This will require that Congress focus on priorities, cut wasteful spending, and be wise with the people's money.

CNN: Transcript of State of the Union

The agency should rethink its burden calculus and reassess its plan with an eye toward achieving the ultimate goal of reducing wasteful litigation that will ultimately be destructive to the patent system.

FORBES: New Patent Regs May Inspire More Litigation, Not Less

Sprawl may have its flaws, but pushing these extra people into European cites, with their mesh of residential blocks, contiguous shops and public transport, would probably be more wasteful and even (given Americans' preferences) socially explosive.

ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl