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If you noticed more buffering and sputtering when streaming video from Netflix a few months ago, you weren't alone. But who was really to blame? Your broadband provider or Netflix? Netflix, which earlier this year reluctantly agreed to pay interconnection fees to broadband providers, has suggested that Comcast is to blame because it's violating principles of Net neutrality, which are all about keeping the Internet free and open. Comcast has vigorously denied these assertions. Still, questions remain and confusion abounds over how the two ideas are linked or whether they should be linked at all. The confusion deepened with statements...

Will the IRS retreat from managing political speech through the tax code? One might have thought that the scandal that erupted a year ago this month would have discouraged the tax agency from pressing forward again, but they still proposed a more extensive enforcement mechanism for 501(c)4 groups just months after the targeting of conservative groups was exposed. After an avalanche of negative comments in the public-review period, though, the IRS is rethinking their approach (via Instapundit): The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said today that it will revise proposed rules governing nonprofit groupsÂ’ involvement in politics.The rules, released last...

A so-called “NAFTA Superhighway” earned support from the city’s mayor and discussion among residents Monday during a public hearing on the Texas Department of Transportation’s I-69 project. TxDOT held a public hearing at the Brownsville Events Center Monday to explain the progress of the Trans-Texas Corridor, a future segment of Highway I-69, which will link the U.S.-Mexico border to the U.S.-Canada border. After a short presentation, the floor was open for comments. Among the local politicians, college students and retirees at the hearing there was a wide range of opinion on the project. According to Mario Jorge, district engineer for...