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"Google was one of the three largest bundlers of contributions to President Obama. The year after the America Invents Act was passed, Google contributions were almost $1 million. Google spent $18 million on lobbyists. What did Google get for its money? A new, weaker patent system that allows challenges to patents outside of court, without a jury, without presumption of validity, using a low standard of proof. Google and friends killed the presumption that makes patents valuable. The expectations of patent owners that their rights would be enforceable against infringers.... "As the U.S. weakens its patent system, other countries are...

You mean this whole Trump for President thing isn't a joke? Whoa. One day last week a New York City tabloid published a cover illustration of The Donald in clownface. The joke turned out to be on those editors, though, because the next day CNN reported that Trump was tied for first place when Republicans nationwide were polled about whom they support for the 2012 presidential nomination, right up there alongside Mike Huckabee. In a separate NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Mitt Romney was only two points ahead of Trump and Huckabee, with other contenders trailing. Surely those pollsters failed to...

Notwithstanding former President Jimmy Carter's recent statement to the contrary, Undersecretary of State John Bolton's remarks about Cuba's biological weapons capabilities underscore lingering concerns with the rogue island only 90 miles from the United States. Bolton, on May 6, told an audience at the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation that the U.S. is suspicious about Cuban biomedical laboratories and their ability to transfer biological weapons technology to Iraq, Syria and Libya, all countries that Cuban President Fidel Castro visited last year. Bolton also made remarks, which may be interpreted as a clear signal of hardening State Department policy toward Cuba, faulting...