Sentences with phrase «conservative think tank which»

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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.»

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

The group, which is often described as a «conservative think tank,» broke new ground with SeeThroughNY which publishes online government payrolls, pensions, contracts, and now, the budget.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social issues.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is being targeted for budget cuts by lawmakers and an influential conservative think tank whose findings have helped shape the Trump administration's still - forming budget.

While DiNapoli's office — which oversees the state pension fund — declined to provide an estimate, Skelos pension will be more than $ 95,000 a year, according to the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.

The Empire Center, a think tank rooted in fiscally conservative beliefs, compared the new rebate checks, which will range from around $ 200 to several hundred dollars, to Frankenstein's monster.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

The Empire Center, a think tank rooted in fiscally conservative beliefs, compared the new rebate checks (which will range from around $ 200 to several hundred dollars) to Frankenstein's monster.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank Empire Center, says the recession, which began five years ago this week, has not caused the budget problems plaguing many of New York's municipalities, but has worsened already existing structural weaknesses.

One advocate for its use is Donald Roberts, a medical zoologist recently retired from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, which collaborates with conservative 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.

Will he call for the deep cuts to climate and environmental science, and research on renewable energy technologies, which some conservative lawmakers and think tanks have long advocated?

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

In Ohio, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice, released a study of that state's program which found: «Students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

The on a formal level quite austere photographs provide an insight into the offices of the Mackinac Center, which is a conservative think tank, promoter of the free market, lower taxes, reduced regulation, and economic privatization, and place of origin of the so - called Overton window.

«Tim Phillips, The Man Behind The «Americans For Prosperity» Corporate Front Group Factory «The rate at which the Koch Industries funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) churns out front groups to promote its right - wing corporate agenda sets the organization out among similar conservative «think tanks.»

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago - based free market think tank launched in 1994, which has accepted millions of dollars from conservative groups and fossil fuel interests.

Arnold is the executive vice president of the think tank the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received funding from various conservative foundations and oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil.

According to DeSmog research, Mont Pelerin members have ties to a wide range of conservative think tanks, many which have consistently denied the human influence on climate change.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

But back to Taxing Air, which is yet another climate sceptic book with strong links to a conservative «think tank» — in this case, the Institute for Public Affairs, where Dr Carter is the Science Policy Advisor.

The simmering controversy sheds light on the vast influence of the Koch political machine, which spans from the top conservative think tanks, Republican politicians, a small army of contracted lobbyists, and Tea Party front groups in nearly every state.

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

The quotations from Greenpeace, Tony Juniper and Reuters are similarly distorted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that also employs Milloy and that opposes action to address global warming, as well as by the Cybercast News Service (which used to call itself the «Conservative News Service» before changing its name, in an evident effort to disguise its political agenda).

I found that these news sources have historical, material connections to American think tanks, Australian conservative political parties and economic interests in the fossil fuel, mining and energy industries — all of which oppose policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By taking a unified stand and claiming the individual mandate was unconstitutional, the Republican Party, conservative think tanks, right - wing media and Republican activists helped create a climate of controversy about the legislation, which then pressured the mainstream media to report on the controversy, which then created a cloud of doubt among the public, which ultimately created an environment in which the right - leaning members of the Supreme Court could make a judgement that may have looked radical or outrageous if not for the contextual cover provide by permission structure.

A recent study in the journal American Behavioral Scientist, reported on DeSmogBlog, found almost all books which dismiss the risks of human - caused climate change have strong links to conservative free - market think tanks.

The Hill (10/26/12) reports: «A conservative think tank will host a forum next month on carbon tax proposals — and this time it's on the record... The American Enterprise Institute is the venue for the Nov. 13 event on the economics of carbon taxes, which AEI is hosting with two other think tanks, the Brookings Institution and Resources for the Future, and the International Monetary Fund.»