"Non-partisan." Yeah. Right.

Wanted: A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy directs our attention to this excellent investigation of the allegedly "non-partisan" nonprofits which provide the GOP with innumerable services. We're talking "think tanks," media pressure groups, legal pit bulls, student associations, publications and the like. Mega-dollars pour into these groups from the silver-spoon brigade: Scaife, Coors, the John. M. Olin foundation, and the rest. These groups all provide the Republican party with ideological rigor and raw muscle.

The "non-partisan" label, requisite for tax-exempt status, peeves me the most. The courts tend to define non-partisanship far more stringently when a nonprofit does not toe (or establish) the ultra-conservative party line.