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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.

Last week the Obama administration finally released the Medicare Trustees’ report on the financial status of Medicare, and Democrats immediately gloated how ObamaCare enhances Medicare’s financial position.

Recognizing that, in the information economy, the hopes of US workers and enterprises hinges on our ability to innovate, at the beginning of the 110th Congress Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi put forth what she called the House Democrat's "Innovation Agenda.