The Large Hadron Collider is shut down temporarily. Not so the drain on taxpayers.

One generation is enough.

Don't hold your breath.

Merely to exist is to have an open-ended right to claim goods and services paid for by other people's efforts?

Supply and demand works for pretty much everything.

A car dealer makes a mint from Obama's gaffes.

The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.

If you aren't quite sure just what you want, they can't really help.

Competition keeps the NBS functioning effectively just as competition would help the public schools.

Poor people often skimp on food so that they will have enough money for things they consider valuable.