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IMSA Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:28 PM
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Anyone know anything about the Cato institute?
Right wing funded?

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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:29 PM
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1. They're libertarian.
They've been critical of Bush*'s spending, but it's from another approach to right-wing politics. Libertarians are Republicans who have the Playboy Channel.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:30 PM
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2. completely and utterly--cigarettes, fast food, polluters, oillionaires
Edited on Wed May-18-05 09:30 PM by MisterP
depraved and indifferent, they exist only to provide a propaganda mill for amoral corporations. Penn & Teller are from there, too.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:30 PM
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3. Good writeup here
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:31 PM
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4. Yes.
Check this out:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=51

The Bradley and Scaife foundatons also fund the American Enterprise Institute, where Bush hired 20 members to work for him.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:33 PM
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5. libertarian think tank
I'm sure tired of "think tanks". They are appropriately named though because thinking tanks in them.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:39 PM
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6. Folks who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Many of them members of
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