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11 Dec 2018, 7:39 am by Ryan Mulvey
Former Koch adviser to oversee Interior Department’s FOIA requestsMiranda Green, The Hill, Dec. 10, 2018A political appointee and former adviser to Charles and David Koch will oversee Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent to the Interior Department, a position typically held by career staff.Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last month quietly issued a secretarial order giving Daniel Jorjani the authority to oversee all FOIA requests at the agency,… [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Self-styled centrist pundits then mocked those Democrats for defending Clinton at all, with New York Times columnist David Brooks speaking for many when he wrote, “The Democrats just need to understand that President Clinton is bad for them, and they have to prove their moderation by agreeing to Republicans’ reasonable demands, such as eliminating the minimum wage and taxing abortion clinics. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 6:21 am by David E. Bernstein
I discussed the attack on the Kochs in my book Lawless, and reprint the relevant section so you can draw your own conclusions (with some emphasis added): While denouncing Citizens United in August 2010, President Obama libeled Americans for Prosperity, a pro–free market organization founded by the billionaire libertarian Koch (pronounced "Coke") brothers, Charles and David, owners of Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in… [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 8:02 am by David E. Bernstein
MacLean and her defenders have suggested that she and her book have the victims of a Koch-inspired libertarian ideological campaign, and that "real historians" would support MacLean. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 4:30 am by Gene Takagi
David Callahan: With a $2 billion pledge for homelessness and preschool, @jeffbezos has rolled out a solid plan for addressing some of the symptoms of inequality. [read post]
13 Sep 2018, 10:00 pm by Jim Sedor
One such group is Americans for Prosperity, the main political arm of the influential Koch network. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 2:59 pm by Bridget Crawford
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6 Aug 2018, 7:35 am by David E. Bernstein
I should note that I've done my own historical research on the era, and I don't agree that there is any sort of historical consensus that "segregationist" has that definition. (4) A big theme of MacLean's book is that Buchanan inspired an effort to promote an anti-democratic putsch by the Koch Brothers. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 5:16 am by David E. Bernstein
The book depicts Buchanan as the intellectual mastermind of a Koch-driven plot to destroy American democracy in favor of libertarian oligarchy. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 4:00 am by SHG
We all have a formally equal right to speak, but only George Soros, the Koch brothers and a handful of others can spend hundreds of millions of dollars advancing their preferred candidates or positions. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 4:24 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Atlantic, David Graham looks into questions about the credit-card debt revealed on Kavanaugh’s financial-disclosure forms and “how he paid the debt off so quickly. [read post]
1 Jul 2018, 1:40 pm by Mark Graber
  By the time they left the bench, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Richard Posner were no longer Republicans. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 9:57 am by Joe Consumer
 Since then, plenty of outside money has flowed into the state, including from Koch-affiliated groups, which run “overwhelmingly negative” attack ads on Justices they don’t like. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 9:57 am by Joe Consumer
 Since then, plenty of outside money has flowed into the state, including from Koch-affiliated groups, which run “overwhelmingly negative” attack ads on Justices they don’t like. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
’ What David Koch’s Departure Means for the Political Network He Helped Build. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 8:46 am by Tom Smith
"Due to health reasons, David Koch will be resigning from the board of Americans for Prosperity Foundation," said Mark Holden, co-chairman of the Koch-backed Seminar Network. [read post]
29 May 2018, 12:22 pm by David E. Bernstein
(In the book, she grossly exaggerates the influence of Buchanan on Koch, but the critics do not focus on that point, as there are so many other errors to deal with.) [read post]
29 May 2018, 10:08 am by CJLF Staff
  David Debolt of the San Jose Mercury News reports that Soros money has been pouring into the District Attorney's race in Alameda County to support a progressive, pro-defendant candidate's effort to unseat incumbent Nancy O'Malley. [read post]
17 May 2018, 3:43 am by Immigration Prof
For years the political network funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch funded politicians on the right, laying the foundation for the libertarian causes the two support. [read post]