“Center for American Progress” on The Daily Caller

Former Obama administration Department of Energy loan programs adviser Steve Spinner jumped up a bracket in fundraising for the president’s re-election campaign. (more)

The Center for American Progress (CAP) has pushed for a lot of loony ideas, but that is what one would expect from a Soros-funded organization tasked with providing intellectual cover for a brain-dead administration. (more)

In times of tragedy, there are always hucksters trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace religion. In light of yesterday’s op-ed on The Center for American Progress’s Think Progress blog that essentially blames Republicans for last week’s devastating tornadoes, it seems some opportunists just can’t break the pattern of huckster behavior in the face of disaster. (more)

The left-leaning Center for American Progress published a blog post Thursday blaming Republicans for the tornadoes that devastated the South earlier this week. (more)

I’m a big fan of giving the benefit of the doubt to issues I don’t agree with. My thinking is always that if there’s a ban, a loophole or a hurdle, it was placed there not to piss anybody off, but because of some honest, albeit sometimes wrong-headed, motivation to do the right thing. When I discover, however, that the driving force is malevolent, illegal, or just plain immoral, all bets are off. (more)

On a day when the press is savaging President Obama for offering paltry budget cuts while debt — “a new red menace,” as Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels put it — threatens to cripple Americans’ standard of living, there exists a parallel universe where Obama is out-cutting House Speaker John Boehner. (more)

It’s always fun to watch wingnuts become so blindly zealous in their argument that they start attacking their own side like some twisted political game of pin the tail on the donkey. This week, it’s the lunatic left fringe getting its panties all in a bunch over my recent speculation that Wall Street short-sellers are funding the Center for American Progress’s advertising blitz in order to drive down the stock of publicly traded for-profit colleges. These are the same short-sellers recently exposed by the Wall Street Journal for working closely with senior Obama administration officials to impose new government regulations that would hurt for-profit colleges and reap the short-sellers millions of dollars. (more)

With the 2010 electoral successes of the GOP cemented in a sworn-in House majority, the outlook for conservative and pro-market causes seems bright. However one doesn’t have to look too far back in political history to temper that enthusiasm. Two short years ago, the media was writing conservatism’s obituary and celebrating the forty-year liberal reign that was supposedly on the horizon. In the first half of the last decade, while Republicans were enjoying electoral success, the Left was busy creating a sustainable shadow infrastructure to lead and, above all, stay out of the wilderness. (more)

On Tuesday, while most of us were preparing to play the State of the Union drinking game, the Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating article on its front page exposing the role that short-sellers, those investment gurus who bet on specific stock prices falling, have been playing in the development of federal guidelines regulating for-profit colleges. Advocacy by these investors runs the gamut from initiating letter-writing campaigns to testifying before Congress in the hopes of passing rules that would seriously hinder these colleges’ bottom lines — forcing, you guessed it, their stocks to drop. (more)

The Daily Caller attentively listened to panelists laud California’s Paid Family Leave (PFL) law when one expert began to expound on breastfeeding. There was even a chart. Suddenly, it occurred to TheDC that it was surrounded almost entirely by women. (more)

Campus Progress, an online magazine produced by liberal think tank the Center For American Progress, has been out front in its reporting on the for-profit schools issue, publishing a series of stories alleging conflicts of interest and disclosure problems among Democratic consultants working, or allegedly working, on the issue. (more)

As I write (early this evening), Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life after being shot in the head during a constituency event outside a grocery store in Tucson. (more)

In November, Bracken Hendricks, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal D.C. think tank, wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post entitled “Don’t believe in global warming? That’s not very conservative.” His op-ed wasn’t very convincing, but it got me thinking of the various ways that the push for cap-and-trade legislation undermines traditionally liberal goals, like helping poor people. (more)

Increased warm temperatures indicate global warming. Severe winter storms also help prove global warming, according to a recent op-ed in the New York Times. So is there any weather pattern that would disprove or call into question the existence of global warming? (more)

Congressman-elect Tim Scott, one of two incoming freshman Republicans who will serve as part of GOP leadership, is voicing doubts about raising the debt ceiling, a key showdown vote poised for the first few months of the next Congress that incoming Speaker John Boehner has called “first really big adult moment” his conference will face. (more)

Cap and trade may be dead, but Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry recently told an audience he intends to push legislation in the 112th Congress that will have a similar effect on the nation’s carbon emissions. (more)

FreedomWorks – the Washington, D.C. based conservative activist organization released a statement late Monday praising the Virginia court ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care bill, essentially calling it the beginning of the end of Obamacare. The organization called the decision a “blow on behalf of limited government and common sense.” (more)

President Obama hastily scheduled an afternoon press conference at the White House Tuesday, seeking to head off growing anger in his own party over compromises to Republicans in a tax cut deal announced Monday. (more)

Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer fight has taken a turn for the worse, with the disease spreading to her liver and doctors recommending against additional treatment. (more)

Washington was home to an odd double-tiered reality Thursday, where the House passed a tax cut bill designed to please their base but widely referred to as “symbolic” because it cannot pass the Senate, the Senate scheduled a vote Saturday on the same, and left-wing groups nonetheless viciously decried their party for surrendering to political certainties. (more)