John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:
- Is Meta a danger to human liberty?
During the pandemic Big Tech took much of the sting out of the lockdowns and mask mandates by providing limitless brain-numbing entertainment and convenient online shopping. Mark Zuckerberg sees the Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook) as "the next chapter of social connection." But could it also be a modern version of bread and circuses to continue pacifying the masses? CRC's Michael Watson peers into the brave new virtual world here.
- Who killed San Francisco?
San Francisco in 2020 saw drug overdoses claim more than twice as many lives (697) as COVID-19 (257). Yet San Francisco's narcotics fatalities were just the by-product of its toxic public policies--progressive policies that led to a dramatic spike in homelessness, a breakdown of law and order, and a total lack of accountability for failure. CRC's Ken Braun reviews San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger here.
- Did the House kill the excise tax on large university endowments?
In 2017, Congress imposed a 1.4 percent tax on colleges and universities with total assets exceeding $500,000 per student. An earlier version of the Build Back Better Act would have greatly reduced the tax, but the House Rules Committee quietly removed the provision. CRC's Michael Hartmann reports on the sorrows of the Harvard faculty club and the broader implications for other nonprofits here.
- When is "properly conducted" business a crime?
Earlier this week, a federal jury convicted Philadelphia union boss "Johnny Doc" Dougherty and Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon (D-6th District) of conspiracy and fraud-related charges. After the verdict, Dougherty complained he was "found guilty of . . . how business and politics are typically and properly conducted." Michael Watson exposes what is in fact typical of Philly unions here.
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Woke Children's Books: Indoctrinating the Next Generation of Radicals
While the progressive children's books of the 1970s sought to promote tolerance of different viewpoints, races, religions, and orientations, today's leftist children's books are transparently anti-free-market propaganda that seek to divide people and even upend our most basic cultural traditions. The Left's culture war has many fronts, and the children of America are firmly in the crosshairs. With teachers unions controlling the school curriculum, most parents won't know when this propaganda reaches school libraries or the classroom.
Watch the 3-minute video here.
Read the related CRC report here.
InfluenceWatch Podcast 195
How Teachers Unions Affect Elections
In this episode: Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments. The most notable case: school boards. Thanks to three election schemes--block voting, nonpartisan races, and off-cycle elections--teachers unions gain structural advantages that let them elect the people who set standards, enforce policies, and fund public school systems.
Joining us to discuss how special interest groups take advantage of municipal elections is Max Eden, who studies education at the American Enterprise Institute.
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