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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 21Working for Change Voucherizing Bush's faith-based initiativeConservative ideologue Marvin Olasky - the so-called "godfather of compassionate conservatism" - has revealed a duplicitous bait-and-switch political tactic employed by the Republican Bush White House to get its faith-based initiative off the ground. [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post "The departure of John DiIulio means George Bush officially becomes the president of white America"John DiIulio resigns as head of Faith Based InitiativeJohn DiIulio is resigning as head of the Bush Administration's so-called Faith Based Initiative (FBI). The Washington Post reports that: Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MSNBC Faith Based BilkingA new report details how a deep desire to make money combined with deep religous faith makes many Americans easy prey for religious-based scams. Conservative philanthropy funded propagandists have helped fuel this environment by arguing that Wealth Creation is somehow a path to salvation. [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Bush Drops Rule On Hiring of GaysDemocrats: 'Faith-Based' Initiative at RiskOne day after the Washington Post broke a story about how the Salvation Army had worked out a secret deal with the Republican Bush Administration that would have allowed them to discriminate against Gays - in exchange for them supporting the administration's so-called "Faithbased Initiative" and undertaking a $100,000 publicity campaign for it, the Bush Administration said yesterday that it "will not pursue the [Office of Management and Budget] regulation proposed by the Salvation Army and reported today." Also see: NY Times: Charity Is Told It Must Abide by Antidiscrimination Laws [ link ] Read the story >
New York Daily News DON'T SEND A GOD TO DO A GOVERNMENT'S JOBProtesters greet Bush in New York[ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Charity Cites Bush Help in Fight Against Hiring GaysSalvation Army Wants Exemption From LawsThe Bush administration is working with the nation's largest charity, the Salvation Army [Which - the report makes clear - already receives $300 million per year in government money], to make it easier for government-funded religious groups to practice hiring discrimination against gay people, according to an internal Salvation Army document. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaTransparency.org Nobel Prizes Show U.S. Science Education Is World’s BestDisputes conservatives' contention about the quality of US Public Education by Dennis RedovichAccording to an analysis of Nobel prizes awarded in science over the past century, the United States leads the world in technology and in the quality of its scientists. [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post A LOOK AT . . . JUDICIAL AGENDAS & THE FEDERALISTSDinh Plays DumbSeveral Bush administration judicial nominees belong to the 25,000-member Federalist Society. During law professor Viet Dinh's May confirmation hearing to be an assistant attorney general, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned him about the organization's legal philosophy. Excerpts: [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com The Arkansas Project wasn't journalismTed Olson's defenders say the Clinton-bashing effort was protected by the First Amendment -- and besides, Olson didn't know much about it anyway. They're wrong on both counts....In short, the Arkansas Project was a dirty-tricks operation more than a journalistic investigation. It's easy to understand why an attorney of Ted Olson's great reputation would rather say he had no connection with such unsavory people and practices. But is he telling the truth? [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Movement Seeks to Invalidate Affirmate Action Once and For All: Through the Supreme CourtA movement funded and created charity called the Center for Individual Rights, after having led successful fights to invalidate affirmative action at public universities from Texas to California to Michigan, is now seeking to eradicate affirmative action in all higher education, by bringing a case to the US Supreme Court, where it is sure to get a friendly hearing from the Republican majority. [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com Arkansas Project CoverupSmearing David BrockTed Olson's defenders say that former right-wing journalist David Brock had nothing to do with the Arkansas Project. But the project's own records prove they're wrong. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Coverup Picks Up SteamIn an Op-Ed accusing Senate Democrats of violating the first amendment by pursuing Republican/Conservative Movement Lawyer Theodore Olson's lies about his work for the American Spectator, columnist and former Republican speechwriter William Safire equates political hit men working with tax-exempt monies to journalists. [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com Potential Bombshell:Did Movement Lawyer Theodore Olson, Nominated Now for Socilitor General, Engineer a Coverup of Richard Scaife's Notorious Arkansas Project?"In perhaps the summary's most controversial allegation, Brock [David, former writer 'hit man' for the Spectator, in a an interview with congressional Democratic staff] is said to have "suggested that Mr. Olson helped 'engineer' the firing of the Spectator's original publisher, Ronald Burr, who urged an open investigation of payments to David Hale." According to the summary, Brock told Democratic staffers that the credibility of Hale, represented by Olson and the key witness against the Clintons in the Whitewater investigation, would have been damaged if it had been revealed that he received money from the Arkansas Project." [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Federalist Society handpicks many Federal Judgeship CandidatesThe New York Times reported today (April 24, 2001) that "Of the 70 candidates [for federal judgeships] interviewed so far by the White House, officials said 17 to 20 had been recommended directly by the Federalist Society's Washington headquarters." [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Here Come the JudgesAll signs point to an all-out drive by the Bush Administration to slot judicial conservatives into the eighty-nine current vacancies on the federal bench...The Bushites' court-packing drive is a grade-A rush job. For one thing, the roll Bush is on is petering out with his tax plan seen by a wider public as too friendly to the rich. Then, too, if an enfeebled Strom Thurmond exits the stage, control of the Judiciary Committee would shift to the Democrats, and then it's a whole new ball game [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Monthly Utah: Where Church Meets StateIs This Our Faith-Based Future?...If you have lived, as I have, as a non-Mormon in a place whose population is 70 percent LDS, you would understand the real dangers in mixing too much church with state. I was born and raised in Utah, and my entire family still lives there. Every time I go back, from the minute I wade past the missionaries in the Salt Lake City airport to my first watered-down beer, I am struck by the fact that, while inmates may be able to duck Chuck Colson, the average Utah citizen has no hope of escaping the Mormons... [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times In New York City barbarians Edison turned back at the gateAs Bid to Privatize Schools Ends, Supporters Second-Guess Effort...local Democratic politicians rained scorn on a Board of Education proposal to allow a private company, Edison Schools, to manage five troubled public schools... [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Bush Would Sever Law Group's Role in Screening JudgesPresident Bush's legal advisers have told the American Bar Association that they want to end the group's nearly half-century role as a semiofficial screening panel for judicial nominees, lawyers involved in the discussions said today. