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<p>Mr. Quinn politely understated the distressed situation to which the U.S. patent system has fallen over the past couple of decades.</p><p>Congress created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), an administrative quasijudicial panel of questionable constitutionality, in the destructive 2011 America Invents Act. Then an ex-Google PTO director set up PTAB in such a tilted manner that it extirpates 84 percent of patent claims brought before it.</p>

Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to the public arena and persisted in telling unwelcome truths. In his meticulous prose, with charts and tables so elegant as to betray an aesthetic bent, he makes his points with precision and clarity. Murray's 1994 book "The Bell Curve," co-authored with Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, evoked furious and undeserved denunciation. It will be interesting to see whether there is a similar reaction to his latest and much shorter book, "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in...

Eric Dyson Refers to Trump Voters as ‘Maggots,’ ‘Snowflake White Men

I've been writing about Colorado cakemaker Jack Phillips' fight against cultural authoritarians for a long time. This past March, I noted that Phillips would probably be badgered into the grave. And this week, Denver district judge A. Bruce Jones again found that the state could compel speech, claiming that Phillips had acted unlawfully when refusing to create a cake that celebrated the alleged gender transition of a Colorado activist. When Phillips declined to participate in the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig back in the summer of 2012 -- this was before Obergefell v. Hodges and before gay marriage...

“I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances. I have let people down and am very sorry. I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.” See: World Exclusive: UK Health Secretary had secret affair with aide while COVID raged on

Almost everybody has a Woke Breaking Point. A point of Peak Woke. Or, at least, they should. There should always be a line that, once crossed, signifies to someone that the ostensibly good or noble thing they currently support has soured or, as the case may be, gone completely bad. We all know the history of the twentieth century (or, so I delude myself into believing). Certain features of the Woke ideology, even if only on its extreme fringe, show shocking potential for being a totalitarian nightmare unfolding before our eyes, especially because so many good and decent people so...

On Tuesday, Brooklyn Borough President and former police captain Eric Adams took the lead in the New York mayoral race with 32% of the Democratic primary vote, 10 points more than progressive Maya Wiley, who had the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. How did Adams beat the elite? Said The New York Times: Adams built "an old-school political coalition that united Black and Latino voters," and was "able to persuade working-class people, largely outside Manhattan, that he was the best candidate to make the city safe from crime." Adams' anti-crime and pro-cop campaign carried four of New York City's five...

Sit down and be quiet. School administrators, who are predominantly left-wing, will tell you when you're being disruptive. SCOTUS, on June 23rd, ruled 8-1 in favor of the plaintiff, Brandi Levy, in a case involving her suspension after badmouthing her school on social media. Her profanity-laced diatribe was posted on SnapChat. She wrote the message after she failed to make the Varsity Squad and was being kept on the Junior Varsity Squad. Her rant, "F**k school f**k softball f**k cheer f**k everything", accompanied a picture of herself, and a friend, showing the middle finger. (Note: she did not use asterisks.)...

Clover Health under DOJ, SEC investigation Chelsea Clinton is a board director at a health insurance company that has been accused of defrauding investors. Clover Health has been slapped with numerous investor lawsuits that claim the company and its leadership failed to disclose that it was under investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly offering illegal kickbacks to health care providers in exchange for patient referrals. Several of the lawsuits were consolidated in April into a class action case, which accused Clover Health and its CEO Vivek Garipalli of "employ[ing] devices, schemes, and artifices to defraud" investors. Clinton’s involvement...

Beloved, do your part today as Christ's solider for America in these last days without compromising our TRUE ETERNAL calling to outlive and proclaim the ETERNAL Gospel of Jesus Christ (Gal. 2:20; Eph. 6:10-20). Pray for Almighty God's saving grace for Americans, pray for revival and a coming back to Almighty God in RIGHTEOUSNESS, pray for healing, pray for Israel and Almighty God's providential hand on our nation for good, but ALWAYS be looking for the Blessed Hope and Rapture of our RIGHTEOUS Savior (1 Cor. 2:2, Gal. 2:20, 2 Tim. 2:1-4)! Maranatha! For that indeed my beloved is our...

