... ;s the whole paper (PDF) Conspiracy Theories Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University – Harvard Law School Adrian Vermeule Harvard University – ... Law School January 15, 2008 Filed under: Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Harvard Tagged: Aliens, Conspiracy theories, group ... , Mossad, Obama, Oswald, Pentagon 9/11, Rob Sterling, social networks, Sunstein, Twin Towers

Cass Sunstein, drunk with his little thimbleful of power he got by being given a job in the Obama administration is really letting his statist colors show through. Sunstein takes a page out of the Bush administration’s playbook and suggests that the government should engage in “cognitive infiltration” of disfavored political groups. (source) Cass

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Cass Sunstein's theory that Conspiracy Theorists (you'll know them when you see them) should be infiltrated by the government and shut down. The Huffington Post writes in on the ... or anyone else's administration -- and an overwhelming probability (just Google "Sunstein" and "Conspiracy Theory" if you don' ...

I suspect chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and regulatory czar Cass Sunstein have become the advisers that Obama follows most closely. For Emanuel, look at the New York Times story today ... because of insufficient or tainted evidence. This is step 2, after the ousting of Greg Craig. On Sunstein: his 2004 statement in Dissent, when he was at the University of Chicago, now seems an impressive clue to the ...

... time University of Chicago Law School icon Cass Sunstein's lack of substance at this afternoon' ... Court clerk (Thurgood Marshall) is named after Lewis Cass, a former US Secretary of State. From the Wiki photos it looks like there may be a family resemblance ... s dealing with Iranian nukes? Among the odd topics that Sunstein was willing to discuss with the audience was their 10-month old child, ...

... Saturday, February 20, 2010 If you spend much time on the Internet, you probably already know who Cass Sunstein is: he’s a former professor of law and political science at the ... . . If government can dispel such theories, it should do so.” What specifically do Sunstein and Vermeule believe government should do? It should begin, they say, by recognizing that “those who hold ...

... in public - the very sources that conspiracy theorists believe would have to be infiltrated. Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy ... “a second Bill of Rights” that would do away with the Second Amendment. Sunstein’s recent book, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread ... ’ by Mark Estrin The Rag Blog Cass Sunstein is President Obama’s Harvard Law ...

... , Beck and Fox Business' Eric Bolling listed Sunstein as a target. Beck urged followers to "Find everything you can on Cass Sunstein." From Beck's Twitter feed: Bolling stated: "Van Jones resigns. ... How about ... Cass Susstein." From Bolling's Twitter feed: Sunstein tops Hannity's list. Sunstein was & ...

... much so that Obama's appointee to the cabinet post concerned with communications and regulatory affairs, Harvard's Cass Sunstein, in his recent scholarly head-scratcher, "Conspiracy Theories ... 39;s anti-war movement? I don't suppose it would occur to Prof. Sunstein to recommend that Justice investigate the issue of several tons of military grade explosive ...

... and Happiness, by Richard H Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Yale University Press, 2008. ... Department over the last few years. Recently, however, with the advent of Professor Cass Sunstein as the Administrator of the White House Office of ... (53ff) is on peer pressure. So I don't think we have to worry very much, at least until Cass gets the memo about the cosine of pi over four being 0.7071.& ...

... people holding extreme and opposing views but only if they are willing to consider new ideas and possible changes to their positions. Cass Sunstein’s Going to Extremes explains the ways extremist groups ... results in modification of views but not in the direction of extremism or polarization. Sunstein attributes these findings to the special conditions of the Deliberative Polling process. ...

... an democratic environment but enhance polarization by self selection. Cass Sunstein, via Karl Nielsen, suggests: . . . the Internet’ ... most extreme position held within the group. At worst, Sunstein says, Internet-induced polarization could lead to social instability. ... within established points of view, but only infrequently across them,” Sunstein reports. One cure for Internet-driven ...

... approach work for the Obama administration, including Cass Sunstein, who as head of the Office of Information and Regulatory ... rate, or APR). That regulatory structure was well suited, Sunstein argues, to the conventional mortgages (30 year, ... financial institutions that have followed in the wake of these new lending practices is, in Sunstein's view, for government to require better disclosure ...

Yesterday TIME magazine and writer Tony Karon took Samantha Power's (Cass Sunstein's wife) seemingly campaign timed position that Israel was ... cure for American exceptionalism. "With... (pajamasmedia.com)DAVE KOPEL on Cass Sunstein and the Second Amendment. Sunstein's told me that he thinks that Heller... (pajamasmedia.com)ED DRISCOLL: Is Newsweek a brand that will disappear in 2010 ...

... nitrogen dioxide monitoring stations near major roadways under a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule cracking down on the pollutant. Cass Sunstein, chief of the White House budget office's ... Regulatory Affairs). The president's nominee to lead OIRA, Cass Sunstein, has taken heat from green groups for his past criticism of government ...