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What is there to say about Barack Obama's speech to Congress Thursday night and the so-called American Jobs Act he said Congress must pass? Several thoughts occur, all starting with P.

In spite of what we spend on health care, research tells us that we only receive appropriate care half the time. We are simply not getting what we are paying for.

The primary reason that antitrust law and communications law collide is not that they are inherently incompatible for technological or legal reasons but rather that communications law has become such a random collection of ad hoc decisions that it necessarily interferes with any set of rules actually grounded in law.

The recent experience of the Federal Communications Commission's review of mergers demonstrates that the FCC does a poor job as a surrogate antitrust agency.