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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 21blog.biotethics.net Have Conservatives Bought Bioethics?...the nature of the greatest threat to the integrity and credibility of bioethics [is] secret non-disclosed funding of journals, professorships, conferences, and legal cases by arch-conservative foundations. Where are the laments about this source of blatant conflict of interest???? Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Matthew Yglesias Understanding the Bush SS Plan... The important thing... is that what you're being promised by the Bush administration is worse, on average, not only than what you're being promised right now, but worse than what currently scheduled benefits can afford. [ 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. [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Monthly Is Grover Over?Norquist's anti-tax jihad stumbles in the statesAlso see: [ link ] Read the story >
ThereIsNoCrisis.com Is the privatization scheme just a junk mail operation?It appears that USA Next, the front group for Social Security privatization, was really just a junk mail and spam operation in disguise to benefit Richard Viguerie in the 1990s. It appears that it engaged mostly in scaring up donations from conservative activists before becoming a corporate shell for pharmaceutical industry and energy industry money and lobbying. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Editor and Publisher Is George Will's $250,000 Prize Yet More Payola?When the conservative Bradley Foundation awarded a $250,000 prize to George Will last week, it raised some eyebrows at a time when Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, and Michael McManus have been criticized for accepting government money...Both Will and Bradley Foundation President/CEO Michael Grebe did not return E&P phone calls asking for comment. [ link ] Read the story >
Stanford University "More Than a Stretch": David Horowitz's Imagined Supporters Speak OutMichael Bérubé, Stanley Fish, Todd Gitlin, and Eugene Volokh respond to David Horowitz's contention that they are behind his Academic Bill of Rights [ link ] Read the story >
Altercation Here's a plan: hire the liar[Elliott] Abrams did not merely “stubbornly defend” the U.S. backed military regime [in El Salvador], he made McCarthyite accusations against diligent reporters who revealed the truth. He then lied, both to reporters and to Congress about his own involvement with illegal activity. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Center for American Progress "Students" for Academic Freedom? Right.The organization is actually just a wing of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture and it is staffed by a recent graduate...SAF is working closely with the American Legislative Exchange Council to pass legislation. SAF's website has a list of existing legislation. Look out California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, legislation is already introduced. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
TomPaine.com Funding the Culture Wars...the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's recent report on evangelical grantmaking, Funding the Culture Wars: Philanthropy, Church and State...examined the grantmaking activity of 37 foundations, uncovering nearly $170 million in grants given to hundreds of evangelical organizations from 1999-2002...Most of the grant recipients have a "Statement of Faith" prominently displayed on their websites or other promotional materials. Others declare themselves "faith-based" or "Christ-centered." [ link ] Read the story >
ThinkProgress.org Horowitz's Politically Correct DatabaseA lot has been said...about David Horowitz’s proposed "Academic Bill of Rights," now being considered as a law in the Ohio State Senate. Horowitz says it is necessary because political bullying occurs regularly in college classrooms. Here are some examples of what he is apparently talking about, from his Academic Student Abuse Center.. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org David Horowitz paid controversial Jesse Helms advisers to advise himDavid Horowitz -- the right-wing pundit who has recently sought to defend himself against charges of racism by baselessly branding one of his critics, radio host Al Franken, a "racist" -- paid nearly $300,000 to Rotterman & Associates, a Republican media consulting firm that helped run the racially divisive campaigns of former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), a review of the tax filings of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture shows. [ link ] Read the story >
Carpetbagger Report.com Remember, Mr. Bennett, disclosure is a virtue..Bill Bennett...has been on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes five times in less than three months...In each instance, Bennett was on as a conservative pundit, offering viewers a defense of Bush, his administration, and its policies...K12, Inc., run by...Bennett, has received $4.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education...under a provision in the "No Child Left Behind" education bill that is designed to expand options in public school choice. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Jeff Gannon's alma mater: The Leadership InstituteThe only journalism-related credential listed on former Talon News Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff Gannon's Talon News bio -- which was removed from Talon's website after Media Matters for America drew attention to Gannon and Talon News -- was The Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism. While Talon News appears to be more of a Republican political advocacy group than a media outlet, The Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism appears to be more of a training ground for Republican advocacy in the media than a school of journalism. