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Will France Embrace the New Royal-ism?
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Leading by Example: Carbon Footprint Edition
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A President France Deserves?
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True Congressional Confessions
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First They Came for the Toilets…
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Let Them Eat Flan
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It’s Hotter Than the White Party: Miami’s Big Plans
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Mayor McCheese Would Be Proud
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How About People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans?
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When Metaphors Attack: Greenpeace Edition
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The Latest Disease of Affluence
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Meet Modern Britain: Where Blood, Sweat and Tears Is a 70s Rock Band
Global warming activists have suggested that Prime Minister Tony Blair give up his personal holiday travel around the world, to set an example as a…
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Will the Real Bob Seger Please Stand Up?
NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed classic rock radio staple Bob Seger today, highlighting his new album and his first tour in a decade. Seger,…
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The Weather Channel Gets Emotional
Tired of tuning into The Weather Channel and getting nothing but temperature forecasts, rain totals and color-coded maps? Worry not cable junkies – TWC is…
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They Call It Conservation
You know all of those enviro activists who are constantly hectoring us about the amount of energy we use (and allegedly waste) here in the…
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Draining the Swamp: Reform for Anti-Malaria Policy
The White House is hosting a summit on malaria this week, and our good friend Roger Bate will be attending. And since Roger has…
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Take That, Liberal Media!
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Cows Are Destroying the Earth
And I thought the IPCC Fourth Assessment (see below) was good news. Now I know that we humans really are off the hook when it…
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Thanks, UN, for Shrinking My Carbon Footprint by 25%
The latest iteration on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming it being eagerly awaited. While we bide our time,…
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Look Out for Hurricane Fred
Our fearless leader, Fred Smith, is on the road again, spreading the good news of free markets and limited government. Yesterday he spoke to a…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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Fly Me (Privately) to the Moon
Like an old boyfriend you stopped calling months ago, NASA has decided it wants to re-capture America’s heart with a bold new proposal. The aeronautical…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Hates Capitalism
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The Science of ‘Deathenol’
The Internet Skeptic (“Critical Analysis of Today’s Headlines”) emails today about some of his recent YouTube videos. One that caught my eye was…
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A Graphic Display of Government Power
Word from /. has it that the Justice Department’s Antitrust division just found a couple more potential tech victims: graphics chipmakers Nvidia and AMD…
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95% of Americans in Favor of Increasing Other People’s Charitable Giving
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For Best Results, Drink Like a Sardinian
There’s more scientific evidence that moderate consumption of red wine is good for you: New research from the William Harvey Research Institute and…
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Breast-Related Assurances from the First Lady of Illinois
Some Illinois political observers are raising their eyebrows about a stack of greeting cards that Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office sent out before the…
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Profiles in Awesomeness
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Why Check ‘n Go Is Not the Great Satan
Hot on the heels of John’s op-ed on credit cards fees (and the retailers who want price controls on them) comes a piece by…
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They Know It When They Smell It
Here at Open Market, we’re big fans of Penn & Teller, particularly their emmy-nominated Showtime program, Bullshit! Our own Angela Logomasini was even a…
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More on the “New” Leadership in Congress
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Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip on Climate Science
The global warming debate this week features a furious back-and-forth between our pal Al Gore and Christopher Monckton (a/k/a Viscount Mockton of Brenchley), a former…
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Painted Portraits: The YouTube of the Fifteenth Century
German media tycoon and art historian Hubert Burda has a fascinating essay titled “How People See Themselves,” about the history of portraiture and what…
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Meet the 110th Congress: Everything Old Is New Again
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A Sequel We Could Have Done Without: The Return of the Dingell
OpenMarket’s consulting physician, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution, has some strong words (and unfortunate predictions) about what we can expect from…
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Keeping an Eye on the CBS Legal Department
CBS is appealing new FCC indecency regulations (and fines) in court, arguing that the new rules run afoul of the First Amendment. Which, of…
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The Real Inconvenient Truth: “either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or wrong”
In what is hopefully not a larger trend of turning PowerPoint presentations into cinematic features, Al Gore’s shockumentary An Inconvenient Truth hits DVD shelves today.
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NOAA’s Ark: A Report That Includes Two of Every Conclusion
There’s a new study on the Arctic and global warming released by NOAA, and the results are, well, mixed. The Los Angeles Times reports:…
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More on the Friedman Legacy
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John McCain Wants to Be One of the Cool Kids
Sen. Inhofe continues telling it like it is on the subject of climate change, this time in Nairobi at the (take a deep breath)…
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The Logic of Smoking Regulation: Your Apartment Is Now a Public Place
Dana Yates of the San Mateo, California Daily Journal brings us a bracing look at the future of tobacco regulation – a total ban…
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The Fat Acceptance Movement Needs You
Jacob Sullum over at Reason reviews two of the latest books on weight loss industry and the obsession with the obesity “epidemic” in…
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Internet Medicine: Does that Make Al Gore My Family Physician?
A new study finds an increasing number of doctors using information from Internet searches to help diagnose illnesses: The internet search engine Google…
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Samuelson on Stern: “…a masterpiece of misleading public relations”
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson has a bracing take on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change today: [Based on the report’s…
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Warming Watch in the Senate
Barbara Boxer is slated to replace James Inhofe as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and she’s got big plans for…
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Taking Reagan’s Advice
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Oh, the Humanity!
Perhaps the most amusing moment of last night’s election coverage came from Chris Matthews, while he was interviewing congressional has-been Dick Gephardt. Let’s go…
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Mixed Signals from the Grand Canyon State
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It’s a Landslide!
