Posts by Alexander Zaitchik

Flint Hills’ parent company, Koch, makes political ‘Heavy Hitters’ list

By Alexander Zaitchik | 06.15.10 | 2:50 pm

Koch Industries — which owns Rosemount’s Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery– is known to be a major funder of groups associated with the “anti-establishment”

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Tea party vocal on domestic issues, lacks foreign policy platform

By Alexander Zaitchik | 06.09.10 | 8:30 am

While FreedomWorks’ website repeatedly mentions ways to “Take America Back,” the organization most often credited with organizing the Tea Party movement studiously avoids mention of the country’s two wars, its ballooning defense budget, arms control or the tangle of legal controversy that has outlived the previous administration’s “war on terror.” In short, the site doesn’t mention foreign policy because the Tea Party movement doesn’t appear to have a platform dedicated to it.