Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has studiously avoided discussing her five-and-a-half-year tenure as a director of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. Clinton, who served on the Walmart board from November 1986 to May 1992, while she was first lady of Arkansas, makes no mention of the experience in speeches, nor is it listed in her official biography
Americans for Limited Government, the tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial ballot initiatives this year, raised 99 percent of its $5.4 million in total contributions in 2005 from just three donors, the Center for Public Integrity has learned. The number of ALG’s major donors in 2005, but not their identities, was disclosed in financial statements obtained by
Americans for Limited Government, the Chicago-based tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial ballot initiatives this year, has apparently been forced to move out of Illinois because it could not comply with the state’s charity laws, the Center for Public Integrity has learned. Americans for Limited Government had operated from offices in Illinois since 2002, but just after
A Chicago-based tax-exempt organization that has been bankrolling takings initiatives in more than a half-dozen Western states — including all five with measures on the ballot this November 7 — continued to dispense millions of dollars even after its authority to do business had been revoked by Illinois authorities. The tax-exempt organization, Americans for Limited Government, Inc., has given
When American corporations come up against inconvenient science, say, a study showing that mercury in fish can damage a developing fetus, or that a blockbuster drug has nasty side effects, they call in the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). Industry-funded ACSH is the most aggressive debunker of pesky research reports emanating from government and academia.
Over nearly 20 years, the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon has raked in tens of millions of dollars for his wars against pornography, the teaching of evolution in public schools, reproductive freedom for women, and civil rights for homosexuals. But now Sheldon, the founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition in Anaheim, California, has embarked on a new crusade:
United Seniors Association, based in Fairfax, Va., calls itself an “influential and effective” advocacy organization for older Americans. The Seniors Coalition, based in Springfield, Va., describes itself as an “advocacy organization that represents the interests and concerns of America’s senior citizens.” The 60 Plus Association, based in Arlington, Va., describes itself as “an advocacy group with a free enterprise,
Late last month, the wife of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay tearfully told a national television audience that she and her husband were struggling to avoid personal bankruptcy following the collapse of the Houston energy-trading company. What Linda Lay failed to tell viewers of NBC’s “Today” show, however, was that she and her husband had shifted millions in personal
On October 17, 2001, almost two weeks after Robert Stevens died of pulmonary anthrax at a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Bush administration unveiled its plans to build up, in a big way, the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile — the drugs, vaccines, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, and other medical supplies that are kept at the ready to respond to
Visit any of the 55 plants that manufacture coal-based synthetic fuels and you might think that somebody has finally gotten serious about reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil. Well, think again. While all of the plants turn out products that pass as “synfuels” — coal that supposedly has been processed to burn more cleanly or efficiently — the facilities