Sentences with phrase «libertarian think tank»

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.
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.
Climatologist warming skeptic and libertarian think tank senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Patrick Michaels, wrote an intriguing blog at Forbes.
The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change.
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.
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.
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Walker's abuse of process have also gone on the attack with lawsuits seeking sanctions against the AG, whose office has withdrawn its subpoena of libertarian think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute, but still threatens to re-impose it at its whim.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
As Governor of New York, Pataki received grades of A in 1996, [24][25] B in 1998, [26][27] B in 2000, [28][29] B in 2002, [30][31] B in 2004, [32][33] and D in 2006 [34][35] from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, in their biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors.
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.
The Koch brothers are devoted to «free market» solutions, and they've been deeply involved in the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, which received more than $ 1 million from Koch Industries since 2005, according to Greenpeace.
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.
School Choice: Parents who can choose where to send their children to school become more involved in their children's education, says a paper by the Cato Institute, a Washington - based libertarian think tank.
-- The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank, is out with a new paper that says the future of school choice lies in education savings accounts, which allow parents to use tax dollars to pay for services, including private school tuition or therapy for students with special needs.
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.
According to the Chicago - based conservative and libertarian think tank's website, Behrend declared: «Wisconsin's new budget, which expands school choice programs, is a big win for Wisconsin parents and taxpayers.
Common Core is an «illegal federal involvement» in education, that is «entirely experimental,» argued Joy Pullman of the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian think tank.
I'd been impressed with Brookings and A.E.I., and told him it would be good to have a libertarian think tank.
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.
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.
«California continues to pursue carbon reduction policies that are very costly — and this looks like an example,» said Julian Morris, vice president of research at the Los Angeles - based Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
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.
They are saying to Republicans that all the things you may be concerned about — the potential harms of a real and ambitious climate policy — they can be worked around now,» said Joseph Majkut, the director of climate science at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank.
Since the mid-1990s, the fossil - fuel industry has made common cause with old cold warriors, maverick scientists and conservative and libertarian think tanks to undermine climate science.
Climate denial on a larger scale — the misinformation campaigns led by conservative and libertarian think tanks — is also supported by hefty donations from invested industries.
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.
That libertarian think tanks require such certainty only reveals that there can't be any scientific position whatsoever.
The Fraser Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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