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"What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?" Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to The Baltimore Sun.

Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned, amid a probe into a plot by the agency to target conservative groups.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee that the criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS will be nationwide.

This is perhaps the most inflammatory way to describe the current initiatives by governments all over the world to limit our online freedom, but that is what makes it the most appropriate.

The National Science Foundation today rebuffed a request from the chairman of the House of Representatives science committee to obtain reviewer comments on five social science research projects it is funding.

Rep. Mike Rogers , the head of the House Intelligence Committee and a Republican looking into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, said more "whistleblowers" have volunteered to supply information that could be valuable to a GOP-led investigation.

The National Science Foundation needs one more week to reply to a controversial request from the chairman of the House of Representatives science committee to explain why five social sciences grants were approved.

Questioning the security of the border, a go-to tactic for the forces seeking to derail immigration reform, has lost some of its punch.

Three former Directors of the National Science Foundation and three former Chairmen of the National Science Board have written to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee asking them to "forego any further action on the process envisioned in this draft legislation and the request contained in the April 25 ... (more)

So the House convened yet another hearing on Thursday, this time with some of the smartest space people in the country, to check in and see if they've found us a new planet to live on - preferably with water, oxygen, moderate temperatures, and giraffes.

Instead of legislating, lawmakers frequently turn to partisan bickering, driving themselves into impassible stalemate.

A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers wants the United States to have a Science Laureate.

The new push by the House of Representatives science committee to change the grant-making process at the National Science Foundation flows from members' unhappiness over a handful of grants awarded in the social sciences.

Proposed changes to an abstruse electronic employment-verification system known as E-Verify have triggered dissent among an unusual cadre of privacy activists, human rights organizations and enforcement buffs.

If nothing else, recent events should remind us that we are a country at war, that radical Islamic jihadists are evil, and that America has a moral and security responsibility to lead the fight to defeat them.

If anyone can convince me that today's GOP does not hate America, now would be the time to do it.

How different would the immigration debate look today had Barbara Jordan lived? It's a question frequently pondered by those of us who believe the answer to every problem concerning immigration isn't necessarily more immigration.

Dr. Andrew Zwicker of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presented a TEDx talk on the subject of "Future Utopias" this past March in which he envisioned a future powered by green energy.

Congressman Lamar Smith - Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - has introduced a bill that would give Smith's committee and its Senate counterpart the power to control what science is funded, and force researchers to compete for grants on a political rather than scientific basis.

Buried in the pile of colorful junk mail advertising realtors and cheap toilet paper lies an object of dread: a summons to jury duty.