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	Cato Institute
		Cato's mission is to "increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace.
		Other, on-going projects include the Cato Center for Constitutional Government, which seeks to apply the doctrine of enumerated powers, or the belief that the federal government should be limited to those powers enumerated in the Constitution, to such areas as property rights, federalism, tort reform, and economic liberty.
		Cato is the leading Libertarian think tank; it has close ties to House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), who has frequently given speeches at Cato in the past several years...
	www.mediatransparency.org /recipientprofile.php?recipientID=51 (1145 words)

	Cato Institute Blog
		The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace.
		The Cato Institute is a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational foundation under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
		Cato's 2000 revenues were just under $13 million, and it has approximately 90 full-time employees, 60 adjunct scholars, and 16 fellows, plus interns.
	www.newsbull.com /m.asp?id=569 (2032 words)

	Talk:Cato Institute - SourceWatch
		In fact, at a CATO Institute forum in October 1994, the biostatistician who co-authored the EPA report downplayed the health risks of ETS by stating "the relative risk of ETS is not terribly high."...
		William Nisskanen, editor of the Cato Institute's Public Interest magazine, says the Food and Drug Administration's stated goal of attempting to declare nicotine a drug with stricter controls is part of a trend toward supplanting individual responsibility with government regulation.
		The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies is holding a policy forum on 8/5 entitled, "Tobacco Settlement: Sweetheart Deal, Health Imperative, or Legal Extortion?" Speakers include William Novelli, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Attorneys General of Alabama and New York, and Roberty Levy, Cato Institute.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Cato_Institute (3086 words)

	AlterNet: There's Something About Cato
		The libertarian think-tank Cato Institute has been anathema to the Left since the early '90s -- but today, liberals are finding themselves increasingly on the same side of the political fence as their arch-enemy.
		Cato is one of the most vociferous critics of the "Attack Saddam" brigade.
		Cato makes the same argument but from a national security angle: The U.S. has no business meddling in the Middle East because it is simply not important to our national interest.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13083 (1844 words)

	The Cato Institute: "Libertarian"In A Corporate Way -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
		Cato's latest annual report says that Pinera, a former minister of labor and welfare in Chile, "oversaw the privatization of Chile's pension system in the early 1980s" -- but does not mention that at the time the Chilean government was under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
		In terms of commitment to human rights, Cato has found a kindred spirit in Rupert Murdoch, who is fond of floating lofty rhetoric about his Star TV satellite network.
		But Levy, whose title is "senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute," has consistently received respectful media coverage -- without reference to the links between the tobacco industry he defends and the think tank that employs him.
	www.accuracy.org /article.php?articleId=51 (1141 words)

	People For the American Way - Cato Institute
		Cato was named for “Cato’s Letters” - a series of libertarian tracts that the organization credits as a catalyst for the American Revolution.
		Cato leads the push for privatization of government services; as early as 1983, Cato initiated the first push for the privatization of Social Security, and has heavily backed it ever since.
		Cato Institute was founded by Ed Crane with a $500,000 grant from Charles Koch, a chemical and petroleum heir who was active with Crane in the Libertarian Party.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=9261 (669 words)

	Cato Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to its motto, the Cato Institute advocates policies that advance "individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.” Cato scholars are libertarian in their policy positions, typically advocating diminished government intervention in domestic, social, and economic policies and decreased military and political intervention worldwide.
		Specific policy proposals advanced by Cato scholars include such measures as abolishing the minimum wage, reforming illegal-drug policies, eliminating corporate welfare and trade barriers, diminishing federal government involvement in the marketplace and in local and state issues, enhanced school choice, and abolishing government-enforced discrimination along with restrictions on discrimination by private parties.
		Cato was opposed to President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq, favors the legalization of all drugs, and opposes the USA Patriot Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cato_Institute (2013 words)

	Critiques Of Libertarianism: Criticisms of the Cato Institute. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists that is conveniently free of reference to funders such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries.
		Cato is one of the most blatant examples of "simulated rationality", as described in Phil Agre's The Crisis of Public Reason.
		Paul Krugman points out that CATO and other conservatives were dead wrong in their predictions for Sweden, and that big welfare states do sometimes work well.
	world.std.com /~mhuben/cato.html (712 words)

