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Spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order. Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow.

By the time the White House got around to declaring that the administration had simply had enough of Fox News Channel, it wasn't exactly a surprise to anyone. But listening to some Beltway pundits react to the administration's decision, you might think the White House had ordered Fox boss Roger Ailes to be shipped off to Guantánamo.

With outraged Washington journalists and Republican politicians crying "Nixonian!" over the public scuffle between the Obama White House and the Fox News Channel, somewhere, Nixon himself is enjoying a mordant laugh to hear this shrill defense of his old servant Roger Ailes, the television wizard whose deceptive campaigning ushered him into the presidency more than 40 years ago -- and who then became the living symbol of everything negative and nasty in American politics during the two decades that followed.

Since the 1960s, public and private investment in energy efficiency, infrastructure, schools and the information highway have been underfunded, and absent structural reforms of the way Congress does the nation's business these priorities probably will continue to be underfunded.

Barack Obama and his closest advisors know how to keep secrets. With nearly 10 percent of the transition period between administrations already gone, we know more about the factors that will dictate the selection of the White House puppy than we do about the reasoning behind the choice of a would-be Treasury secretary.

Sen John McCain rarely talks about technology. McCain has not released a tech platform, although he may do so this week. On this front, he lags behind Barack Obama, who unveiled his last year.

Sen John McCain's wavering stance on surveillance of communications.

Sen John McCain and the press that cover him are great friends.