Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> 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."
>
> http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/faithbased.htm
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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.
>
> http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/american_trucking.htm
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