Presidents’ Day, Not: They Even Lie About the Calendar
In ancient Rome, politicians lied about the start of the new year. The Clinton administration lied about the beginning of the new century. And if you commemorated the federal holiday…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #257: Labor Questions
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have…
Martin Morse Wooster: Book Man
An entire library was to Martin but an “after-dinner mint.” He daily consumed oceans of books, newspapers, and magazines on every subject imaginable and several beyond the imaginations of most…
Martin Morse Wooster: Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”
Martin understood what real civic participation is—love of your neighbors, your local sports teams, and your local civic festivals. Hazlett recalls how Martin “viewed every parade, and devoured each spectacle.”…
Martin Morse Wooster: Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Martin relentlessly hammered Big Philanthropy. On the one hand, he could write with deep appreciation of titans whose entrepreneurial genius allowed them to amass a fortune that would later be,…
Tax-Law Professors Recommend GAO Investigation of Charities’ Involvement in Politics
“Such an examination by a respected Congressional agency could reassure both critics and defenders of the IRS generally and the Exempt Organizations division in particular,” according to Ellen P. Aprill…
How the Arabella Network Meddled in the Redistricting Process
Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR), a front for the New Venture Fund was spawned to influence the states’ map-drawing process to favor “communities of color and other historically underrepresented communities”—in…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Glacial Recount
It has been 30 years since Al Gore was transformed from forgettable U.S. senator and presidential also-ran into an influential and enduring climate alarmist cultural icon. He has won an…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Snow Job
Gore’s prophecy regarding Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania was more precise, and just as wrong his prophecy about Glacier National Park. Going on seven years past the day when Gore…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: The Scary Seas
NASA has an online tracker of ocean levels that shows monthly changes back to January 1993. (Perhaps not coincidentally, this was Gore’s first month as vice president). NASA shows the…