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AROUND THE WEB | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21PublicEye.org The Battle for the Mainline Churches“Make no mistake,” wrote Avery Post, the national president of the United Church of Christ in 1982, "the objectives of the Institute on Religion and Democracy are the exact opposite of what its name appears to stand for. The purpose of its leaders is to demoralize the mainline denominations and to turn them away from the pursuit of social and economic justice. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Rolling Stone The Dark Side of Texas: Corpus Christi's Koch IndustriesBobi Miller needs only to open the door of her home in Corpus Christi, Texas, to see the effects of toxic waste from the Koch West oil refinery. Miller's back yard and car is covered in a thick black sludge, and across the street is the school where she used to teach before a lawsuit revealed that the Koch refinery had released ninety tons of benzene, a highly toxic chemical. Miller and other teachers were often forced to implement a safety procedure called "shelter in place," keeping students inside with the air conditioner off on days when Koch was pumping waste into the air. Today the school's playground is completely deserted: The company bought the property, and children no longer play in the yard. Also see: 2000 97-count indictment against Koch Industries Center for Public Integrity: Koch's Low Profile Belies Political Power [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times In Romney’s Bid, His Wallet Opens to the RightThe first of Mr. Romney’s recent wave of donations to conservative groups was $25,000 to the Heritage Foundation at the end of 2005. The foundation analysts worked with him on a health care plan and later praised it, as did some other conservative groups. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mother Jones Hail MaryChastity fashion, paintball theology, golf-course mansions, and a Vatican-approved college: Domino's pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan builds a city on a swamp.Tom Monaghan -- who founded Domino's Pizza in 1965, then sold it 33 years later, for $1 billion -- has given generously to antiabortion groups and has recently made headlines with his pledge to help bankroll the long-shot presidential campaign of Sam Brownback... is [now] spending $400 million to construct his dream—a sort of right-wing Notre Dame University designed for 6,000 students that will, this fall, become the permanent home of all Ave Maria undergrads. (The law school may relocate there, too, but not before 2009.) Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action New Video Exposes the IRDFor a long time I've noticed the destructive work of the IRD...[now I've created] Renewal or Ruin? The Institute on Religion and Democracy's Attack on the United Methodist Church, a twenty-five minute video created for a Sunday school or adult education class session near you. A trailer for this program can be seen here. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NRO NonsenseThe Mind of Mr. D’Souza...it is the singular achievement of D’Souza that his bizarre writ has for a moment earned universal condemnation from those who can agree on little else. But that rare consensus represents not a “closing of the conservative mind” so much as it reflects the moral vileness of much of what D’Souza writes. And pathetically, the more frequently conservative magazines, media, and institutions offer D’Souza a megaphone, the more apt he is to play the wounded fawn. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Dozens in GOP Turn Against Bush's Prized 'No Child' ActMore than 50 GOP members of the House and Senate -- including the House's second-ranking Republican -- will introduce legislation today that could severely undercut President Bush's signature domestic achievement, the No Child Left Behind Act, by allowing states to opt out of its testing mandates. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times G.O.P. Candidates Criticize Slur by Conservative AuthorMcCain, Giuliani and Romney distance themselves from Coulter's comments calling John Edwards a "Faggot"Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party’s best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Wash. Post reported "think tank's" charge against Gore, omitted its anti-environmental backgroundIn a March 1 Washington Post article, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) was referred to as "a Nashville-based think tank that advocates 'limited government through policy solutions,' according to its Web site." But the TCPR's agenda apparently goes beyond limiting the size of government. Like other recent reports on the TCPR's attacks on former Vice President Al Gore's purported home energy use, the Post article did not note that TCPR has reportedly joined the "Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change," which claims to have "been established as a response to the many biased and alarmist claims about human-induced climate change, which are being used to justify calls for urgent action by governments." [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Government by Law, Not FaithThe Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case that could have a broad impact on whether the courthouse door remains open to ordinary Americans who believe that the government is undermining the separation of church and state. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
A Tiny Revolution The Significance Of Frank Gaffney...This brings us to Frank Gaffney, third-string neocon and founder of the Center for Security Policy. In a healthy country, Gaffney would spend his days arguing with his enormous collection of Star Wars action figures. Here in America, we constantly put him on TV as as "expert" on foreign policy and give him an organization with a $2 million budget. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Editor & Publisher Gaffney Fakes Out Lincoln -- AgainThe Washington Times columnist who featured a bogus Abraham Lincoln quote last week returns today -- and advocates harsh punishment for critics of the Iraq war who are giving "aid and comfort to the enemy." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com Debate with Frank GaffneyNeoconservatism has been exposed as the rotted and bloodthirsty ideology, but the movement is far from deadFor those who were unable to listen, C&L has now posted the full audio podcast of the debate I had last night on the Alan Colmes Show with Frank Gaffney, one of the most extremist, pernicious and influential neoconservatives in our country. The debate covered many topics, including the (now-removed) vile Op-Ed he wrote on Wednesday, which relied upon a fabricated quote from Abraham Lincoln, equated opposition to the Leader and the war with treason, and called for Senators such as Carl Levin to be hanged as traitors. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times As Clinton Runs, Some Old Foes Stay on SidelineBack when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Center of American Experiment and Mpls Councilman stealthily trying to kill public educationSamuels fans flames of public school bonfireDon Samuels has apologized for his words, but not his views. And he isn't likely to. For the Fifth Ward City Council member from Minneapolis who suggested burning down North High School is not just one man with an opinion. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action The School Voucher Drum Beats OnSchool voucher programs usher in a mind-boggling practical achievement. They take the answer that is public education and scramble it into 3 new problems: forcing the state to improperly promote religion by funding religious schools with taxpayer money, draining the public school system of much-needed resources, and bridling the religious freedom of church institutions with the inevitable strings of government funding. They're bad for the state, bad for children's education, and bad for the church. And yet... Also see: PFAW: Richard DeVos helped fund Utah voucher campaign [ link ] Read the story >
