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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 21New York Times Goals Reached, Donor on Right Closes Up Shop[The John M. Olin Foundation will be closing its doors this November]Without it, the Federalist Society might not exist, nor its network of 35,000 conservative lawyers. Economic analysis might hold less sway in American courts. The premier idea factories of the right, from the Hoover Institution to the Heritage Foundation, would have lost millions of dollars in core support. And some classics of the conservative canon would have lost their financier, including Allan Bloom's lament of academic decline and Charles Murray's attacks on welfare. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
ConWebWatch Falsely Asserting a False AssertionThe MRC piles on qualifications to try to turn a truth into a lie. Plus: Is sister site CNSNews.com resorting to Republican talking points on judicial nominations? And CNS won't point out judicial activism when a conservative does it. Also see: Earlier: Bashing Judges, Then and Now [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org NBC News advanced unsubstantiated claims of liberal bias in public broadcastingIn a May 25 NBC Nightly News report, correspondent Campbell Brown reported claims of liberal bias in public broadcasting by Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and Cliff Kincaid, an editor at the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media (AIM), but the report provided no evidence to support these allegations and offered no assessment about whether they are credible. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Associated Press Amway's ruling familes are biggest political spenders, study findsDeVos couple and late Jay Van Andel top list of individual donors in 2004 cycleRepublicans Dick and Betsy DeVos of Michigan were the nation's largest individual campaign donors during the 2004 election cycle, according to a study released Thursday. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
AntiWar.com Horowitz's Gang Smears the DeadDavid Horowitz and gang never cease to amaze. From their crackpot intellectualism to their red-baiting antics, it's clear the folks over at FrontPageMagazine.com are nothing short of fascist. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Inside Higher Ed / Views David Horowitz’s War on Rational Discourse...these twistings of the truth are part of the same campaign of Horowitizian bullshit, lies and doublespeak. It’s a dirty job all right, but we need to keep exposing this fraudulent talk for what it is. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Stakeholder Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist subpoenaed by SenateOrganizations headed by two of the best-known figures in conservative political circles, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist, have been subpoenaed by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in its long-running probe of GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. [ link ] Read the story >
RC / AmericasPolicy.org 25 Years Reveal Myths of Privatized Federal Pensions in ChileA quarter century after its inception, most [Childean] pensioners find themselves shortchanged, while the public coffers continue to carry most of the burden of federal retirement benefits. [ link ] Read the story >
Cursor.org My conversation with Ann CoulterAlso see: Even after Time's cover story, you still don't know "the real Ann Coulter" from Media Matters. [ link ] Read the story >
Montgomery Advertiser KKK comparison beneath contemptThe comments of James Dobson, leader of the conservative Focus on the Family organization, are unworthy of any individual who expects to be taken seriously as a commentator on societal and political issues. Dobson ... made this indefensible remark: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Kristol falsely claimed Democrats oppose all of Bush's conservative judicial nomineesAppearing on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol falsely claimed that "Democrats do not want to permit President Bush to put conservatives on the bench." In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, the Senate has to date approved 205 judicial nominees, with Senate Democrats filibustering 10. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Heritage Foundation's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties GrewBusiness Interests Overlapped PolicyHeritage's new, pro-Malaysian outlook emerged at the same time a Hong Kong consulting firm co-founded by Edwin J. Feulner, Heritage's president, began representing Malaysian business interests. Also see: Brad DeLong: Time to shut down the Heritage Foundation? [ link ] Read the story >
The Associated Press Audit Finds Charter School Misspent MillionsC. Steven Cox ran what was the state’s largest charter school network, enrolling thousands of students at dozens of campuses, but investigators say he routinely looted millions from the public schools to enrich his friends and family, leading to the schools' collapse last summer, according to a state audit. [ link ] Read the story >
Christian Science Monitor Conservatives near lock on US courtsSenators will consider new judicial nominees Thursday. GOP-appointed judges already control 10 of 13 appeals courtsAs Democrats and Republicans in Washington prepare for an expected showdown over the use of filibusters to stall judicial nominees, President Bush is already well on his way to recasting the nation's federal appeals courts in a more conservative mold. [ link ] Read the story >
