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• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2008

Former Open Market editor Peter Suderman emailed this week with a new FreedomWorks video on the mortgage bailout. The message is simple – people…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2008

Our good friend Steve Milloy gets some ink today in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where columnist Jack Markowitz profiles the Free Enterprise Action Fund:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/06/2008

And so film legend and freedom lover Charlton Heston has left us, at age 84. There are already hundreds of obituaries and tributes,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/04/2008

On the topic of Rep. Campbell’s innovative new addition to the tax code, it seems strange that any serious people are really complaining…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/01/2008

Congratulations are in order to our friend Steve Milloy, who is celebrating the 12th year of his flagship website, Junkscience.com. Ever since 1996 he’s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/28/2008

The National Center for Public Policy Research has a new study, and Internet ad, on the proposal to list the polar bear under the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/11/2008

Tomorrow the House Natural Resources Committee will be holding a markup on H.R. 2016, the National Landscape Conservation System Act. Naturally, our adjunct fellow…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2008

The President is signing the $168 billion economic stimulus package today, in hopes of averting a recession triggered by, among other things, rising mortgage…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2008

Cord’s recent C-SPAN appearance, debating the issues surrounding the proposed Microsoft / Yahoo deal (and by extension any big tech buyout or merger) is…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/04/2008

The final Bush budget is out for FY 2009 (though not on paper, notes The Hill), and the criticism is already flying. Speaker of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2008

Drudge today links to Jake Tapper’s “Political Punch” column at ABC News, where he reports on a speech given by Bill Clinton yesterday in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2008

The multi-dimensional debate over political correctness at The Smithsonian (everything from exactly how many children Thomas Jefferson fathered to the proper display of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/28/2008

Well, President Bush has given his final State of the Union address and the news stories analyzing it are soon to be legion. Among…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2008

It appears that there is finally some scientific evidence that a warmer Atlantic ocean could have an effect on future hurricane activity. Unfortunately for the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/23/2008

Our good friend Jim Blasingame of the Small Business Advocate radio show recently had our very own Myron Ebell on to talk about global…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/18/2008

I’m dreaming of a white…climate change protest. As you might have seen on the Drudge Report, a demonstration in support of cap-and-trade legislation in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/17/2008

New estimates are out on the impact of increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations, as the recent energy bill did. It’s not pretty.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/15/2008

Have you ever had a steak so excellent, you wish you could eat it more than once? How about a milkshake to good, you wish…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/10/2008

School officials in Greenwich, Connecticut have decided that the kids under their charge are in danger, and they’ve moved to ban the offending substances that…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/07/2008

Last week John did an excellent job of putting recent unemployment numbers in historical perspective. Some market observers seem to be freaking out because…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/03/2008

Our old pal Jay Ambrose has a great column today on the recent decision by Congress to outlaw the sale of traditional incandescent light…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

It’s official, oil has broken the $100 a barrel threshold. Why are prices so high and what can we do about it? Our very…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

Since we’ve been lamenting the incipient demise of the incandescent light (Bulb 1.0), I’d say it’s a good time to review The Simpleton’s Guide…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/21/2007

Make sure to take a look today at Tim Carney’s latest Friday column for the DC Examiner, this time on the travesty of an…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/18/2007

The Federal Communications Commission today scored a victory for freedom of the press. In this case, the freedom to own both a newspaper and a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/18/2007

Chris gives up the straight story on what happened at those big UN global warming negotiation in Bali last week.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2007

Just in time for the multi-holiday shopping season, Bureaucrash is here to solve all of your gift-giving needs. Tell that special someone how much you…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/27/2007

The FCC today is going to consider expanding its authority to saddle cable TV with many of the same regulations as broadcast. That, to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/21/2007

Bureaucrash has decided to take the anti-capitalist mentality to its natural extreme in a new video, just in time for the holiday season. What would…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/19/2007

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2007

We’ve had quite a bit to say about the anti-energy bill currently being co-sponsored by Joe Lieberman (D/I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), including the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2007

There’s a new report out on the waste, fraud and abuse in government, this time focused just on the Golden State. So why California?…