Big Labor and Big Money
Today TCSdaily.com printed an abridged version of Ivan Osorio’s October Labor Watch article that examined Big Labor’s effort to cozy up to movers and shakers in the world of private equity.
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It’s the Endowments
Lynne Munson, an adjunct fellow at Richard Vedder’s nonprofit Center for College Affordability and Productivity, has an answer to why college tuition is rising so quickly, and it…
Scheming for a National Energy Bureaucracy
Human Events has republished Max Borders’s fine article on the National Commission on Energy Policy, a pressure group that is pushing for a massive takeover of the U.S. energy…
Liberal Giving for “Foundation Journalism”
Herbert and Marion Sandler are the billionaire California financiers who contributed $13 million to pro-Kerry 527 organizations in 2004–including $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org Voter Fund–and subsequently joined George Soros’s Democracy…
High Net Worth Philanthropy
Here’s the source for George Will’s column (cited yesterday) that philanthropy is how very wealthy people differentiate themselves from the merely wealthy: The Luxury Institute, a think tank representing the luxury-loving community,…
Philanthropy: In an opulent age, is giving simply the newest sports car?
How much is philanthropy driven by sympathy, by guilt, or simply in order to feel good about oneself? George Will recently opined on the subject, connecting philanthropic giving…
Al Gore’s Propaganda Film
A British court has ruled that Al Gore’s much-hyped movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is political propaganda. An article on the ruling is available here, and a more detailed analysis by the…
Christopher DeMuth to Step Down as AEI President
Christopher DeMuth has announced that he will retire as president of the American Enterprise Institute in 2008. DeMuth became president in 1986. Under his leadership AEI’s budget grew from $7.7 million…
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
Human Events has re-published Deborah Corey Barnes’s fine article on former Vice President Al Gore’s self-serving crusade against carbon dioxide emissions, a hype campaign that could ultimately put millions of dollars in his…
Voting for School Choice in Utah
Human Events just published this article on the prospects for school choice in Utah by Phil Brand, director of CRC’s EducationWatch.