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• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/26/2007

Earlier today at the Heritage Foundation, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao highlighted some of the Labor Department’s accomplishments during her tenure. I found of…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/26/2007

As expected, cloture for the misleadingly, grotesquely, misleadingly named (hey, I’ve gotta get these descriptions of this bill’s disgustinlgy Orwellian moniker out of my…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/26/2007

The union-backed mandatory card-check organizing bill, misleadingly dubbed the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), is likely to come up for a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/25/2007

Terry’s post on the late, great Hans Sennholz gives a good example of the influence he had on students at Grove City College. It…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/22/2007

The Senate will soon vote on the card-check organizing mandate perversely known as the “Employee Free Choice Act.” This law would allow unions to circumvent…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/12/2007

Picking up on Richard's note on the new Victims of Communism Memorial here in D.C. -- My face is red from enduring the June…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/11/2007

A new report on workplace regulation compliance by the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations cites CEI’s Ten Thousand Commandments. Of the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/11/2007

My two most recent publications from Capital Research Center are now online. First up is the June issue of Labor Watch (co-authored with CRC’s James…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/07/2007

No, the above title isn’t a scenario from a dystopian science fiction work, but somethig that is now happening in cities all across America. What…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/31/2007

Vincent “Buddy”‘ Cianci, the legendary, popular, and corrupt former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, was released from prison today, after serving time for a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/27/2007

From India comes a story that shows the interesting ways in which prosperity helps break down some pernicious forms of social oppression. Earlier today, a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/26/2007

The Washington Post‘s “Names and Faces section cites Christopher Buckley’s speech at CEI’s 2007 Dinner (scroll down to the last item): · Christopher…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/25/2007

In today’s Washington Times, Robert Stacy McCain recounts Christopher Buckley’s appearance at last night’s CEI Dinner. “You are my kind of crowd,” Mr.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/23/2007

...that he'll probably not hire any for a starring role in his upcoming Hugo Chavez-financed film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint L'ouverture. As…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/18/2007

Along with the launch of the Politico, the arrival of The Onion in print has been a boon to the nation’s capital’s…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/09/2007

Speaking of gas prices, from Wisconsin comes a story that illustrates just how stupid government can be in trying to meddle with prices…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/07/2007

One hopeful sign of the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France is the expectations among many of his supporters, some of whom the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/06/2007

While I agree with Richard’s observation “that most people who are skeptical of Wal-Mart’s business practices are entirely unaware of these hundreds of millions of…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/02/2007

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, co-author of the now-classic 1996 primer on Latin America's statist political economy, Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot ("a book…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/23/2007

It’s hard to believe this is even a question. The comments vary in opinion and quality, but one Venezuelan poster is worth quoting: The…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/23/2007

The decline of organized labor in America’s private sector is a well-known story, but less known to Americans is how much the rest of the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/06/2007

Anyone who doubts that Americans are living longer and healthier need only see the Stooges, Michigan’s godfathers of punk, who, pushing 60…