Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) Background Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) โ€œtaxpayer advocacy groupโ€ ย founded in 1985 by Grover Norquistย at the request of Ronald Reagan. According to their website, โ€œAmericans for Tax Reform (ATR) opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle.โ€1โ€œAbout,โ€ Americans for Tax Reform. Archived October 8, 2016. […]

IceAgeNow

IceAgeNow Background IceAgeNow is a website originally located atย iceagenow.com and later at iceagenow.info. It describesย itselfย as โ€œa Web site dedicated to showing that our climate is driven by natural cycles, not by humansโ€ that fears that โ€œone of those cycles โ€“ the Milankovitch Cycle โ€“ is leading us into the next ice age right nowโ€ and […]

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) Background The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) is a 501(c)(3) organization thatย describes itself as โ€œan independent, non-profit educational and research organization that actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.โ€ The group was […]

Free to Choose Network

Free to Chooseย Network Background The Free to Choose Network is a a non-profit foundation that arose from Milton Friedman‘s 1980s PBS series, โ€œFree To Chooseโ€ and the resulting book. The group’s founder, Bob Chitester, was the PBS program’s executive producer and sought to โ€œexpose a world hindered by big government to Friedmanโ€™s concepts of limited […]

Australian Libertarian Society

Australian Libertarian Society (ALS) Background The Australian Libertarian Society (ALS) was founded by John Humphreys in 2000. It supports โ€œfree-markets, individual liberty and the promotion of peaceful, voluntary interaction betweenย people.โ€ Humphreys is also a board member of the Australian Taxpayersย Alliance. ALS‘s aim is โ€œto bring together the many different strands of libertarian thought spread through […]

Alternate Solutions Institute

Alternate Solutions Institute Background The Alternate Solutions Institute describes itself as the โ€œfirst free market think tank of Pakistan,โ€ and as a registered, non-profit, โ€œnon-political, non-governmental, educational and research organization.โ€ It was established in April, 2003 in Lahore, Pakistan. The group states […]

Thomas Wysmuller

Thomas Wysmuller Credentials Background Thomas Wysmuller is the owner of Colderside.com which he describes as part of the โ€œPublic Policy industry.โ€ He gives regular speeches on โ€œThe Colder Side of Global Warming.โ€ Wysmuller has worked as a meteorologist for the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau in Amsterdam and was an intern at NASA.1 โ€œThe Colder Side […]

H. Leighton Steward

H. Leighton Steward Credentials Background H. Leighton Steward is the President and Chairman of Plants Need CO2, a group founded in 2009 with the mission โ€œto educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2.โ€ Plants […]

Roger Helmer

Roger Helmer Credentials Background Roger Helmer is a former member of European Parliament for the East Midlands of Great Britain, representing the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a group pushing the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. Helmer resigned in June, 2017 during an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds.1โ€œUK MEPs worst in […]

Laurence Gould

Laurence (Larry) I. Gould Credentials Background Laurence I. Gould is a professor of physics at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is also former chairman of the New England Section of the American Physical Society. He was a Yale Visiting Fellow in 1988-89 in the Philosophy Department lecturing on the Foundations of Physics, working […]