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Stocks Climb as House Rejects Bailout
Though the bill may have been defeated for the wrong reasons—like the lack of freebies, giveaways, and handouts that many on the left had hoped…
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LibertyWeek 9: Ballparks & Bailouts
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LibertyWeek 8: Cheese for Dogs
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No Gas in North Carolina Thanks to Anti-Gouging Laws
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The Gravity-Defying Nature of Federal Regulation
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Dirty Laundry: Private Contract Threatened in Maryland
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Federal Privacy Laws
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CEI Mourns the Passing of George Carlin
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute mourns the loss of one of America’s greatest comedic talents, George Carlin. Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, remarked…
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Iain Murray’s New Book
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Cell Phone Fees
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Unfairness Doctrine
Cord Blomquist on government censorship of political speech and the possible revival of the "Fairness Doctrine"…
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Cell Phone Fees – Fair or Unfair? The FCC Decides
Today the Federal Communications Commission will hear testimony on “early termination” fees for customers who cancel their mobile phone, cable or Internet service contracts…
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Broadband Metering
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Viacom’s Suit Against YouTube
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Who’s Best at Lobbying 2.0?
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Internet Freedom Preservation Act
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House Investigates Calls for “Net Neutrality”
Today the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Internet will hold a hearing on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act…
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Comments Submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadcast Localism
CEI Recommends Liberalizing Broadcast Industry…
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Do Not Track Registry Likely to Include Exemptions
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Regulation of Insurance Rates
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Insurance Price Controls
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CEI’s Property and Casualty Insurance Report Card
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Localism is the new Fairness Doctrine
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Net Neutrality
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Bad Data & Broken Databases at the FCC
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Woman Arrested for Dancing at the Jefferson Memorial
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Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
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Dumb Pipes, a Dumb Idea: Net Neutrality as 21st Century Socialism
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Treasury Secretary Paulson’s Financial Reform Plan
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Al Gore’s Advocacy Campaign on Climate
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Optional Federal Chartering of Insurance Companies
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National Flood Insurance Program
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5 Absurd Product Bans
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the Chamber of Commerce’s Support of Optional Federal Chartering
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Economic Stimulus
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South Carolina Homeowners Insurance Reform
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the Possibility of a Recession
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Affordable Energy
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Affordable Energy
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer
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Affordable Energy
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The Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics Conference
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Deaf Fish
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Affordable Energy
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Dumb Product Bans
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Energy Rationing
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The Full RSS
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LOST Senate Hearing
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Law of the Sea Treaty
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CEI’s Ad Campaign
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RIP Gary Gygax
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Rep. Markey’s Wireless Investment Prohibition Act
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Who’s more hostile? Microsoft or the FTC?
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Defending The Right to Acquire
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Microsoft Could Go “Hostile” with Yahoo Offer
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2008—Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it “reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps” to present its buyout offer to Yahoo…
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Comcast in the Crosshairs
Despite Comcast's ascendancy, the cable provider remains vulnerable - yet its greatest threat is not from Baby-Bell competitors but from lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
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Google Caused My Rock Band Addiction
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Good Copps Bad Copps
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DC to Elderly Couple: Stay in Your Basement
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Hillary’s (Video) Gamesmanship
Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village" approach means the Village, i.e. the government, ordering parents how to raise their kids through government mandates and regulation.
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The Quotable Kazman
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Open Market en Español
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Spitzer Cites Hoax as Resource for Parents
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Apply for a Google Policy Fellowship with CEI!
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Why both M and AO ratings for games?
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Digg This Study on Entertainment Ratings
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Politically Determined Entertainment Ratings and How to Avoid Them
Full Document Available in PDF When they…
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ArsTechnica: Greenpeace Study Flawed
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Rise of the Uber-Wikipedians
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Greenpeace’s Fun with Graphs
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The Frivolous iSuit
California resident Timothy Smith has sued Apple and AT&T over the iPhone, accusing them of illegal monopolistic behavior. The iPhone…
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Liberty Dollar Office Raided
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Let 1000 Walled Gardens Bloom
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Time to Reform the FCC
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FCC Just Fining Everything in Sight
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Global Warming by the Numbers
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Web 2.0 Job: Virtual Goods Broker
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Free Parking, Expensive Tolls
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Even Cartoons Know that Capitalism is Great!
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Register a Piece of History Today
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Muncipal Wi-Fi Plans Imploding
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Microsoft’s EU Antitrust Case on 1460 KION with Mark Carbonaro
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Yahoo Mail is Real Competition for GMail
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Competition Improves Privacy, Finds MP3s
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Unlocking the iPhone and the Death of Exclusivity
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Partnership or Payola?
Geeks get technology, but they don't always understand economics. John C. Dvorak, one of the brightest journalists in tech, has recognized many of the important…
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Why buy when you can regulate for free?
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Why WiFi? City Governments Should Stay Out
Back when Saturday Night Live was still funny, Lily Tomlin’s character Ernestine, the ill-mannered telephone operator, deftly parodied all that was wrong with the…
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Why Wi-Fi?
David Robinson at The American said my last blog post on Wi-Fi was intriguing and asked me to write a piece for him. I can’t…
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Talking About Municipal Wi-Fi on 1460 KION
Mark Carbonaro of 1460 KION had me on the “Wake Up Monterey” program yesterday morning. Here’s a clip from the segment where we talked…
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Municipal Wi-Fi Stalls, Market Surges Forward
Over the last two years, San Francisco has been in negotiations with Earthlink who, in partnership with Google, has had plans to build a Wi-Fi…
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Blackle: Making a Difference
The Washington Post reports that Blackle, a website by Australia-based Heap Media, is trying to “help make a difference” through a black version…
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A Series of Tubes Episode 1
Introducing CEI’s weekly technology series A Series of Tubes. Cord Blomquist and Richard Morrison take a look behind the weekly headlines in tech and show…
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Does Municipal Wi-Fi Have the Incentive for Security?
USA Today reports that most are unaware of the dangers facing them at public Wi-Fi hotspots, which brought to mind an…
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Google: Open to Its Own Model
Openness--in our culture filled with feel-goodery and self congratulation openness is seen as a good thing--a trait that any liberal and modern person should hope…
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Google Demands Fairness, When Convenient
Google’s Policy Blog today makes a succinct argument for why its purchase of DoubleClick should be approved. While I find their reasoning compelling and…