Sentences with phrase «at libertarian think tank»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.