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Venezuelan Freedom Fighter Receives Friedman Prize
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…
by Matthew Vadum on April 30, 2008

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Brock Spinoff Spins into Existence
David Brock’s Progressive Media USA (PMUSA), which vows to spend $40 million attacking John McCain in coming months, has just launched its website. It isn’t quite a carbon copy…
by Matthew Vadum on April 29, 2008

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WSJ’s O’Grady: Soros Funds Terrorism
Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that George Soros’s Open Society Institute has been funding terrorism. In a column entitled Friends of Terror in Peru, O’Grady…
by Matthew Vadum on April 28, 2008

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Are ‘Negative’ Ads Bad?
What is this silly preoccupation so many politicians have with so-called negative campaigning? And, what’s all this hubbub about the so-called negative campaigning being conducted by the North Carolina Republican…
by Matthew Vadum on April 25, 2008

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The Mysterious Turner Global Foundation
It’s worth noting that liberal billionaire philanthropist Ted Turner has been putting much of his personal resources into the virtually unknown Turner Global Foundation Inc. According to philanthropy databases, in 2006…
by Matthew Vadum on April 24, 2008

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Frankly, a Bad Move
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial department must have been hard up to give that master of leftist condescension, Thomas Frank, a coveted place in the spotlight. Frank is the author of the…
by Matthew Vadum on April 22, 2008

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Soros Anti-American Horror Propaganda Coming to a Theater Near You
Not too many commentators seem to have noticed that George Soros is slowly but surely becoming the mainstream media that is the focus of the analysis we do at NewsBusters.
by Matthew Vadum on April 22, 2008

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Why Does Media Matters Keep Denying its Ties to Soros?
As the adage goes, it’s dangerous to mud-wrestle with a pig because you both end up getting dirty, and the pig likes it. Which bring us to Media Matters for…
by Matthew Vadum on April 16, 2008

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College Endowments: Should They Pay for Tuition?
Yes, says Lynne Munson, a fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, writing in CRC’s Foundation Watch this month. Even if Harvard gave all its undergraduates a free…
by Robert Huberty on April 16, 2008

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Soros’s Political ‘Hit Man’ Brock Takes Aim at McCain
David Brock, the president and CEO of the George Soros-funded character assassination factory, Media Matters for America (MM), which euphemistically describes its mission as “comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and…
by Matthew Vadum on April 15, 2008