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Another state is considering taking positive steps toward introducing competition and innovation in the Telecommunications industry. Our Choose Your Cable campaign could take us down to Kansas soon, since a bill has been introduced in the state assembly there.
The Kansas Video Competition Act has been assigned a bill number–SB 449. We have received [...]

Rebuffed last year by regulators, the state’s largest provider of local telephone service is asking legislators to move Kansas toward deregulating the prices it charges consumers.
The Senate Utilities Committee opened hearings Tuesday on a bill sought by AT&T, which previously provided local service in Kansas as SBC Corp. The company hopes legislators will deregulate its [...]

We all know about the pork, the outrageous spending, and the waste of taxpayer money. Old hat, it appears. For declassified documents now reveal that Paul Fellencer Sr. tried to blow the whistle on could have been $200 million of wasteful spending by the Department of Defense. And he was ignored. Let’s look at some [...]

The City of Sand Springs will soon seize a church to make way for a strip mall. Under the infamous Kelo ruling, local governments can seize private property if it believes that the seizure can generate more tax revenues. An amicus brief from the Becket Fund warned that since Churchs, Mosques, and Synagogues don’t generate [...]

“We have got to be sure that we come here with clean hands when we speak,” Rep. Rogers told Rep. Flake, to which Flake responded, “There is a difference between the National Cowgirls Hall of Fame and funding aviator night vision imaging systems for our helicopters.”

An article in the CSM points to the failures of the Conservative Revolution to tame the Redistributionist Left.
Though we have achieved much, we have not done enough to tame the spending and taxing beast.
We need to act now!
Even with Republicans in control, trends are decidedly in favor of massive redistribution of wealth.
By Patrick Chisholm | [...]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently voted to confirm a new standard for 802.11n Wi-Fi, which allows transmission speeds of up to 6 times faster than current wireless.
This is one more good reason to reject municipal Wi-Fi (for others, see here). Every single method of data transmission - from zip drives to [...]

From today’s Opinion Journal:
The product-liability veto, though, caused the most consternation in business circles. It started with the case of J. Steven Thomas, who claimed to have eaten paint chips containing lead pigment in the early 1990s. At that time, he lived in rental housing built in the early 1900s, when the use of lead-based [...]

Shoplifting as Governance
Maryland Lawmakers’ Unethical Grab at Wal-Mart’s Revenue
By George F. Will
Thursday, January 19, 2006; A19
In 1786 the Annapolis Convention, requested by Virginia and attended by only four other states, called for a second gathering to revise the Articles of Confederation in order to strengthen the federal government. Some revision: The second meeting became the [...]

Platform proposals range from health care to Social Security
Platforms for the Republican and Democratic parties in Iowa could have roots in southeast Iowa.
Members of both parties met Monday night for precinct caucuses where party members had the opportunity to submit planks addressing their concerns. The planks eventually may be included in the final [...]