What agency is systematically destroying American jobs? The mantra this election season is jobs, jobs, jobs, as both parties claim that putting people back to work is their top priority. But what if I told you that in the midst of the worst downturn since the Great Depression, one federal...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Here in the shadow of Monticello, I often wonder what Thomas Jefferson would think of today's America, a nation that is rapidly but silently abandoning the individual in favor of faceless corporations, rapacious banks and a collusive, unresponsive government.

The Founding Father who envisioned a republic...

Corporate America has been good to me. Over the past 20 years, I've made hundreds of millions of dollars in innovative tech companies I either launched or financed -- including CNET, Salesforce.com and the service now called Google Voice.

But over those same two decades...