Why do we keep electing politicians who make promises that cannot be kept?

You can fool all of the people some of the time... and Obama's time of fooling is just about up.

...do anything else useful anymore?

A little light-hearted fuse-lighting.

Government regulations for drug-testing have caused a great deal of harm.

Congress needlessly redoing what's already been done, at great expense and to no good effect.

Why would we think that hiring more bureaucrats will lead to better regulation?

Reparations for the slave trade aren't as difficult as we think.

Scientists chasing government funding leads to bogus science.

As antibiotics fail and resistant infections spread, FDA red tape prevents us from using another antibacterial weapon - phages.