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times They're Everywhere, They're Everywhere!Republicans, Federalists, Move Quickly to Fill Judicial Slots Boycotted by Senate RepublicansAfter the Republican-controlled senate held up scores of Clinton Administration judicial appointments, the new Bush Administration is rushing to fill vacancies on the federal bench. The New York Times reported, unsurprisingly, that the tax-exempt charity the Federalist Society, whose influence is pervasive in the federal court system, is once again heavily involved in the candidate selection and preparation. [ link ] Read the story >
Mother Jones Privatization of Education Will Benefit Big Bush Donors...Just as brokers stand to benefit from privatizing Social Security, some of Bush's largest donors would profit from turning education over to the marketplace.Two of the largest backers of Edison Schools, the nation's largest private manager of public schools, contributed heavily to the Republicans. John Childs (No. 17), a Boston financier, gave $670,000, and Donald Fisher (No. 184), chairman of the Gap, gave $260,800, all but $62,800 to the GOP. Investors in Advantage Schools, one of Edison's chief competitors, also backed the GOP. John Hennessy (No. 362), whose Credit Suisse First Boston has pumped $19 million into Advantage, took a lead fundraising role for Bush and contributed $164,000 of his own money to the Republicans. John Doerr (No. 55, $477,500) and Kevin Compton of the Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which has invested in Advantage, also ventured into politics. Compton gave $143,000 to Republicans, while Doerr supported Gore, who promoted a charter school plan of his own... [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times The Supreme Court v. Balance of PowersThe current Supreme Court has a definite political agenda - one devoted chiefly to reallocating governmental power in ways that suit the views of its conservative majority...The court's recent decision in Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, which ruled that state employees may not sue their states under the Americans With Disabilities Act, is but the latest example of the court's assertion of the primacy of its views over those of Congress... [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Monthly Bandits in Black RobesWhy you should still be angry about Bush v. GoreQuite demonstrably the worst Supreme Court decision in history, Bush v. Gore changes everything in American law and politics. The Rehnquist Court has destroyed any moral prestige still lingering from the Warren Court's brief but passionate commitment to civil rights in the middle of the last century. Now the court has returned to its historic conservative role, rushing to aid the political party of property and race privilege in a debased partisan way, torturing out of the Equal Protection Clause new rules to assure the power of one political faction. Bush v. Gore was no momentary lapse of judgment by five conservative justices, but the logical culmination of their long drive to define an extra-constitutional natural law enshrining the rights of white electoral majorities, like the one that brought George W. Bush the White House. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Appellate Court Ruling in American TruckingHuge Loss For Conservative Movement; Victory for EPAThe Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the way the federal government sets clean-air standards, rejecting industry arguments that officials must balance compliance costs against the health benefits of cleaner air. [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation None Dare Call it TreasonIn the December 12 ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law... [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect The Chicago Acid BathThe Impoverished Logic of "Law and Economics"Read about the cruel, market-serving, people-denying, "hyper-rational" legal theory called “Law and Economics,” funded by the conservative philanthropies, that is helping to transform American law by elevating the idea of “wealth-maximization” to the goal of the law. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com Bringing faith to the West WingJohn DiIulio, who once spread fear about juvenile "superpredators," will now run President Bush's faith-based charity programs...the greatest impact of which will be to lay the groundwork for a national GOP patronage machine to rival the old days of Richard Daley and Boss Tweed...the damage [from his previous failure of vision] came because DiIulio -- judging from his subsequent regret -- failed to see the cynical political uses to which his research...would be put. The same...is true of his new elevation to the White House. DiIulio wants to promote good works. Instead, he's been hired as chief engineer for a patronage machine. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times In the Tank?Even cynics were a bit startled by the revelation that Justice Clarence Thomas's wife has been employed by the Heritage Foundation to gather résumés for potential appointments in the next administration. But let me leave ethical issues to the experts and focus on a different question suggested by the story: To what extent will a Bush administration, if that's what we're about to have, be staffed by people from Heritage and its sister institutions? Are we about to enter an era of government by professional ideologues? [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Vouchers Suffer Electoral BlowIn a public rebuke of the unprecedented funding that both conseravative philanthropies and fabulously wealthy individuals have made to push the policy of public school privatization upon the nation, voters in California and Michigan delivered a stern, anti-voucher message on Tuesday. The issue itself might now be dead, except for the conservative money and apparat fighting against public school teacher unions [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post School Choice FallaciesRecently a full-page ad appeared in the New York Times sponsored by something called the Campaign for America's Children, which made it appear that public education in this country is a wreck. The solution, according to the group, is greater parental choice. "Every year we pump more money into our public education system, and every year the system gets worse," the ad says. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times The Wooing of Our JudgesAbner Mikva decries the "Educating" of federal judges at posh resorts by conservative foundations:"...judges listened to speakers whose overwhelming message was that regulation should be limited -- that the free market should be relied upon to protect the environment, for example, or that the "takings" clause of the Constitution should be interpreted to prohibit rules against development in environmentally sensitive places. [ link ] Read the story >
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