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In their effort to slow the proliferation pirated music over the Internet, the music industry has tried a two-pronged strategy: Sue and secure. The RIAA has sued a 12-year-old and a grandmother, along with hundreds of others, for allegedly downloading music over the Internet. Meanwhile, record and technology companies have been teaming up to restrict […]

Arnold Kling over at Tech Central Station pens an open letter to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman urging him to become "part of the solution, not part of the problem." For example, suppose I were to say, "We should abolish the minimum wage. That would increase employment and enable more people to climb out […]

A three-judge panel today put on hold a district court decision that found the FTC's do-not-call list to be an infringement on telemarketers free speech rights. According to the media reports, it appears as though the appellate court used logic similar to mine to come to its conclusion. "We conclude that the public does have […]

Flipped over to MSNBC as both Fox News and CNN were in commercial breaks, and watched as Chris Matthews and friends all agreed: California is a middle-of-the-road state, "like New York." Yeah, and The New York Times editorial page is centrist. Exhibit A in the case against an out-of-touch media elite.

At 8 p.m. the polls here in California closed. The networks took a deep breath, and they all immediately made their calls. Gray Davis out. Arnold Schwarzenegger in. Prop. 54 down. The first set of absentee ballot returns has Davis being recalled 63.4 percent to 36.6 percent and Schwarzenegger with a majority of the tally. […]

Sacramento Bee columnist/blogger Daniel Weintraub debunks a plethora of myths about today's recall election here in California. If you've followed the election closely, many of them will come as no surprise. But at least one was news to me: Myth: Many of the paid circulators were convicted criminals bused here from out of state. Fact: […]

If you're in California, today is recall election day. If you're registered and want to vote, go out and do it. If you're apathetic and uninformed -- stay home. Democracies don't have 100 percent voter participation. Never have, never will. Why? Because part of being free is being free not to vote. Hoystory endorses: When […]

Just caught the newest Dianne Feinstein anti-recall commercial. A couple of things struck me: First, there's no mention of any names. Not Gray Davis -- he's "this governor." Arnold Schwarzenegger also got a mention -- he's "this governor's" "opponent." Second, it casts the recall as a Davis vs. Schwarzenegger -- a tactic Davis has been […]

This is probably one of those signs of the forthcoming apocalypse, along with dogs and cats living together, but I'm flabbergasted that Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz is being accused of "plagiarism." Dershowitz's latest book, "The Case for Israel," is a point-by-point apologia for the continuing existence of the state of Israel. I finished reading […]

Regarding the difference between Arnold Schwarzenegger's groping and Bill Clinton's fondling: Apart from the testimony of the groping victims, both of whom were convincing, the most honest thing I heard came from film producer and Codepink activist Patricia Foulkrod. She admitted that Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes were as inexcusable as Arnold's. "The difference is that […]