Billionaire Melvin Simon, who started what became America’s largest shopping mall company and who was part owner of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, died earlier this month at 82. Simon was…
Dr. Jack Kevorkian is out of jail and is the subject of a forthcoming HBO movie starring Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon. In Oregon and in Washington state (as of…
That’s the question asked by the Washington Post’s chief digital officer, Vijay Ravindran, who wonders how much technological infrastructure backs up Sarah Palin’s speeches, the “tea parties,” and Newt Gingrich’s excellent…
(Organization Trends, August 2009 PDF here) The leftist advocacy group MoveOn. org is a well-oiled, well-funded propaganda machine. During the past decade it…
(Foundation Watch, August 2009 PDF here) The Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) is a liberal internationalist coalition of U.S. donors who believe…
Loren Spivack of freemarketwarrior.com said that his Concord, N.C. shopping mall kiosk was shut down by a shopping mall chain because it carried anti-Obama and anti-liberal merchandise on the “Glenn Beck Program” Friday. …
(Organization Trends, July 2009 PDF here) Socialists push for greater redistribution of wealth, massive government spending, and government ownership of the means of…
A new class of very wealthy donors is changing the face of left-wing philanthropy, public policy and politics. Unlike the celebrated "new class" identified by neo-conservative Irving Kristol in the…
After the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit today, Republican Norm Coleman graciously conceded the bitterly disputed contest over the second U.S. Senate seat for Minnesota. None of…
A few hours ago an alleged extremist named James Wenneker von Brunn reportedly shot a security guard at the United States Holocaust Museum here in Washington, D.C. The shooter, who was himself…