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With all the political tricks flying around Washington this week you’d think it was Halloween, but we still have more than a week to go.

While lately a number of people may have been left out of the policy making process, the FCC has opened up an opportunity for you to comment on its plans to bring good old fashioned heavy handed regulation of the Internet through “network neutrality” rules.

The Obama Administration has earned kudos for their vision of using of technology to be a primary part of the solution to policy challenges from improved healthcare to efficient energy usage.

Eight months ago, when the Democrats and the administration rammed through the $787 billion stimulus package, the public was lectured that the massive spending bill was needed to “save or create” jobs and stop the rise in unemployment.

Somewhere lost in all of the heated rhetoric about whether or not to move the country to a government health insurance plan are the patients—those who are and who will be ailing but who could be helped by advances in technology if that technology were deployed and not hindered.

Here’s another casualty of the economic downturn: Social Security.

It would be hard to imagine an industry today that is more “dynamic” than the wireless industry.

Advocates of the national health care overhaul scrambling to raise the taxes to pay for it have floated the idea of imposing federal excise taxes on soda, fruit juice, and similar drinks.

Late last week the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission shared his view that it was critical for the Federal Government to start regulating the Internet.

Like all of the Democrats trying to push through health care reform with no way of paying for it, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has been on a quest to find new revenue for his plan.