's legal system.

Democratic Congressman George Miller of California is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. As a Democrat in charge of an education committee, one would think Miller would be cozy with teachers unions.  Recently, however, he has sponsored a proposal that has the unions up in arms.

At a time when most people agree that Google or Apple have replaced Microsoft as the tech industry’s top player, government regulators on two continents are going retro, pushing old antitrust arguments. This backward-looking thinking threatens innovation for all companies and needs to stop now.

For years, PRI has been warning San Francisco officials that their so-called “free Wi-Fi” idea was guaranteed to be a failure. Finally, they realize it. In late August, Earthlink pulled out of a misguided plan to supply the city with free Wi-Fi, saying it was no longer economically viable for the company. This is a big policy win for freedom and reflects the reality that my colleagues and I presented in a study published last February: that municipal Wi-Fi systems, otherwise known as government controlled Internet systems, always end in failure.

Many environmental activists would like to tell you that the "climate change deniers" are absurdly well funded, and are thus out there wealthily distorting the truth.  Don't let them fool you. 

District-run schools see much higher rates of dissatisfaction than charter schools.