Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
A telling moment in the presidential race came recently when Barack Obama said: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." He justified elevating bureaucrats over entrepreneurs by referring to bridges and roads, adding: "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet."It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet. The myth is that the Pentagon created the Internet to keep its communications lines up even...
A telling moment in the presidential race came recently when Barack Obama said: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." He justified elevating bureaucrats over entrepreneurs by referring to bridges and roads, adding: "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet."It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet. The myth is that the Pentagon created the Internet to keep its communications lines up even...
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