Dear friends, it is my personal opinion based on years of prophetic bible study that the Rapture of the Church (John 14:3, 1 Cor. 15:50-57, 1 Thes. 4:13-18, John 3:1-4, Rev. 3:10), the appearing of the Two Lamp Stands of Almighty God in Jerusalem (Rev. 11:3-7) and the covenant with many (abundance) by the prince against Israel (Dan. 9:27) will ALL simultaneously take place together! Some very fine Biblical scholars hold the position that there is a gap of time after the Rapture and between the covenant of Daniel 9:27, but I do not and this is why for this...

An opinion replete with Trump Derangement Syndrome. In an opinion replete with Trump Derangement Syndrome, a panel of five justices of the 19-member Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, First Department, have ordered the immediate suspension of Rudolph W. Giuliani from the practice of law, pending a disciplinary hearing where the former mayor of New York City will face disbarment. The order was handed down June 24. It claimed that the former mayor made false statements about various voting irregularities -- including phony absentee ballots, and voting by non-citizens and felons, and underage voters and deceased voters,...

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One person was killed and 24 people were wounded in shootings in Chicago Wednesday, including two attacks that wounded eight people in Austin and Englewood around the same time. In Austin, a woman and three men were shot around 9:30 p.m. as they stood outside in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street. Two people emerged from a gangway and fired, police said. A 19-year-old woman was struck in the chest and a 37-year-old man was struck in the leg. They were both brought to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition. A 29-year-old man was struck in the face and...

Make a Wish Foundation: Sorry, critically ill children who aren't fully vaccinated, no wishes for you. Oh, and that includes the rest of your family. Aren't eligible for the vaccine? Tough luck. Have a good day.

Saddest of all is that multi-millions of Americans revealed that they are sheep at heart and will comply with whatever nonsense the Biden administration demands. After fifteen months of medical and media propaganda, every family in the nation has a sense of either trust and confidence in the government’s information on the subject of COVID or, among those who are naturally suspicious of government dictates, a thorough distrust of what the government and media spew 24/7. The do’s and don’ts of COVID, like politics, have proven destructive to family and friendships. To quarantine or not. To mask or not. To...

There is no question that total federal control of healthcare is the target. A recent Wall Street Journal headline read, “Democrats lower their sights on healthcare changes.” That’s inaccurate. Democrats have not lowered their sights. The target is the same: single payer, federal healthcare. Rather, they changed their weapon of choice, from their highly publicized, overt and obvious takeover plan, H.R. 1384, named Medicare-for-All, to a covert, piece-meal strategy called “public option.” Aiming at same target, but with silenced scatter gun rather than howitzer. There is no question that total federal control of healthcare is the target. Every “fix” of...

I remember what it felt like the first time I had my sense of newly built security ripped from me. I had just turned 19. I was so young. I was just a kid. Like most young people, I never thought that it could happen to me. At the time I was in the military, living off base in Missouri with a female roommate. After about a week of noticing things were “off” in the house (the back door would be unlocked, then open physically, etc.) I brought it up at work. Some of my co-workers said I was working...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Retired police officers hired by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are being paid $3,200 a month to investigate “potential irregularities and/or illegalities" in the 2020 presidential election, contracts obtained by The Associated Press show. The investigators will be paid $9,600 each over three months to conduct the probe, according to the documents provided Thursday to the AP by the Assembly chief clerk's office under the open records law. Vos signed two contracts in recent days and has said he intends to hire a third investigator and an attorney to oversee the probe. Vos last month...

For decades, going back at least as far as the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that concocted a constitutional right to abortion, conservatives have placed a great emphasis on winning back culture war ground through judicial nominations. As a consequence of that, Republicans have consistently told political pollsters that the Supreme Court is their top voting issue at a far higher clip than Democrats have. The Court, for instance, was certainly the decisive issue in the hotly contested 2016 presidential election. As the current Court term winds down -- one featuring a putative 6-3 "conservative" majority, including three new nominees...