National Science Foundation

Nick Kangadis | December 21, 2023
In space — it’s a satellite! It’s a rocket! No! It’s…a Christmas tree? “It’s beginning to look a lot like cosmos!” Those were the words from NASA…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 8, 2022
In a move akin to the old Soviet Empire meeting Monty Python absurdity, the federal government has launched $2.1 million in taxpayer money to “root…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 27, 2018
President Trump and the GOP majority in the House and Senate just joined their leftist colleagues to insult our intelligence, assault the…
Brittany M. Hughes | June 21, 2017
Do you like cooking? Do you like science? Are you an American taxpayer who doesn’t give a flying flip where your tax dollars go? If you answered…
Brittany M. Hughes | May 15, 2017
I genuinely, with all my heart wish I were kidding about this. But I'm not. Taxpayers – i.e., you and I, assuming you also have a steady job…
Brittany M. Hughes | March 15, 2017
Long gone are the days of The Oregon Trail, the awesomely glitchy computer game sixth-graders used to enjoy by the light of their 1992 Macintosh…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 24, 2017
The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution states that the role of the federal government is to “form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 9, 2016
It’s gift-giving time, that time when people of various religious faiths think about buying something entertaining, meaningful or both for their…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 8, 2016
The government has to work very hard to protect us from ourselves, and one of the most important areas where we troglodytes just don’t get it is the…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 6, 2016
The National Science Foundation forked over more than half a million in taxpayer dollars to the University of Connecticut to get "neurodiverse" …
Brittany M. Hughes | October 24, 2016
According to the National Science Foundation, an analysis of how global warming and rising sea temperatures affects tiny oceanic organisms showed…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 9, 2016
Ever wonder what it’d cost to study how people tweet after terrorist attacks? Neither did any other sane person on the planet. But the federal…