Sentences with phrase «of libertarian think tank»

Taxpayers can't pay the full costs of what's needed, and they shouldn't have to, says the lawsuit, which has the backing of the libertarian think tank Niskanen Center.

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Walker's abuse of process have also gone on the attack with lawsuits seeking sanctions against the AG, whose office has withdrawn its subpoena of libertarian think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute, but still threatens to re-impose it at its whim.

According to the tweets, the graph was originally produced by US meteorologist Ryan Maue, an adjunct scholar of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute co-founded by Charles Koch.

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.»

There is no reference in Eisenhower's speech to ignoring the advice of the National Academy of Sciences (which was established for a reason) and every other serious scientific society in the world in favor of libertarian think tanks and online aggregators of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

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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.

Overseeing Trump's transition team for the agency is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think - tank funded by corporate interests.

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.»

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.

«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 libertarian threat to higher education in the name of productivity is seen in the «public policy» think tanks influencing Republican governors to «disrupt» higher education by holding it to the standard of measurable competencies, sometimes beginning and ending with salaries offered to graduates.

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.

For the most recent report, Green Scissors 2012, the two organizations were joined by free market think tank R Street, which was started by former staffers of the libertarian Heartland Institute (previously a Green Scissors partner).

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.

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.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

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.

Starting with vouchers, a creation of libertarian Milton Friedman in the 1950s, the ideas for education reform, with few exceptions, have come from right leaning think tanks like Pacific Research Institute, Hoover Institution, Goldwater Institute, Reason Foundation, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, etc..

Some of course will just be doing the same for idealogical reasons, such as most of the libertarian think - tanks.

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.

Why would a think tank chock - full of libertarian expats represent local governments in a lawsuit against oil companies?

Lakely runs the blog Somewhat Reasonable out of the Chicago - based libertarian think - tank the Heartland Institute.

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..

The sands of the climate debate are surely shifting rapidly, with major implications for those who are active in the public debate — scientist / advocates on both sides, environmentalists and the libertarian think tanks, the media, and policy makers and politicians.

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.

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.

Laundering financial support through right - wing think tanks, they support a small number of loud climate science deniers along with right - wing libertarian media that trumpet this climate disinformation.

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

by Chris White Daily Caller A New York court ordered AG Eric Schneiderman Thursday to fork over public information about elements of his climate crusade to a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in a case involving a series of documents conservatives believe could reveal a -LSB-...]

Roger Bate was a think - tank staffer with an economics degree who has held a variety of positions in libertarian lobby groups including the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) and European Science & Environment Forum (ESEF) in the UK and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in the United States.

Why would a think tank chock - full of libertarian expats join with environmentalists and represent local governments in a lawsuit against oil companies?

Two of Prime Minister Theresa May's special advisers met with a libertarian US think tank founded by climate science denial funder Charles Koch last winter, but Number 10 Downing Street will not say why.

The Economics professor is also a Senior Fellow of the Koch - and Exxon - funded Fraser Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

«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.

As I posted on WTFIUWT: ============= Donald Rapp has connections with the libertarian think tanks GMI, CATO, Heartland which probably explains his problem as being more of a belief system one.

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.

The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW.

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.

This secretive organization, which has no web site and leaves little paper or electronic trail, is a network of Canadian neoconservative and libertarian academics, politicians, journalists and think tank propagandists.

Libertarian think tanks, the traditional foes of the enviro advocacy groups, began countering with doubts about the science.

Libertarian think tanks, the traditional bagmen of opportunists and foes of actual science, continued countering with doubts about the science as they had done with Darwin, with hygiene in medicine, with family planning and so on for generations.

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/ Personal blog of a leading figure in the Libertarian Alliance («Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties think tank — hosting the world's second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, Libertarian Alliance («Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties think tank — hosting the world's second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, DC»).

We now know from painstakingly detailed research that the «Tea Party» in the U.S. was not a spontaneous eruption of «grassroots» opposition to President Obama's healthcare initiative but the result of long - standing efforts by Libertarian «think tanks» and political operatives.

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.

Since then, he has associated with R - Street Partners, which calls itself a libertarian think tank, but which is very vocal in support of his tax.

The Heartland Institute is endorsed by some of the top scholars, thinkers, and politicians in the world — including many members of congress and state elected officials and the leaders of other conservative and libertarian think tanks such as Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist, The Leadership Institute's Morton Blackwell, The Heritage Foundation's Jim DeMint, and many more.

Others with an ideological right - wing libertarian philosophy and funded by right - wing think tanks, distort the science to influence public opinion with the real goal of preventing governments from acting against global warming.