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CEI Weekly
February 24, 2012
>>Featured Story
FEATURE: Happy Presidents Day!
This Monday, Americans celebrated Presidents Day. Of course, the holiday is scheduled around George Washington’s birthday. In RealClearMarkets this week, CEI Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau explained why George Washington should be remembered not only as our first president, but as a truly brilliant entrepreneur. Read the full piece here [2].
>> SHAPING THE DEBATE
Bringing Democracy Back to the Workplace [3]
Vincent Vernuccio and Rep. Phil Gingrey’s op-ed in The Washington Times
Global Warming–The Great Delusion [4]
Matt Patterson’s op-ed on Fox News & RealClearPolitics
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s Real Crisis [5]
Ivan Osorio’s op-ed in Forbes
Give Greece a Going Away Present, But Go It Must [6]
Bill Frezza’s op-ed in Forbes
The STOCK Act and the SEC [7]
John Berlau’s op-ed in National Review
Simplicity is Beautiful: How to Build a Democracy [8]
Ryan Young’s op-ed in The Daily Caller
FakeGate: Just Another Day at Team Green [9]
Chris Horner’s post in The American Spectator Blogs
UCSF Chancellor Rejects Narrow View of Conflicts of Interest [10]
Greg Conko’s post on Medical Progress Today
No Master Lock on Job Creation [11]
Ryan Young’s quote in The Washington Times
How the Dodd-Frank Act Harms the U.S. Energy Industry [12]
CEI’s citation in U.S. News & World Report
>> Best of the Blogs
The Demographics of Politics
By Fred Smith
Stolen Heartland Documents: DeSmog Keeps Blowing [13]
By Marlo Lewis
Workers Deserve the Right to Remain Silent [14]
By Jack Mann
This Week in the Congress [15]
By Myron Ebell
Is the Obama Administration Trying to Expand Federal Collective Bargaining? [16]
By Ivan Osorio
Links:
[1] http://cei.org/newsletters
[2] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Frecounting-george-washingtons-brilliant-entrepreneurship
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[4] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Fglobal-warming-great-delusion
[5] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Fpension-benefit-guaranty-corporations-real-crisis
[6] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Fgive-greece-going-away-present-go-it-must
[7] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Fstock-act-and-sec
[8] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Fsimplicity-beautiful-how-build-democracy
[9] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fop-eds-articles%2Ffakegate-just-another-day-team-green
[10] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicalprogresstoday.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fucsf-chancellor-rejects-narrow-view-of-conflicts-of-interest.php
[11] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2012%2Ffeb%2F17%2Fno-master-lock-on-job-creation%2F
[12] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fopinion%2Fblogs%2Fon-energy%2F2012%2F02%2F22%2Fhow-the-dodd-frank-act-harms-the-us-energy-industry
[13] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalwarming.org%2F2012%2F02%2F21%2Fstolen-heartland-documents-desmog-blog-keeps-blowing-smoke%2F
[14] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmarket.org%2F2012%2F02%2F22%2Fworkers-deserve-the-right-to-remain-silent%2F
[15] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalwarming.org%2F2012%2F02%2F19%2Fthis-week-in-the-congress-20%2F
[16] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=312419&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmarket.org%2F2012%2F02%2F17%2Fobama-administration-trying-to-expand-federal-collective-bargaining%2F