I wrote two years ago about the carrot of convenience the corporations will dangle over the heads of the consumer nation to coerce them into forfeiting their own freedoms. New “fast-pass” traffic lanes between California and Mexico promise to speed processing of the 55,000 vehicles that enter the U.S., provided they’re willing to be tagged [...]
Seiko Epson Corp. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, filed lawsuits in a US District Court against 24 firms who manufacture after-market ink cartridges for Epson printers, citing Patent Infringement Seiko Epson’s complaint, filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), calls for a general exclusion order banning the import or sale of less expensive third party [...]
Big Brother, as portrayed in popular fiction, is often a blatantly adversarial opponent, strong-arming the exhausted proles into their veal cages. It’s a romantic image, to be sure, but everyone knows that you catch more flies with honey, and absolute authority is not nearly as seductive as convenience. Make something more convenient, expedite it, make [...]
The Fifth Amendment states in part that governments may seize private property through “eminent domain” for public use, provided the affected parties are duly compensated. However, the Supreme Court seems to have expanded the rights of local governments to seize people’s homes and businesses for private economic development whenever they deem it profitable, regardless of [...]
Under the “No Child Left Behind Act,” school systems that failed to provide information to military recruiters already risked forfeiting federal funding. However, having missed recruiting targets in four straight months, the U.S. military has become even more desperate as it faces missing its 2005 recruiting goals. In its efforts to bolster a sagging all-volunteer [...]