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In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) informed federal agencies spending more than $100 million on research to develop strategies to make published results of federal funded research publicly available. OSTP stipulated that results must be freely available within one year of publication. Legislation to ensure access to research findings was …

Publishers Respond in CHORUS to White House Open Access MandateRead More »

Ever see the movie ‘Enemy of the State’? It was actually ahead of its time (made in 1998) with all that we have learned about what the government has been doing. This is mind boggling: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, …

US Government Mining Data From 9 Different Internet CompaniesRead More »

On the right today, there are many talented minds working to roll back government, fight for liberty, enact conservative policies, and preserve the cultural legacy of Western civilization for our children’s children. Most of their audience are regular people, like you and me, who derive satisfaction from reading fine well-argued ideas There are the partisans …

Time For Conservatives To Purge The CraziesRead More »

Grassroots groups behind the effort to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Colorado are speaking out against the extra scrutiny they received from the Internal Revenue Service as well. The Daily Caller reports: Mason Tvert, […] the director of SAFER (which stands for Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation), said it took more than a year for the …

IRS Also Targeted Colorado’s Marijuana Legalization GroupsRead More »

Chris Christie is what one might call, “the flavor of the month.” He’s a very popular Republican Governor in the deep blue state of New Jersey. Democrats, liberals, and the media who all loathed the guy just 18 months ago, (the media was calling him a “bully” as late as July of 2012) are all …

5 Reasons Chris Christie Will Not Be The GOP Nominee In 2016Read More »

The Syrian Civil War, which has already become an international conflict, threatens to plunge Lebanon possibly back into civil war as well. Lebanon is already home to over 400,000 Syrian refugees and this is already causing problems. This refugee wave poses two huge problems. The first is that it’s enormously expensive for Lebanon to shelter, …

Syrian Civil War Threatens To Engulf LebanonRead More »

According to the Syrian rebels and the Arab and Israeli media, North Korean advisors are now aiding the military forces of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. However, reports regarding North Korean officers in the field are relatively rare. In an interview to Asharq Al-Awsat, director of a Syrian human rights center, Rami Abed A-Rachman, said that …

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Big news from the Supreme Court today that is sure to be controversial: The Supreme Court has ruled criminal suspects can be subjected to a police DNA test after arrest — before trial and conviction — a privacy-versus-public-safety dispute that could have wide-reaching implications in the rapidly evolving technology surrounding criminal procedure.   At issue …

Supreme Court Allows DNA Swabs After ArrestRead More »

New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg died this morning from viral pneumonia. Lautenberg had struggled with health issues earlier this year, missing more than six weeks in the Senate while in recovery. Earlier this year, Lautenberg announced that he would not seek reelection. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will fill the vacant Senate seat. Our condolences to Senator …

Senator Frank Lautenberg DeadRead More »