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Longshoremen’s Union Rejects Occupy Oakland’s Call for “Solidarity” West Coast Port Shutdown
After briefly shutting down their [adopted] city's port earlier this month, Occupy Oakland is calling for a December 12 shutdown of all West Coast…
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Hank Greenberg Rises Again — Takes on Treasury, NY Fed in “Takings” Lawsuit
Feisty 86-year-old Hank Greenberg, long-time chief executive of AIG, is suing the Treasury Department and the New York Federal Reserve Bank charging that its…
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The Stimulus, Childcare, and Fred Weekly
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Orders Unionization of Child Care Providers
Openmarket.org The NLRB’s pro-union bias and penchant for overstepping legal precedent has spread to Minnesota. Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) issued an executive order calling…
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What Decline and Fall?
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Orders Unionization of Child Care Providers
The NLRB’s pro-union bias and penchant for overstepping legal precedent has spread to Minnesota. Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) issued an executive order calling for…
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United States and China Talk Trade
The annual session of United States – China trade talks was held last week, in the Chinese city of Chengdu. These talks look for…
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Fred Weekly: Give Thanks for Capitalism
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Elites of the World, Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose!
And they are — but we have much to lose. See Iain Murray’s latest piece on the EU crisis. The intellectual temptation — the…
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Ninth Circuit cy pres victory in Nachshin v. AOL
We’ve been at the forefront of noting the problem of abusive cy pres; originally intended as a last resort “second-best” way to benefit the class…
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Obamateurism of the Day
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What’s Trickling Down Are Lies
Daily Caller
Leaders with Ginni Thomas: Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Ecomerce Times
Gates Tells Jury Microsoft’s No Bully
Ecomerce Times
Bank Debit-Card Fees Under U.S. Justice Department Review
Politico
Climate Scientists Scoff at Stolen Emails
Politico
Alternative Energy’s Alternate Reality
Creating a “green energy” economy may be the most daunting central planning task ever attempted. It entails nothing less than the reengineering of our…
News Release
Climategate 2: The Scandal Continues
Washington, DC, November 22, 2011 – The 2009 Climategate scandal was re-ignited today with the release on the Internet of thousands of more e-mails…
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Ninth Circuit Overturns Approval of AOL Class Action Settlement
Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports on why the Center for Class Action Fairness objected to the AOL class action settlement based on the cy pres distribution failing to…
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Today’s Links: November 21, 2011
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Regulation of the Day 199: How to Catch a Tuna
Authorities confiscated an otherwise legally caught bluefin tuna because it was caught with a net. The government intends to sell the fish and keep the…
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And Now, a Word from John Waters . . .
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Stimulus Will Hurt Economy in the Long Run, Congressional Budget Office Confirms
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Obamacare and Herbert Hoover
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California Supreme Court Rejects Union Suit to Bar Private Contractors from Golden Gate Project
Last week, the California Supreme Court rejected a suit by a government employee union, the Professional Engineers in California Government, that sought to…
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Law Schools: Incubators of Evil and Waste?
