Government co-opting charities
At PhilanthropyDaily.com I have a piece commenting on James Piereson’s powerful Wall Street Journal essay on charities that have been co-opted by government. Piereson, a Manhattan Institute fellow…
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Soros Lieutenant Neier to Retire
Aryeh Neier, who has led George Soros’s network of philanthropies for 18 years, said he will retire as president of the Open Society Foundations in April next year when he…
Isn’t Arianna Huffington Supposed To Favor Spreading the Wealth?
Stacy McCain reports that Van Jones intimate Arianna Huffington, fresh off her lucrative Huffington Post deal with AOL, now wants even more people to blog for her for free. Chutzpah.
ACORN-Like Pressure Groups Get Big Bucks in Budget Deal
I found yet another reason for conservatives to hate the budget deal. The compromise spending legislation funds ACORN-like radical activist groups to the tune of a whopping $680 million in…
Charities Wonder Who’s Next After Secret-Video Episode
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has a new article on the fallout from James O’Keefe’s skillfully engineered undercover video takedown of NPR. Here’s the passage that quotes me: But some conservatives…
Breaking: New York Times Issues Retraction After Smearing Hero
A few days after former far-left activist Brandon Darby filed suit against the New York Times for libel, the newspaper has issued a retraction regarding the offending article. Darby helped…
The Future Isn’t NOW
Townhall magazine has kindly granted permission to post my profile of the tedious National Organization for Women which appears in the current issue. Click on the following link to read…
Is Obama George Soros’s Puppet on a String?
Could be. At least it’s an amusing little video: Hat tip to Trevor Loudon at New Zeal blog.
Frances Fox Piven: Violence Against Thee, But Not Against Me
I wrote an op-ed recently for the Washington Times that was well received. It’s about Marxist academic and activist Frances Fox Piven who has called for bloody revolution against…
Election Day 2010 a Set Back to Card Check Legislation
On November 2nd, 2010, voters in four states – South Carolina, South Dakota, Arizona and Utah – approved initiatives protecting the secret ballot in union elections, measures which will essentially, in the…