The Kochs and the Cato Institute: a hostile takover? | James Antle | The Guardian:
April 2, 2012 - "Seldom do internecine quarrels among libertarians receive much notice from the outside world. But the battle between the Koch brothers and the Cato Institute's current management for control of Washington, DC's main libertarian thinktank is all the rage. The Washington Post and New York Times have both published riveting accounts of the personalities and principles involved. A 'Save the Cato Institute' Facebook page has attracted more than 5,500 'likes'.... Cato officials have mounted a full-court press arguing that Koch control of the board would reduce the thinktank to an appendage of the Republican party....
"Cato has published papers critical of both the 'war on drugs' and the Bush administration's conduct of the 'war on terror'. While there is no strict party line, many of their scholars have opposed the Iraq war and expressed civil libertarian concerns about the Patriot Act. Cato is sympathetic to open immigration and same-sex marriage. Some of these priorities have sat uneasily with their more conservative Republican donors in the past."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/02/kochs-cato-institute-hostile-takeover?newsfeed=true
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April 2, 2012 - "Seldom do internecine quarrels among libertarians receive much notice from the outside world. But the battle between the Koch brothers and the Cato Institute's current management for control of Washington, DC's main libertarian thinktank is all the rage. The Washington Post and New York Times have both published riveting accounts of the personalities and principles involved. A 'Save the Cato Institute' Facebook page has attracted more than 5,500 'likes'.... Cato officials have mounted a full-court press arguing that Koch control of the board would reduce the thinktank to an appendage of the Republican party....
"Cato has published papers critical of both the 'war on drugs' and the Bush administration's conduct of the 'war on terror'. While there is no strict party line, many of their scholars have opposed the Iraq war and expressed civil libertarian concerns about the Patriot Act. Cato is sympathetic to open immigration and same-sex marriage. Some of these priorities have sat uneasily with their more conservative Republican donors in the past."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/02/kochs-cato-institute-hostile-takeover?newsfeed=true
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