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Democracy = Criminality?The Washington Post headline was straight out of The Onion: "Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts Abroad." They were writing about Elliott Abrams. With a straight face. Further proof that under the Bush Administration truth is stranger than fiction. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Spearing the Beast..."Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state," declares Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth and the Cato Institute. "If you can jab your spear through that, you can undermine the whole welfare state." [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts AbroadElliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra affair, was promoted to deputy national security adviser to President Bush [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Many Unhappy Returns...Which brings us to the privatizers' Catch-22...any growth projection that would permit the stock returns the privatizers need to make their schemes work would put Social Security solidly in the black. [ link ] Read the story >
American Street Jeff Gannon, Talon News and the Leadership InstituteJeff Gannon is a graduate of the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of JournalismAlso see: UPDATE from Americablog Feb 9: GOP pseudo-journalist quits! What are the chances that a media whore like Gannon would turn out to be an actual whore? [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org McManus and Gallagher have more in common than Bush administration contractsNationally syndicated columnists Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus, who were exposed this week for accepting government payments to promote the Bush administration's marriage initiative, have both received support and funding from a network of advocacy organizations, foundations, and publishers known for advancing conservative causes. [ link ] Read the story >
The Guardian, UK Oil firms fund climate change 'denial'Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Max Sawicky PACK OF LIES[The] Leadership of the Social Security Administration has been captured by enemies of the program... It's bad enough [when] you get political commercials in their voice mail system...[but now] they have a full-blown slide show of Bushist propaganda being distributed [on their website][apparently created by the Cato Institute's Social Security Privatization Project]. [ link ] Read the story >
boston.indymedia.org Right-wing campus network increasingAs the 2005 spring semester begins, students across the United States will confront an increasingly sophisticated multi-million dollar right-wing campus network bankrolled by some of the largest conservative philanthropies, think-tanks and corporations...The three largest conservative campus organizations are the innocuous-sounding Young America’s Foundation (YAF), Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) and the Leadership Institute which spent approximately $25 million on various campus outreach programs in 2004. [ link ] Read the story >
TalkingPointsMemo Universal Press Syndicate columnist Maggie Gallagher covertly paid $21,500 to plug Bush marriage policiesPayments funneled through National Fatherhood Initiative, organization founded by Wade Horn, who hired Gallagher for the HHSMaggie Gallagher got $21,500 from HHS to flack Bush administration marriage and family policy. That's the story Howie Kurtz lands in tomorrow's Post: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Social Security Agency Is Enlisted to Push Its Own RevisionOver the objections of many of its own employees, the Social Security Administration is gearing up for a major effort to publicize the financial problems of Social Security and to convince the public that private accounts are needed as part of any solution. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org USA Today Social Security commentary riddled with falsehoodsn a January 14 column in USA Today, Stefani D. Carter, identified as a former fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a current student at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, made false claims to argue that Social Security faces an imminent threat and that private accounts are the solution. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times The Iceberg Cometh...One thing I haven't seen pointed out, however, is the extent to which the White House expects the public and the media to believe two contradictory things. [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect A Bloody MessHow has Britain’s privatization scheme worked out? Well, today, they’re looking enviably upon Social Security. [ link ] Read the story >
The Regular Service...every time I bring up the racist tract The Bell Curve, the apologists come out in full force. This is a regular event here...It shouldn't be necessary to point out over and over again why no decent person should embrace this book or its authors, and why anyone who does is either a bigot or a fool or both, but apparently it is. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
BlueLemur.com National Center for Public Policy Research scams elderly with Social Security fundraising letters blasting liberalsThinktank preys on seniors in Social Security scare campaignAlso see: [ link ] Read the story >
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