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CEI Podcast for April 21, 2011: The Male-Female Pay Gap
Carrie Lukas, Managing Director of the Independent Women's Forum, argues that the pay gap between men and women isn't due to discrimination.
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Education Department Financial Aid Rules Backfire, Harming Students
The Education Department tried to restrict the use of financial aid by for-profit colleges by barring them from getting more than 90 percent of their…
News Release
Sugar Reform Caucus Seeks to Implement Change Now
Washington, D.C., April 21, 2011—CEI Adjunct Scholar Fran Smith is speaking this morning at a Congressional Sugar Reform Caucus briefing on the effects of…
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Unions to Boeing: We’ll Tell You Where to Build Your Plants
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Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members Not to Work
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Environmentalists on defensive in Congress
Center of the American Experiment
Eisenhower’s Second Farewell Warning
President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address includes one of the most quoted phrases in political rhetoric. He warned “against the acquisition of influence, whether sought…
Center of the American Experiment
Vincent Vernuccio on FAA unions
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the recent news about Federal Aviation Administration employees who were reportedly sleeping…
Center of the American Experiment
Chris Horner on Green Energy Programs
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains how politically dictated “green” energy programs move public money overseas and result in…
Center of the American Experiment
Chris Horner on High Gas Prices
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the effects of regulatory uncertainty for the energy industry as well…
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UN Embarrassed as “Climate Refugees” Fail to Show
It’s hardly novel to compare global warming alarmism to a doomsday cult, but it’s hard to avoid the comparison whenever yet another doomsday scenario is…
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Cobell v. Salazar
Today the Center for Class Action Fairness filed an objection to the $3.4 billion taxpayer-funded Cobell Indian trust settlement on behalf of Sisseton-Wahpeton Ovate…
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Icemakers: Mankind’s Doom
An article at Time explains "How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet," and what regulators are doing about it.
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Morning Media Summary
Center of the American Experiment
Lower the Drinking Age for Everyone
Alaska state representative Bob Lynn (R., Anchorage) is asking the long overdue question: Why do we consider 18-year-olds old enough to join the military, to…
Center of the American Experiment
The Midnight Ride of Standard & Poor’s
Three cheers for Standard & Poor’s (S&P). On Monday, the rating agency issued a critical warning that America’s debt burden is growing too great. By…
Center of the American Experiment
Liberals Attack Paul Ryan Because He Received Benefits When His Father Died Young
New York Daily Record
Online gambling laws challenged
Hot Air
It’s time to lower the drinking age
Common Wealth Magazine
The Download: Getting Bolder on the Environment
Common Wealth Magazine
Study suggests H-1B fixes
Common Wealth Magazine
Federally-Mandated ‘Bully-Proofing’ Programs Coming to a School Near You
NCPA
Regulation Day
National Center for Policy Analysis discusses regulation costs with Iain Murray and references Wayne Crews's study. Every year we are reminded how much…
Newsletter
Union Hypocrisy, Federal Spending, and Internet Poker
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There is No More Fat to Trim from Government Budgets
Workforce Central Florida, a government agency, is spending $73,000 to give away 6,000 capes and some cardboard cutouts.
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Stated Housing Preferences vs. Revealed Housing Reality
In March, the National Association of Realtors released the 2011 Community Preference Survey. Some greeniac urbanists are touting the survey results…
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A Market Failure in Air Traffic Control?
Air traffic control is simply too important an issue to leave to the free market. It is time to put the government in charge of…
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Local Union to City: Hands Off Our Trash!
