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Do You Want the IRS Doing Your Taxes?
The income tax is a pain in the neck. The obvious solution is the simplify the 70,000-page tax code. But some are proposing to have…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: FCC chairman to propose plan for net neutrality: “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday…
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European Commission Should Leave Internet Search Alone
Today, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google to probe allegations that the firm rigged its search engine to discriminate against…
Op-Eds
Unleashing U.S. Energy Resources Could Spark Economic Recovery
Among the many suggestions for deficit reduction in the recently released Fiscal Commission report is a 15 cents-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. This…
Before It's News
NJ Online Bill Could Ruffle WTO Feathers
Before It's News
The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…
NPR
The IRS’s Proposal to do Your Taxes for You
The Detroit News
Safety of receipts at issue
The Detroit News
Obama’s new offshore drilling ban…from both sides
The Detroit News
Obama siphons Virginia’s tank
Ecomerce Times
Google Denies Rankings Hanky-Panky as EU Pursues Probe
News Release
Obama Offshore Oil Moratorium Breaks Promise, Hurts Economy, Kills Jobs
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2010 — Today, the Obama Administration pulled an about-face on its earlier plan to allow more domestic offshore oil drilling. The…
News Release
FCC Presses Forward With Destructive Net Neutrality Rules
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2010—This morning, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that the Commission will vote on net neutrality rules during…
Ecomerce Times
Brian McGraw on China’s Green Economy
Competitive enterprise Institute research associate Brian McGraw discusses China's lead in producing energy technologies such as wind and solar equipment and contends that fossil fuels…
American Specator
Not Triangulation but Regulation
American Spectator discuss regulations with CEI's Vincent Vernuccio, Myron Ebell, and Wayne Crews. Democrats failed miserably in legislative attempts to eliminate the secret…
Washington Post
Feds pledge some action on privacy, less on net neutrality
The Washington Post cite CEI's Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia's comments on net neutrality. Other observers like the FCC's new deal even less.
Huffington Post
Yes, Mr. FCC Chairman, There Is a Santa Claus
The Huffington Post cites Wayne Crews's comments on the FCC's net neutrality rule. The would-be chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are…
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CEI Podcast — November 30, 2010: Food Safety, Washington-Style
CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko looks at the major provisions of the food safety bill that the Senate is voting on today.
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Vincent Vernuccio on TSA Unions
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Naked Body Scanners — Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!
Well, you can forget the airports-only naked body scanners — they’re now coming to a neighborhood near you. Forbes reports that…
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The War on Terror, the TSA, and Useful Partisans
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Afternoon Links: November 30, 2010
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Real Estate Development and Generation Y
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I came across this article in Urban Land magazine, “Housing Gen Y: The Next Challenge for Cities,” by John McIlwain. In…
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STREET SIGNS WITH ALL CAPS ARE GIVING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS A HEADACHE
The federal government has managed to create a new regulation that will put even more local governments in the red. Apparently, bureaucrats have determined…
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CEI Weekly: Frankenfoods Are Here to Stay
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Happy 80th Birthday, G. Gordon Liddy!
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Christian group asks Apple to reconsider app suspension: “A Christian organization that recently had its Apple iPhone app removed from Apple’s…
Calvin Nayre
NJ Online bill could ruffle WTO feathers
Calvin Nayre
Union Officials Spend More on Politics than Representation
The New American
Groups Continue to Urge for Expiration of Ethanol Subsidies
News Release
EU Antitrust Investigation Into Google Will Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C., November 30, 2010 – Today, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google to probe allegations that the firm rigged…
One News Now
Expert: Loan guarantee program expensive, useless
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An Intrusive, Ineffective, Unionized TSA?
Much has been written about the backlash against the TSA’s intrusive new screening methods. Law professor Jeff Rosen has argued that they violate…
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Online Gambling in New Jersey Could Cause WTO Disputes
New Jersey is on the verge of becoming the first state in the U.S. to explicitly legalize online gambling in an attempt to keep…
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Afternoon Links: November 29, 2010
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America’s Wealthiest County Used Bailout Money to Give Teachers a Paid Vacation
The richest county in America, Loudoun County, Virginia, used money from the Obama administration’s $10 billion teacher-bailout program to give teachers a…
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TSA Backlash Directed at Failed Screening Methods, Not Airport Security
Contrary to what mouth-frothing Obama apparatchiki claim, critics of the current TSA screening practices are not hyper-partisan corporate shills. Nor are we irrationally…
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Unions Still Hampering Free Trade
Watching politicians stammer on in attempts to justify short-sighted policy never gets boring. The interview referenced by Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady…
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Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats class action settlement
In the Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats class action settlement, class members (those who purchased the cereal on certain dates in 2008 and 2009) who submit…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Comcast: Internet service restored after regional outage: “Officials at Comcast Sunday night said they did not know what caused disruptions in its…
The Sacramento Bee
Never Ready for Prime Time
Appeared…
NPR
Rift Over Climate Change Is Social, Not Scientific
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
News Release
Left/Right Coalition Urges Congress to Let Ethanol Subsidies Expire in 2010
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2010 — A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to expire at…
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More Burdensome to Pay Rent Than to Be a Mortgage Deadbeat
Under government mortgage bailout/modification programs, the mortgage payments of many delinquent borrowers were cut to 31 percent of income, even for borrowers with high incomes and big…
Fredrick News Post
Graphic cigarette packaging
Heartland
Chicago Climate Exchange Closes
Heartland
TSA Employees to Vote on Unionization
Heartland
Vincent Vernuccio on TSA Unions
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the possibility of a union for the TSA.
