The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. HUMAN RIGHTS

Demonstrators gather in cities around the world to protest the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Bureaucrash Activist Network ‘Crasher-in-Chief’ Jason Talley helps organize Washington, DC’s Free Kareem rally: 

“Kareem is charged with ‘highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt and spreading them to the public.’ Egyptian authorities now must deal with individuals from all over the world who are highlighting their inappropriate treatment of Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman.”

2. HEALTH

Members of Congress accuse the Food and Drug Administration of being too quick to approve new drugs.

CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the need for a balanced policy toward access to new drugs and therapies:

“Regulators need to balance patients’ access to therapies with ensuring the safety of drugs. The consequences of poor decisions can be dire: Promote access at the expense of safety, and a dangerous product can cause incalculable harm; over-emphasize safety at the expense of access, and patients suffer from the absence of life-saving and life-enhancing medications.”

3. ENVIRONMENT

Regnery Publishing releases The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).

CEI Experts Available to Comment: Author and Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner talks about his book on “Fox & Friends”:           

“Glaciers are melting all over the world. Glaciers are growing all over the world. The problem is…and also glaciers are receding by growing which is in Al Gore’s movie. When they grow too far – grow is the key word — they break off. That’s not melting he shows, that’s called calving. But what happens is they say melting glaciers is proof of global warming. By that logic, for lack of a better word, receding glaciers is proof of global cooling. They can’t both be true and in fact neither are.”