Sentences with phrase «us libertarian think»

Michael Tanner, senior fellow at libertarian think tank The Cato Institute who shared the stage with Faye on Friday, said the U.S. government has nearly 100 programs for combating poverty.

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

Though immigration may strain some local budgets in the short term, costs and benefits tend to balance out in the end, said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Overseeing Trump's transition team for the agency is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think - tank funded by corporate interests.

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

The court's decision to hear the case was welcomed by Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that is funding the litigation.

In recent days, groups like the libertarian think - tank Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Washington - based nonprofit Coin Center have moved to oppose the effort in subsequent filings.

He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is «dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.»

«I think his optimism and recognition of the importance of the Mexican elections is a good sign,» Simon Lester, a trade analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, told me.

They're opposed to over-regulating and badly regulating, but only strict libertarians think that business ought to have its way of things without anyone saying a word.

Climatologist warming skeptic and libertarian think tank senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Patrick Michaels, wrote an intriguing blog at Forbes.

You do not understand the philosophical underpinnings that make up libertarian thought.

There is, for example, a tradition of libertarian thought which argues that people (can) establish moral rights to highly unequal amounts of private property and income in a state of nature.

On the «gay marriage» issue, this small - l libertarian thinks that people have the right to honor whatever sorts of relationships they see fit, but have no right to force anyone else to honor them likewise.

The council is no libertarian think tank.

That's good ol Roy Spencer, creationist and fellow at the ExxonMobil funded Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank and propaganda machine whose past endeavors include working with Philip Morris to question the science linking second hand smoke and cancer.

Many libertarians think insider trading should be allowed.

The Cato Institute recently issued fiscal policy report cards to America's governors, and the libertarian think tank gave Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo a B for his «impressive tax cutting.»

Steyer also dismissed the idea of swapping the Clean Power Plan for a carbon tax, a concept favored by several conservative and libertarian think tanks.

That fits with the views of the Republican primary electorate, which tends to see warming as a low priority, according to Jerry Taylor, president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports conservative policies to address rising temperatures.

Hans Bader, who until last week served as senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, will be joining the department's Office of General Counsel, according to an internal directory listing viewed by POLITICO.

Some point to the release of a paper called «The Hangover» in September 2012, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that advocates for broad reform, as one of the first signs of this growing dispute going public.

When the links contained in that paragraph come from a study by the Hoover Institution (a conservative / libertarian think tank with a decided bias), and George Will (a noted conservative columnist), you have to back away and ask what agenda is being served.

A major one is the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Chicago that has fought tobacco regulation and legislation to address climate change.

Some of course will just be doing the same for idealogical reasons, such as most of the libertarian think - tanks.

Jerry Taylor, a longtime veteran of the libertarian think tank Cato Institute who recently founded his own libertarian organization, the Niskanen Center, is a vocal proponent of this perspective.»

Walter Cunningham wrote against climate science in a pamphlet (pdf) published by the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank fighting climate science.

The conservative and libertarian think tank has sent out 25,000 copies of the organization's book, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, and an accompanying 10 - minute DVD to 25,000 science teachers this month, according to a Frontline report.

Richard S Courtney... My honest apologies if I falsely attributed you as being associated with what is a Libertarian think tank.

Driessen is senior policy adviser at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, D.C. - based libertarian think tank focused on environmental issues that has received funding from fossil fuel interests such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.

Lakely runs the blog Somewhat Reasonable out of the Chicago - based libertarian think - tank the Heartland Institute.

Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C..

The sands of the climate debate are surely shifting rapidly, with major implications for those who are active in the public debate — scientist / advocates on both sides, environmentalists and the libertarian think tanks, the media, and policy makers and politicians.

His work also reaches beyond Canadian borders, as he serves as a Policy Expert with the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank based out of Arlington Hills, Illinois.

A cursory look at the very public clash between the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Koch brothers, infamous oil billionaires and funders of right wing causes - leaves many people confused.

Even among the libertarian think tank / advocacy groups, Heartland would not be at the top of my list.

The Fraser Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Niskanen Center, which calls itself a libertarian think tank, has a Center for Climate Science directed by Dr. Joseph Majkut, a climatologist who previously served on the staff of Brulle's ally Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.52 The think tank R Street is so well known for its friendliness to a carbon tax that when we published a study critical of the carbon tax, we invited it to contribute a defense of the tax.53 And as the present study goes to press, prominent Republicans at the Hoover Institution like George Schultz and James Baker are advocating vigorously for a carbon tax.54

by Chris White Daily Caller A New York court ordered AG Eric Schneiderman Thursday to fork over public information about elements of his climate crusade to a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in a case involving a series of documents conservatives believe could reveal a -LSB-...]

There is no reference in Eisenhower's speech to ignoring the advice of the National Academy of Sciences (which was established for a reason) and every other serious scientific society in the world in favor of libertarian think tanks and online aggregators of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

According to the tweets, the graph was originally produced by US meteorologist Ryan Maue, an adjunct scholar of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute co-founded by Charles Koch.

The Economics professor is also a Senior Fellow of the Koch - and Exxon - funded Fraser Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

«It's clear that much of the sales pitch for a carbon tax that has been aimed at Republicans has fallen flat,» says Joseph Majkut, a geoscientist and the director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports a carbon tax.

As I posted on WTFIUWT: ============= Donald Rapp has connections with the libertarian think tanks GMI, CATO, Heartland which probably explains his problem as being more of a belief system one.

The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country.

Other victims of Walker's abuse of process have also gone on the attack with lawsuits seeking sanctions against the AG, whose office has withdrawn its subpoena of libertarian think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute, but still threatens to re-impose it at its whim.

At the time, conservative and libertarian think tanks were just starting to take aim at climate science.

Klaus, an economist by trade with no background in climate science, has become a favourite skeptic for hire at the Heritage Foundation and other right - wing libertarian think tanks.

Atlas supports financially a network of some 200 libertarian think tanks around the world, including (according to an investigation by US magazine Mother Jones 9) the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies in Australia.

Taxpayers can't pay the full costs of what's needed, and they shouldn't have to, says the lawsuit, which has the backing of the libertarian think tank Niskanen Center.