Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers

Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook’s Rogue Fact-Checkers

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A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking organizations would no longer have the power to suppress disfavored speech on Facebook—a major, positive step toward restoring free expression and robust debate on the platform. In his video announcing the changes, Zuckerberg conceded that moderators working at his social media properties—Facebook and Instagram—felt pressured after Donald Trump’s 2016 win to address mainstream media concerns about the spread of alleged misinformation online. […]

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The Case for Trump’s 15 Percent Corporate Tax Rate

The Case for Trump’s 15 Percent Corporate Tax Rate

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Adam N. Michel and Joshua Loucks President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on lowering the US corporate income tax rate to 15 percent. He made the same request in 2017 when Republicans passed their tax cuts, but Congress only cut the federal rate to 21 percent—down from the worldwide high of 35 percent. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggest that cutting corporate taxes in 2025 will likely not result in steep revenue losses. Additionally, more […]

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Oh Snap (more parasailing)

Oh Snap (more parasailing)

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Three guys enjoying parasailing .. I’ve no idea whether all of them survived. ​ Three guys enjoying parasailing .. I’ve no idea whether all of them survived. Read More

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The End of Net Neutrality

The End of Net Neutrality

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Peter Van Doren The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week decided that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacked the legal authority to issue so-called ” net neutrality” rules. While net neutrality sounds appealing, the actual internet experience that we have come to expect requires non-neutrality. In the early days of the internet, packets of information were basically treated alike. This was when the internet was a government-funded communications system that allowed university researchers to communicate […]

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The Disintegration of Buckleyite Conservatism

The Disintegration of Buckleyite Conservatism

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The American conservative movement has changed with the advent of MAGA and the economic nationalism associated with it. However, there never was a “golden age” of conservatism, as the William F. Buckley brand was terribly flawed from the beginning.

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