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Tanton played a critical role in CIS’s creation. Not only did he dream it up, but he installed his best friend, Otis Graham, as head of the group in the 1990s. Graham, who is still a member of CIS’s board, has some unconventional views about history. In his book “Unguarded Gates,” Graham claims that a “mythistory” was created during the civil rights movement that falsely depicted America as a “nation of immigrants.” He depicts racist past policies...
...relationship” with Tanton. But the facts belie him. Krikorian worked at Tanton’s Federation for American Immigration Reform, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group, before landing his post at CIS. When Krikorian was given the CIS job in the mid-1990s, Tanton wrote to congratulate him. Not long after, Krikorian began participating in annual writers workshops put on by Tanton. Through the years, Tanton wrote to Krikorian about various aspects of policy...
...After a years-long drought of new compelling policy ideas from either party at the national level, it is instructive to recall how many influential 1980s and 1990s reform programs on welfare, education, job training and economic development emerged from state capitals, several of them controlled by Republican chief executives. Back in the 1990s, when Republicans such as California's Pete Wilson, Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson and Pennsylvania's Tom Ridge were in office, conservative policy ideas and Republican electoral prospects were in ascendancy...
...applied to broader efforts like earthquake-resistant building construction and more democratic community organization - especially as half a million Haitians relocate outside Port-au-Prince in the coming months. Perhaps its biggest cheerleader is former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the special U.N. envoy to Haiti, who in the 1990s championed "workfare" as a key to welfare reform. More hands-on participation in the recovery, Clinton argued recently, will give Haitians "the opportunity to, in effect, re-imagine the country." (The U.N. is also trying cash-for-work projects in developing countries like Brazil, India and South Africa...
...sanctioned peacekeeping mission called Operation Turquoise to halt the killings. France has also flatly refuted claims by Tutsi militia leaders who took power in Rwanda after the genocide - and still form the basis of the Rwandan government - that French forces serving as advisers in the country in the early 1990s actually assisted the then ruling Hutus in the massacre. (See more about Rwanda...