Sentences with phrase «by libertarian group»

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The cryptocurrency space has always been driven by a core group of passionate advocates, motivated by a radical libertarian ideology focused around decentralision and the power of cryptography.

In short, though, after that bankruptcy — which followed a fascinating 75 - year history of libertarian ownership by the Hoiles family — entrepreneur Aaron Kushner led a new group, taking over the paper.

That strategy was criticized by CATO, REASON MAGAZINE and other relatively mainstream libertarian groups at the time.

There is no need to romanticize this chapter of history and make all the Puritans libertarians, «but the remarkable thing about the English settlements in America is that there, in the brief period between 1607 and 1787 these traditionally antagonistic groups of people learned to dwell together side by side in relative peace.

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

But as the Common Core has been grouped with other controversial issues by opponents serving a variety of larger political agendas, the union has also been joined by libertarians and even conservative Republicans in opposition.

David Bookbinder, chief counsel at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian advocacy group that supports taxing carbon, said he expects the cases to proceed faster than those submitted in July by other California municipalities.

Among the groups represented at the hearing were the National Association of Scholars, which had filed the complaint, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), founded and headed by civil libertarians Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney.

While vouchers have been opposed by most Democrats, teachers» unions and civil libertarians as a violation of the separation of church and state, the opposition of those groups did not count much in New Jersey by 1995.

The new reform groups built ties with a pre-existing conservative network in the state, including pro-school - voucher groups like the Students First PAC, a wealthy political - action committee funded by the libertarian managers of a suburban Philadelphia investment firm.

Libertarian and environmental groups for years have engaged in state - by - state skirmishes aimed at influencing how climate is taught.

The nonprofit group was similarly neutral in 2010 when libertarian groups backed by industry and conservative donors were flooding scientific agencies and universities with Freedom of Information requests.

Is there a different standard when a libertarian or industry group does the same, as with this example of a NASA request by Christopher Horner, the same lawyer whose fresh requests to the space agency helped inspire the science group's statement?

But he also has been criticized by some conservative politicians, commentators and libertarian groups for what they say are extreme views on global warming and other environmental risks.

It's either political (conservative, right wing or libertarian) or being funded by or in the employment of the fossil fuel industry or one of their front groups.

«Muller is a long - standing, colorful critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate change.»

The libertarian group, which is funded in part by the foundation of billionaire oil executive Charles Koch, convened its own panel of scientists — who represent a small minority of opinion — in Rome this week to oppose the Vatican summit.

An allied public charity, the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, soon took over management of the coalition, a cross section of nonprofit groups already fighting policies promoted by progressives and a growing number of liberal public charities and nonprofit organizations.

Created in 2009 by a person or a group under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin initially attracted an array of figures including libertarians who wished to counter the control of sovereign regulators and central banks.