Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Would Tribune Papers Be a 'Deal from Hell' for the Kochs?

The Kochs might discover that grand philosophical ideas nurtured, with their millions, in the Cato Institute dont quite translate to local newspaper coverage. Local newspapering has less to do with...

As Koch Industries Ramps Up Attack On ‘Left-Leaning’ Media, WNET Dumps David Koch From Board

As Koch Industries Ramps Up Attack On ‘Left-Leaning’ Media, WNET Dumps David Koch From Board

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York Citys flagship public television station, WNET, has dropped the richest man in New York, carbon pollution billionaire David Koch, from its board of...

Cato’s “Deepbills” Project Advances Government Transparency

Its not the culminationthat will come soonbut a major step in work I direct at the Cato Institute to improve government transparency has been achieved. Ill be announcing and extolling it Wednesday...

How New York Times, NPR And Wall Street Journal Print Fossil Fuel Talking Points Without Full Disclosure

How New York Times, NPR And Wall Street Journal Print Fossil Fuel Talking Points Without Full Disclosure

Major news outlets often mislead readers by failing to report the fossil fuel funding of the conservative think tanks they cite and quote, according to a new study from the Union of Concerned...

Who’s Afraid Of School Profits?

Should there be a separation of school and profit? Many opponents of education reform seem to think so.

Anarcho-Depravity

Its interesting to ask what is the craziest position taken by libertarians. Perhaps its their opposition to all government aid to the poor . Perhaps its their call for legalising fatal neglect by...

Mao Yushi and Critics Put Ideological Gulf on Display

Mao Yushi , the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institutes Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty , is a prominent voice on one side of Chinas ideological gulf his free-market...

New bipartisan House Judiciary Committee task force to examine overcriminalization

New bipartisan House Judiciary Committee task force to examine overcriminalization

As reported in this Wall Street Journal article , Congress is creating a new federal criminal justice task force to address the problem of Congress creating too much federal criminal justice. The...

Author Of Heritage Immigration Study Admits He Has ‘Not Examined The Whole Bill’

Robert Rector at Heritage Robert Rector, the lead author of the Heritage Foundations widely panned immigration study, stood by his claim Tuesday that immigration reform would cost taxpayers a...

Congress: Immigration still on track?

The most potent illustration that Republicans have shifted their attitudes on immigration came Tuesday morning when all GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an amendment from Sen...

More Medicaid, More Health?

A study comparing low-income people in Oregon who received access to Medicaid over the past two years with those who did not, found that those on Medicaid visited doctors and hospitals more often...

Medicaid, ER Studies Make Strong Case for Obamacare

This week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a major study of Medicaid in Oregon which has rapidly emerged of a Rorschach test of sorts. That is, partisans on either side of the...

MSNBC: Just Give Poor People Money To End Poverty

MSNBC: Just Give Poor People Money To End Poverty

( The Blaze ) Is Melissa Harris-Perrythe MSNBC host who recently declared that kids belong to whole communities stirring up controversy again?

Will Immigration Reform Go The Same Way As Gun Safety Reform?

Have you noticed that Congress isn't going along with some of the broad preferences of the American people lately. Something between 86 and 91% of Americans-- depending on which poll you prefer...

Sequest-Air: Senate Bill Beats FAA Clumsy Sequestration Strategy

As Sequest-airthe political fight over the flight delays caused by the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) decision to furlough air traffic controllersgained momentum yesterday, the Senate...

The Made-Up Numbers Dominating the Immigration Debate

The Heritage Foundation made a splash early this week with a reportpredicting that the current immigration reform bill being debated in the Senate would cost the U.S. government $6.3 trillion...

Conservative Study Finds Immigration Reform Would Cost Taxpayers $6.3 Trillion

(AP) The conservative Heritage Foundation is claiming in a new report that bipartisan immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion.

Why Giving More Money to Public Schools Won’t Produce Better Educational Outcomes

I continue to be amazed by this chart . Its author is Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute and it showsthere is no connection between the level of spending per student (adjusted for infation) and...

The Koch brothers may be in the market for some newspapers

The Koch brothers may be in the market for some newspapers

The New York Times is reporting that the Koch brothers, financial backers of various right-wing causes, may be interested in buying a group of newspapers owned by the Tribune Company. Tribune came...

Ha ha Heritage open Friday thread

Don't get me wrong, I like the word heritage . If you haven't noticed, I'm someone who often dwells in the past, and the whole idea of finding out stuff about the past, be it digging up ancient...