Michael Berube Why Horowitz Hates ProfessorsHorowitz isn’t just a far-right ideologue. He’s also a sorry old fraud [ link ] Read the story >
MarketWatch.com Bush lobbying effort skirts lawThe Bush administration has spent millions of dollars in the past two months on its campaign to overhaul Social Security, narrowly skirting laws that prohibit spending of taxpayer funds to indirectly lobby Congress. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male PartnerArthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Rolling Stone The CrusadersChristian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own imageIt's February, and 900 of America's staunchest Christian fundamentalists have gathered in Fort Lauderdale to look back on what they accomplished in last year's election -- and to plan what's next. As they assemble in the vast sanctuary of Coral Ridge Presbyterian, with all fifty state flags dangling from the rafters, three stadium-size video screens flash the name of the conference: RECLAIMING AMERICA FOR CHRIST. These are the evangelical activists behind the nation's most effective political machine -- one that brought more than 4 million new Christian voters to the polls last November, sending George W. Bush back to the White House and thirty-two new pro-lifers to Congress. But despite their unprecedented power, fundamentalists still see themselves as a persecuted minority, waging a holy war against the godless forces of secularism. To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times / Op-Ed A Party Inverted...Big individual donors and large foundations - the Scaife family and Olin foundations, for instance - form the base of the pyramid. They finance conservative research centers like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, entities that make up the second level of the pyramid... [ link ] Read the story >
Left Business Observer Social Security, Revisited...Now's not the time to concede anything. Social Security's fine, and will be for decades. If it needs a "fix," it won't be for 30 or 40 years. It's urgent to save the system—not only for the material well-being of the elderly, but to preserve some of our last notions of social solidarity against the I–me–mine ethic of the marketizers. And for once, the task doesn't look hopeless. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
CJR Daily Propaganda Clothed as CritiqueWe'd like to take Brent Bozell's Media Research Center seriously. We really would...[but] Underlying every assertion by MRC...is the notion that the media is consciously and deliberately acting to distort the news, thanks to an overriding and all-consuming ideological bias. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Slate.com Bush's First DefeatThe president has lost on Social Security. How will he handle it?George W. Bush's plan to remake the Social Security system is kaput. This is not a value judgment. It's a statement of political fact. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Media failed to identify conservative think tank that laundered DeLay travel moneyNews reports on recent revelations that gambling interests funded a lavish, expense-paid trip to Britain by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and his wife by funneling the money through a tax-exempt organization, the National Center for Public Policy Research, have consistently failed to note that NCPPR is a conservative think tank. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Horowitz admits Colorado exam story is phony[David Horowitz] has admitted that a story highly publicized by his group concerning alleged events at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) "appears to be wrong," and that "our presentation of this case appears now to have had several faults." [ link ] Read the story >
AP Bush faces tough going on Social SecurityGOP pollsters: Public skeptical on private accounts[ link ] Read the story >
Talking Points Memo Thomas Saving's deceptive budgetary calculationsSaving recently signed on to be the Social Security spokesman for Progress for America, one of the two main money-fronts the White House has pushing privatization. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaTransparency.org Richard Viguerie's Army Attacks Social SecurityUSA Next, an organization founded by Viguerie as the United Seniors Association in 1991, backs Bush in battle to privatize Social Security [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Media repeat unsubstantiated Horowitz tale of anti-conservative bias on campusThis incident is not the first time that Horowitz has trumpeted dubious anecdotes in the service of his ideological agenda. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
LA Times Justice Unit Puts Its Focus on FaithA little-known civil rights office has been busily defending religious groups...The Salvation Army was accused in a lawsuit of imposing a new religious litmus test on employees hired with millions of dollars in public funds. When employees complained that they were being required to embrace Jesus Christ to keep their jobs, the Justice Department's civil rights division took the side of the Salvation Army. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times 40 Years of CharacterThe Public Interest will cease publication next month. This may not seem very important, since the magazine has never had more than 10,000 subscribers. But over the past 40 years, The Public Interest has had more influence on domestic policy than any other journal in the country - by far. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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