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A gene trait in the first of the biotech seeds, Roundup Ready, goes off patent in 2014, and many more will soon follow. The industry has been developing a private sector process to govern the transition from patented to generic traits that relies on negotiations and contracts. Such a process would avoid the costly, litigious and adversarial approach Congress imposed on the pharmaceutical industry.

On January 1, 2013, a dizzying array of tax cuts, deductions and exemptions are scheduled to expire. Estimates of the impact on a typical working class family range from between $1,750 and $3,800 in additional taxes next year alone.

By injecting politics and regulation into the financial and health care sectors, the president is killing the innovation and competition that occur in markets that are easy to enter. 

A closer examination suggests that Buffett and his secretary present an exceptional and perhaps questionable anecdote rather than a pattern.

The president keeps trying to extol the virtues of expanding the government, even as the government keeps proving him wrong.

United Nations members who prefer top-down governance and a heavy hand of government, are on the march to change the “rules” of the Internet