Operation Choke Point
(PDF here) Summary: Since 2012, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice has been conducting Operation Choke Point by using informal guidance language to manipulate the FDIC into intimidating banks and…
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Out of the Mouths of Boobs
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] When the Obama administration classified the Taliban as “armed insurgents” rather than terrorists, some people were surprised and mystified. These…
Mora County and the Parachute Organizers
(pdf here) In northern New Mexico, in one of the nation’s poorest counties, environmentalists wage war against efforts to drill for oil…
The Joyce Foundation
(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…
McAuliffe vs. Cuccinelli
(PDF here) Environmentalists poured millions into the 2013 elections, achieving considerable success even when…
Obama administration releases terrorist Lynne Stewart for “jubilant return home”
[NOTE: For an earlier report on Lynne Stewart and other extremist lawyers associated with the “Center for Constitutional Rights,” see the Capital Research Center publication Organization Trends, September 2006, at…
The Surdna Foundation Meets Saul Alinsky
(PDF here) New York’s Surdna Foundation used to focus on the usual left-wing causes: environmentalism and so-called smart growth, community development, and the arts. Sensing an opportunity when Barack…
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
(PDF here) The Nathan Cummings Foundation is yet another philanthropy whose original donor was able to live the American dream and create great wealth through the free market. But…
Campaign Finance “Reform” Exposed Once Again
(PDF here) Donors who crusade under the radar for campaign finance reform still fund activist groups like Public Campaign. And those activist groups still fight for a panoply of…
Breaking the Bank
See PDF here. Summary: Amalgamated Bank is a union-controlled enterprise whose assets make it invaluable to a movement that is…