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Cato has criticized President Obama's stances on policy issues since his inauguration, such as fiscal stimulus, healthcare reform, foreign policy, and the War on Drugs, while supporting his stance on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and liberal immigration policy.
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This policy has often been cited by economists such as Milton Friedman and the Cato Institute as an example of the benefits of laissez-faire capitalism.
Since the time of Cato, basic pasta dough has been made mostly of wheat flour or semolina, with durum wheat used predominantely in the South of Italy and soft wheat in the North.
* At Polybius ' request, Scipio Aemilianus manages to gain the support of the Roman statesman Cato the Elder ( whose son has married Scipio's sister Aemilia ) for a proposal to release ( and return to Greece ) the 300 Achaean internees who are still being held without trial after being deported to Rome in 167 BC.
Even Cato, however, conceded that the Reagan Doctrine had " fired the enthusiasm of the conservative movement in the United States as no foreign policy issue has done in decades.
Cato President Ed Crane has a particular dislike for neoconservatism.
" Cato has stated on its " About Cato " page:
As a consequence, the Cato Institute has criticized a number of decisions made by President Obama, just as it had regularly criticized decisions made by former President Bush.
Ayn Rand scorned the nascent libertarian movement and her intellectual heir, Leonard Peikoff, has followed her lead, refusing to associate with libertarian organizations, Cato included.
Cato has published strong criticisms of the 1998 settlement that many U. S. states signed with the tobacco industry.
Cato has published numerous studies criticizing what it calls " corporate welfare ", the practice of public officials funneling taxpayer money, usually via targeted budgetary spending, to politically connected corporate interests.
Cato has held a number of briefings on global warming with global warming skeptics as panelists.
The Cato Institute has also criticized political attempts to stop global warming as expensive and ineffective:
Cato has often criticized Al Gore's stances on the issue of global warming and agreed with the Bush administration's skeptical attitude toward the Kyoto protocols.
Steven Milloy, at the time a Cato adjunct scholar, celebrated Rall's death on his site junkscience. com, writing: " Scratch one junk scientist who promoted the bankrupt idea that poisoning rats with a chemical predicts cancer in humans exposed to much lower levels of the chemical a notion that, at the very least, has wasted billions and billions of public and private dollars.
Since 2002, the Cato Institute has awarded the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty every two years to " an individual who has made a significant contribution to advancing human freedom.
Though the play has fallen from popularity and is now rarely performed, it was widely popular and often cited in the eighteenth century, with Cato as an exemplar of republican virtue and liberty.
In the final act, Cato commits suicide, leaving his supporters to make their peace with the approaching Caesar — an easier task after Cato's death, since he has been Caesar's most implacable foe.
Public Citizen's pro-regulatory stance has been criticized by business groups such as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as by free-market non-profit institutes such as the Cato Institute, among others.
Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute has disputed this analaysis, noting that while Communists movements tend to dispose rival authoritarians, the traditional authoritarian regimes supported by the US came to power by overthrowing democracies.
Caesar's pamphlet has not survived, but some of its contents may be inferred from Plutarch's Life of Cato, which also repeats many of the stories that Caesar put forward in his Anti-Cato.
Jillette is a Fellow at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, and has stated that he " always " votes Libertarian.
However, the decision also has attracted defenders, including the libertarian Cato Institute, and scholars Richard Epstein and Randy Barnett who argue that Lochner was correct in its protection of economic liberty.
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During the 2008 U. S. presidential election, Cato scholars criticized both major-party candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.
The alleged funding was criticized by the Cato Institute, which stated that:
William Niskanen, chairman emeritus of the libertarian Cato Institute, criticized “ starve the beast .” If deficits finance 20 % of government spending, then citizens perceive government services as discounted.
" He criticized the Bush Iraq policy, and broader White House and congressional foreign and domestic policy making, in his keynote address for the Cato Institute's 2006 Milton Friedman Prize dinner.
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Cato scholars were critical of the expansion of executive power under President George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
And in the 109th Congress, President Bush's immigration plan – which was based on a proposal by Cato scholar Dan Griswold – went down to defeat largely due to the eventual opposition of conservative Republican congressmen.