Labor unions of late have been fighting an uphill battle in public perception, attempting to justify the significance of unions for the middle class and…
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Debt Warning Should Force Decision on America’s Future
News Max
Supreme Court to Set Environmental Precedent
News Max
The ‘hidden tax’: Report estimates regulation costs economy $1.75 trillion
News Max
Education Department Financial Aid Rules May Backfire on Students
The Education Department tried to restrict the use of financial aid by for-profit colleges by barring them from getting more than 90 percent of their…
News Release
Justice Dept. Seizes Online Gambling Domains in Shameful “Black Friday” Stunt
Washington, D.C., April 19, 2011 — Last Friday, a day now called “Black Friday” by online poker players, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an…
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April 18 press release
CENTER FOR CLASS ACTION FAIRNESS ANNOUNCES MULTIPLE VICTORIES WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Center for Class Action Fairness LLC announced multiple…
Washington Times
Red tape recession
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory burden. On Monday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released its analysis…
Newsmax
Hidden Tax’: Govt Rules Cost Economy Nearly $2 Trillion
Newsmax reports on Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden. Even as politicians and pundits debate taxes and spending —…
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Happy Tax Day
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Ten Thousand Commandments
The 2011 edition of Wayne Crews’ “Ten Thousand Commandments” was released today. The annual study gives a big-picture view of the regulatory state. You can…
Study
Panel Transcript: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
MARK KRIKORIAN: Good morning. My name is Mark Krikorian. I’m executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank here in town that…
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Babies “R” Us baby products antitrust class action settlement: McDonough v. Toys “R” Us
A class action against Babies “R” Us and manufacturers of upscale baby products—BabyBjorns, Britax car seats, Kids Line and Peg Perego products, Maclaren strollers, Medela…
News Release
Tax Day Report Sounds Alarm on the $1.75 Trillion “Hidden Tax” of Federal Regulation
Washington, D.C. April 18, 2011 – Federal regulations cost even more than the skyrocketing federal budget deficit, and help bring the federal government’s share of…
Newsmax
Sexual Assault on Campus–Is It Exaggerated?
The American Spectator
How Regulations Add to the Cost of Government
As many of us rush to finish filling out our tax returns, we should remember that what we pay out in taxes — and how…
Washington Examiner
Regulations are Politicians’ (and Lobbyists’) Best Friends
The annual ritual of calculating taxes and rushing to file is upon us today. And it is hardly news that the ever-increasing complexity of the…
Washington Examiner
There Is No ‘Regulation Day’ to Remind Us How Much They Cost
Every year we are reminded how much money the government filches from us on Tax Day. However, there is no equivalent ‘Regulation Day’ to remind…
Washington Examiner
Internet, job training no place for government
Canada Free Press
A Supreme test: Are CO2 emissions a ‘nuisance’?
Forbes
The Economy Needs A ‘Deregulatory Stimulus’
Forbes references Wayne Crews's study on regulation. Assessing the width and breadth of the regulatory state is Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive…
New American
CEI Targets Regulations in Annual Report
The New American highlights the report on the regulatory state by Wayne Crews. The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report today entitled Ten…
Cato At Liberty
If There Were An Annual ‘Regulation Day’
Cato at Liberty points to the writings on regulation of experts Iain Murray and Wayne Crews. As Iain Murray points out at National…
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YouTube Introduces “Copyright School” to Educate Infringing Users
In the ongoing copyright debates, areas of common ground are seemingly few and far between. It's easy to forget that not all approaches to…
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Objectors and fee requests
We recently had two victories in two cases in front of the same judge; the question then becomes whether to submit a fee request. There’s…
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Defending Nature via Property Rights
Elizabeth Brubaker describes why the institutions of private property are needed to defend nature, and why modern control policies that undermine them contribute to pollution…
Washington Times
Trillion Dollar Rules
The Washington Times features Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory state. As a fitting finale for tax season, keep…
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Peter Diamond’s Nomination to Fed Benefits from Double Standard
Liberal economist Peter Diamond is likely to be confirmed to a powerful position, despite issues far more severe than those that blocked the confirmations of…
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Political Correctness Roundup: School Officials Attack Easter, Thanksgiving, and “White Privilege”
A Minnesota school district is "laying off 94 teachers” even while spending thousands of dollars to send "a delegation" of teachers to an annual “White Privilege Conference”…
Washington Times
Impending price controls to hurt consumers, say groups
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EA Sports Litigation (Pecover v. Electronic Arts Inc.)
Class members getting a notice for this case have been writing me. Dudes: I made my name in the Grand Theft Auto class action,…
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Internet Poker Shut Down in United States
Today the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York released criminal charges against a number of online poker websites operating in the United…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2011
President Barack Obama’s new federal budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 seeks $3.729 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending. In the previous fiscal…
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Senator Jim Webb Flunks Legislation 101: Says Congress Can’t Change the Law
Congress can always change the law if it chooses. For example, it passed the 1991 Civil Rights Act, which overturned many Supreme Court decisions interpreting…
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Dulles Rail Union Giveaway to Increase Costs
An expensive rail line for passengers traveling in and out of the Washington, D.C. region's Dulles International Airport never struck me as a good use…
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CEI Weekly: Taxpayers Are Footing Bill for Government Employee Union Activity
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A Definition of Classical Liberalism?
