I like the effort but can anyone tell me about any Judicial Watch accomplishments?
I believe Judicial Watch has brought to light a lot of important information that would have otherwise been unknown.
Just an impression, however, since I haven’t followed them close enough to cite a specific instance.
The O-Fer crowd srikes again.
(raising hand)Oh!Oh!Oh!I can!
JW was the entity that got me intersted in 501c3 nonprofits years back. At the time there were about 500,000 nonprofits in America. Today there are 3 times that many or more. FYI, for comparison, at the time there were ZERO nonprofits in Mexico and most other countries. That has not changed.
Some here will tell you that JW has done this or that and because of "whatever" they are a good outfit. All I can say is that the last time I looked they had taken in over $100 million dollars. Yea, no kidding, over $100 million dollars! And for that it appears that they have "accomplished" basically nothing in comparison to the amount of money pulled in. Oh, they get in the media every so often like now which seems to be their main talent.
Compare the value of JW to Free Republic. FR could easily become a nonprofit and take in much more money because people would give more due to the tax writeoff. But FR does had not done that. Why? I don't really know. But look at the bang for the buck FR is compared to JW. This site is eons ahead of JW as far as informing the public. For pennies!
There are over 1.5 million nonprofits in America. The vast majority of them do not feed, clothe or house anyone. And these are "charities"? Nope! They are entities that make money for their handlers, directly compete with businesses that pay taxes or they push a particular political view all while being subsidized by the US taxpayer.
The reform of the US nonpofits corporation laws is way overdue! Way overdue! My suggestion is to do away with all corporate taxes period and stop subsidizing any expenses of any corporation. If people want to give to a charity that's fine but no more tax deductions.
Bottom line? JW does little or nothing for the amount of money they have collected. That is my opinion.....