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• in Technology
  How a VPN Can Stop SOPA
  Although SOPA has been killed, Internet censorship and piracy as still big issues. Here's a way to ensure that you'll be able to surf the web just like before.
  by allisonmidorireilly / on Jan 26, 2012
• in Politics
  House, Senate Postpone SOPA, PIPA Legislation
  After a day of Internet-wide protest, support for SOPA and PIPA continues to waver, as House and Senate leaders pull out.
  by dopodomani / on Jan 20, 2012
• in Politics
  Lamar Smith: Blackout a Publicity Stunt, SOPA Markup Will Continue
  Lamar Smith says today's SOPA protest is a publicity stunt, using fear to spread misinformation
  by cblaha / on Jan 19, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lamar smith”

 

• Lofgren bill would create U.S. Science Laureate

  
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  The nation would have an official Science Laureate – a renowned expert in a scientific field who would travel the nation to inspire future scientists – under new legislation coauthored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren. The idea of the bipartisan legislation, cosponsored in the House by Science, Space and Technology Committee ...
  1 week ago

• Lysenkoism, or Thought Control

  
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  Trofim LysenkoLysenkoism was the name given to centralized political control over the sciences of genetics and agronomy in the old Soviet Union from the late 1920s to 1964. Named after Trofim Lysenko, a minister of agriculture under Lenin and Stalin, the term "Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the ...
  1 week ago

• Week in Review, or Politicizing Science

  
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  In betwixt ongoing budget battles, and even during recess break, research continued to get politicized this week with House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith again vocal in his bid to overhaul the peer review process at NSF. On Monday, Chairman Smith released the text of the draft bill — the High Quality ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lamar Smith’s dreadful plan to religion up your science.

  
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  Let’s all let Sarah Palin decide what is scientifically valid and what is not, shall we? Sound like a bad idea to you? Well, it sounds like a grand idea to House of Representatives Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas. According to Science Insider, the Texas Rep has drafted a bill requiring all National ...
  2 weeks ago

• US House Science Committee Attacking Science, Again…

  
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  This has been a rough week for me on the funding front, getting two NSF grant proposals turned down.  I expected it at some level, since the odds have gotten so bad (about 10-12% in astronomy, last time I saw hard numbers).  So you have to have a great proposal, or at least one that is uniformly viewed as great.  I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Look out, Lamar

  
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  There’s big money coming after you . The anti-incumbent super-PAC Campaign for Primary Accountability is coming back for 2014 after shutting down last election cycle — and it’s already making a wish list of targets, including Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas). 

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  3 weeks ago

• Republicans want to be able to dictate what federally funded scientists can research

  
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  National Science Foundation Republicans finally are doing something about the increasing conflict between science and their own political ideologies and beliefs. Theyre trying to stop such science from happening. As explained by Jeffrey Mervis of Science Magazine : The new chair of the House of Representatives ...
  3 weeks ago

• Week in Review, or Picking on Peer Review

  
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  As the impacts of sequestration continue to emerge, mounting airport delays due to the across-the-board spending cuts spurred Congress into action last week. The Senate and House both passed bills ( S.853/ H.R. 1765 ) which would give the Department of Transportation additional flexibility to move funding between ...
  3 weeks ago

• GOV’T OUTRAGE: Immigration Bill Gives New Legals $3,000 Hiring Edge over Americans, Legalizes Relatives and Previously Deported… More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job And Now They Want To Legalize 50 Million Foreigners?

  
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  Under the immigration reform bill, some employers would have an incentive of up to $3,000 per year to hire a newly legalized immigrant over a U.S. citizen. In avoiding one controversy — the cost of providing millions of newly legalized immigrants with ObamaCare subsidies — the Senate “Gang of Eight” may have ...
  4 weeks ago

• GOP Rep: Immigration Bill Even Worse Than Expected

  
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  The Gang of 8′s immigration reform bill might not be as long as expected, but according to one Republican representative, it is worse than expected. And no, he wasn’t talking about the MarcoPhones . Ugh. If I were advising Senator Rubio I would tell him to come out and immediately disavow this rotten legislation ...
  4 weeks ago

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