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Last week the California Supreme Court ruled that a police officer may pilfer the contents of a mobile phone (or presumably a PDA, net book, notebook or wallet) without a warrant merely because the person carrying it is arrested.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal headline read “Companies Cling to Cash.

The next issue before the Senate is funding the federal government.

As we watch defenders of Wikileaks committing cyber-vandalism on websites from VISA, Mastercard, Paypal, and even the government of Sweden, most reasonable people recognize that the hackers’ vandalism undermines their professed high moral ground and reinforces the general conclusion that Wikileaks itself is simply a form of cyber-vandalism.

One of the proposed provisions in the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts is a temporary 2 percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax, from 6.

You may have noticed that several states added additional taxes to phone bills in the last few years.

The financial disaster facing the country if it doesn’t get control of entitlement spending has made discussion of Medicare reform fashionable again.

Even before the slumber-inducing effects of post-turkey tryptophan set in, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems to be gazing through the looking glass.

Now we're talking! The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's (aka, the Deficit Commission) "Zero Plan" for personal and corporate income tax reform puts an excellent option on the table.

Although announced almost a year ago, the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal is still stalled at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), one of the two federal agencies that must say it’s OK for the two businesses to merge.