... used to push corporate agenda
* Competitive Enterprise Institute
Alex Nowrasteh, Policy Analyst
Note: strongly supports loose borders
* American Freedom Agenda
Bruce Fein, President
Note: associated with Richard Viguerie
* American Policy Center
Tom DeWeese, President
* Republican Liberty Caucus
Dave Nalle, National Chairman
Note: loose borders libertarians
* Hispanic Leadership Fund
Mario Lopez...
... colleagues from an earlier job, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market group heavily financed by business interests. The two institutes are involved in a campaign advocating a realignment of NASA’s budget that would benefit commercial spaceflight entrepreneurs. The Institute of Liberty’s contribution was a Web page called “No Space Pork!”
Last year, the two groups also supported...
... Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation (see Reason Magazine) have long taken a very antagonistic view toward public-sector unions. Several of these groups have urged the eradication of these unions. The Kochs also invited (PDF) Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union outfit, to a June 2010...
Youtube now lets video uploaders create Google Moderator polls attached to their videos; Moderator lets users submit questions (or comments) and other users can vote up or down those user-submitted questions. In the past, Google Moderator and similar systems have been used by politicians to avoid being asked tough questions, and those who take advantage of this new capability need to make sure to...
... [1] of the Koch family-linked Competitive Enterprise Institute offers "E-Verify is a Spectacular Failure and Should be Abandoned" [2], referring to this recent report. It contains several curious passages, such as:
While it cannot identify illegal/undocumented immigrants 54%, E-Verify could accomplish one thing: ossification of U.S. labor markets. With the official unemployment rate hovering...
... King.
The "suits" (two tools from the Competitive Enterprise Institute) just asked the "hippies" (tools from the other groups, including Faiz Shakir of ThinkProgress) weak questions. The "hippies" were able to easily dismiss statements made by the "suits"; the two from CEI didn't even have copies of the Climategate emails that they referenced. I doubt whether any "warmists" would be convinced by...
... "Kochtopus"): Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. If you oppose corruption and support our immigration laws, few of the people and groups listed anywhere in this post are your friends.
UPDATE 9 (9/13/09): The video here shows a group supposedly from ACORN being ejected from the DC rally. They were selling "Don't tread on me flags" and if the description is accurate, they...
... technology studies at the pro-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes that Kerry has been silent on the FBI's efforts. "The only thing I've heard from Kerry on technology regulation is continued investment from the federal government," Crews says...