The National Endowment for the Humanities has more lives than my pet cat, Snowball.  Republicans have been trying to get rid of the federal funding agency for decades, and yet, here it is, wasting taxpayer money on totally frivolous and useless projects. How about giving $50K to a goofball "philosopher" to convince us that believing in God is irrational and "odd"?  Or that liberals can be "brainwashed" by watching Fox News? Washington Free Beacon: "How can human beings, seemingly the smartest animals ever encountered, be so freaking dumb?" Mandelbaum muses on his "about me" page of his website, which he calls, "Thoughts about thoughts." "We seem to acquire beliefs with the ease with which we catch colds, yet we also seem to learn nothing," he says. Mandelbaum coauthored a paper in 2015, entitled, "Believing without Reason, or: Why Liberals Shouldn't Watch Fox News." In...(Read Full Post)