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Congress and the President have failed—utterly—to run a government that operates within a reasonable level that the American economy can afford to fund. When they talk about raising taxes, they are just trying to paper over their failures—with your money.

Virtually lost in the debate is that the more the government cuts spending, the less new revenue needs to be raised. 

It was jaw dropping to see a paper appear on the website of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) that was infused with much of the rhetoric and many of the assumptions of the CopyLeft movement. When an RSC paper is praised on the Daily Kos website, you have to wonder what is going on.

Let’s start to put “tech” issues front and center in our national policy debates.

One important element of the "fiscal cliff" is what's known as the "Doc Fix," because without a fix doctors will stop seeing Medicare patients.

If the country needs a model for how different sides can work out their differences, it might look to a recent agreement forged in the biotech seed industry.

The election was an opportunity for the American people to pull back from the abyss formed by all of these “cliffs” we face. But instead of stepping back from the abyss, it appears that the American people have decided take a step closer, lean forward, and gaze into the abyss.

The presidential election will tell us a lot about whether Americans want the country to look more like California or Texas.

Governor Haslam of Tennessee was “surprised” to hear he had a failing fiscal grade and has argued that his tax increases were for the kids. When a politician uses kids as defense, grab your liberties and your wallet, as you are about to lose at least one. In this case, in the Main Street Fairness Act, politicians have found a way to take both.

While most of the debate about privacy has been focused on the private sector, because of government’s unique powers, the issue of privacy from government is much more critical. A bright line should separate our concerns about privacy from government and privacy in the private sector.