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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