Heartland
Vincent Vernuccio on Consumer Responsibility
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses Black Friday…
Heartland
Vincent Vernuccio on GM Thanksgiving ad
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the GM commercial thanking the American people for their public bailout…
Heartland
Vincent Vernuccio on TSA outrage
Heartland
GM Shares Are Artificially Inflated (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to note that General Motors’ supposed “success story” is actually a money-loser for taxpayers. Not only did GM’s recent sale of…
Heartland
Climate-change skeptics want further investigation
Heartland
Global Warming Skeptics Ascend In U.S. Congress
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A Little Holiday Gothic to Start Your Holiday
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Taxpayers Pay Three Times for Special Interest Litigation
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Federal Government Subsidizes Obesity and Wealthy Urbanites
In the Washington Examiner, David Freddoso explains how the federal Department of Health and Human Services spent $766,000 of your tax dollars to help…
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WTO: For Trade Imbalances, Use Value Added For a More Accurate Picture
The World Trade Organization’s annual report released today is well worth reading, not only for the data on recent trade flows, economic and unemployment…
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How Property Rights Saved the Pilgrims After the First Thanksgiving
In Reason Magazine, Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg write about how the establishment of property rights among the pilgrims made them more “industrious” and…
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A New Course for Wild Tigers
A New York Times editorial highlights a struggle faced by the wild tiger, noting its population is down to approximately 3,200 from a high…
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TSA Sexual Harassment: Disappointing, but Not Surprising
Woman: TSA Agents Singled Me Out For My Breasts…
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TSA Exempts Politicians from Body Scans and Pat-Downs
Don't like dealing with the TSA's body scanners or pat-downs? Consider getting into politics.
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone: “A few weeks ago, Amanda Stanton’s iPhone suddenly went black.” 34% of all malware…
News Release
Obama Administration Designates New Polar Bear Habitat
Washington, D.C., November 23, 2010–Today, the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service finalized new habitat protections for polar bears. Officials say that…
Heartland
What’s Good for New GM Is Bad for the Rest of America
New Jersey
National Opt-Out Day: Bloggers debate boycotting TSA airport scanners
New Jersey
Trimming the Fat
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TSA Roundup
The Thanksgiving travel rush is officially underway.
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Afternoon Links: November 23, 2010
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The Case for Private School Vouchers
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Obama Includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75,000 Jobs “Created” by GM Bailout
This post was coauthored by CEI Research Associate Andrew Kwiatkowski As we write, President Obama and Vice President Biden are doing a victory lap…
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Crony Capitalism, the TSA, and Insider Trading
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“Model” Foreign Aid Recipient Uses Foreign Aid to Repress Its Citizens
Ethiopia is considered a model recipient of foreign aid by international aid agencies, since it uses much of the aid on its people, rather than…
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Two GOP Senators Say Get Rid of Ethanol Subsidies; Gore Says His Support for Ethanol Subsidies a Mistake
In the Washington Post’s “Plum Line” column today Greg Sargent focuses on two GOP senators’ campaign to get rid of the ethanol subsidies that…
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CEI Podcast — November 23, 2010: The Crusade Against Alcohol Energy Drinks
Baylen Linnekin, author of the recent CEI On Point "Extreme Refreshment Crackdown: The FDA’s Misguided Campaign Against Alcohol Energy Drinks" looks at the recent push…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Facebook censors, cracksdown on breastfeeding photos: “In one of the photos that keeps getting Emma Kwasnica’s Facebook account suspended, the Montreal-based mother…
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High-Speed Rail in China: On Track for Failure
In recent years, Western media reports have been filled with fawning descriptions of China’s investment in high-speed bullet trains: “China Leads World In High-Speed…
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Press coverage
Not often that you see class actions discussed on ESPN.com, but Tuesday Morning Quarterback gave us a shout-out for our objection in the Classmates…
The Daily Caller
Taxpayers pay the federal government to sue itself
The federal government is paying environmental advocacy organizations billions of dollars — to fund lawsuits against itself. When the government has to pay or settle,…
ESPN
Wes Welker can play for TMQ any day
ESPN reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to an unfair settlement which granted lawyers huge fees but small payouts to the class members.
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Anti-Terrorism: A Political Auto-Immune Disease?
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Afternoon Links: November 22, 2010
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CEI Weekly: CEI Looks at Finances of Big Unions
Newsletter
CEI Weekly: CEI Asks High Court to Hear Tobacco Case
Newsletter
GM IPO, TSA Patdowns, and Frankenfish
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No Sense in Maryland’s “Dime-a-Drink” Tax Increase
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Entitlement America? Who Has More Disposable Income?
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Unions’ Shifting Lame Duck and NLRB Agenda
With Democrats losing control of the House of Representatives and a substantial number of seats in the Senate, organized labor’s hopes of seeing its legislative…
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Alcohol Industry Infighting Leads to Wacky and Costly Regulation
If the ban on alcohol-containing energy drinks tells us anything, it’s that American alcohol policy continues its tradition of being very wacky. If you…
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Six Ways Congress Can Fix COICA Copyright Bill
Over at the Technology Liberation Front, I discuss the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA), which the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously…
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Minnesota AFL-CIO Pushes for Wisconsin “High-Speed” Rail
I’m currently in my home state of Minnesota, a place known to non-lefty residents as the People’s Republic of Minnesota, a place where the state’s…
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Electronic Waste
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, news reports and environmental activists are claiming that we are facing a…
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Solid Waste Management
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to recycle, and recycling is indeed an important part…
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Toxics Release Inventory
Full Document Available in PDF Several states and the federal government have in place various “right-to-know”…
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Interstate Waste Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF For more than two decades, various states and localities have battled over…
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Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. cities are home to hundreds of thousands of old, abandoned commercial and…
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Superfund
Full Document Available in PDF Perhaps no other environmental program has been cited more often as a failure…
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Federal regulation of solid and hazardous waste…