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What Justice KBJ just explained to her right-wing colleagues on SCOTUS should never have to be explained in the first place.

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Smart – what do we mean when we use this word? Do we even know? In schools, children use it to describe students that get the best grades. The ones who don’t have to try to do well. Because, you know, they’re smart! Is being smart just luck of the draw? The sum total of fixed limitations determined from birth. Is smart the byproduct of having two parents with PhD’s?

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This is Washington DC partisan political gridlock at it's worst. You would think that if the US Govt is already subsidizing the education of these students we'd want to keep them in this country and allow them to build companies that will employ tens, hundreds if not thousands of Americans.

The contraption sits in a basement lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a mishmash of hoses, wires, whirring pumps and a 12-foot-high plastic tower filled with steam and dripping water, all set on plastic milk crates.

It looks like a high school science project, but it was developed by two postdoctoral mechanical engineers at MIT. And it just might be a breakthrough that creates wealth and jobs in the United States and transforms the white-hot industry of oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

That is, as long as the foreign-born inventors aren’t forced to leave the country.

Leon Sandler, executive director of MIT’sDeshpande Center for Technical Innovation, said it costs about $250,000 to educate a single PhD student and the U.S. government pays for at least 80 percent of MIT’s graduate research.

“Essentially we are funding their research, spending a quarter-million dollars in taxpayer money; then we make it hard for these people to stay here,” said Sandler, whose group helps start-ups and provided nearly $150,000 to support Bajpayee and Narayan. “If you want more innovation in this country, fix the visa situation.”