China and South Korea Corruption: The Globalists’ Globe Isn’t a Very Nice Place

April 11, 2018

Seton Motley | Less Government | LessGovernment.org

Yes, Please

I am a virulent free trader. I love commerce between nigh any peoples and nations with whom the exchanges are on equal footing – and as unfettered as possible by government intervention and imposition.

The problems arise – when we venture out into a world full of countries in love with government intervention and imposition.

Every nation on the planet has the inherent desire to tilt the commercial scales in their favor. I fully understand the aspiration – but we should demand it never become commercial policy.

Unfortunately, we have spent the last half century or so – allowing the world’s nations to do exactly that. Very much to our national detriment.

In no small part because – from all appearances – the United States’ Establishment does not share the rest of the world’s inherent desire to make our nation better. More

While We’re in a Less Government Mood….

March 27, 2018

A Foundational Block of our Information Economy

President Donald Trump’s Administration has been the most conservative and government-reducing since at least Calvin Coolidge’s.

Trump has slashed regulations in a million different directions. He has appointed judges and a Supreme Court Justice who interpret the Constitution rather than rewrite it – which can only lead to less government. He has championed immigration law and border enforcement, which will curtail the massive influx of Third World government-money-recipients – which can only lead to less government.

Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats have serially, repeatedly blocked Congressional Republicans’ attempts to join with Trump in reducing government. (That is, when Congressional Republicans aren’t themselves passing ridiculous government-expanding omnibus spending bills.)

We would like to see Republicans again return to their less government ways. And they have a great opportunity to do so – with the STRONGER Patents Act: More

Thank You, Mister President: Trump Saves the Internet of Everything from China

March 15, 2018

China’s Invisible Hand
Ain’t So Great –
and Ain’t So Invisible

There was underway a highly disquieting hostile Tech Sector takeover.

Corporate wrecking ball Broadcom – the Singapore king of breaking big companies into little sellable pieces – was looking to unpleasantly acquire United States innovation company Qualcomm.

Qualcomm is the chief reason why We the People are the global leaders on all things wireless – cellular networks, cell phones and all the attending amazingness.

To cite but one of countless examples, it was a woman Qualcomm engineer who invented the way cell phones can connect to the Internet. (In a personal geek moment – I got to meet her. Very cool.)

This was a quantum moment. Think of the hundreds of billions of dollars of economic activity that one invention alone unleashed.

Qualcomm has spent the last two decades – and tens of billions of dollars – creating all sorts of amazing things like this. Thereby leading the charge towards the next monster revolution – Fifth Generation (5G) wireless: More

National Security: US Needs to Stop Singapore’s Gordon Gekko from Handing the Internet to China

February 28, 2018

Indeed They Do

The analysis to follow – requires the definition of several terms.

We’ll begin with two.

Gordon Gekko: “(A) fictional character in the 1987 film ‘Wall Street’ and its 2010 sequel ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.’ The character (is) a ruthless and wildly wealthy investor and corporate raider….”

Corporate Raider: “A corporate raider is an investor who buys a large number of shares in a corporation….The large share purchase would give the corporate raider significant voting rights, which could then be used to push changes in the company’s leadership and management….

“A corporate raider might want to see certain assets and business lines divested from the company, possibly to unlock the value of the asset or to remove a detriment to the company’s bottom line. That could include eliminating offices and production facilities that are costly to maintain.” More

Intellectual Property: No One Understands Theft Better – Than The People Being Robbed

February 15, 2018

How Could You Steal From This Face?

I am a retired musician. I play three instruments and sing. And most important from a prospective remuneration perspective – I wrote the stuff we sang and played.

I never sold my goal of fifteen million records – so here I sit before you now.

But life’s rules are immutable. And writing about them – in song, or essay, or free verse or whatever – changes them not a whit.

I was a hopeful records-seller residing in Austin, Texas – “The Live Music Capital of the World” – when stolen-music-website Napster burst on to the scene. From which you could download tens of thousands of songs – without paying a penny for any.

