Heritage Foundation Crazy Board

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

No man ever had a freer hand in running the Central Intelligence Agency than William J. Casey, who died in May just as the questions began to get really sticky, and none ever left the agency in worse shape. Lt. Col. Oliver L. North is even money to come out of the Iran- contra affair with halo tarnished but intact, and even President Reagan may squeak by with scout’s honor he didn’t know and won’t do it again–but the good soldiers who worked for Casey in the CIA have been surprised inside the chicken coop, trying to explain a mouthful of feathers, and fate has left them friendless to take the rap.

Joseph Coors, a Colorado beer executive and longtime contributor to conservative causes, said that his concern about the “steady oppression” of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government caused him to approach William J. Casey, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, about helping the contras.

One fact about Steve Kangas is indisputable: This proud veteran of years of political argument in Internet discussion forums, and creator of an award-winning Web site devoted to liberal issues, is dead. On Feb. 8, his body was discovered in a men’s room on the 39th floor of a building in Pittsburgh — just outside the offices of conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

Richard Mellon Scaife, the most generous donor to conservative causes in American history, is astoundingly rich and has given away more than $600 million, yet is known to people who have worked for him as a cheapskate.

Richard Mellon Scaife, the most generous donor to conservative causes in American history, is astoundingly rich and has given away more than $600 million, yet is known to people who have worked for him as a cheapskate.

Many Democrats—and some Republicans—expressed bewildered shock at the outcome of the 2016 election. Recovering quickly, pundits began to weigh in on “what went wrong.” But the constant rehash of the mistakes and manipulations of a single campaign cycle will not yield the electoral or policy outcomes that progressives want. For that, they must come to terms with their failure to match a half-century of sustainable long-term strategic investment on the Right.

I think this may be the closest I’ve ever been to flabbergasted in my entire life. Either somebody gave him really bad advice as a joke or a hole has torn in the space time continuum.

Link without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/heritage-paper-on-families-calls-for-marriage-bootcamp-more-babies/ar-AA1TOjQX

On August 7, thousands of state legislators and corporate lobbyists were scheduled to descend on Orlando, Florida, for the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. There, they could play golf, listen to speeches by Secretary of Education Rod Paige and Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, and attend the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award Banquet, raising a glass to limited government. Those able to resist the lure of Epcot and Gatorland could also attend sessions on “free market” reforms designed to minimize government’s role in health care and curb lawsuits by consumers. And all the while, state representatives and business lobbyists would engage in what ALEC calls an “exchange of ideas” about public policy.

Right-Wing Activist Phyllis Schlafly was back on the warpath. Holding an open letter to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop at a Washington press conference last Friday, Schlafly denounced him for appearing to advocate the “teaching of safe sodomy in public schools.” She accused Koop, a conservative born- again Christian, of not sufficiently promoting chastity. Though the letter, signed by 54 other activists, was addressed to Koop, its message was aimed much further. According to Schlafly, “this is a political issue, and how politicians address it is very important.”

We have watched with concern and chagrin during this campaign as DeAngelo repeatedly has demonstrated blatant duplicity in dealing with north Brevard voters. His campaign style is not hard to understand when one considers where he got much of his political training. According to Federal Election Commission records, he worked from July 1981 until February 1982 for the National Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington.

This exclusive excerpt goes behind the scenes of Ronald Reagan’s Washington to meet the powerful Dolan brothers: Terry the fiery founder of the notorious National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), which pioneered the 30-second attack ad; older brother Tony the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned chief Reagan speechwriter.

Ten days after Terry Dolan, the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, died of complications of AIDS last Dec. 28, his family and hundreds of friends and political allies gathered for a memorial service. Sens. Orrin Hatch and Gordon Humphrey, and Dolan’s brother Anthony, a White House speech writer, praised Dolan for his contributions to shaping the conservative movement. Former White House chief of communications Pat Buchanan and former senator Paul Laxalt attended the service at the Dominican House of Study.

Ten days after Terry Dolan, the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, died of complications of AIDS last Dec. 28, his family and hundreds of friends and political allies gathered for a memorial service. Sens. Orrin Hatch and Gordon Humphrey, and Dolan’s brother Anthony, a White House speech writer, praised Dolan for his contributions to shaping the conservative movement. Former White House chief of communications Pat Buchanan and former senator Paul Laxalt attended the service at the Dominican House of Study.

The breakfast meetings, led by Meese, began in 2009 as an outgrowth of the Council for National Policy, a group founded 30 years ago by the Rev. Tim LaHaye, an evangelical minister, with the help of Paul Weyrich, an iconic conservative political organizer, sources said.

