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Farewell and Toast to CEI’s Future
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William Faulkner Said it Best: “Civilization Begins with Distillation”
"Making whiskey is but one piece of the Great Story of Spirits. The Big Picture is the story of incremental progress, of continual innovation by…
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The Bob Zadek Show – Lawson Bader on Curtailing the Regulatory State
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Whisky: A living testament to the human spirit
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The Man Who Brought Obamacare Back to the Supreme Court
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The Most Transparent Administration… Oh, Wait…
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Why Capitalist Virtue Beats Cronyist Sin
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In Washington, Every Day is Groundhog Day
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Back to the Future of Education
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Analysis Tracks Costly Path of 3,541 New Federal Regulations, Provides Antidote for Congress
The Washington Times heavily cites CEI's Agenda for Congress and regulatory cost calculations. The frugal but liberty-minded analysts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Pennsylvania On My Mind … Or Not
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To Get Up and Go – and Go Again
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Welcome to 2015 and the Year of the Regulators
The tinsel had hardly fallen from the trees and the family reunion squabbles barely subsided—and the Washington Redskins’ disastrous season just ended—before two Washington Post…
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How the Grinch Picks our Pockets
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A Professor Who Suffers No Fools
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If it Walks Like a Lame Duck
I’ve always found the term “lame duck Congress” an affront to waterfowl everywhere. And it’s odd to boot. Why does it matter if they have…
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In Memory of Gordon Tullock
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In Memoriam: Gordon Tullock
I write this Tuesday night as TV pundits drone on in the background. The Republicans may win control of the Senate, though races are too…
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Where in the World is Jonathan Gruber?
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In Memoriam: Leonard Liggio
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Farewell to Our Friend, Leonard Liggio
We are saddened to hear our friend Leonard Liggio passed away this morning. Today, the liberty movement has lost an intellectual champion. The Competitive Enterprise…
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Calling on Congress May Not Be Such a Bad Thing
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Reforming Education is Ultimately About Choice
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He Who Can, Does. He Who Cannot Takes a Job with a Federal Safety Agency
A former colleague, who lived and worked in the U.S. on a valid work permit, would travel back to Canada periodically to renew the permit.
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On Constitution Day, A Reminder That Political, Economic Chaos are a Good Thing
“I’m not a Constitutional scholar, I just play one on television.” That might be a fitting disclaimer for recent article by David Wheeler, an Asbury…
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Top-Rated Economies of the World Are Not By Coincidence
Isn’t it odd how we assign human characteristics to inanimate objects? We rank the “friendliest,” “least hospitable,” “most free” regions and countries. We nickname urban…
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Words Matter
We teach our children words matter—both in their intent and their actual use. Unfortunately, many grow up to become politicians or bureaucrats adept at manufacturing…
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The Millennial Hope
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Time Has a Way of Blurring Memories
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Is “Thomas the Tank Engine” Subversive?
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Business Vs. Labor is Really About Cooperation Vs. Confrontation
It’s an age old struggle—more often rhetorical than physical. Usually framed as business vs. labor, it’s really about cooperation vs. confrontation. Since humans could walk…
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Big Government Ripple Effect
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Of Obsolete Regulations and Post-Prohibition Haggis
What comes to mind when you think of Scotland? Bagpipes, certainly, perhaps Scotch whisky, maybe William Wallace (or at least a version that looks suspiciously…
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Obamacare is a Game of Jenga
With the help of CEI, a group of small business owners from six states sued the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the…
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No One Likes Stereotypes
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1984 was an Enlightening Year
This year marks a quarter century since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. And that got me to thinking about how the world has changed…
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CEI Sues the NSA
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Government and Baseball
Have you heard the one about attending a boxing match and a hockey game breaking out? Good jokes always contain elements of truth to…
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Watergate Don’t Bother Me, Does The EPA Bother You?
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Republicans Graham, Chaffetz Place the Wrong Bet on Internet Gambling
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Regulation Lets Government Grow In The Shadows
“There oughta be a law.” We hear that refrain way too often in this country, from conservatives and liberals alike. The problem is that most…
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Will Government Get in the Way of Self-Driving Cars?