I steadfastly refused to illegally steal any tunes from Napster. But in Austin I was surrounded by musicians – and I can not recall a single one of them who didn’t illegally steal from Napster. More

Intellectual Property Crisis: U.S. Drops Out of the Top Ten in Innovation Ranking

January 31, 2018

We’re Losing the
Entirety of the Economy Cloud

We are in the very first stages of what is now – and will for a long, long time be – a global Information Economy.

In which more and more of what we produce – is of the mind. And less and less reliant on muscle.

We are no longer an Agrarian Economy – where the vast majority of Americans make their living off the land.

We are in the latter stages of an Industrial Economy – where the vast majority of Americans make their living via manufacturing.

To be clear – to paraphrase Mark Twain – the stories of manufacturing’s death are highly exaggerated. As President Donald Trump is proving – with manufacturers beginning to return in droves to America’s shores.

But even with things Agricultural and Industrial – life is always made better with products of the mind. More

We Need to Fully Populate FTC Leadership – to Stop Residual Obama Awfulness

January 17, 2018

Time to Cut the Obama Ties that Bind

Now as anyone who knows me knows – I am not one to lightly call for more government in any way, shape matter or form.

And I am a HUGE fan of President Donald Trump’s approach to Executive Branch staffing.

Trump: No Plans to Fill ‘Unnecessary’ Appointed Positions: “‘I look at some of the jobs and it’s people over people over people. I say, “What do all these people do?” You don’t need all those jobs.’”

Trump is absolutely, 100% correct. And has been absolutely, 100% consistent.

Here Are the Federal Agencies Trump Plans to Cut as President

To wit:

EPA Staff to Get Cut in Half

Amen and Hallelujah. More

Reversing Obama, Trump is Protecting and Thus Promoting Intellectual Property

January 4, 2018

Before – and After

The Barack Obama Administration was eight years of absolutely awful – in innumerable, incalculable ways.

Obama had every one of the very many tentacles of the Bureaucracy Leviathan – actively attacking the private sector.

The Donald Trump Administration is thus far, thankfully, the anti-Obama Administration. Undoing so very much of the precedent awful.

Obama – Obamacare. Trump – kills the awful Obamacare individual mandate. With hopefully more repealing to come.

Obama – Net Neutrality and a New Deal phone law power grab of the Internet. Trump – rescinds it. More

Gorsuch-ed Supreme Court May End Feds’ Anti-Constitution Patent-Destroying Board

December 13, 2017

Here’s to a Krispy Kreme Morning

Isn’t a Constitutionally-minded Supreme Court a spectacular thing? That is – the times when we actually get one.

Unfortunately, we far too often still have to rely on what Justice Anthony Kennedy has for breakfast on any particular decision morning.

But on a case-by-case basis – things can appear very law-and-order in our nation’s highest slate in the Judicial Branch.

One of these seemingly optimistic moments – involves something about which we wrote about a month ago:

PTAB: DCs Latest Unaccountable, Power Grabbing Government Board: “Government is always looking to expand its ability to lord over the private sector. Congress has done far more than its part – passing all sorts of laws that have very little to do with the Constitution and its extraordinarily limited role for the federal government.…. More

Righting Another Obama Wrong: Re-Protecting Intellectual Property

November 30, 2017

A Very Welcome Change of Direction

The Barack Obama Administration was absolutely awful on intellectual property (IP).

Obama, Inc. set very many arms of the federal Leviathan to actively attacking IP protections.

Obama, Inc. sicced on IP the Department of Justice (DoJ) and its Federal Trade Commission (FTC). IP is a Constitutionally protected concept – protected in practice by the Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s issuance of patents, trademarks and copyrights. These IP protections grant their holders exclusive use of the ideas behind them.

The Obama FTC’s antitrust division ignored the Constitution and its own USPTO – and sued the government-issued IP protections…for being exclusively used by the government-issued IP-protections-holders.

With Congress, Obama, Inc. created within the USPTO the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Which turned the USPTO’s mission on its head – from an agency issuing patents…to one destroying them. More

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