Daily Archives: May 25, 2014


The appeals court for the federal circuit has been completely devoid of all logic for years, and probably should be disbanded

The appeals court for the federal circuit has been completely devoid of all logic for years, and probably should be disbanded

This is the same court that recently overruled a lower court, saying that Oracle could claim copyright on the names of its application programming interfaces in their case against Google. ?

Summary: The appeals court responsible for America’s troubled patent system already has a poor reputation. News that its top judge is endorsing lawyers won’t improve that. The controversy suggests it’s time to close the court.


Just as in business, you cannot cut your way to sustained success

Just as in business, you cannot cut your way to sustained success

A two-decade experiment in shrinking tax revenues and government has been an abject failure for Michigan. We have some of the worst infrastructure in the country, our schools are getting worse despite a huge movement toward charter schools, the only new businesses coming into the state are those attracted by the existing auto industry, not the lower taxes. 

The school situation is amongst the most dire. Despite conservatives touting charters which are frequently run by for profit companies like National Heritage Academies, the students of those schools are doing no better on the standardized tests those same conservatives love so much. 

Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The conservative shrinking government plan has not worked here or anywhere else. It's time to move on to something else. ?

“The greatest crisis Michigan faces today is one of vision.” – Doug Drake, former head of revenue/tax analysis at the Michigan Treasury.