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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 21TPMCafe.com Horowitz: Old Whine, ContinuedI suppose that somewhere out in the vast outback of the Republic there are readers who have not yet made up their minds on the credibility of David Horowitz, America’s prime abstinence-only crusader for the lost virginity of the American university. To those tender souls I dedicate these words. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
St Paul Pioneer Press Stormy end for charter schoolNew Voyage Academy had financial, staffing problemsA St. Paul charter school plagued by management and financial problems was dissolved Friday, leaving about 50 children without a school. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action New IRD President Is a Schismatic Presbyterian...the announcement of the new president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a Washington, DC-based organization with a 20 year history of seeking to undermine mainline Christian churches deemed "too liberal" -- is a bellwether moment. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
eSchool News '65-percent solution' to school funding seeks to advance a partisan political agendaThere's a well-financed effort underway in states around the country to pass legislation that would overhaul school funding. The so-called "65-percent solution" aims to have 65 cents of every school dollar spent directly in the classroom. But as many online news sites and education blogs have exposed, this "solution" is no more than a slick campaign to advance a partisan political agenda during an election year... Also see: School Administrators: The 65 Percent Rule — Who’s behind it? [ link ] Read the story >
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW FILES IRS COMPLAINT AGAINST GROVER NORQUIST'S AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORMCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) complaint against Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), and American for Tax Reform Foundation (ATR Foundation), conservative, non-profit organizations led by right-wing activist Grover Norquist. The complaint asks the IRS to investigate activities by the groups which may violate IRS regulations and require a revocation of their tax-exempt status. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Rev. John Thomas, President of the United Church of Christ, Denounces IRD Attacks on ChurchesAn historic battle is unfolding for the future of the of mainstream Protestantism in the U.S. and in the world. You might have read press reports about the battles over gay ordination and the threats of walk-outs by hard line conservatives. But that is only a small part of one of the biggest, and most underreported, religion stories in American history. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Bush Orders DHS to Create Center for Faith-Based AidPresident Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security yesterday to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives within 45 days to eliminate regulatory, contracting and programmatic barriers to providing federal funds to religious groups to deliver social services, the White House announced last night. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story Dobson site denies lobbying Norton for AbramoffIn a message posted on his Focus on the Family website, Dr. James Dobson's group has denied lobbying outgoing Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton on behalf of fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Also see: Max Blumenthal: Abramoff splits the Christian Right [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Vin Weber's firm paid $65,000/month to lobby for UAEThe former Minnesota congressman is a lobbyist hired last year to defend the United Arab Emirates' image. He said politics got in the way of the facts in the ports dealAs one of the top lobbyists in Washington, Vin Weber is paid good money to defend the reputation of the United Arab Emirates. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times $25,000 to Lobby Group Is Tied to Access to BushThe chief of an Indian tribe represented by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff was admitted to a meeting with President Bush in 2001 days after the tribe paid a prominent conservative lobbying group $25,000 at Mr. Abramoff's direction, according to documents and interviews. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Minvolved.com It looks like the Center of the American Experiment is brokeFor all the money donated by the rich GOP donors/CAE board members, it looks like they were more interested in their partisan political donations than they were in the financial well-being of the CAE. Words are in endless supply, true allegiance lives in cold hard cash. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post K Street Project moves to Heritage FoundationSenator [Santorum] Resumes Lobbyist HuddlesAfter saying in January that he would end his regular meetings with lobbyists, Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), the third-ranking GOP leader in the Senate, has continued to meet with many of the same lobbyists at the same time and on the same day of the week. Also see: Mark Kleiman: 501 (c) (3), anyone? [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story Series of editorials supporting Abramoff clients suggests collusions between lobbyist and nonprofit... in addition to editorials favoring the Marianas and the Malaysian prime minister, RAW STORY has uncovered four other Abramoff clients that the conservative thinktank [National Center for Public Policy Research] supported in articles and newsletters: Magazine Publishers of America, Channel One, Pitney Bowes and Stoli Vodka. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Shakeup at Center of the American ExperimentConservative think tank retools management...Mitch Pearlstein, the founder of the center, will return as president after a 20-month period as its president emeritus. Pearlstein said the center will restructure to return to addressing public policy issues such as poverty, race, values, economics and taxes. Also see: Previously: It's time the CAE lost its tax-exempt status [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic...the first speaker [at a Cato forum], [was] former Reagan aide Bruce Bartlett. Author of the new book "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy," Bartlett called the administration "unconscionable," "irresponsible," "vindictive" and "inept." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Milwaukee Magazine The legacy of Michael Joyce...In a war of ideas, you naturally funded the people who were on your side, and you made sure they were warriors who expressly aimed to influence government, the media and public policy. But ideological soldiers are rarely the same as great scholars. