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For hundreds of years, patent owners have “marked”—i.

President Obama is out this week with three proposals for stimulating—oops, forgot we weren't supposed to use that word—for creating jobs.

According to the Washington Post yesterday, China now is forcing registration of personal information with the government just to purchase a mobile phone.

An estimated 58 million Americans have embraced the convenience of pre-paid wireless service, but the "Pre-Paid Mobile Device Identification Act," sponsored by Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Cornyn (R-TX) would impose new regulations and costs on consumers of prepaid wireless service, and erode users’ privacy. These new burdens on consumers are not an acceptable tradeoff for what would likely be an ineffective tool against a handful of criminals.

President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” taught us what happens when well-meaning (to give them benefit of the doubt) politicians and bureaucrats create a welfare system that rewards those who shun work, while punishing those who try to take responsibility for themselves.

Last week, time expired for weighing in with the FCC on the proposed Comcast deal with GE for NBC Universal.

Hardly a day goes by without a story in some newspaper discussing some state’s dire financial straits.

Examining the actions of the federal government, one might conclude that it sees mobile communications as a societal evil.

The Rev.

A couple weeks ago the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, announced the commencement of a formal investigation into IBM’s mainframe server sales, indicating that it would look into allegations that the company was linking sales of its servers to its software and services.