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Monday, April 12 — 5:30 PM: AEI finds its inner Jewish mother for its event about guilt and how its “moral and metaphysical bases” is ruining our ability to understand what is happening in the world. Well, whatever. [AEI]
Wednesday, March 24: What’s so wrong with treating interns like sweatshop workers? Their nimble, small fingers are made for hours of unpaid stapling and filing. The Economic Policy Institute is upset that only wealthy kids are given this glorious opportunity and are hosting event in order to make sure that all God’s children can have [...]
Tuesday, January 19: The Cato Institute wants to buy all your bone marrow. It’s a renewable resource, after all, and in America we care about such things, and the market should just regulate your cells anyway. The time to liberate bone marrow is now. [Cato Institute]
Tuesday, January 5: Being poor in 2010? Definitely worse than being poor in 2009, because now we have absolutely no money to fund safety-net programs that provide important things like food and shelter, at least according to the Urban Institute. Here’s to a prosperous/homeless 2010! [Urban Institute]
Tuesday, November 24: Two days before we all sit down to indulge in the largest, heaviest meal of the year, the Brookings Institution is taking the time to inform us that the world is RUNNING OUT OF FOOD. Enjoy your turkey. [Brookings Institution]
Monday, August 10: We know it’s not as simple as “It’s hot therefore global warming is real,” but seriously, who denies global warming on a thousand-degree day? The Heritage Foundation, that’s who! Join them today at noon as they “systematically debunk” every assertion Al Gore made in his film An Inconvenient Truth and try to [...]
FOR WHATEVER REASON, the thinkers over at the Brookings Institution have declared August to be “think free month.’” Sure it’s hot, but there’s still plenty of thinking to be done — we have yet to reach our potential as a socialist country and you KNOW we can do it. To see what the Brookings kids [...]
Here’s your weekly think tank event roundup: Monday, July 13: The National Endowment for Democracy, true to what it was put on this earth to think about, is hosting an event today that looks at how we can foster democracy in oil rich countries. The demand for oil seems to bring about dictatorships in these countries instead of [...]
