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Economic Crisis Sidelines Global Warming Concerns

By | 03.17.09 | 12:26 pm

As the Obama administration moves forward with its green agenda, climate change concerns have been elevated to a top priority. Yet in the midst of the deepening economic crisis, public opinion appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

A Gallup poll released last Wednesday found a More…

Conservative Think Tank Adjusts to Tough Times

By | 03.13.09 | 6:00 am

?The buzz at this year’s American Enterprise Institute gala was, ironically enough, about how much easier it was to get inside. For eight years, entering the annual black tie dinner — put on by the influential conservative think tank that supplied the George W. More…

Former AEI Scholar Blasts Danielle Pletka

By | 03.11.09 | 6:02 pm

I just talked to Joshua Muravchik, a former American Enterprise Institute scholar who was fired last year in what Jacob Heilbrunn described as a purge of neoconservatives. Muravchik wanted to correct the record on this.

“It was not a purge of neoconservatives,” he said. “It was more mundane and More…