Insane? Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. If one thing today is clear corporations have way too much control over the citizens and the government in this nation, a warning from Lincoln to Eisenhower to today. Even the left has trouble saying no to power and money, but accusing the left of this sin requires a mirror for the real crazy person.
"A Think Tank is an organization that claims to serve as a center for research and/or analysis of important public issues. In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self-serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue~propagandists pose as academics ... [into which] money gushes like blood from opened arteries to support meaningless advertising's suffocation of genuine debate.""
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=50
"Organizations listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center are indicated by an asterisk."
The American Cause
American Enterprise Institute
American Immigration Control Foundation*
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Castle Rock Foundation
Center for American Unity
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Federation for American Immigration Reform
Free Congress Foundation
Institute for the Study of Man
Ludwig von Mises Institute
New Century Foundation*
John M. Olin Foundation
Pioneer Fund*
Rockford Institute
Scaife Foundations
U.S. Inc.
http://www.schr.org/