Would you believe that Tom Coburn (Repugnant, Oklahoma) has introduced a bill to end funding for political science research? He even suggests that people should just watch Fox News or CNN instead, as if those are examples of objective, empirical research.
Well, heck, if that's the way it works, let's just get rid of the NIH and NSF altogether, and instead tell people to watch those nifty keen 'science' programs about UFOs and Bigfoot on the History Channel. That's what the scientists sucking on the public teat do all day anyway, right?
Oops. I hope I didn't give him any ideas.
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Sweet jebus. Peggy Noonan is insane.
Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could.
Over at DailyKos, Darksyde comments on the motivations of the Kansas creationists (italics mine):
Yesterday I did 5.5 more man-hours of metal detecting at the "Hall of Odin" site in Västmanland with Per Vikstrand. No prehistoric finds: just a piece of a 15/16/17th century brass cooking pot.