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Morning Media Summary
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In Politics, Inertia Always Wins
Washington Times
What’s the holdup?
Washington Times
Obama’s Budget Could Triple Tax Rates
In his deficit reduction “vision” speech on Wednesday, President Obama tried to distinguish his plan from that of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan by…
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CEI Podcast for April 14, 2011: Avoiding a Government Shutdown
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Education Department Undermines Due Process and Accuracy in Campus Sexual Harassment Cases
On April 4, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent the nation’s school officials a letter urging them to water down…
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“We Are One” Unless You’re New
Openmarket.org Alert to non-unionized workers out there, be wary of joining a union during contract negotiations. Recent news has shown a plethora of contract negotiations…
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Declaration of William Yeatman in Lawsuit against Colorado’s Renewable Electricity Standard
Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that…
Letters
Stop New Authority to D.O.E. Loan Guarantee Program
CEI joins Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Taxpayers Union, George Marshall Institute, and the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center to demand that Appropriations Committee excise Department…
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“We Are One” Unless You’re New
Alert to non-unionized workers out there, be wary of joining a union during contract negotiations. Recent news has shown a plethora of contract negotiations where…
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Los Angeles (City) Won’t Refuse Permits for Condomless Porn
After years of fighting and failed attempts to force Los Angeles County to require condom-usage on adult film sets, AIDS activists were finally successfully…
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Morning Media Summary
Washington Times
The Obama Tax Hike Machete
In his deficit reduction “vision” speech on Wednesday, President Obama tried to distinguish his plan from that of House Budget Committee…
Washington Times
School Officials Attack Easter, Thanksgiving and White Oppression
Heartland
FCC Issues CA Man $7,000 Forfeiture Order
Washington Examiner
Suppressed EPA Hushgate climate report returns to snag CO2 regulation
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Happy Tax Freedom Day
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China Bans Time Travel
In further proof that communists never won the culture war in China, they merely shut down culture altogether, the Chinese government decided this week to…
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Obama Tax Plan “Machetes” Small Business and Entrepreneurs
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Democrats Fight over Power, not Economics
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STB Should Ignore Calls to Re-regulate Railroads
Yesterday, I filed a comment letter with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on behalf of CEI regarding the board's request for comments prior to…
Newsletter
Internet Sales Tax, Farm SUbsidies, and Ethanol
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TSA Gropes 6-Year-Old Girl
Sometimes people wonder why I favor abolishing the TSA outright. Here's one reason.
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Morning Media Summary
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Much Ado about Nothing: Budget Cut Edition
News Release
Re-regulating the Railroad Industry Would Harm Railroads, Shippers, and Consumers
Washington, D.C., April 13, 2011 — Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) submitted a second comment letter in response to the Surface Transportation…
News Release
Alaska Considers Lowering the Drinking Age for Soldiers
Contact: Lee Doren, 202-331-2259 Nicole Ciandella, 202-331-2773 Washington, D.C., April 13, 2011 – Alaska State Rep. Bob Lynn (R-Anchorage) has proposed a bill that…
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CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the…
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The Environmental-Industrial Complex
Sometimes the green part of green regulations isn't the environment. It's money.
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Should Helicopter Parents Stop Hovering Over Their Kids?
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School Forces Kids to Eat Cafeteria Lunch or Go Hungry
A public elementary school in Chicago has banned brown bag lunches. Little Village Academy Principal Elsa Carmona says the purpose of the ban is to…
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China Had a Quarterly Trade Deficit — And it was Hardly Noticed
Here’s a bit of news that didn’t get too much attention — China had a first quarter 2011 trade deficit. It’s the country’s first quarterly…
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Morning Media Summary
News Release
Senate Committee Considers Raising Efficiency Standards, Oblivious to the Mess They’ve Already Created
Contact: Lee Doren, 202-331-2259 Nicole Ciandella, 202-331-2773 Washington, D.C., April 12, 2011 – The Senate takes a step towards further…
Washington Examiner
Why Does Capitalism Enjoy So Little Support From Politicians?
As government grows, businesses try to adapt, often by opening government affairs offices in Washington. Yet the regulatory burden continues to increase as public attitudes…
Washington Examiner
Democrats Fight Over Power, not Economics (Letter to the Editor)
Re: “EPA’s days as ‘rogue’ agency are numbered” & “Democrats will yield on everything but abortion,” April 11 Congressional Democrats’ approach to their pet projects…