Trendsetters of the Left
(PDF) The “little magazines” of the Left lose money and enjoy small readerships, but they help shape nearly everything an American sees on TV, at the movies, or in…
Organization Trends
Media Matters for the Left
Read the PDF here Conservatism is a disease in need of eradication, according to Media Matters for America (MMfA), a decade-old pretended media watchdog that focuses on a unicorn known…
The Injustice Department: Eric Holder’s collaboration with the drug amnesty movement
(PDF to come) Summary: The Justice Department under now-retiring Attorney General Eric Holder has been, as Holder brags, aggressively “activist.” It routinely collaborates with left-wing activist groups on multiple fronts:…
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Liberal religious organizations make amnesty pay
(PDF to come) Summary: The federal government is spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year to underwrite private care for persons who have entered the country illegally. Much…
The Push for State-controlled Media: For years the Left has fought to increase regulation of the news
(PDF OT0914) Summary: Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission was slapped down when the public learned it had begun an investigation of decision-making in newsrooms. The agency claimed…
Can You Say “Dark Money Super PAC”?
Last November, when the American Federation of Teachers wanted to slip a cool half-million into a last-second ad buy to support Marty Walsh’s Democratic candidacy for mayor of Boston, it…
Deadly Policies
Read the PDF here. Summary: Around the nation, pressure groups are helping to pass laws that forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration agencies that issue orders to…
Unabashed Radicals: The mission of Demos, Elizabeth Warren’s favorite left-wing group
(PDF here) Summary: Demos, a New York City think tank and advocacy shop, is not a place for the timid. It pines for “global governance,” major redistribution of wealth,…
A Church of Community Organizers: How the United Church of Christ was transformed into a political machine for the Left
(PDF OT0614) Summary: For decades the Left has worked to turn churches into one more pressure group that will serve its political agenda. One of the saddest examples is…
Uncommon Hypocrisy: Common Cause claims to seek good government but prefers big government
(PDF here) Summary: Common Cause was sired by an architect of the Great Society, so it’s no wonder this grande dame of “good government” groups is willing to…