Martin Morse Wooster: Book Man
An entire library was to Martin but an “after-dinner mint.” He daily consumed oceans of books, newspapers, and magazines on every subject imaginable and several beyond the imaginations of most…
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Martin Morse Wooster: Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”
Martin understood what real civic participation is—love of your neighbors, your local sports teams, and your local civic festivals. Hazlett recalls how Martin “viewed every parade, and devoured each spectacle.”…
Martin Morse Wooster: Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Martin relentlessly hammered Big Philanthropy. On the one hand, he could write with deep appreciation of titans whose entrepreneurial genius allowed them to amass a fortune that would later be,…
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine [REPOST]
In the battle over election integrity, one of the least-discussed but increasingly important groups is the little-known Electronic Registration Information Center—better known as “ERIC.” ERIC is a private 501(c)(3) organization,…
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: Capturing Voter Rolls
In the battle over election integrity, one of the least-discussed but increasingly important groups is the little-known Electronic Registration Information Center—better known as “ERIC.” ERIC is a private 501(c)(3) organization,…
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: ERIC’s Origins
More red flags appear the deeper we dig. It’s no secret that ERIC was “initiated as a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts,” as one liberal group notes. Less well known…
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: Activists Pile On
For a nonpartisan, apolitical group, ERIC is beloved of the Left. In Massachusetts, for example, dozens of leftist groups—including the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Common Cause, and the…
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: Who Registers and Why?
ERIC’s activities raise serious concerns about who, if anyone, should be registering voters—particularly since the left and the Democratic Party have gone in for government-run voter registration drives. Last March,…
Rise of the Eco-Right
The Capital Research Center broke the news on liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right, which advocate for carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations to address the supposed…
Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is CRC's name for “the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and…