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NEW YORK - Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.
Broadband adoption increased 59 percent from March last year to March 2006 among U.S. households with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000, according to a survey to be […]

 You might have thought you had heard the end of the debate about ANWR, the proposal to drill for the billions of barrels of oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
I’ve said it a million times, so let me just do the shorthand version.
I’ve been there. I’ve seen it. The caribou will be fine. We […]

Hillary Clinton is up to her old tricks. According to a Washington Times report, she seeks a two year tax on all oil profits as a means to funding energy research:
“We need to reform our energy taxes so that large oil companies who reap huge benefits from unexpectedly high energy prices over the next two […]

Michael Barone shares the good news here.Â
Things are better than you think. Yes, I know, most Americans are in a sour mood these days, convinced that the struggle in Iraq is an endless cycle of bloodshed, certain that our economy is in dismal shape, lamenting that the nation and the world are off on […]

The Federal Trade Commission released a damning study that should should end the pro-government pro-regulation hustling proceeding in the current price gouging “debate” concerning oil prices. Don’t expect actual facts to make any impact though.
The evidence also showed that companies operated their refineries – and determined the product quantities they would produce – with the […]

A great post by Robert B. Bluey (Human Events) today underscores the near-complete policy bankruptcy of Congress today.  Bluey writes:

It’s shocking but true: The House Republican Theme Team, led by Rep. Jack Kingston (R.-Ga.), is handing out its Ronald Reagan Award to members of Congress “for their work in promoting the Medicare Prescription Drug program.” […]

From the Governor’s office: 
As you may know, state economists recently upped their estimates for the state’s tax revenues, meaning that $1 billion more in taxes will be sent to Columbia this year.
This is over $500 million more than Governor Sanford used when writing his budget - a budget that fully funded education, put 100 […]

From the New Yorker. This cartoon shows the importance of tradeoffs.

Here is the whole story from CNSNews.com 
FreedomWorks, a group that advocates lower taxes and less government, is urging Americans to just “say no to net neutrality.”The group chaired by former Rep. Dick Armey argues that ‘network neutrality’ legislation would give the federal government “massive and unprecedented power over the Internet.”
FreedomWorks argues that technological innovation is […]

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are reporting a huge coup for limited-government Republicans in Pennsylvania. Establishment Republicans across the country that have slowly sold out the GOP in the name of power should take note, because they might be next.
15 incumbent RINOs (”Republicans in name only”) who favor of big government, […]