The New York Times had a disturbing article Sunday about how most law schools are utterly failing to teach their students the basics of how to…
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Obamacare Attacks Your Flex Account — Minimize Damage in 2013 by Doubling Up for 2012
Hey Joe and Jane Citizen, concerned about the future of your country and your family. Please step away for five minutes from the nonstop TV coverage…
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Obama Peddles Myths About the Great Depression: No, Hoover Didn’t Cut Taxes or Spending
Herbert Hoover increased marginal tax rates on the wealthy to 63 percent, and more than doubled government spending as a percentage of the economy. But…
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Washington Offers Lessons for Michigan Alcohol Law Reform
Imagine walking into your local wine, liquor or beer shop and finding all of your favorite brands on sale — permanently. This could be the…
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Young Lawyers Need Remediation
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
NYT Front-Pager: Law Schools Don’t Teach How to Be a Lawyer
Yahoo! News
FCC Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect, Experts Doubt Longevity
Yahoo! News
Full Privatization of GM Cannot Come Soon Enough
The Berkeley Blog
Gingrich and the Environment
The Berkeley Blog
The Price We Pay For Investment Apartheid
The federal government protects two different classes of investors very differently against losses they might incur as a result of making poor investment choices. Both…
FoxNews.com
VIDEO: Alex Nowrasteh on Highly-Skilled Immigrants
Educated, highly-skilled workers who immigrate to the United States are beneficial to our economy and society. CEI Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh explains the benefits of liberalisation…
FoxNews.com
The EU Just Repudiated Itself and Nobody Noticed
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More Scholarships for Murderers to Attend Law School: It’s the “Progressive” Thing to Do
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Middle Class in Big Trouble
A new study titled Growth in the Residential Segregation of Families by Income 1970-2009 by Stanford University researchers throws harsh light on a disturbing…
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Thanksgiving, an Alcohol Regulation Roundup, and Fred Weekly
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Today’s Links: November 18, 2011
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Fred Weekly: Conflicts of Interest
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Alcohol Regulation Roundup: Turkey Day Edition
As Thanksgiving quickly approaches many hosts and hostesses are scratching their heads about what drinks to pair with their meal items. The Washington Post…
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Regulation of the Day 198: Talking about Water
In a ruling so dumb that only a panel of intellectuals could have written it, the EU has decided that companies may not claim…
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CEI Weekly: New Study Urges Lawmakers to Reject “Green Chemistry”
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CEI Weekly: New Study Urges Lawmakers to Reject Green Chemistry
FoxNews.com
The Urge to Shower Money on Colleges
FoxNews.com
Secretary Chu’s ‘Clean Energy Race’ Blather
The House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee grilled Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu for four hours yesterday about his role in approving…
Tech Liberation
Why SOPA Threatens the DMCA Safe Harbor
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial bill before the House of Representatives aimed at combating “rogue websites,” isn’t just about criminal, foreign-based…
Tech Liberation
Global Warming We Can All Cheer
You can be forgiven if you didn’t know that we’re in the middle of an ice age right now, what with all the talk about…
Tech Liberation
Driving a Bad Bargain on GM Bailout
Tech Liberation
Free Speech and Chilling Effects Roundup
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Today’s Links: November 17, 2011
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Sen. Hagan Bill Would Expand Accelerated Drug Approval
According to Bloomberg News, North Carolina Democratic Senator Kay Hagan is set to introduce a bill that would create new “progressive”…
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Maryland’s Governor Spends $553,000 on Pianos at Left-Wing Junk College
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Retailers Won’t Destroy Thanksgiving
Every holiday season features a slew of laughable articles denouncing the destruction of American tradition. Meghan Cox Gurdon’s piece in The Washington Examiner today…
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Fannie and Freddie’s Double Outrage — Millions in Bonuses and Subsidies for Millionaire Mortgages
Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the granting of nearly $13 million in bonuses for executives of Fannie…
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Super Committee, Job Creation, and the CEI Podcast
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CEI Podcast for November 17, 2011: Conflict Guitars
CEI Founder and President Fred Smith talks about why restricting conflict mineral trade can mean more violence, not less. He also discusses why the Gibson…
American Thinker
Will Germany Choose Another Gotterdämmerung?
American Thinker
The “Epidemic” Of Bullying
American Thinker
The Politics of Campus Sexual Assault
E Week
Security Experts Blast House Anti-Piracy Bill’s DNS Filtering Provisions
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Super Committee Follies
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Today’s Links: November 16, 2011
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High-Speed Fail: Even Left-Leaning Washington Post Criticizes Obama Administration Rail Boondoggles in California and Elsewhere
Even the left-leaning Washington Post, which has not endorsed a Republican for President since 1952, is getting fed up with the Obama administration's desire to…
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Online DVD Rental Antitrust Litigation / Wal-Mart/Netflix Settlement
Class members (including me) are getting email notice of a class action settlement with Wal-Mart in the Online DVD Rental Antitrust Litigation, No. M…
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House Republicans’ Shortsighted Proposal to Fund Roads through More Drilling
Recently, Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed opening up more federal land and offshore areas to natural resource extraction. Such…
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My Job Creation Proposal
Over at The American Spectator, I break down the debate over regulation's impact on the job market and propose one regulation that could create countless…
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Green Chemistry and a Secret Farm Bill
Letters
Coalition Letter Opposing $730,000 Conforming Loan Limits: Fannie-Freddie Subsidies for McMansions
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has signed a coalition letter with other individuals and public policy organizations opposing the expansion of government-backed mortgages for wealthy home-buyers.
