'Tis the season for end-of-year lists, so as we bring 2009 to a close, I offer my own, slightly tongue-in-cheek, list of all the things government could do in 2010 to bring our economy to its knees. You heard me right: this is a list of things government could adopt...

"What I'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term. " - President Barack Obama, Jobs Summit, December 3, 2009

Dear President Obama,

Thank you for focusing on jobs. Your jobs summit yesterday helped bring...

Lou Dobbs quickly and unexpectedly announced his resignation from CNN this week, terminating his reported multi-year contract with the cable network. I have been calling publicly for months for CNN to stop putting Dobbs on the air, so I think it worthwhile to reflect for a moment on...

Four years ago, the motion picture industry convinced the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing to explore what Hollywood studios claimed was rampant piracy of movies occurring through the so-called "analog hole." (For non-engineers, the "analog hole" is the movie industry's term for any content-playing device connected to a...

As the U.S. unemployment rate climbs toward 10 percent and the economy faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery process, Congress and the last two administrations have caved to political pressures by protecting domestic firms and jobs with taxpayer money. Throughout history, when times are tough, the government almost always...

When I was a child the innovations of the day included black-and-white televisions, copy machines and the first satellite, Sputnik. Truly groundbreaking innovation came once a year or even less frequently. But more recently, technological innovation has moved at the speed of light. In recent years I have witnessed the...

When President Obama presented Friday to the International Olympic Committee, the Pakistani representative asked him how the United States would make international visitors feel more welcomed. President Obama admitted that we need to do better.

Our shabby treatment of international guests has cost us more...

If world leaders gathering for this week's G20 summit need evidence of the economic importance of trade and global engagement, they need look no further than their host city.

When the bottom fell out of the U.S. steel industry, Pittsburgh suffered one of the most devastating collapses of a major...

The consumer electronics industry is defined by rapid innovation and falling prices. Its success has allowed content creators, service providers, Web sites, blogs and all sorts of new media to flourish. It is intensely competitive yet loved by consumers. This fast moving, deflationary, job-creating $160 billion industry has several basic...

Rarely a day goes by without a new story of troubles roiling our southern border. Violent drug gangs outgun the Mexican army, and the Mexican government struggles to restore civil society and rule of law.

Further south, police and demonstrators face off in the streets of Honduras. Avowed U.S....

China recently announced a policy that every computer sold must be packaged with specific software that bars it from being used to visit certain Internet sites. This so-called "Green Dam" software ostensibly is aimed at blocking child pornography and other vile sites. In Chinese, "green" and "clean" are interchangeable...

In the next decade, will the United States remain an economic leader?

In a new national survey from Zogby International, commissioned by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), just 13 percent of Americans say that the United States would remain the most innovative leader in ten years, while 36 percent...

American-based companies compete weighed down with uniquely American costs. American employees are well paid, yet U.S. companies pay the second highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Most larger companies bear the cost of employee health care compared to other countries where governments or the employees themselves pay. We...

In recent weeks, the chorus of calls for further "protections" for copyright owners has grown louder (see, for example, Mark Helprin's May 11 broadside in the Wall Street Journal against copyright critics: "Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft"). Yet these copyright apologists ignore how copyright owners overreach and hurt innovation. Representing...

I am sad to see one of America's greatest technology companies saddled with a record-setting $1.4 billion fine, a payment which will simply fund the EU government and do nothing for consumers or competition. No consumer paid more for a computer for Intel's success - indeed the evidence is...

At a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty, the union promise of jobs and better wages is deeply alluring -- but their mechanism to securing them, so-called "card check," is fundamentally flawed. The basic premise of card check, the focal point of the Employee Free Choice Act before Congress, is that...

America's immigration system is broken. While most focus on illegal immigration or changing ethnicities of legal immigration, what concerns me is that we are losing our historic ability to attract and retain the word's brightest and most entrepreneurial workers.

Silicon Valley exemplifies an American success story threatened by...

The Employee Free Choice Act, aka "card check" is the most contentious issue now before Congress. The proposal would change labor law so that a union could be created if union organizers obtain over half of the employees' signatures. No private ballot would be required unless 30 percent of workers...

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world. In the 1960s, President Kennedy outlined a global vision based on the premise that a "rising tide lifts all...

President Barack Obama will soon be making his first trip to Latin America to attend the Summit of the Americas. This visit is an important opportunity for the President to promote core U.S. values of democracy and freedom. Before his historic trip, President Obama should lay the foundation of these...