	CATO Institute Says No to OSHA and Ergonomics Regulations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CATO believes the declining workplace death rates are the result not of OSHA, but from improvements in safety technology and changes in the distribution of occupational labor away from more dangerous manufacturing type work to white-collar service jobs.
		According to CATO, all Americans want safe jobs and communities, but people are generally unwilling to accept the severe restrictions on personal freedoms, nor the monumental costs needed to chase the impossible dream of eliminating all risks to personal heath and safety.
		More about the CATO Institute: Founded in 1977, the Cato Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato's Letters, libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution.
	www.ergoweb.com /news/detail.cfm?id=363 (781 words)

	Cato Institute Launches New Center for Global Liberty &... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Cato Institute -- http://www.cato.org -- is announcing the launch of its Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
		Building on Cato's extensive work on international development issues, the center's creation will expand Cato's role in promoting a better understanding around the world of the benefits of market-liberal policy solutions to combat the problems faced by developing nations.
		Cato will continue its work in Eurasia through its Russian- language Web site -- http://www.cato.ru/ -- and is holding on Oct. 25 to Oct. 27 in Tbilisi, Georgia, a major conference on "freedom, commerce and peace" in the region.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=74021 (528 words)

	Cato Institute - SourceWatch
		The Cato Institute is named after Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that Cato's founders say helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution.
		Chairman of the Cato Institute is William A. Niskanen.
		Cato often differs with Republican Party positions on specific issues, such as the 2003 decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq, prosecution of the war on drugs, giving federal money to faith-based organizations, and the decision of President George H.W. Bush to fight the first Gulf war.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Cato_Institute (1045 words)

	Cato University - Advancing Civil Society
		Cato University brings together outstanding faculty from universities and think tanks with people from all walks of life—business and professional people, retirees, academics, high school and college students, business owners, homeowners, and many others—who all share a commitment to liberty and learning.
		Cato University gives you the chance to form new, lasting friendships with fellow attendees as you discover and explore deeply shared viewpoints about the world, politics, society, government, and more.
		All Cato University participants receive background materials for use during the program and for permanent reference long after it has been completed.
	www.cato-university.org (724 words)

	Planned Giving at The Cato Institute
		"Cato is an indispensable source of expertise—with two decades of pro-privatization research and lobbying under its belt, it knows more about the issue (of Social Security) than just about anyone else in Washington."
		For estates fully subject to the estate tax, the result can be that 70 percent of the value of your retirement plan will be consumed in taxes before your child, relative or friend receives it.
		There is a sensible charitable alternative: name the Cato Institute as the beneficiary of your retirement plan, then use other assets not subject to income tax to make gifts to your heirs.
	www.cato.gift-planning.org /GIFT-Retire.php (291 words)

	Media Moguls on Board
		In recent years, the Cato Institute has neared the top tier of think tanks in the United States—on Capitol Hill and in the nation's news media.
		The article identified the Cato Institute only as "a libertarian think tank in the capital"—though it could have just as accurately been described as an advocacy group paid by the tobacco industry.
		Cato's newest board member, Rupert Murdoch, is a global media giant whose U.S. possessions include the Fox television network, TV Guide, the tabloid New York Post, HarperCollins book publishers and the Twentieth Century Fox movie studios.
	www.fair.org /extra/9801/cato-media-moguls.html (1681 words)

	The Cato Institute - Online Bookstore: Home
		Cato director of information policy studies Jim Harper takes readers inside identification—a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about—to illustrate how the advance of identification technology threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests.
		Cato adjunct scholar Arnold Kling demonstrates that a greater reliance on private saving and market innovation would eliminate waste, contain health care costs, and improve the quality of care.
		Cato’s new insulated travel mug will keep your drink at just the right temperature whether you’re on the go or at home reading your favorite Cato publication.
	www.catostore.org /index.asp?fa=BookIndex&cid=9 (344 words)

	The Cato War Budget
		The intellectual output from the remaining crowd at Cato is sometimes less than impressive, from a libertarian point of view.
		Cato explicitly proposes cuts in order to finance Gulf War II.
		He is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
	miltonbatiste.tripod.com /crowd/cato.html (394 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Politics: The Cato Institute
		Edward H. Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, was online to discuss the think tank, their influence and politics in general.
		However, the majority of voting Americans either never encounter Cato's points of view or are turned off by their scholarly tone.
		There is a division of labor in the ongoing battle of ideas, and Cato's is at the policy level, not the activist level.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A21524-2003Aug20?language=printer (1898 words)

