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Republicans rightly understand that the voter passion that carried them to a historic victory in last November’s election was driven largely by concerns about federal spending and Obamacare.

It’s commonly understood that the world watches closely what the U.

Congress has, once again, at the last minute extended the research and development tax credit for a single year, making it retroactive to Dec 31, 2009 (when Congress allowed it to lapse) and extending it until the end of 2011.

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.