E Week
Republicans, Democrats, Google, and Church of Sweden Unite to Halt Hollywood
E Week
Here Comes the Anti-Bullying Bureaucracy
E Week
The 510(k) Program Should Be Saved, Not Scorned
Steve Pearce
Congressman Pearce Awarded A+ Rating on Labor Scorecard
Steve Pearce
U.S. House Considers Copyright Bill
CNET
SOPA Bill Won’t Make U.S. a ‘Repressive Regime,’ Democrat Says
CNET
America Must Learn From Britain’s Failed Immigration Policy
This article was co-authored with Rohan Poojara of the American Enterprise Institute. In this time of deep economic malaise, Western leaders talk gravely about shared…
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New Study Exposes Flaws in “Green Chemistry” Movement
Washington D.C., November 16, 2011 — This holiday season, most Americans will be happily taking advantage of the comforts and conveniences of the modern world.
News Release
Fannie-Freddie Outrages: Bonuses and Subsidies for McMansions
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2011 — As the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on the granting of nearly $13 million in bonuses for executives…
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Congress Should Amend SOPA to Address Cybersecurity, Due Process Concerns
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2011 — This morning, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Privacy Act. Below…
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CEI and Freedom Action Propose $300 Billion in New Revenues to Break Super Committee Impasse
Washington, DC, November 16, 2011 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Freedom Action on Tuesday proposed to Congress’s Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction that…
American Spectator
My Job Creation Proposal
Above The Law
Attorneys Fees in Class Actions: Too Low, Too High, or Just Right?
Above The Law features Ted Frank alongside other lawyers who spoke on a pannel at the National Lawyers Covention of the Federalist Society.
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Farm Bill Negotiated In Secrecy
The Hill reports that a new “secret Farm Bill” will be included with the super committee’s debt deal. As The Hill points out, legislators…
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Debating Return-Free Taxes: Rep. Jim Cooper Responds
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Government Plans To Ban E-Cigarettes Opposed by Public Interest Groups
Full Document Available in PDF The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives and the Competitive Enterprise…
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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish on NASA
On Sunday, flights to the ISS resumed for the first time since the retirement of the Shuttle last summer. As I’ve…
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Obama Administration Promotes Panic Over “Bullying” To Incite Attacks on Students’ Rights and Well-Being
Obama administration officials call bullying an “epidemic” and a “pandemic.” But in reality, bullying and violence have steadily gone down in the nation’s schools,…
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Cronyism: Obama Administration Showers Your Tax Dollars on Shifty Wall Street Operator and Liberal Donor
In a corrupt deal, the Obama administration is paying a shifty Wall Street operator's firm an extravagantly inflated price for an unneeded vaccine, at a…
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Green Chemistry’s March of the Ostriches
Popular myths about man-made chemicals cause lawmakers to bury their heads in the sand and support restrictive regulations that do not realistically address risks to…
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Big Labor Corruption and the Constitution
News Release
Government Plan to Ban E-Cigarettes on Airplanes Opposed by Public Interest Groups
Washington, DC, November 15, 2011 – The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association and the Competitive Enterprise Institute together filed comment to the Department…
Above The Law
Showdown Looms Over Stop Online Piracy Act
Above The Law
Google, Facebook to Congress: Don’t Expect Us to Police Piracy
American Council on Science and Health
Attack of the Killer Cosmetics?
American Council on Science and Health
Stopping Piracy or Censorsing the Web? Groups Lash Out Over Bill
American Council on Science and Health
Obama’s Education Disaster
“We’re laying off teachers in droves,” President Obama told a crowd recently. “It makes no sense. It has to stop.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,…
American Council on Science and Health
Crony Capitalism: The Inevitable Outcome Of Overreaching Government
Would a farmer who put out a trough of slop be surprised if it attracted a bunch of pigs? Then why are activists who promote…
American Council on Science and Health
Letter to the Editor: Government Meddling Won’t Create Jobs
A recent op-ed in The Hill by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) (“Attacks on workers’ rights won’t create jobs,” Nov. 15) highlights the need to…