ThinkProgress.org AEI: The Root of Bush’s Right-Wing IdeologyToday [ 2/15/7], President Bush delivered a speech on Afghanistan at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. AEI and the Bush administration are deeply entwined, something Bush admitted during his speech. “I admire AEI a lot,” Bush said. “After all, I have been consistently borrowing some of your best people. More than 20 AEI scholars have worked in my administration.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Tapped False notes from Giuliani's House OrganDuring Rudy Giuliani's tenure as mayor of New York City, the conservative periodical City Journal, associated with the Manhattan Institute, functioned as a sort of house organ. They justified Giuliani's policies with a neoconservative critique of the welfare state and urban underclass social norms, while helping to churn out the policy ideas he implemented... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Mpls City Councilman said 72 percent of Blacks in city don't graduate High School; In fact, 72 percent DO graduate[Councilman] Samuels says 72 percent of African-American boys in the Minneapolis schools are failing...Nope. Not true. Not even close Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Bush's Religious Right Swat Team Takes Aim at MethodistsThe IRD is attacking the Methodist Bishops and clergy who oppose siting the Bush administration's at the university owned by their church -- the same church the IRD has been seeking to dismember, in part because it gets in the way of the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies. Those are the same policies that he and his wealthy-but-secret domestic and foreign patrons will continue to promote from the Bush complex. Methodist opponents of the Bush complex see it as a Trojan horse and an occupational force at odds with the academic mission of the school and at odds with the religious and public policy views of the church. Clearly, the IRD sees it that way as well. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
ThinkProgress.org AEI Letter Offers $10,000 Payments Only For Views Critical Of The IPCC ReportOn Friday, The Guardian reported that the American Enterprise Institute — which has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil -- was offering to pay global warming skeptics to speak out in an effort to push back on the new IPCC climate change study. The IPCC report states that it is “very likely” that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause of the Earth’s recent warming trend. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Supreme Court Taking It on FaithLater this month, on February 28, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on its first "faith" case in front of the new bench that includes President Bush’s two appointees -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito. The case, known as Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), is a challenge to Bush’s faith-based funding program. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
GCN.com Robert L. Woodson Sr. named to Homeland Security Advisory CouncilFormer FBI Director Louis Freeh and Robert L. Woodson Sr. have been appointed by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff as new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Guardian (GB) Scientists offered cash to dispute climate studyScientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Trib (news column) Minneapolis Councilman whose wife works for BAEO calls for public High School to be burned downSo, North High has troubles? Let's torch itBurn it. Also see: David Brauer: [Don Samuels] The Great Black Hope [ link ] Read the story >
Seeing the Forest Oil Price Manipulation?Koch Supply and Trading get contract to supply oil to the Strategic Petroleum ReserveDavid H Koch is one of the prime funders of the whole right-wing movement. ... Koch played a role in founding the Cato Institute, which pumps out anti-government Libertarian propaganda. The Koch family had given Cato $21 million as of 1999. He was also involved in founding Citizens for a Sound Economy [now Freedomworks], another anti-government propaganda outlet. Contributions, again as of 1999, totaled $10 million. Koch also is a major funder of the Reason Foundation, yet another outlet for right-wing anti-government propaganda. Also see: Aggregated grants from Koch Foundations [ link ] Read the story >
The Rake The One-Woman SolutionInside Katherine Kersten’s Red Star crusadeWhen the tinny tinkle of “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come” begins playing on the cell phone, everyone in range in the Star Tribune newsroom knows who’s getting a call. It is Katherine Kersten, the paper’s unapologetically religious and fiercely conservative metro columnist. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Kristolizing the (Neoconservative) MomentJoin me, dear reader, in yet another inquiry into the role in American political life of William KristolBill Kristol is an extremely smart fellow with good manners and a likable demeanor. Because he is so smart, it's all but impossible to believe that he believes many of the things he says and writes. But if one looks for a consistent pattern to Kristol's perpetual wrongness, it's not hard to discern. For Kristol is less interested in being correct than in advancing his side's interests. He's not a journalist; he's an apparatchik working undercover as a man of the press. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Happening Here (blog) Structural barriers are Republicans' last best hopeTamar Lewin reported in the New York Times Friday on the results of Ward Connerly's crusade to end affirmative action. Connerly has killed affirmative action by initiative votes in California (1996), Washington (1998) and Michigan (2006). He aims to spread his poison to 10 more states in 2008. Also see: NY Times: Colleges Regroup After Voters Ban Race Preferences [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Why Books Are Like Bin Laden and HitlerDemonizing 'secularism'Rabbi Daniel Lapin, long a figure on the religious right, has a warning for his conservative Christian friends: books now on the shelves in the nation's book stores threaten them like Osama Bin Laden and Adolph Hitler. At least a little. Or maybe a lot. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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