50 Million Down The Tubes: How 17 Conservative PACs Are Spending Their Money

The late, great Eric Hoffer once said that, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Some people have started to wonder whether that’s happened to groups in the conservative movement – and that’s understandable. Reports about sleazy activities by conservative groups have not exactly been in short supply over the last couple of years. Damaging stories have popped up on the Daily Beast[1], Mother Jones[2], Washington Post[3], the Politico[4] and at the Daily Caller[5] among other outlets. Additionally, for those of us who have a lot of friends in the Tea Party and among grassroots conservatives, stories of abuse have become rampant. That may be why you’ve heard people like Ann Coulter and Dana Loesch publicly suggesting that there are groups out there ripping people off.

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Malkin: Get To Know the Common Core Marketing Overlords

They’re everywhere. Turn on Fox News, local news, Animal Planet, HGTV, The Family Channel or talk radio. Pro-Common Core commercials have been airing ad nauseam in a desperate attempt to persuade American families to support the beleaguered federal education standards/testing/technology racket. Who’s funding these public relations pushes? D.C. lobbyists, entrenched politicians and Big Business interests.

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Cripes! There is a pro-Common Core ad smack dab in the middle of this Michelle Malkin anti-Common Core article! (screenshot at 'read more')--bc

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The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) writes, [Excerpt/Book Review] "This advantage means liberal groups far outspend conservative ones. On immigration, the 117 progressive groups identified by Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Laksin [authors of The New Leviathan: How the Left-wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future] have 22 times the funding of the nine conservative groups. On environmental issues, the count is 553 liberal groups against 32 conservative ones, and the left has 462 times the funding of the right. A broad range of liberal groups thrive not because they have significant popular support, but because their big-donor funding stream is so massive and reliable. ✧ This isn’t just a story of numbers. Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Laksin point out that much of this money is the diverted product of the free-market system progressives are trying to undermine." Read more at Frontpagemag.com... Read More......

The scientific technological elite [Eisenhower's other warning]

 Republished 6/4/2012
AMERICAN THINKER, 12/7/2009 by Robert W. Ball - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 farewell address contained more than an admonition about the danger of an expanding "military-industrial complex." That speech was also an early warning of the current unholy alliance between the government and a scientific community dependent on the government for its funding.

"...(In) the technological revolution during recent decades...research has become central...complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government...the solitary inventor... has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields...

...the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded....we must...be alert to the...danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite." [ii]

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Eisenhower: The scientific technological elite

AMERICAN THINKER, 12/7/2009 by Robert W. Ball - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1960 farewell address contained more than an admonition about the danger of an expanding "military-industrial complex." That speech was also an early warning of the current unholy alliance between the government and a scientific community dependent on the government for its funding.

"...(In) the technological revolution during recent decades...research has become central...complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government...the solitary inventor... has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields...

...the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded....we must...be alert to the...danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite." [ii]

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Upfront money needed to ease UN climate deal

AP Report, 11/29/2009 - NEW YORK (AP) – Money on the table — perhaps $10 billion a year or more — could help close a deal in Denmark next month and keep climate talks moving toward a new global treaty in 2010. But if poorer nations see too little offered up front, the U.N. conference could end in discord. ∴ The money would help developing countries cope with ocean flooding, drought and other effects of climate change, while also helping them cut down on emissions of global-warming gases. The funds might eventually come from new sources, such as a tax on airline flights, but negotiators for now are seeking quicker infusions. ∴ "Rich countries must put at least $10 billion a year on the table to kick-start immediate action up to 2012," the U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer, told reporters last week in a preview of the two-week conference opening next Monday in Copenhagen. Read more at Yahoo News...

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YOU DECIDE: Take the poll at Studio B

FOX NEWS POLL, STUDIO B with Shepard Smith - "Would you be upset if GM used taxpayer money on its operations overseas?" Let Shep know how you feel. Take the poll. Read More......

How one thinks about money...

Something You Should Know, September 20, 2007, Mike Carruthers

Differences Between The Rich & Middle Class: Interview with Keith Cameron Smith, author of The Top 10 distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class

Mike Carruthers: Financially speaking, there are five types of people.

Keith Cameron Smith:
They are, the very poor, the poor, the middle class, the rich and very rich - and each one of those types thinks differently about money.

Keith Cameron Smith, author of the book The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class… Very poor people will think day-to-day. Poor people think week-to-week; middle class people think month-to-month; rich people think year-to-year and then very rich people will think decade-to-decade. So one of the keys to becoming financially free is to stretch your thinking further into the future.

And these five different types of people have very distinctive financial goals.

Primary goals for the poor and the very poor is survival and the primary goal for middle class people is comfort and most people live there. But the primary goal for the rich and very rich is freedom - where I'm going to do whatever it takes to experience abundance and freedom. And I think the old saying, "Seek and you will find" is very true when it comes to your finances. So if you seek to survive you will, if you seek to be comfortable you will be, but if you seek freedom you will find it.

Having studied successful people, Keith says, how they think and talk is different.

And when I speak around the country, I always offer up a challenge for the next seven days - try not to complain. And once you can go seven days without complaining, you start to become very aware of how powerful your words are. Your tongue is kind of like the rudder of a ship - it determines which direction you're headed in life. And so if you want to see where you're going to be next year or five years from now, you can really just listen to your own conversation and that will give you a real good clue.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.

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