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Midterm Nailbiting
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Talking Back to the ‘Environmental Headbangers’
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is legendary for telling it like he sees it, rhetorical propriety be damned. He’s now reacting to the Stern report…
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Staying Cool
The National Climatic Data Center reports that in October, “All regions [were] near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003…
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When Your Home Is Not Your Castle
Craig Bannister emails this morning with more debate over the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision on the power of eminent domain. It…
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Fighting Racism with Super Powers
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America Works
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New Scientist: Skeptics are Meanies
The current issue of New Scientist magazine has a truly strange article on the impending release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest…
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Lomborg on the Stern Review: “…selective…flawed…sloppy…one-sided…”
Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…
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Trans-Fatty Criminals
Elizabeth Whelan of ACSH has a great article on National Review Online today about the stupidity of banning trans-fats, as New York City and…
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So the Government Dictating Broadcast Content is ‘Fair’?
Fans of free expression should hit up a piece in Human Events, by our very own John Berlau, on those misguided souls who…
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The Future: Filthy Rich or Stinking Rich?
The New York Sun has an editorial on the Stern review on the economics of global warming which includes a mention of our very…
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The ADA Meets Cyberspace
BNA is covering the recent district court ruling that Target can be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind: In this class…
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Taking Tobacco to Court
In case you missed it, the Supremes are tackling a major tobacco/tort reform liability case this week. AP’s Mark Sherman has the story: The…
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The Sweetest Urban Legend of All
Keeping the holiday theme going, we now turn to the perennial Halloween boogieman, the anonymous candy poisoner. For decades, parents have been warned to…
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What Is All the Hyperventilating About?
If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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The U.S. Secretary of Shady Land Deals
Judith Burns of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch reports on the latest shareholder activism from our friends Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli over at the…
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The UK Takes An Alarmingly Stern Look at Global Warming
The international media is in a tizz this morning (afternoon in the UK) over the release of the Stern Review on the Economics…
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Another American Bird Species Faces Extinction
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I’d Have Settled for a Statue in Antwerp
According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, Al Gore and his take on global warming have become all the rage in…Belgium. It’s seems…
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Bean Counters Caucus in DC
The American Financial Services Association is holding its 90th annual meeting here in Washington this week, and attendees are tackling a number of challenges…
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SEJ 2006: Marc Morano Takes on Alarmist Reporting
We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…
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SEJ 2006: Open Source Journalism
There was yet more cool action from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this afternoon as Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn explained…
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SEJ 2006: Across the Web
As CEI’s presence at the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists continues, I’ve noticed that the event’s blogosphere presence has grown…
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SEJ 2006: Energy Companies Try to Out-Clean Each Other
Energy companies, both new and old, are crowded into the Society of Environmental Journalists conference here in Burlington, Vermont, all playing up the environmental profile…
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SEJ 2006: Battle of the Automakers
The Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this week is in full swing, with panels and exhibits on everything from sustainable forestry to avian flu.
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No Unnecessary Travel Allowed in the War on CO2
I’m going to be flying to Vermont tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are also taking airline trips soon, including a few to far off…
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Does Gulfstream Make a Hybrid Jet?
In a shocking development, we find out this morning that environmentally fixated, hybrid-loving celebrities don’t necessarily live the green dream that they preach…
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The Newest Cell Phone Accessory: Lead Underpants
A new study out of the UK suggests that mobile phone radiation may be responsible for increased infertility in men. This observed decline in…
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Ted Kennedy, Hero of Socialist Labor
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Politics Nerds Rejoice
Students at my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, have created a very wonky alternative to the season’s popular fantasy football leagues: fantasy Congress.
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Maybe That’s Why the Lacrosse Scandal Disappeared from the News
Scientists at Duke University and Imperial College London have reportedly developed a cloaking device for solid objects. All of the relevant Romulan and Harry…
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“The politics of relative position is the egalitarian welfare statist’s new favorite game”
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The Latest Wal-Mart Scandal
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Ralph Harris, RIP
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Cars, Women and Minorities
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News of YouTube’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An argument from Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle on why big business can never be cool, even when it acquires something that…
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Small Government Hate Speech?
Craig Bannister of CNSNews just passed on a story out of Marquette University in which graduate student Stuart Distler was banned from displaying the…
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Frank Luntz, Save Us!
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And Now for a Word from the Critics
We’ve just heard that our friend Marc Morano will be one of the panelists at the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists conference in…
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They’re Coming to Audit Your Avatar
Fox News this morning raises the alarming prospect of the IRS taxing financial transactions taking places in online virtual communities like Second…
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Vote for Alternative Energy with Your Feet
Tokyo rail users will now be expected to not only pay for their own tickets, but also to power the machines that sell them.
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Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles
From The Wall Street Journal, via \. The unusual alliance demonstrates a new tack being taken by the music industry to deal with…
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Revisited
Marc Morano over at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is drawing our attention today to an op-ed in L’Express last month…
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Do Something for Africa: Stop Foreign Aid Now
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The Newest/Oldest Lesson: Why Energy Is Bad
In reference to my previous post about morally righteous (anti-) global warming celebrities, I suggested that those who are horrified by CO2 emissions should…
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It’s Tough Out There for a Morally-Consistent Performer
Tired of loosely-informed celebrities nagging you about global warming? It’s beginning to look like the most hard core among them could end up taking themselves…
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Europe Takes a Stab at the Multimedia Revolution
Sometimes, a regulatory idea comes along that is so stupid and offensive, one assumes it couldn’t actually be real. “Who could possibly think this is…
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A Storm of Scientific Controversy on Capitol Hill
The CEI email server is abuzz this morning with news of an upcoming briefing on global warming and hurricanes being put on by the…