The Republican Party is still pushing hard to defund National Public Radio, but last year the government gave more money to America’s craziest fundamentalist “college,” Liberty University — where the biology department teaches young earth creationism.

Liberty University, the evangelical private Christian school founded by dead apartheid-supporting bigot Jerry Falwell, received $445 million in federal financial aid last year. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, by the way, received $420 million from the federal government.

That massive sum was thanks to the growth of Liberty’s online program, which enrolled 52,000 students last year. The school is the No. 1 recipient of Pell grant money in the state of Virginia.

Nobody’s talking about defunding Liberty University, of course, even though it’s turning out indoctrinated politically active anti-science parrots by the thousands. Sometimes I think America is actually trying to sabotage itself.