The FTC and FCC Join the Woke Right

The FTC and FCC Join the Woke Right

by Norm Singleton The term “woke right” is much in vogue in certain quarters of the conservative movement. The term refers to conservatives who react to challenges to their views—even, or especially if the challenge comes from one of their fellow conservatives—with the same hysteria and attempts to silence dissent as the woke left. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson…

FCC to Undertake a "Ground-up Re-examination" of EAS, WEA

Image credit: FCC Following up on his first major policy speech just two weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is promising to buck the usual summer slowdown in the nation’s capital with a major push to advance his “Built America Agenda” and other policies. In a blog laying out some of the FCC’s summer plans, Carr emphasized network infrastructure issues, particularly a promise to “consider a proposal to curtail one of …

Why Arbitrary Merger Enforcement Must End - Taxpayers Protection Alliance

Why Arbitrary Merger Enforcement Must End David B McGarry July 15, 2025 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s politicization of mergers is demonstrating the truth of two old adages: first, what goes around comes around; second, the more things change, the more they stay the same.This observation was precipitated by a 1966 episode of Firing Line, in which Willi…