Dean Zerbe was the Senate Finance Committee guru on all things nonprofit when its chairman was Iowa Republican Charles Grassley. Zerbe left Congress in February for the greener pastures…
President Bush has vetoed the $307 billion farm bill, but Republicans and Democrats in Congress promise to override it. The grab bag of subsidies and spending programs passed 308 to 106 in the…
Individual volunteers, private philanthropy and charities in China are not waiting for government approval to help earthquake victims in Sichuan province, reports today’s New York Times and yesterday’s Washington…
As previously blogged about here, Al Gore, who relentlessly promotes the economy-killing cap-and-trade system of controlling greenhouse gasses, does indeed have a financial stake in global warming alarmism, no matter how…
Your humble narrator was on “The G. Gordon Liddy Show” today talking about liberal philanthropist George Soros’s odd economic theory called “reflexivity.” You can listen to the show here, but…
More proof that Venezuela’s leftist strongman Hugo Chavez is aiding communist insurgents attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of Colombia (from today’s Wall Street Journal): BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A…
As Capital Research Center’s GreenWatch project director, I was quoted in a New York Post article May 4 by Isabel Vincent, about the Rainforest Foundation, singer Sting’s extravagant, wasteful charity. To clarify a bit I…
Is this Hawaii’s future? A real-life secessionist movement seizes a historic American landmark and major media outlets treat the uprising as a curiosity of…
Yon Goicoechea, leader of Venezuela’s pro-democracy student movement and a fervent critic of Venezuela’s Marxist tyrant Hugo Chavez, has been awarded the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. According…