Visiting the US recently I was heartened by the numbers of people I met who think that their

Visiting the US recently I was heartened by the numbers of people I met who think that their country is kind of broken. The Heartland Institute would seem to be one of the more broken bits, and it's really sad to see this kind of ongoing greed-driven stupidity.

"The Heartland Institute's secret fundraising document details the corporations that are supporting their varied activities.

"They include Allied World Assurance Company, AT&T, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Comcast, Eli Lilly, General Motors Foundation, John William Pope Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation, Microsoft, Murray Energy Corporation, Reynolds American, State Farm, Time Warner Cable, and USAA.

"If you deal with these corporations, you might ask them why they fund an organization engaged, in substantial part, in the unAmerican activity of dumbing down U.S. science education for political ends.