Thoughts On the Tides Foundation

Recently Byron Williams has been arrested. He was targeting the ACLU and the Tides Foundation. The Left have focused on how Glenn Beck has recently focused upon this organization. See TPM and Media Matters.

I first heard about this organization from David Horowitz's DiscoverThe Networks. Here is their profile of Tides. I first heard about them around 2007. They said that the Tides Foundation was the second greatest foundation funder of the Left, behind the Ford Foundation. Similar to Glenn Beck today they asserted that the Tides Foundation is quite powerful.

Today I would be quite skeptical of these assertions. Discover The Networks very often likes to associate the modern day Left with Communism. That rhetorical tactic is vastly overdone there.

I Love This Story

A rather amusing and highly unlikely story. Absolutely brilliant.

Wise Words

"The true danger in politics is when people in power elevate ideological purity over their basic humanity, empathy, and common sense. This danger is as present on the Left as it is on the Right. From Stalin to Hitler, from Pol Pot to Pinochet, from the Crusades to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, by far the greatest evils perpetrated by persons in power are done out of rigid and passionate commitment to ideology. The brutal human consequences of that ideology are ignored or justified as subservient to the perceived greater good of whatever Utopian ideal happens to be in vogue." (Source.)

Paul Krugman on the Myths of Austerity

Myths of austerity.