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August 23, 2019 — Steven Hayward
When I really want to creep out a liberal, I tell them that I not only have met the Koch brothers, but once visited Charles Koch at the Death Star in Wichita, and dined with David Koch once in New York (in addition to some very friendly and thoughtful meetings in his office a long time ago). But then I usually like to deepen their dismay by going on to
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January 28, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
The Koch Brothers have notified donors that they will not support President Trump in 2020. This isn’t surprising. The Koch machine did not back Trump in 2016, and some of Trump’s policies — e.g. on trade and immigration — run counter to the Koch Brothers’ beliefs and financial interests. Trump won’t be brokenhearted by the news. He won without the Koch Brothers help last time and probably figures he can
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January 27, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Jim Geraghty declares Van Jones the “unlikely hero” of the Koch Network Winter Meetings. Hero, yes. Unlikely, not so much. The Koch machine is trending left. That’s been clear for some time. According to Geraghty, who attended the meetings, its next big ticket item, now that leniency for federal felons legislation has been enacted, is an amnesty deal, including a path to citizenship for “dreamers.” Geraghty notes that “this will
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November 27, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Meredith Corporation, a major magazine publisher headquartered in Iowa, has agreed to buy Time, Inc. for a little under $3 billion. The New York Times sheds tears over the transaction, referring to Time, Inc. as “the publisher of once-prestigious magazine titles including Time, Sports Illustrated and People.” Did they suddenly become non-prestigious now that the company is being bought by Meredith? Perhaps so. The Times explains that “Time Inc. is
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November 19, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Years ago, Glenn Reynolds advised conservative donors to spend less on political campaigns and more on buying up left-wing media properties, especially women’s magazines. As in this 2012 New York Post column: [R]ich people wanting to support the Republican Party might want to direct their money somewhere besides TV ads that copy, poorly, what Lee Atwater did decades ago. My suggestion: Buy some women’s magazines. No, really. Or at least
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January 2, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Politico has a curious story out about how Donald Trump a few days ago ejected from his Palm Beach golf course Harry Hurt, who wrote critically of Trump 20 years ago. Now, this might be just another tale in the long roster of evidence of Trump’s thin skin or vindictiveness, but for one important detail: Hurt was playing in a foursome with David Koch (cue evil sinister music now if
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August 31, 2016 — John Hinderaker
One of the critical races in the battle for control of the Senate is in Nevada, where the appalling Harry Reid is finally retiring as a rich man, after a long career in “public service.” The Democratic nominee is a Reid surrogate named Catherine Cortez Masto, while the Republican is Congressman Joe Heck. In his last years in the Senate, Reid pursued a bizarre vendetta against Charles and David Koch,
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April 24, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Remember Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” his initiative in 2008 to encourage people to vote for Hillary Clinton in the late primaries just to mess with Barack Obama’s march to the nomination? Well, it looks like the Koch brothers have decided to imitate the idea. I’m loving this story for all of the angst this will cause on the Left: Charles Koch: ‘It’s possible’ Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president
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November 21, 2015 — Steven Hayward
It’s getting so hard to keep up with the serial beclownings on the college campuses that I’m having to take anti-dizziness medication. But there’s one little snippet from the ongoing disgrace at the Claremont Colleges (where the presidents of the five undergraduate colleges in the cluster seem to be in a competition to see who can cave the farthest the fastest) that bears special note. According to a fine report
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March 6, 2015 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats’ campaign to smear climate realists is not going well. Congressman Raul Grijalva is taking a beating, and Dr. Willie Soon has struck back against the climate hysterics who are persecuting him. As part of their smear campaign, Democratic Senators Boxer, Markey and Whitehouse wrote to Koch Industries to request information, covering the last 10 years, “about Koch Industries’ payments made in support of scientific research and scientists, as
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December 4, 2014 — Steven Hayward
Most big businesses that decry “big government” and “Washington interference” also lobby heavily for favorable tax treatment and anti-competitive regulations. So it is worth noting that Koch Industries (cue evil mustache-twirl music now if you are a mindless liberal) is publicly arguing right now to let expire all of the “temporary” tax “extender” measures that Congress likes to roll over every year and that benefit a number of Koch’s own
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October 15, 2014 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats, hard up for issues to run on this year, decided to try to run against Charles and David Koch. This strategy was counterintuitive, since most people had no idea who the Kochs are, and voters are notoriously indifferent to campaign finance issues. But the Democrats pressed ahead, holding press conferences, denouncing the Kochs on the Senate floor, producing videos, and spending untold millions on campaign ads tying Republican
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August 15, 2014 — John Hinderaker
Left-wing political operative David Brock’s group, American Bridge, released a report today titled “Legacy of Loss: Koch Industries’ Layoffs and Environmental Harm in Battleground States.” The reference to battleground states eliminates any doubt as to the report’s purpose; it is basically a pastiche of news stories and rumors cobbled together from an internet search or two, intended for this year’s Congressional campaigns. The quality of the report, as one expects
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August 5, 2014 — John Hinderaker
If there is anyone in the world who knows how to create wealth and generate good, high-paying jobs, it is Charles Koch. In USA Today, Koch sets out a basic prescription for how to improve our economy, accompanied by some eye-popping statistics: Like most Americans, I am deeply concerned about our weak economic recovery and its effects on millions of families. Opportunity, especially for the young and disadvantaged, is declining.
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May 12, 2014 — Steven Hayward
No, of course not, but Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela drives corn syrup consumption (and therefore obesity) in the United States. Unquestionably. Everyone is–or should be–familiar with two things: that the rise in global temperature tracks the rise on CO2 levels, and that correlation is not causation. At least you know that latter fact if you’ve ever studied basic statistics. Comes now a wonderful new website, Spurious Correlations, that shows a wide
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May 11, 2014 — Scott Johnson
At the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire Michael Crittenden has compiled “Things Harry Reid has blamed on the Koch brothers.” Crittenden even ventures an explanation: In an attempt to make them the centerpiece of Democrats’ efforts to retain the Senate in November’s midterms, Mr. Reid has regularly used the two billionaires as his go-to bogeymen, referring to Republicans’ “addiction to Koch” (yes, the surname is pronounced Coke) and regularly attacking
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April 15, 2014 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press tabulates Federal Election Commission findings, and finds that Democrats have opened up a big advantage among outside groups: Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national parties and their super PAC allies are already approaching the $1 billion mark, according to financial reports still being filed Tuesday evening. … Democrats, at least for the moment, seem to
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