(PDF here.) The Social Cost of Carbon is a number guesstimated by economists and then manipulated by bureaucrats and envi¬ronmentalists to justify government activi¬ties ranging from…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and policy.] In ancient Rome, politicians lied about the start of the new year. The Clinton administration lied about the beginning of the…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and policy.] Magicians, con men, and intelligence operatives use a wide range of deception techniques– camouflage, concealment, "barnum statements," and countless other methods…
Radical Bill de Blasio, New York City’s newly sworn in 109th mayor, owes his political existence to Bertha Lewis, former chief organizer of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform…
(PDF here) Summary: Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago receives much public praise for its mission of helping the unfortunate, but a bit of investigation reveals that it…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of high-dollar philanthropists in the U.S. in 2013, the Financial Times of London reports. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave $990 million…
(PDF here) The Joyce Foundation’s endowment came from David Joyce, a lumber magnate who believed in the American system of free enterprise. Today the foundation that lives off his…
Over at PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have another piece on the Left’s curious disrespect for the poor. In this case, I’m puzzled: Why doesn’t the Left trust the poor to…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and policy.] In a Washington Post interview published this past weekend, Bill Gates remarked that “Capitalism did not eradicate smallpox. It just doesn’t…
(PDF here) The National Labor Relations Act declares that “encouraging the practice and procedure of [monopolistic] collective bargaining” is “the policy of the United States.” Federal…