Sentences with phrase «of conservative think tanks»

Pew believed individual freedom was closely linked to political, religious, and «industrial freedom,» and until shortly after his death the Pew Trusts supported a variety of conservative think tanks.

The raw material the feeds the populist anger is generated overwhelmingly by a network of conservative think tanks in part funded by Big Carbon.

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.

But it also links to the advantages held by the coalition of conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations, despite the fewer financial resources they employ overall and spend specific to climate change and energy - related activities.

The memo by Lewis Powell who President Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court within months of its release, inspired the growth of conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute and others who became strident supporters of public education reform and privatization.

Some corporate leaders, current and former Republican lawmakers and government officials and leaders of conservative think tanks, meanwhile, praised Tillerson's nomination.

Facebook invited a number of conservative think tanks and free market groups to a secretive meeting in Washington, D.C., where they were forced to sign strict legal agreements to prevent discussion of the event.

Why would a website that claims to support The Labour Party and its aims publish an article written by the ceo of a conservative think tank where the general point of the article is, that so called Labour «moderates» must stay within The Party and continue the struggle to bring down Labour's elected leader?

E.J. McMahon of the conservative think tank The Empire Center wrote on his blog on Jan. 5th: «Handing even the average community college tuition to 940,000 - families would cost more than $ 4.5 billion.

But neither portrayal is accurate, according to Jason Delisle and Preston Cooper of conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

«I don't take the carbon market seriously,» Derek Scissors of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute told the New York Times, «The first thing I would ask people is, «What markets in China do you think work really well?

«It's a two - edge sword,» said Douglas Holtz - Eakin, president of the conservative think tank American Action Forum and former adviser to Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz.

Representatives from the American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Exxon Corporation and The Southern Company join with a number of conservative think tank operatives to form the Global Climate Science Communications Team.

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It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

I'm sure Bay Street and the conservative think tanks can come up with with some ideas of their own.

Interestingly, the article's author outlined what a basic - income initiative would look like stateside, using political scientist Charles Murray (of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank) as a guide.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

Conservative MP Jason Kenney is a member, as are Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Michel Kelly - Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute, the second and third most important right - wing think tanks after the Fraser Institute.

«We get millions of reports every week of potential violations,» Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of global policy management, said during a discussion at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, in Washington on Tuesday.

Proxy Preview also highlights «a surge of proposals — some two dozen — largely filed by or coordinated by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative Capitol Hill think tank.»

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

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.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

This apparatus of conservative special interest groups, think - tanks and news media has contributed to shifting Canada's political narrative toward the political right.

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative politicians across the country.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Tony Perkins, president of the Christian conservative think - tank Family Research Council, doesn't see it that way.

Nonetheless, denial of that evidence is a sizable, well - financed industry Conservative think tanks have produced scores of studies that try to discredit the data, the methodology and, not least, the motives of those who report the obvious.

Richards is a senior fellow at the conservative think - tank the Discovery Institute and author of «Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem.»

For, away from the daily focus of the Westminster media, Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a way they haven't for years.

The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nation's leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.

While details remained sparse, the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank that follows state spending, calculated that the raises would cost about $ 445 million over the life of the deal.

Mercer is also a board member of the Heritage Foundation, the nation's flagship conservative think tank.

Matt Mayer, president of Opportunity Ohio, a conservative think tank, said government assistance going to businesses connected to JobsOhio directors «smells badly and it smacks of corporate cronyism.»

[citation needed] He is a member of the advisory board of the free - market think tank Reform, and of the generally conservative but also «broad church» magazine Standpoint.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany, questioned how the village will afford the raises after its fund balance is drawn down.

«The various alternative tax options all highlight how complicated and difficult to implement they would be,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

«The IRS is highly unlikely to go along with this,» E.J. McMahon, research director of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank, said of Englebright's proposal.

«The air quality in London, you can go outside and breathe in great gulfs of virtually alpine air,» he told the conservative think tank the Capital City Foundation earlier this week.

In addition, a fiscally conservative think tank is out with a study that shows potential effects of Cuomo's proposal to phase in an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

In addition, a fiscally conservative think tank is out with a study that shows potential effects of Governor Cuomo's proposal to phase in an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

Cuomo beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank the Empire Center.

E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said state government should be spending the money instead on the state's crumbling infrastructure, instead of on subsidized development.

Martins asked E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative think tank, the Empire Center, how the transition to a higher wage could adversely affect smaller employers, versus the large chain stores like a Walmart or Home Depot.

In recent months, START - UP NY, a central part of Cuomo's massive economic development arsenal, has been vilified by some state legislators and conservative think tanks after it was reported the program created just 408 jobs across the state since 2014, leading the critics to question whether the $ 53 million spent on advertising and marketing was worth it.