This whole article is very brief and worth a read, but a few (what the fuck among all of the what the actual fuck) mentions:

May 1, 1999

And there is another not-so-libertarian legacy of Scaife’s funding that was not mentioned in most of his obituaries.

Interesting article about Roger Stone becoming Roger Stone.

Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders. The books offered a detailed program of spiritual warfare against Western democracies culminating in “controlled global collapse” and the establishment of a “supranational” state headed by a Prince-Monk who “best understands the world.” The plan described is ultimately a program for subjugating the world, which would also be united together in a single religion.

By 1980, though, conservatism had come to Washington, and the entire organizational landscape had changed. Not only was there Heritage, founded in 1973 with the support of beer magnate Joseph Coors, but also the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the American Conservative Union, and more. Edwin Feulner, then the president of Heritage, recalls that the inspiration for Mandate was a meeting at which former treasury secretary William Simon complained that when he got to Washington to serve under Nixon, he had no guidance on any “practical plans” for enacting a conservative agenda. The Heritage Foundation set to work to make sure this wouldn’t happen again under Reagan in 1981.

Speaking the language of everyday people rather than the Democratic lexicon of programmatic liberalism, the right has enjoyed a rhetorical advantage in American politics for decades. Republican domination of the airwaves and fiber-optic cable networks is certain to increase during the next election cycle. Following the success of Rising Tide, the party is about to begin producing a second show, Listening to America, a title lifted, ironically, from the liberal television journalist Bill Moyers. Republicans are using their high-tech studio to produce ready-to-air sound bites and interviews for more than 700 local television stations that don’t mind a little propaganda in their daily fare. For local activists, the Republican National Committee also produces interactive interview programs that feature senators, House representatives and state leaders and that enable believers to plot legislative strategy and grass-roots lobbying campaigns. “We are trying to get information to the viewer unfiltered by the media elites,” says Barbour. “Talk radio helps, so does C-SPAN, and GOP-TV is another opportunity.”

Nelson: I wrote Shadow Network out of a sense of civic duty. I observed some trends in our national life that were anti-democratic and detrimental to our public welfare. I’m deeply concerned by the epidemic of gun violence in our schools, the growing disdain for science and fact-based reporting, and, gravest of all, the campaigns against climate science and environmental protections.

Bisbee, a lieutenant in the Leo network, previously worked at the Federalist Society as Director of State Courts and Deputy Director of External Relations while Leo was an executive. Leo still co-chairs the board.

The secretive conservative lobbying group, Council for National Policy, quietly held their annual meeting sometime in late September.

Paywall removed: https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F1987%2F07%2Fthe-republicans Three Republican factions emerged after the Second World War: the parties of Wall Street, Main Street, and, eventually, Easy Street.

He Formed The First Young Republicans Club In The Soviet Union, But Soured On America After Ukraine’s Orange Revolution

Where does Russian disinformation incubate in US?

The new religious right has turned against the old religious right.

Adrian Vermeule, a professor at Harvard Law School, is an “ideological lodestar” among conservatives who are impatient with originalism—the idea that the Constitution’s meaning can be determined by its text and the founders’ intent, according to a story by the New York Times.

when I first sat down to read Project 2025, I was most struck not by the newness of the proposals but by their deep familiarity. Half a century after its founding, Heritage Foundation has gone back to its roots and to the vision of one of its key founders, the right-wing political activist Paul Weyrich. To understand Project 2025 and its implications for the United States, we need to understand what it was Weyrich sought to create and what he hoped to accomplish.

Inspired by Ronald Reagan and funded by the right’s richest donors, a web of free-market think tanks has fueled the nationwide attack on workers’ rights.

Nelson seeks to document the connections between “the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of Western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives.” Many of these connections, she writes, were made possible through the CNP, whose members have included such familiar names as Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, former White House strategist Steve Bannon, the Christian Coallition’s first executive director Ralph Reed and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.

Only the purest of the movement had gathered at Coronado: men like Oliver North, Pat Robertson, and Larry Pratt (whom the press had recently drummed into exile for his alleged ties to white supremacists). In the past, the group’s clandestine revival meetings had spawned liberal warnings of a right-wing conspiracy.

Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992. to influence policy at the state level, allegedly after being urged to do so by Ronald Reagan. SPN currently has a network of think tanks in all 50 states.

The mayor of Moscow and dissidents from the old Soviet system last week raised the flag of the Russian Republic on a beaux-arts house at 1800 Connecticut Ave. And everyone cheered.

A REPUBLICAN IN MOSCOW By David S. Broder December 3, 1989

More than 30 years before Project 2025, Weyrich openly suggested dismantling democracy and government institutions in response to the Iran Contra, because he believed it reflected a system that allowed for failed leadership and inexperienced cabinet advisors.