"Federal taxpayers have shelled out millions of dollars to pay for research that involves keeping monkeys in cages and intentionally frightening them with mechanical snakes and plastic spiders," wrote James Varney in a February article for The Washington Times.   "What a waste!" I remember thinking.  Only an out-of-control, money-printing, spendthrift government like ours could justify sixteen million dollars on scaring the bejesus out of little, helpless, imprisoned primates.  I had no idea they were just getting started. Having taken the monkey experiment to the big time, it now looks as if our intrepid local, state, and federal governments have managed to so frighten the American people that we've voluntarily locked ourselves up in our own cages, while our elected leaders burn what's left of the Bill of Rights on the other side of the bars.  Unlike our friends being tortured by the NIH, however, we...(Read Full Article)