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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 21San Francisco Chronicle Faith-based disasterThat the Federal Emergency Management Agency mismanaged the Hurricane Katrina relief effort is old news. But there's more to FEMA's failure than simple bungling. The Bush administration's core belief that faith-based organizations can do the job better than the government or experienced nonprofits has compounded the problem. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Social Security Legislation Could Be ShelvedNational Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas M. Reynolds will recommend to the House Republican leadership that the party drop its effort to restructure Social Security, at least for this year, House Republican aides confirmed yesterday. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Stossel: Price gouging ensures that scarce resources go only "to those who really need it"In his September 7 syndicated column, ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel defended price gougers, writing that by charging $20 for a bottle of water to a person whose baby needed it to live, "the price gouger makes sure his water goes to those who really need it." Stossel added: "It was the price gouger's 'exploitation' that saved your child." He justified this claim because price gougers -- people and companies that charge exorbitant prices for scarce and necessary resources (such as water or oil) -- "save lives" because they dependably provide those necessary goods or services to those who need them, motivated by their own self-interest to make money. Also see: Jesus' General: An Open Letter to John Stossel [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Who is Bob Williams, and why is he on TV talking about Hurricane Katrina?On September 6 and 7, numerous national media outlets featured G. Robert "Bob" Williams, president of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, falsely criticizing Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin -- both Democrats -- for their handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Center for Media and Democracy The Education Department's Paid Apple PolishersSource: USA Today, September 3, 2005An "angry op-ed" in the Dallas Morning News claimed the city's school system was "limiting the future and opportunities for our children" by not enacting policies mandated under the federal No Child Left Behind law more quickly. The author, Marcela Garcini, described herself as a "ninja parent," neglecting to disclose that the nonprofit organization she heads [Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options] had "received two unsolicited grants, totaling $900,000, from the U.S. Education Department." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Conservative Author Is Seeing Red in AmericaCindy Sheehan: anti-American communist?That was the accusation coming yesterday from the Heritage Foundation, which hosted author John J. Tierney Jr [of the Institute of World Politics]. for a forum titled "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?" Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Bill Gates Funding Intelligent Design CenterPoliticized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive..the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides $1 million a year to the Discovery Institute Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
CounterPunch.com Dirty TrickstersHow the Federalist Society and Young College Republicans OperateThere is a good reason why the White House is trying so hard to dissociate John Roberts from hisFederalist Society affiliation. The Federalist Society has its roots in the College Republicans and derives its membership from them. While I can't discuss the earlier history of the College Republicans with any authority, I do know this: the members now are enamored of dirty tricks. These people specialize in distraction, deception, and intimidation in order to advance their extremist agenda on the unwary. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Here's the PLAN...Despite the ugliest efforts of corporate America -- via a lobbying frontgroup, the American Legislative Exchange Council -- to warp the process from Augusta (Maine) to Sacremento (California) as thoroughly as it has in Washington, there are still openings for progressive policymaking at the state level. Those openings are the target of the new Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN), a coalition developed to provide reform-minded legislators with strategic and research support as they seek to address the pressing economic and social issues that are left untended in a time of corporate hegemony. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Los Angeles Times Legal Urban Legends Hold SwayTall tales of outrageous jury awards have helped bolster business-led campaigns to overhaul the civil justice systemMerv Grazinski set his Winnebago on cruise control, slid away from the wheel and went back to fix a cup of coffee. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Their War, TooAre mere pundits responsible when an administration’s policy goes wrong? When their sophistic arguments helped sell and sustain it, very....For its war in Iraq, the Bush administration relied on and benefited from the cheerleading of a group of pundits and public intellectuals who, at every crucial moment, subordinated the facts on the ground to their own ideological preferences and those of their allies within the administration.. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Special Report hosted author of debunked radiation study to discuss Yucca MountainIn an appearance on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Steven Milloy cited his study of radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building to argue that the health safety standards recently imposed on the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear waste repository are unduly stringent. But Milloy's findings -- that the radiation exposure at the Capitol is far higher than it would be at the Yucca Mountain facility under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limits -- were debunked shortly after he published them in 2001. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Minnesota think tank goes to collegeLiberal professors, gird for battle. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Inferior DesignIn late September, a contemporary Scopes trial gets under way in Pennsylvania. For the right, it’s been 39 years in the makingOn September 26, an event that the national media will surely depict as a new Scopes trial is scheduled to begin. Hearings will commence in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Dover, Pennsylvania, school district over its decision to introduce “Intelligent Design,” or ID, into its biology curriculum... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Council helps shape legislation in GeorgiaThe American Legislative Exchange Council, which ended its annual convention in Grapevine with a prayer breakfast Sunday, wields considerable influence in Georgia's newly Republican Legislature. And Georgia's stature within the organization has grown, too. State Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) became its national chairman this year, and the number of Georgia lawmakers who are members now tops 100. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org MRC's response to news of Peter Jennings's death? Promote its political agenda...when it comes to exploiting death, MRC set a new standard...On August 7, longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer. The MRC acted quickly to put together a response. Words of condolence to his family? An acknowledgment of a distinguished career? Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Dobson likened embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experimentsOn the August 3 broadcast of the Focus on the Family radio show -- devoted to a discussion of stem cell research -- James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, compared embryonic stem cell research with Nazi experiments conducted on live human patients during and prior to the Holocaust. Dobson also likened proponents of embryonic stem cell research to Nazi doctors while suggesting that the Nazis' experimentation likely resulted in discoveries that "benefitted mankind"... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NewYorkMetro.com George Soros’s Right-Wing TwinMultibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center’s crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion—and the most powerful New Yorker you’ve never heard of[Kovner] manages the largest hedge fund in the world...He is among the backers of the Manhattan Institute and the fledgling right-wing daily the New York Sun Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Antiwar.com Taking Down the NeoconsFederal probes will be their downfallIt is in the United States, however, that the neoconservatives – the vanguard of the War Party – have suffered the biggest reverses and are in the greatest danger. It is one thing to have your policies discredited – and quite another to wind up behind bars because of them. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Sirotablog Grover Norquist, Turncoats & the Embrace of Movement PoliticsThe New Yorker has a new piece on conservative activist Grover Norquist, and how he realized the one of the keys to helping Republicans effectively fight Democrats was to pressure GOP moderates and thus unify the right. As New Yorker reporter John Cassidy notes, today Norquist "criticize[s] moderate Republicans, such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham, because they think the moderates are holding back the conservative agenda." In the states, Norquist is "attacking Republican governors and legislators who raise taxes. In the past few years, a lot of states and cities have been facing budget deficits, which they are legally obliged to close. You might think this justifies higher taxes, but Norquist doesn't. He's just brutal to Republican tax raisers." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Gadflyer Neocon Nonsense…What's going on at the (NY) Times?Today, they have an Op-Ed by Paul Sperry, a Fellow with the Hoover Institute and author of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington." If that title doesn't reek of McCarthyism, I don't know what does. Sperry's written for WorldNetDaily and David Horowitz's FrontPage Mag. And now the Times. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
ConWebWatch Richard Poe's Not-So-Secret WarHe sums up his Hillary-bashing book in a series of WorldNetDaily articles that ignores evidence that conflicts with his conspiratorial thesis -- and fails to disclose his own conflict of interestIn an apparent attempt to capitalize on Edward Klein's factually flawed book attacking Hillary Clinton, Richard Poe pounded out a 10-part WorldNetDaily series based on his 2004 WorldNetDaily-published book, "Hillary's Secret War," which purports to describe according to Poe "how Hillary Clinton and the left's 'shadow government' have labored to put her and her far-left agenda in the White House by controlling the still-uncensored flow of real news to Americans -- via the Internet." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
DemocracyNow.org The Federalist (Society) Papers: John Roberts and the Right’s Move to Take Control of the JudiciaryALFRED ROSS: Well, Roberts, whether he’s paid his dues or not, was prominently listed in the 1997/1998 leadership directory published by the Federalist Society itself. So it is very difficult to believe that he didn't have any membership. He was on the Steering Committee. The important question is not whether he paid dues as a member or not. The question really at stake here is where does Roberts and his Federalist Society cronies plan to steer our ship of state. If one looks at the history of the Federalist Society, which was established at the inspiration of Robert Bork in the early 1980s, their entire trajectory has been to move our judicial system in an extremely radically right wing direction. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
City Pages Worse than Wal-MartTwin Cities based corporations Target and Best Buy both rate worse than Wal-Mart in terms of political giving heavily weighted to Republicans, according to Buyblue.org. Target even gave $20,000 to the Republican "Think tank" Center of the American Experiment. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post John G. Roberts, White House lied: Roberts IS member of Federalist SocietySupreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has repeatedly said that he has no memory of belonging to the Federalist Society, but his name appears in the influential, conservative legal organization's 1997-1998 leadership directory. Also see: MyDD: Roberts Was On the Steering Committee of the Federalist Society [ link ] Read the story >
City Pages God at the U: He's not dead, just suspendedThe Freedom from Religion Foundation is declaring partial victory in its spat with the University of Minnesota. As City Pages reported previously, the Madison-based organization of free-thinkers sued the U in federal court this spring. The cause of action? The U's participation in an organization called the Minnesota Faith Health Consortium , which in the view of the FFRF violates the constitutional prohibition against government promotion of religion. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Lott libels DonahueOn his blog [John] Lott has a sequence of postings telling a story of how the University of Chicago Federalist Society tried to organize a debate between himself and John Donohue, but Donohue kept backing out. What really happened bears little relation to the story Lott tells. In fact, Lott’s account is so misleading that the Federalist Society cancelled a talk by Lott because he refused to correct his postings. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
RawStory.com Coulter caught cribbing from conservative magazinesA RAW STORY examination found Coulter's work to be at worst plagiarism and at best a cut-and-paste repetition of points authored by conservative religious groups in the early 1990s. These groups sought to de-fund the National Endowment for the Arts, detailing projects paid for by the NEA they dubbed “obscene." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Intervention Magazine David Horowitz: College Assassin for HireFormer left-wing radical turned right-wing gadfly David Horowitz is engaged in a well funded mission to seize control of America's so called "liberal" universities to silence their opposition to the radical right. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Intercollegiate Studies Institute publishes Sen. Rick Santorum book responding to Hillary ClintonSen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who had hoped to run for president in 2008 but is focusing for now on getting reelected next year in a race that looks unexpectedly tough, has just published a conservative manifesto titled "It Takes a Family." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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