	Cato Institute and Fox News Columnist Use Web to Attack Grassroots Organization
		A policy analyst at the Cato Institute and columnist for Fox News, Radley Balko, is using the web to throw down the gauntlet against a startup grassroots organization that is fighting for the American working class.
		Cato’s analyst, Balko, threw the gauntlet down after an author on the American Joblog criticized an article written by Balko on Fox News.
		After these and other similar exchanges between grassroots activists at the American Joblog and Cato Institute supporters, Balko threw down the gauntlet, telling his supporters, "This is what we're up against, folks." and pointed a new link to the exchanges between Cato supporters and grassroots activists, fingering Rescue American Jobs as the opponent.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/5/emw125209.htm (911 words)

	Project on Social Security Choice
		A new national poll by Harvard University's Institute of Politics (IOP) finds seven out of ten of America's college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private accounts than the general public.
		Cato's individual account reform plan is currently being scored by the chief actuary for Social Security.
		Users can obtain estimates of their retirement income from Cato's individual account reform plan and compare it with their benefit under the existing Social Security system (assuming Cato's reform plan is not adopted) through Cato's Social Security calculator.
	www.socialsecurity.org (3626 words)

	Cato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaius Porcius Cato, also son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger, tribune of the plebs, died when candidate for the praetorship
		Cato (1720s), pseudonym for the authors and Commonwealthmen John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who together wrote a series of early libertarian essays known as Cato's Letters that were published in the London Journal.
		Cato (late 1780s), pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles, probably the politician George Clinton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cato (402 words)

	Cato Institute on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Cato Institute seeks to engage people in questions of public policy and the proper role of government.
		Since it was revealed recently by the New York Times, the administration's previously secret NSA surveillance program has brought to the fore a number of novel and complex legal questions.
		In a new Cato Institute book, Chris Edwards provides a detailed plan to avert a looming federal financial crisis caused by runaway spending and the exploding costs of entitlement programs.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Results/Publisher/Cato-Institute/380 (678 words)

	Cato Institute says freedom is on the rise. Yes, really \| Samizdata.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cato Institute says freedom is on the rise.
		The Cato Institute's invaluable index of liberty, compiled along with another free-market think tank, the Fraser Institute, says that liberty, as measured across a variety of fronts, is advancing.
		Not only is taxation higher (as long as we do not pretend that "tax credits" are "negative taxation" as Mr Brown does) and government spending wildly higher (especially if we include, as we should, "tax credits" and "have now, pay later" P.F.I. projects) but regulation is much greater.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2006/09/cato_institute.html (909 words)

	Cato Institute - All by Source - Library - National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
		This CATO Policy report discusses a strategy for the war on terrorism that focuses on "homeland security against future terrorist attacks, dismantling and degrading the Al Qaeda terrorist network, and a foreign policy that does not needlessly create new terrorists."
		This CATO Institute Briefing Paper, by William J. Bicknell and Kenneth D. Bloem, discusses smallpox, the smallpox vaccination plan and what needs to be done to reinvigorate the implementation of the plan.
		From Policy Analysis, published by the CATO Institute, this article discusses "the limited policy options that are available to the president and Congress with respect to the terrorism problem."
	www.mipt.org /Source.asp?id=50 (486 words)

	ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Cato Institute
		The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington DC, was founded in 1977 by Edward Crane and Charles Koch, the billionaire co-owner of Koch Industries, the largest privately held oil company in the U.S. The Cato Institute holds regular briefings on global warming with known climate 'skeptics' as panelists.
		Cato held similar briefings on climate change in Washington in July 2003 and 2002.
		In both instances, Cato cast doubt on climate change science and discouraged U.S. involvement in the Kyoto Protocol or any other attempts to regulate greenhouse gases.
	www.exxonsecrets.org /html/orgfactsheet.php?id=21 (575 words)

	CATO Institute: Renewable Energy Part 1
		In the Worldwatch Institute's 1994 manifesto on the coming energy revolution, there is excited speculation about new wind and solar farms around the world totaling 1,500 MW, yet there is only vague talk about possible growth of hydro.
		Another sign that hydro is the "politically incorrect" renewable occurred when, in the 1995 edition of the Electric Power Annual, statistics for hydroelectric power were separated from the renewable category for the first time.
		Institute for Energy Research, "Comments to the California Energy Commission in the Matter of Preparation of the 1994 Energy Efficiency Report and 1994 Electricity Report," April 4, 1995, p.
	www.mnforsustain.org /windpower_cato_part1_renewable_energy.htm (14963 words)

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