Cato scholars opposed President George H. W. Bush's 1991 Gulf War operations ( a position which caused the organization to lose nearly $ 1 million in funding ), President Bill Clinton's interventions in Haiti and Kosovo, and President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq.
" Cato Institute President Edward Crane called Milloy's attack an " inexcusable lapse in judgment and civility ," but Milloy refused to apologize.
Cato Executive Vice President David Boaz wrote that " I won't deny that this latest op-ed played a role in our decision.
1882 ), Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute David Boaz ( B. A.
Tom Gordon Palmer ( born 1956 in Bitburg-Mötsch, Germany ) is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, director of the Institute's educational division, Cato University, Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and General Director of the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity.
Palmer is a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, where he was previously also Vice President for International Programs and director of its Center for the Promotion of Human Rights.
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, stated in a white paper that " President Bush's constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers.
He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the Advisory Board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe.
* Edward H. Crane ( Founder and President of the Cato Institute )
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A 1990 article for the Cato Institute identifies Singer as the director of the science and environmental policy project at the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, on leave from the University of Virginia.
* Exchange between Schneider and Richard Lindzen is no longer available on the Cato Institute web site, but is available on the Internet Archive
* February 23 – The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed in England ; the principals are executed on May 1.
O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.
Still others, such as the Cato Institute, promote libertarian social and economic theories based on Friedrich von Hayek's idea of free markets and individual liberty.
* April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.
Some libertarian groups, such as the Cato Institute, criticize smart growth on the grounds that it leads to greatly increased land values, and people with average incomes can no longer afford to buy detached houses.
In Rome, writers and philosophers like Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the elder, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Cato and Collumella also expressed important ideas on this ground.
Dioscorides listed horseradish under Thlaspi or Persicon ; Cato discusses the plant in his treatises on agriculture, and a mural in Pompeii shows the plant.
For instance, the important Anti-Federalist authors " Cato " and " Brutus " debuted in New York papers on September 27 and October 18, 1787, respectively.
According to the Cato Institute, the U. S. federal government will spend almost $ 100 billion on corporate welfare during fiscal year 2012.
* Basilica Porcia: first basilica built in Rome ( 184 BC ), erected on the personal initiative and financing of the censor Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) as an official building for the tribunes of the plebs
According to Appian the senator Cato the Elder usually finished his speeches on any subject in the Senate with the phrase ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, which means " Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed ".
* During his time in Carthage, Cato is so struck by the evidence of Carthaginian prosperity that he is convinced that the security of Rome now depends on the annihilation of Carthage.
From this time on, Cato keeps repeating the cry " Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam " (" Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed ") at the end of all his speeches, no matter what subject they concern.
* TESTIMONY of Stephen Moore Director of Fiscal Policy Studies The Cato Institute before the Committee on Judiciary U. S. House of Representatives-THE CATO INSTITUTE-March 23, 2000
In 1984 the Australian television mini-series, All the Rivers Run, based on a novel by Nancy Cato and starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters, was filmed in and around Echuca.
In the novel Labyrinth of Evil, Gunray returns to his home on Cato Neimoidia to plunder what wealth he can, while being pursued by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The exaggerated age, however, is inconsistent with a statement recorded by Plutarch on the asserted authority of Cato himself.
Two years later, Cato was one of the select group who went with the consul Claudius Nero on his northern march from Lucania to check the progress of Hasdrubal Barca.
It is recorded that the services of Cato contributed to the decisive victory of Sena on the Metaurus, where Hasdrubal was slain.
When Scipio, acting on the consent which, after much opposition, he had obtained from the senate, transported the armed forces from Sicily into Africa, Cato and Gaius Laelius were appointed to escort the baggage ships.
However true the facts may be, Cato successfully proved himself by his eloquence, and by the production of detailed financial accounts, against the attacks made on his behavior while consul ; and the existing fragments of the speeches, ( or the same speech under different names ), made after his return, attest the strength and boldness of his arguments.
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