Sentences with phrase «at 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.

Not exact matches

«I think the president has at least a credible claim for removal,» said Brian Knight, as senior fellow at the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

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.

But insofar as you do think there are differences between rightly understood Locke and the contemporary libertarian or classic liberal reading of natural rights applied to economic issues, perhaps you will wind up defending at least part of my theory.

I know there are at least a few libertarians who will stand up and shout at this formulation, on the theory that it's possible to think of liberty economically as an end.

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

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

With an individual's blog it is possible that you can discern what the agenda is - Paul Staines» agenda is, I think, avowedly «anti-establishment» (at least in his own mind) and libertarian to a degree that is almost anarchistic - he will probably not agree in totality... With the blogs that have numerous contributors, the agenda may be less clear - Liberal Conspiracy for example is less easy to categorise - yes it is left leaning, but the inconsistency in positions can be quite provoking and interesting.

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.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

In part, I think it's because Rick is at heart a libertarian, and as long as I've known libertarians I've enjoyed hanging out with them.

I won't suggest that it represents the global view of all Libertarian platforms, but it is at least illustrative of how Libertarian candidates and parties are thinking about this.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in a press release attacking a Republican running for Congress in upstate New York, the DCCC lashed out at his ties to the Cato Institute, the libertarian Washington think tank.

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.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.

I think a libertarian, anarchist, many types of conservatives and not a few type of liberals believe the role of determining infrastructure is at its worst in the hands of government.

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.

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..

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 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

«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.

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

A cherry pie that serves your argument not at all, but still, a skewing of views that tends to cater to paranoid conspiracy theorists and those who think libertarian means, «gubmint = satan» (which view is not hard to empathize with, however it is clearly nuts).

Approximately six months after the Daily Climate blast at Spencer, Gleick impersonated a board member of the Heartland Institute, a libertarian Chicago think tank with global warming skeptic tendencies.

He also gave speeches at both the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Heritage Foundation — two libertarian think tanks known for promoting climate science denial and working against environmental regulations.

There is an argument for speculation in this new asset class, but at the end of the day, I think use as an actual currency is what will take cryptos from «nerds and libertarians» to everyone.

Darcy Olsen, chief executive of the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix - based libertarian think tank, recalled meeting her at a breakfast for prospective donors in New York.