Back in the reign of George the First, C. Boyden Gray used some homophobic slurs as an aside in a talk. My mail to the W.H. Legal Counsel office was answered along the lines of , "What's offensive about what Mr. Gray said?" Michael Pugliese
Milwaukee Genesis Where George W. Bush's "Faith-Based" initiative really comes from
Much has been written about George W. Bush's new "faith-based" initiative, but a look behind the curtain finds the same old conservative-Republican philanthropies and their funding recipients behind the whole movement. And most media and pundits have missed the main thrust of the faith-based initiative, which is meant to destroy public-sector unions, build a Republican patronage system in poorer communities of color, and to convince citizens that they shouldn't look to their government to provide for the "general welfare."
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How The Conservative Philanthropies, C. Boyden Gray, and the Law & Economics Movement Nearly Sank the Federal Regulatory State (Using tax-exempt funds)
"E.P.A.'s Authority on Air Rules Wins Supreme Court's Backing" announced the headline in the New York Times on February 28, 2001, a day after the court unanimously overturned a 1999 appeals court ruling that had thrown out Environmental Protection Agency air quality rules on the grounds that Congress had unconstitutionally delegated regulatory authority to its environment agency. Although very few people had heard of the case of American Trucking, it had nonetheless been a legal tsunami waiting to crash against federal agencies regulating everything from worker safety, to broadcasting, to food and drug safety.
The case represents an incredible confluence of conservative philanthropies, tax-exempt corporate front groups which receive money from the philanthropies, corporate interests, lobbyists, lawmakers, and federal judges, who together nearly invalidated the entire federal regulatory state.
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