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Wolves guard the henhouse By Lorrie Goldstein Toronto Sun Thursday, May 24, 2007 Relying on Big Government to protect us from Big Oil is like relying on bankers to protect us from bank fees. Big Government and Big Oil are joined at the hip in fleecing us because the higher the price of gasoline, the more government makes in taxes. Clearly, the price of gas today isn't determined by anything approaching a free market. Indeed, it's amusing to watch the same oil industry shills and cheerleaders, who otherwise don't trust government to tie its own shoelaces, point to repeated...

Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a flame. Gripes have mounted recently over support in IE 6 for Cascading Style Sheets, (CSS), a Web standard increasingly important to design professionals. Web developers and makers of Web authoring tools say the software giant has allowed CSS bugs to linger for years, undermining technology that promises to significantly cut corporate Web site design costs. Seeking to goad Microsoft into action, digital document giant Adobe Systems last week unveiled a deal to bolster...