The Service Employees International Union rarely, if ever, has kept a lid on its political leanings. From 1980 through the mid 1990s under President John Sweeney, and since then under his successor, Andrew Stern, the Washington, D.C.-based union has invested enormous energy into building a progressive-Left political campaign infrastructure. There’s nothing illegal about that. Employers aren’t exactly shy about their own political machinery either. But it’s the law that the SEIU, no more than any other union, may not coerce rank and file into making contributions. And evidence suggests the union, now with some 1.9 million members, may be doing just that. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, for one, is exercised to the point of requesting a federal investigation.
In the previous years, NLPC has demanded an end to taxpayer funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), AARP and George Soros’ private foundations, only to be rebuffed by Democratic and Republican Congresses. The incoming Congress was elected to cut out inappropriate spending. The practice of collecting money from all taxpayers and using it to promote political causes with which many disagree is simply unethical. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) must put a stop to it.
Bill Lann Lee, a former U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served during the Clinton administration, is deeply involved with a group that donated thousands of dollars for the legal defense of convicted terrorist lawyer Lynne Stewart.
Five-and-a-half years after being 
When George Soros invests $50 million to revolutionize the way Americans think about a certain issue, it would normally be deemed newsworthy. Not so with the formation of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Three months after a summit in New York state last July, 
Published in September 2007, this Special Report by John Carlisle is subtitled "State Department Collaborates in Skirting U.S. Law Against Promoting Drug Use and Prostitution." The Report is based on documents obtained by NLPC through the 
