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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…
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Great Modern Economists, Podcast Style
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When Cosmic Rays Attack
Our friend Steve Milloy has an excellent column on a new global warming study out of Denmark, and the unsurprising reasons it doesn’t seem…
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She’s Huge in Europe
More fame for Angela! Her concise and pithy assessment of the EU’s proposed chemical regulations made it as environmental news service Greenwire’s…
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Why All of Human History Has Been Leading Toward Google
Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has an interesting take on Google’s place in history, and how the Google Library project could…
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Making Decisions on the Fly
Our occasional journalisitic nemesis George Monbiot, as part of the promotional flurry surrounding his new book, is taking the presidents and directors of big…
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Libertarians Know How to Swing
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Assessing the Content of Google’s Character
To continue the Google-YouTube discussion begun by Peter, take a look at what some /. folks are saying about Google’s potential exposure to…
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Google Gets Good Marks as Internet Librarian
Google raised some doubts (some even from CEI) about copyright protection when they launched Google Library, but now the project is having just the…
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Big Money Loves Big Government
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CBO Speaks: Deficit Slightly Smaller, Still Huge
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Update: Foley to Move to Amsterdam, Run for Parliament
News out of the Netherlands this week is bearing an odd parallel to DC’s most talked about scandal involving a now-former Congressman from…
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Free Government Cash: Mixed News From Germany
It seems that German welfare queens have been enraging their hard working fellow citizens by driving expensive cars while on the dole. The Christinan Democrats…
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Let It Ride While You Can
Sad news for online poker fans: Congress has effectively outlawed Internet gambling, as part of legislation widely expected to be signed into law by…
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Masters of their own Domains
ICANN is moving toward greater autonomoy and away from direct ties to the U.S. Department of Commerce. As long as it doesn’t end up…
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Rachel Carson Lied, Millions Died
We were all happy to see the World Health Organization finally take steps to embrace wider anti-malarial deployment of DDT, but our…
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The Bureau is Exactly 37.1973% Incompetent
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Lockyer: SUVs Don’t Kill People, Car Companies Kill People
California’s attorney general has sued carmakers DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Ford and subsidiaries of Honda, Nissan and Toyota for global warming impacts…
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Sound Suggestion on Social Security Security
In what, for now at least, seems like good news, the president’s Identity Theft Task Force has recommended that the federal government…
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There Was a Farmer Who Played a Game…
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Don’t Tax My Timber
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DDT to the Rescue
In an extraordinarily good development, the World Health Organization has officially called for greater use of DDT around the world in order to combat…
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Here He Is, Your Komodo Dragon…
There’s a new book for anyone ever frustrated by the bureaucratic enforcement of the Endangered Species Act: The Hunter’s Guide to Endangered Species by…
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Take Your Dirty Economic Development Elsewhere
It’s only been a couple weeks since the state of California decided to create a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, and some businesses are…
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Trading Up to Free Global Markets
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Meet the New Change, Same as the Old Change?
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Beyond Accountability
Our friend Steve Milloy is back on the shareholder activist battleground, with a petition before the SEC to change the rules…
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E Pluribus Equine
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IPN to UNFPA: Drop Dead
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A Backyard Texas Tea Party
Despite recent good news on the oil front, some people are still upset with current energy prices. Louisiana oilman Steve Jordan has even decided…
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Don’t Fence Me In
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Pot Calling Kettle Black?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In senior editor Dave Astor's article on syndicated columnists and their sources of…
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Tony Blair Aligns with Bush on Global Warming
Washington, D.C., November 2, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute congratulates British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his recognition that the Kyoto Protocol is a…
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Telecom Scores Merger Success — With Strings Attached
Washington, D.C., October 31, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes the Federal Communications Commission’s decision approving the two major telecommunications mergers. Unfortunately, the conditions…
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New Study Provides Outline for Telecom Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 18, 2005—The rules that govern the telecommunications industry in the United States have…
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New Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow to Join CEI
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, D.C., October 12, 2005— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce…
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Accounting Board Excercises Unconstitutional Powers
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 4, 2005—The federal board charged by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with keeping…
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Stricter Fuel Economy Rules Could Cost Lives
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., September 16, 2005—Members of Congress this week introduced legislation aimed at making automobile fuel…
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Federal Judge Dismisses Greenhouse Gas Lawsuit
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., September 15, 2005—A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit brought by several states and…
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Environmental Groups Opposed Flood Protection
Washington, D.C., September 13, 2005—Amid the slow recovery of the Gulf Coast from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, a great deal of criticism…
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Labor Regulations Suspended to Aid Hurricane Recovery
Washington, D.C., September 12, 2005—Last week President Bush, in order to speed the hurricane recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast, suspended labor regulations…
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Katrina Shows Weaknesses of Energy Supply Chain
Washington, D.C., August 30, 2005—The disruption to oil and gas operations off the coast of Louisiana by Hurricane Katrina this week has raised…
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Biotech Expert to Speak on “The Frankenfood Myth”
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., August 30, 2005—Tomorrow afternoon, Gregory Conko, Director of Food Safety Policy at the Competitive…
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Pesticide Study Makes Life-Threatening Conclusions
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., August 26, 2005—A new article in the recent edition of British scientific journal The…