This week’s egregious earmark, from Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), is $200,000 to the Aviation Museum in Warner Robbins, Ga.

“I think most taxpayers wish this earmark would crash and burn ,” said Flake.

(Suggested alternative: “This earmark just isn’t Wright. In fact, it’s just plane wrong.”)While we’re at it, I’d like to draw attention to the $231,000 earmark in a House appropriations bill for the University of Notre Dame (my Alma Mater). It’s a grant from the Small Business Administration for the university to do some community outreach work. A good cause, I suppose, but Notre Dame is an enormous and wealthy institution. It can charge over $30,000 per year thanks to government price supports ( i.e. the federal student loan program). It has a 23.9 karat Golden Dome and a multi-billion dollar endowment. So does Notre Dame really need welfare from the lowly taxpayers to reach out to its surrounding community?