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• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/31/2007

The Washington Examiner editorializes further today in anticipation of Labor Day, this time on the efforts by Democrats in Congress to cut the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/30/2007

Communist China’s attempts to suppress Tibetan Buddhism are well known in the West, where it’s created a backlash in the form of the “Free Tibet”…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/30/2007

Government is the only area in which unionization is growing in America. Today’s DC Examiner features an editorial that explains one reason why: It’s…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/28/2007

In England, new centennarian Winnie Langley celebrates her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarrette. Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/27/2007

The BBC’s sponsorship of a global warming “consciousness raising” event is meeting some well-deserved resistance from inside the broadcaster, reports the Guardian. The event,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/27/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund highlights a form of local- and state-government level protectionism that often passes under the radar: professional licensing requirements.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/26/2007

Venezuelan state Boss Hugo offers a response to rumors that his pal Fidel is on his way to meet Satan, which should prove…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The Miami Herals pays its respects upon the passing of an American cultural institution, the South Florida-based Weekly World News. Without the WWN, a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The new issue of The Economist features a letter with a quote worth citing: SIR — I attended a performance by the British songwriters…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/24/2007

Today in his Washington Examiner column, our friend and former Brookes Fellow Tim Carney highlights yet another way in which rent-seeking businesses are lining…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2007

A disturbing development in the UK brings to mind CEI’s own dystopian video, from this year’s annual dinner. (Thanks to Megan McLaughlin for the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/20/2007

In a recent paper, University of Calgary economist Robert J. Oxoby addresses the eternal question: Who was the better singer to have fronted AC/DC,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/17/2007

Late yesterday, a federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s objection to the proposed merger between premium grocery chains Whole Foods and Wild Oats.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/10/2007

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Presidential Vote Up for Grabs…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/09/2007

When Fran returned my copy of Bob Novak’s memoirs, I just happened to open the book to yet another mention of our good friend…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/06/2007

At Reason, Shikha Dalmia provides a good overview of the health care legacy costs weighing down Detroit’s auto industry, and the United Auto Workers…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/06/2007

Today’s big story out of the Daily Kos convention in Chicago (as big as that could be) is a proposal for bloggers to unionize. …

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/01/2007

I don’t want to continue a debate over Ingmar Bergman here, but there is an odd connection between the late film director Michelangelo…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/31/2007

Over the last several days, my colleagues at CEI have pointed out some of the worst aspects of the Farm Bill -- and it's…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/30/2007

Every other Friday, I open the Washington Examiner expecting to read Tim Carney, our good friend and former CEI Brookes Fellow,  exposing yet another tawdry…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/24/2007

Today's Washington Post reports on a phenomenon that, while not new, strikes some as counterintuitive -- pickets for hire used by activist groups and…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/23/2007

Venezuela’s strongman, Hugo Chavez, is now threatening to expel from the country any foreign nationals who criticize him. His words would be hilariously self-parodying…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/19/2007

To add to my earlier comment on last night’s AFF roundtable on immigration, Cato’s Dan Griswold made a good point there: U.S. immigration policy…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/19/2007

I am both bemused and dismayed whenever I hear allegedly free-market conservatives try to repeal the law of supply and demand when it comes to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/18/2007

House Democrats are seeking to cut funding for a government agency. A sign of their newfound fiscal frugality? Well, no. Their seeking to cut funding…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/11/2007

Everyone likes getting compliments every once in a while, and we at CEI are no different in that regard, so we consider CNNMoney.com’ s…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/09/2007

Leaders of bloody revolutions very often come from the middle and upper classes, not from the downtrodden they claim to represent, many historians will note.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/02/2007

Kurt Loder, in his review of Michael Moore’s Sicko (cited earlier), mentions the short documentary Dead Meat by filmmakers Stuart Browning and…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/28/2007

With national security worries about Iran everywhere these days, the gas riots there yesterday make the Ahmedinejad regime seem not only less fearsome, but…