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Institute funded by $4M gift from anonymous West Texas cattle rancher Tech officially opens Free Market Institute Texas Tech officials on Wednesday announced the opening of the new Free Market Institute designed to research and educate students, the Lubbock community and the nation on the benefits of free-market economics. Benjamin Powell will head the institute. He is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a newspaper columnist and a visiting professor in the Rawls College of Business, according to a Tech news release. Powell was editor of “Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development” and co-editor of...

Another “think tank,” this one called the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), has come out for total civilian disarmament and repeal of the Second Amendment. What’s new about that? ISPU is openly pro-Muslim, and the ISPU writer is a criminal defense attorney who argues for repealing parts of the Bill of Rights. You can read the whole article, entitled “In the Fight Against Terrorism, Some Rights Must Be Repealed,” by Junaid Afeef, on the ISPU website: http://www.ispu.us/pages/articles/2914/articleDetailPB.html A JPFO supporter sent us the link, and we did read the article, looking for: a. Inaccurate “facts” b. Missing data...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The nation's new intelligence chief has told congressional leaders that he is "deeply troubled" by the delay in winning Senate confirmation for a key aide. Delays in staffing up his office, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte wrote to the leaders of the Senate, "are hampering my ability to carry out my critical responsibilities." Negroponte, who began work in April setting up his newly created office as head of the nation's fractious gaggle of intelligence agencies, singled out the stalled nomination of his general counsel, Benjamin Powell, as "especially serious." "I am deeply troubled that...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 22, 2005, 5:20 p.m. Is a Key Intel Nominee a Hostage in the War over the War? A Bush appointment is tied up in the Senate. As leading Senate Democrats continue to accuse the Bush White House of misleading the country into war in Iraq, the administration is becoming increasingly frustrated by the decision of some Democrats in the Senate to block what the White House believes are key moves in the war on terror. Specifically, John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence — the post created by Congress...

...From his perch as ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Mr. Levin has been running a one-man assault on civilian appointees fighting the war on terror. He currently has a "hold" on no fewer than four nominees selected by President Bush for key national security posts: Eric Edelman for Undersecretary of Defense of Policy, the No. 3 position at the Pentagon; Peter Flory, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Alice Fisher, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; and Benjamin Powell, general counsel in the office of new Director of National Intelligence. Keep...