Harpers Magazine ( June, 2011) reports in the "Harpers Index " column that in 2010 the federal government gave National Public Radio $2,700,000. It gave Liberty University $446,000,000 in the same year.
Why??
The federal government gives religiously sponsored universities money, usually for defense work of some sort.
Maybe I have missed something, but I have never thought of Liberty University as a research university that was strong in the sciences.
Most of us on Daily Kos are are not given to knee jerk reactions.
Maybe Jerry Falwell's Liberty University was doing vital defense research.
Maybe it found a way to bring end times selectively to Iran,, South Yemen, North Korea, and the most Taliban-infested parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Maybe there are other reasons that the conservative lurkers on Daily Kos can explain.
Lacking these explanations, my guess is that Right-wing, bible-thumping Congressmen were willing to pour all that money into Liberty at the same time that they want to slash Medicaid and Medicare.
Yes, I continue to insist that Medicaid is the main target of the current frenzy to take money away from needy people.
All that money poured into a sectarian, highly politicized school speaks volumes about Republican sincernty about cutting wasteful spending.