The upcoming incentive spectrum auction offers a chance to inject vitally needed spectrum into the broadband marketplace.

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Last month’s tragic attack on the Boston marathon leaves us wanting answers — not just about why it occurred, but why we failed to prevent it. One tempting answer is that the FBI could have prevented the Boston attack if it had more power and fewer legal encumbrances. That seems to be the wrongheaded if understandable impulse of former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who at last Thursday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Boston attack, urged Congress to review the Attorney General Guidelines that regulate the FBI’s surveillance and investigation power.

In our democratic society, a thought crime is no crime at all. Yet Lieberman and some members of Congress suggested that the FBI should be able to keep investigations open based on a person’s religious and political beliefs. That change would be ruinous to an agency that prides itself on upholding the Constitution, and it would not help prevent terrorism.

Big Oil is back to its old tricks, this time trying to convince Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency that the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) cannot work and should be eliminated.

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“No thank you, I don’t want to join the national marrow donor program today. If you register, aren’t you forced to undergo an invasive, expensive surgery to save a stranger? I don’t want to risk my own health for someone else’s.”
It's shocking that people in our country have that mindset, let alone have the courage to say those thoughts out loud, right?

Working at “Be the Match” foundation, a part of the national marrow donor program, these past few weeks has really opened my eyes to the types of people and myths this foundation deals with and must overcome to ensure its success.

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 There are three distinct phases of leadership when attempting to implement change: vision, structure and implementation. This same process can be applied to congressional leadership regarding U.S. financial reform.

Congress’s recent action to allow the Federal Aviation Administration to avoid furloughs of air traffic controllers is an indication that the fiscal sequester is starting to bite. Less visible, but no less real, is the harm to our economic growth that will result from drastic across-the-board sequestration cuts to agencies that support scientific research.

Small Business owners are concerned about the threat of rising fuel and energy costs. According to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey, 77 percent of small businesses say that rising energy prices pose an immediate threat to their business. The Chamber’s survey shows that 80 percent feel that the administration is not doing enough to keep gas prices low, increase domestic energy sources, or develop an energy policy that supports American jobs. The United States can do a number of things to ease these concerns but one in particular stands out from the rest.

I know with absolute certainty that the recent Heritage study is nothing more than a flawed and distorted propaganda piece meant to kill immigration reform. The Heritage study is trying to address a macroeconomic question using a microeconomic model. Their methodology assumes that the immigrant population lives in some kind of isolated bubble, separate from our economy. That is a ridiculous premise. Immigrants bring vitality and productivity to our workforce that impacts every aspect of our economy.

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Last week’s Department of Labor announcement of the drop in unemployment showed signs of life in the economy, driven in part by a booming U.S. housing market that has been on a roll for several quarters. 

New homes mean new materials from foundation to roofing, and this is creating a lot of jobs for the manufacturers and distributors of those materials throughout the supply chain. The robust kitchen and bath cabinetry industry alone is an estimated $7 billion industry, according to data from the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association.

Good news, right? 

Unfortunately, this market growth could be stalled and reversed by a direct attack on U.S. manufacturing created by just six companies in a dubious government play to change the dynamics of an important commodity to this industry.