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Horowitz: "There are 50,000 professors ... [who] identify with the terrorists"On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, right-wing activist David Horowitz claimed that "[t]here are 50,000 professors" who are "anti-American" and "identify with the terrorists." There are just over 400,000 tenured and tenure-track full-time university professors in the United States. If Horowitz's numbers are accurate, that means approximately one out of every eight tenured or tenure-track college and university professors is a terrorist sympathizer. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story Social Security "fright mail" targeting seniors helped fund GOP leader's trips to UK, AsiaA think tank which raised money by targeting elderly Americans with Social Security scare letters paid for more than $130,000 in travel expenses for the House Republican leader, his wife and his staff, RAW STORY has learned. Also see: NCPPR sends 'Cease and Desist' order to Raw Story [ link ] Read the story >
ThinkProgress.org President of Prominent Conservative Think-Tank Urges Military Strike on IranHerbert London, the president of the conservative Hudson Institute, has published a commentary urging the Bush administration to use “an American military strike to knock out Iran’s uranium processing capacity”... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
National Review It Didn’t WorkOne can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed...Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans...Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements... Also see: Robert Parry: Bush, Rats & a Sinking Ship Glenn Greenwald: Prepare the noose for Bill Buckley, the Cowardly Traitor [ link ] Read the story >
IPS Neo-Con Superhawk Earns His Wings on Port FlapLove him or hate him, Frank Gaffney is effectiveThe founder and president of the Washington-based Centre for Security Policy (CSP), a small think tank funded mainly by U.S. defence contractors, far-right foundations, and right-wing Zionists, Gaffney was among the first to seize on the government's approval of a Dubai company to manage terminals at six major U.S. ports and helped blow it up into a major embarrassment to Pres. George W. Bush. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Princeton Tilts Right..But there is another side to [Robert] George, less tolerant, ferociously partisan and intimately connected to wealthy organizations that wish explicitly to inject their politics into the universities--a side better known by Beltway Republicans and right-wing Christian activists than on the long green lawns of Princeton. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
AP U.S. agrees to stop funding abstinence programThe federal government has agreed to stop funding a Pennsylvania-based abstinence-only program for teens that a civil liberties group claimed was using federal dollars for Christian evangelization. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talking Points Memo Vin Weber lobbied government, think tanks, academia and media for UAEThe one of those [UAE lobbying] deals which seemed most tied to working Congress, the executive branch and media circles in DC is the Clark & Weinstock contract. They bill themselves as specializing in "reputation and crisis management." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
In These Times Forget D.C.—the Battle is in the StatesSpeaking to a packed room of 2,000 state legislators and business lobbyists gathered in Grapevine, Texas, last fall, George W. Bush thanked the crowd for its work on behalf of the conservative agenda. He wasn’t talking about work they’d done on Capitol Hill, but about their collaboration to push the corporate agenda forward in statehouses across the country. The meeting was the 32nd annual gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a membership association for conservative lawmakers. As its chairman, Georgia State Rep. Earl Ehrhart, said of the president’s speech: “It was like the governor of a state talking to his legislative leaders.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Atrios/Eschaton Heritage and the anti-SemiteSo why's the Heritage Foundation interested in having a famous anti-Semitic leader meet with and influence Bush?Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize his 2002 meeting with President Bush...He [Mohamad] said he had been persuaded by the U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation to meet with Bush at the time."...Mahathir said the Heritage Foundation believed he could help "influence (Bush) in some way regarding U.S. policies." Also see: Matthew Yglesias: This is some very sordid stuff [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story President of Abramoff linked nonprofit wrote editorial smearing rival of Abramoff clientGroup's president attacked political rival of Prime Minister who paid $1.2m for Bush visit; Denies being paid for editorialThe President of the conservative Washington nonprofit [National Center for Public Policy Research] where fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff served as a director penned an editorial that smeared a political opponent of the Malaysian Prime Minister – an Abramoff client – helping the Prime Minister in a campaign to paint a political rival as an Islamic radical... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk To Action $500 Million for federal "bigotry based" initiative?President George W. Bush has just quietly signed legislation adding even further - by half a billion dollars, to be spent over 5 years - to growing rivers of federal cash flowing, under Mr. Bush's presidency, to "Faith Based" initiatives allowed to both practice religious discrimination in hiring and also, by mandate of federal law, enjoined - claims the Bush Administration - from using federal "faith based" money targeted at strengthening marriages to help gay couples who are married or have domestic partnerships and civil unions. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Palm Beach Post Ballot botch: Coulter votes in wrong precinct...Coulter, who owns a $1.8 million crib on Seabreeze Avenue, should have voted in Precinct 1198. It covers most homes on her street. Instead, records show, she voted in Precinct 1196, at the northern tip of the island. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Reuters Harvard study blasts Bush education policyPresident George W. Bush's signature education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed on Tuesday. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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