From the great folks at Sen. Tom Coburn’s office:
Political scientists lobbying Congress for federal subsidies
The National Science Foundation spends about $8 million annually to support political science research
Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force attempts to predict individuals’ political affiliation based on Facebook profiles
Congress earmarks $3 million to a company owned by Goldman Sachs and two private equity funds
Congress raids the military’s maintenance budget to pay for $5 million earmark for digital scrapbooks
The Federal Aviation Administration has spent more than $270 million in federal stimulus grants on projects that scored poorly on the agency’s own national priority rating system
Department of Homeland Security steers nearly $1 million in federal funding, typically distributed to fire departments, to ACORN
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