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After many years and many failed attempts, patent reform legislation is about to pass Congress and become law. (President Obama has signaled he will sign the current bill, which should make it out of Congress this week.) The good news: Washington, D.C. recognizes that the patent system is in dire need of reform. The bad news: the new law will do virtually nothing to fix many of the system’s fundamental problems.

By now it's almost trite to complain that President Obama repeatedly has broken his campaign pledge to "broadcast [health care] negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are." That doesn't make the complaint invalid.

The Net neutrality bill took kind of a weird turn despite its defeat, when the public got to hear the mouthpiece for the telecom industry, Senator Ted Stevens. [...] It seems like a miracle that he can even find the crapper.

Is there any doubt that DeMint and Coburn are two of the biggest assholes in Congress? Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., have placed a “hold” on a bill that would sell land near the Smithsonian Institution for the National Women’s History Museum. A “hold” is a Senate practice that prevents bills from passing with unanimous consent — and implicitly threatening a filibuster.

(Video link) Amy (with the help of her friends Ben and Brian) attached 100 $1 bills to a tree on a public street. She says she did it "just to see what would happen." A lot of passers by didn't notice the tree. A lot of them noticed the tree but kept walking. A lot of them took one bill. A few took more than one. What would have happened if Amy had attached $100 bills to the tree instead of $1 bills? (Via Cynical-C)

Nobody has proposed changing the national motto, but the House is set Tuesday to vote on a bill that assure that the phrase “In God We Trust” stays put. The measure, which is sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), would encourage public buildings, schools and government facilities to display the phrase. It declares that “In God We Trust” and sentiments behind it have been an “integral” part of the United States, and “in times of national challenge or tragedy, the people of the United States have turned to God as their source for sustenance, protection, wisdom, strength, and direction.” The bill “sends a message that 'In God We Trust' is not only written in the halls of our federal buildings, but it is a bedrock upon which our nation is built,” Forbes said in a statement when the measure passed the House Judiciary Committee on a voice vote in March. The legislation has 64 co-sponsors, including several Democrats such as Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas. But other Democrats have made their complaints known. In a committee report, five House Democrats – Reps. John Conyers (Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Bobby Scott (Va.), Melvin Watt (N.C.) and Judy Chu (Calif.) – said Forbes’s bill “creates unnecessary and excessive government entanglement with religion.” “We must remember that the United States is comprised of people of many faiths, as well as those who do not hold any religious beliefs, as is their right,” they wrote. “The passage of this resolution would, as Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor warned, send a message to the American people that our government favors religion, and specifically one type of religion over another, in violation of the endorsement test.” The bill will be voted on under suspension of the rules, which it requires a two-thirds vote from the House for final passage.

2012 at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL. She was born on January 3, 1943 in Hastings, NE the daughter of William and Loretta (Heurtz) Loskill. Corrine was united in marriage on June 25, 1960 at St. Mary Catholic Church in Plano, IL to William C.

William Nemeroff is the executive chef who will oversee the ... He was graduated from Johnson & Wales University in Charleston, S.C., and worked as a chef and general manager at Greenbrier Country Club and Alexander’s on the Bay in Virginia ...

When Joseph C. Kline Sr. visited his old neighborhood in West Akron ... “That’s the house!” he beamed. Kline, a Copley resident who will turn 92 on March 13, also perked up when he saw a small brick tower marking the entrance to Castle Boulevard.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra ---- Riccardo Muti directs a program that features Schubert's "Entr'acte No. 3" from "Rosamunde" and Symphony No. 9 in C major, and Anna Clyne's new work, "Night Ferry"; 8 p.m.; Copley Symphony ... metal-heavy bill; 7 p.m ...

In an Oct. 13, 2008 NASA report Bill Reach of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at C.I.T. said: “We’ve been studying comets ... Comet Halley had receded far from the Sun in 1991.” The Copley News “Flash” to the radio station subscribers to their ...

Thompson, Steven J. Uhlbeck, William M. Valentia, Kayla J. Winkler, Elizabeth A. Woodruff and Tyler D. Yelle. Grade 12 - Parichatr P. Asavesna, Steven T. Ayotte, Emma C. Cole*, Lawrence D. Copley, Callie M. Corkin, Alyssa E. Debelak, Kayla M. Dishon ...

Entries and reference forms should be mailed to: c/o Junior Duck Stamp Coordinator ... For more information, call Dennis Dabney at 330-414-5795. • Saturday — The Copley Trap Range, 1665 Jacoby Road, Copley Township, is open for shoots from 9 a.m ...

She was a homemaker and a member of the Turkey Creek Freewill Baptist Church. Survivors include five sons, Harold C. Mccoy, Tolbert (Sandra) McCoy Jr. III, William E. (Sylvia) McCoy, and Wallace McCoy all of Turkey Creek, and Michael McCoy of Shelby ...

The Titans, already missing five-eighth William Zillman (back ... BRISBANE 16 (G Beale, A Glenn, D Copley tries; P Wallace 2 goals). Referees: A Devcich, C Sharpe. Crowd: 7252.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra ---- Riccardo Muti directs a program that features Schubert's "Entr'acte No. 3" from "Rosamunde" and Symphony No. 9 in C major, and Anna Clyne's new work, "Night Ferry"; 8 p.m.; Copley Symphony ... metal-heavy bill; 7 p.m ...