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Big Labor’s Privileged Position
Today, an important hearing gets underway in Washington, D.C. that started with a billboard. Well, not quite. But that phrasing makes for better copy. Hearings…
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The Rising Class-War Chorus
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Lawn Darts, BB Guns and the Trouble With Protecting Us From Ourselves
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Cronyism versus the Free market
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Celebrate Human Achievement Hour!
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Celebrating Whisky’s Marketplace Journey
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Regulation: The Tax You Don’t See
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CPAC’s Big Tent For The 80%
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1960’s Era Air Traffic Control Due For A Major Face-Lift
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What would Elvis Costello Think?
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Farm Bill Lacks A Dry Match
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Why Presidents Should Deliver A “Union Of The States” Address
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Remembering ‘Reagan Democrats’
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Score One For Obamacare
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Groundhog Day?
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Robert Reich: Income inequality the defining issue for U.S.
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A top 10 list for Congress in 2014
I am no David Letterman, but I appreciate a good Top Ten list. As we enter 2014, it occurred to me that Congress could do…
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Big Government Is Over, If You Want it to Be Over
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23 and Me for You and Me
My son’s birth is among my most treasured memories. I knew immediately his arrival had transformed my life. But, the joy of that memory comes…
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Don’t let the Nanny State ruin holiday feasts
In the musical “Oliver!” the opening scene features the protagonist and his band of merry miscreants crying, “Food, glorious food!” The orphans then proceed…
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Amtrak – Another Government-Run Disaster
I am the casualty of a model train collector gone wild. Sorry, Dad, but it’s true. Many a Christmas morning, my brother and I would…
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D.C. Area Has Exploded Since Kennedy Era
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Setting the Record Straight on Liberty
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I Don’t Hate the Government; Its Unions Are a Different Story
As a libertarian I am often asked why I “hate” the government. “Hate” is a strong word, so I’ll leave the question’s key assumption for…
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Open Letter to House and Senate Republican Leadership: Preserve the Sequester
CEI has joined a coalition urging Congress to maintain the spending restraint established by the Budget Control Act of 2011(BCA). The BCA established limits on…
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Game Almost Up for Obamacare
Remember Jenga? It’s a simple game, yet addictive. It involves an intertwined tower of small blocks. The players take turns removing and restacking pieces, until…
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REINS Act coalition letter
We, the undersigned public interest organizations, write to urge you to support the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act of 2013 (the…
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Alarmism is Dangerous
I am a twisted father. When my children were in junior high, I would teasingly wake them with the question, “Hey, do you know what…
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Football Team’s Name Is No Business of Congress or the President
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Obama, Father of all Czars
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution states: No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States[.] But when George…
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Shutdown? What shutdown?
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A Final Blow on the War on Coal
A funny thing happened on the way to the coal plant the other day. But it wasn’t ha-ha funny. In fact, it was tragic –…
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In Name Only
Traipsing through Dulles Airport the other day, my eyes were drawn to a series of wall poster advertisements. Each one featured a supposed “foreign aid…
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Converting the Unconvertible
Here’s a thought experiment: What words come to mind with the following statements? I grew up in Marin County, Calif., during the late 1960s and…
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No Bipartisanship, Please
We’ve heard it a million times: What Washington needs is more bipartisanship, more cooperation among the parties … like the old days. To which I…
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Entrepreneurial Immigrants: America’s Lifeblood
It’s a story as American as apple pie: An immigrant comes to the United States, starts a business and becomes the proud owner of a…
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The EPA Doesn’t Have to Tell Anyone Anything, Or Does It?
I am the new president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute – also known as the feistiest think tank in D.C. – and the newest contributor…
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Why we held the ‘Rainbow on the Right’ event at CPAC
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Passing the Torch at CEI
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Letter to Congress on Nomination of Richard Cordray to the CFPB
CEI and the 60 Plus Association sent a letter urging Congress to take time to consider the re-nomination of Richard Cordray to the CFPB, in…
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Fred Smith passes the torch at CEI
Most think tanks are earnest places — and then there’s the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “People say, ‘CEI has fun people, but some of them are…