Over the past few years, it seems as if every other broadcast of the Diane Rehm Show or NPR’s Talk of the Nation has featured governors talking about how broke they are, and how their state budgets are barely hanging on, etc.

Then where is the dough for this stem-cell research coming from?

Yeah. Don’t whine to me about having to cut Medicare. Get all the kids antibiotics for their ear infections before you hand out money to the research labs (which are, of course, not lacking for funds, to tell the truth), and then we can talk.