More whining from the censors of any idea that doesn't fit into their right wing worship of free market capitalism and an imaginary past that excludes reality. What else is new.
In a world of Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, the Kardashians, '24' paranoia, CSI baloney, and supernatural fantasy shows, what does that say about the viewing public in America? Add Fox and other wingnut media, a proven source of disinformation and you have to wonder if education has a chance in America. Add to above, the organizations like the source of this bit of agitprop, and no wonder the country can no longer work together and get things done. I've asked often do any of you wingnuts ever wonder why these so called think tanks exist at all? It is to manage your minds and they do one heck of a job. The best puppet is the puppet who thinks he's free. See quote at bottom.
'Funding: Approximately 8,300 supporters contribute to an annual budget of $6 million. Heartland does not accept government funding. Contributions are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.'
About | Heartland Institute
'Heartland has gained the endorsement of some of the top scholars, thinkers and politicians in the world – including Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, former Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar Mark R. Levin, and conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). See all the heavyweights who praise Heartland here.'
I'm sorry but the top scholars above with one exception are hardly scholarly. DeMint? Norquist? You gotta be kidding.
"The rise of conservative politics in postwar America is one of the great puzzles of American political history. For much of the period that followed the end of World War II, conservative ideas about the primacy of the free market, and the dangers of too-powerful labor unions, government regulation, and an activist, interventionist state seemed to have been thoroughly rejected by most intellectual and political elites. Scholars and politicians alike dismissed those who adhered to such faiths as a "radical right," for whom to quote the Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter politics "becomes an arena into which the wildest fancies are projected, the most paranoid suspicions, the most absurd superstitions, the most bizarre apocalyptic fantasies." How, then, did such ideas move from their marginal position in the middle years of the twentieth century to become the reigning politics of the country by the century's end?" Kim Phillips-Fein ('Invisible Hands')
In a world of Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, the Kardashians, '24' paranoia, CSI baloney, and supernatural fantasy shows, what does that say about the viewing public in America? Add Fox and other wingnut media, a proven source of disinformation and you have to wonder if education has a chance in America. Add to above, the organizations like the source of this bit of agitprop, and no wonder the country can no longer work together and get things done. I've asked often do any of you wingnuts ever wonder why these so called think tanks exist at all? It is to manage your minds and they do one heck of a job. The best puppet is the puppet who thinks he's free. See quote at bottom.
'Funding: Approximately 8,300 supporters contribute to an annual budget of $6 million. Heartland does not accept government funding. Contributions are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.'
About | Heartland Institute
'Heartland has gained the endorsement of some of the top scholars, thinkers and politicians in the world – including Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, former Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar Mark R. Levin, and conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). See all the heavyweights who praise Heartland here.'
I'm sorry but the top scholars above with one exception are hardly scholarly. DeMint? Norquist? You gotta be kidding.
"The rise of conservative politics in postwar America is one of the great puzzles of American political history. For much of the period that followed the end of World War II, conservative ideas about the primacy of the free market, and the dangers of too-powerful labor unions, government regulation, and an activist, interventionist state seemed to have been thoroughly rejected by most intellectual and political elites. Scholars and politicians alike dismissed those who adhered to such faiths as a "radical right," for whom to quote the Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter politics "becomes an arena into which the wildest fancies are projected, the most paranoid suspicions, the most absurd superstitions, the most bizarre apocalyptic fantasies." How, then, did such ideas move from their marginal position in the middle years of the twentieth century to become the reigning politics of the country by the century's end?" Kim Phillips-Fein ('Invisible Hands')
