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Bank of America just canceled contracts to hire a batch of foreign-born business students, because Congress said its bailout recipients (the “TARP” money) should hire American first.

Officials at the NTIA (the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration), the FCC and the USDA, (yes, the Department of Agriculture) held a meeting earlier this week to begin to decide how to spend the $7.

Forty-two seconds a page—that is how long members of Congress were given to read, understand, evaluate and consider all the implications for the largest spending bill in history.

In a desperate scramble to balance their state budgets, state legislators in many states have seized upon the idea of “increasing revenue” (read: raising taxes) rather than taking actions to live within their means.

The growing incidence of calls for government meddling and control of speech is staggering.

The “stimulus bill” will throw $20 billion dollars at an effort to improve health information technology (IT).

In his 1981 inaugural speech Ronald Reagan famously said, “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

These days it seems that almost every discussion includes the word “stimulus.

Democrats have proposed an economic stimulus package that takes us one step closer to a system in which price controls determine innovation.

A groundbreaking report released Tuesday by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a group formed to take an in-depth look at both the latest sociological research on on-line safety, and also to evaluate the efficacy of various proposed software solutions, found that when it comes to protecting children online there is no technological substitute for the role of law enforcement and parents in keeping society safe.