Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Coburn does the right thing for once
I've spewed considerable hatred toward Coburn. His 'pork-busting' is a distraction trick, meant to focus voter outrage on small "silly" research projects so the gov't can spend trillions on pointless wars. Many of the projects he kills are agricultural research that would bring commercial benefits to Oklahoma farmers, so he's violating his own proper duties. See Parkinson.
Now, just this once, Coburn's stopped clock has accidentally struck the right hour!
NSF’s decision removes one of the main financial lifelines for political-science research. “This is somewhere between devastating and crippling,” says Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University. .... The requirements for NSF political-science spending came during eleventh-hour negotiations for the 2013 omnibus spending bill. Some of the law’s language, proposed by Senator Tom Coburn, prevents the NSF from “wasting federal resources on political science projects..."Devastating and crippling". Good, by fucking god. Political "science" is not any sort of science; it's just sadistic murderous propaganda for fashionable Marxism. Identical to history and journalism, except history and journalism don't pretend to be "science". If rich Commie assholes want to support it with endowments or private bribes, fine. It shouldn't be helped by tax money. ¶ 4:41 AM
