| Opponents vow to re-light debate on smoking ban
Bill Black, R-Danville, who filed one of the exemption bills. He and others argue the ban is an enforcement nightmare for businesses, and is merely angering many of the patrons and employees it was meant to protect. ''I still don't think we've seen all the fallout from this.''But legislative proponents of the ban _ which passed the General Assembly by a comfortable margin last year _ say they aren't about to re-think it already.''It's Feb. 8. It went into effect Jan. 1. Give it a chance,'' said a clearly frustrated Sen. Terry Link, D-Lake Bluff, one of the creators of the smoking ban. ''We've only gone 30-some days. I'm not willing to talk about any exemptions until we give it a chance.''The casino industry claims the ban already has caused a 17-percent statewide drop in gaming business this year _ prompting, they claim, 30 layoffs at Harrah's Metropolis riverboat casino last week.
Kucinich Postpones Bush Impeachment Effort
You know who's been in more impeachment hearings than anybody in the House or Senate? Rob Kall: You? John Conyers: Right. Rob Kall: And you wrote a book on impeaching Bush, too. John Conyers: A couple, yes. Well there must be some compelling reason that I'm not doing it right now. Rob Kall: Pelosi, Pelosi keeps coming to mind. John Conyers: How could she stop, well, she could stop me because actually it goes through a special committee on the House, but, Pelosi can't stop me from anything, really. Rob Kall: Really? John Conyers: Yeah. Rob Kall: So it's you stopping you, nobody else? John Conyers: Well I don't know whose ever stopped me before, I don't know why Pelosi's going to stop me now.
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Public Intellectuals, Inc.
In the end, these newly minted corporate intellectuals have the potential not only to alter the meaning and nature of the American intellectual, but also to capture, as Emerson says, the world's eye and the world's heart. Hopefully, this is something that they will be able to do without seriously jeopardizing the pursuit of knowledge. .
If The Fashion Industry Doesn't Get Special Copyrights, The Terrorists ...
Having seen the Senate create a special patent exemption for banks, it should come as no surprise that plenty of other industries are looking for special intellectual property treatment as well. Take, for example, the fashion industry. Years back, we noted that the fashion industry was a near perfect example of a creative industry that thrived despite no copyright protection on clothing designs. It showed what a myth it was that creation and innovation would stop in the absence of copyright law. In fact, studies began to show that it was that exact lack of copyright that drove the industry to be so innovative. That was for two reasons. First, designers had to constantly be innovating. An old design is an old design and they couldn't rest on their laurels, but had to keep creating newer and better designs.
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