"The Bush administration is clearly moving toward putting weapons in outer space. It has spent about $500 million a year in research on those potential weapons in the past few years, according to the Center for Defense Information, although often burying it in categories that make hard accounting extremely difficult."

Only if you count anti-missile systems -- totally ground and sea-based -- as 'space weapons' -- but then DON'T count Russian anti-missile systems as 'space weapons'. What a moroness.

We have spent a lot more than $500M/year on anti-missile systems. Where ever she gets her figure from, it is not that program.