• February 12, 2012

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CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE WITH BIRTHDAYS

Happy 40th Birthday To Justice Lewis F. Powell’s War On the American Left

by Ken Layne

12:56 pm August 30, 2011

Weeks before his nomination to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, corporate tobacco lawyer and right-wing business extremist Lewis F. Powell took a break from golf and his boardroom duties at 11 of America’s biggest corporations to write a manifesto against the then-vibrant American left. His detailed plan, delivered in the form of a memo [...]

INCREASING BMI TO INCREASE LEADERSHIP ABILITY

Does America Need a Fat President?

by Jack Stuef

5:16 pm June 23, 2010

Cato Institute Vice President Gene Healy writes in the Washington Examiner today that the U.S. needs a fat president. Finally someone says what we’ve all been thinking. This oil spill mess and wars on Islam could all be solved if we just had a president that didn’t mind slurping up the oil or eating the [...]

THINK ABOUT IT

Thinkers Ask Where Happiness Comes From And Then Declare It To Be Unconstitutional

by Arielle Fleisher

4:17 pm April 12, 2010

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]

THINK ABOUT IT

Thinkers Declare All Good Things To Be Unconstitutional

by Arielle Fleisher

5:34 pm December 7, 2009

Monday, December 7: A never before seen event: a Democrat will say mean things about Republicans, today, in real life. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will explain why he thinks Conservatives are to blame for every single problem in America. [Center for American Progress Action Fund]