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The Clean Air Act and High Gasoline Prices
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Clean Air Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Enacted in 1970, the Clean Air Act (CAA) is the…
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Methylmercury Science
Full Document Available in PDF During the past few years, environmental activists, public health…
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Endocrine Disrupters
Full Document Available in PDF Having largely…
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The True Causes of Cancer
Full Document Available in PDF Environmental activists have long claimed that man-made chemicals are…
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FDA Killing Big Beer’s Competitors
If you saw the movie Beer Wars, which was released last year, you might remember one hard-working entrepreneur featured in the film named Rhonda…
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Afternoon Links: November 19, 2010
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
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Chemical Risk Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Worldwide, the average human life span has increased from about…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF For conventionally bred plants, regulators rely on plant breeders to…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Every year, millions of people worldwide die from starvation and…
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Environmental Trends
Full Document Available in PDF For the past 30 years, prognosticators have predicted an imminent environmental…
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A Vision for Environmental Policy
Full Document Available in PDF As…
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Voters Rejected Enviro-Alarmism About Gulf Oil Spill
My colleague Ben Lieberman’s thoughtful op-ed in The Washington Times focuses on voters’ rejection of environmental alarmism about the Gulf oil spill. It appears…
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TSA Employees, Horse Dentists, and the Biofuel Lobby
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CEI Weekly: CEI Looks at Finances of Big Unions
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TSA Regulations Likely Increase Travel Deaths
As air travel becomes increasingly expensive or more inconvenient, travelers on the margin will choose driving rather than flying. For example, the TSA began requiring…
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Four Loko: Just How Potent is the Caffeinated Alcoholic Drink?
Over the past few days, I’ve gotten plenty of angry e-mail from people critical of my defense of caffeinated alcoholic beverages…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: House bill would give DHS authority over private sector networks: “A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland Security…
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Chicago Coyotes Control Mice and Rats
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GM’s Stock Offering Goes Well, But Some See Nothing to Cheer
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‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
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Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
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Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism
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Obama includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75,000 jobs “created” by GM bailout
President Barack Obama and his administration have cited numerous job statistics after last week’s successful initial public offering of General Motors. John Berlau, director of…
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10 Ways to Lessen Environmental Impact of Developments
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Brief of Governors Tim Pawlenty and Donald L. Carcieri As Amici Curiae In Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment
Tech Liberation
Five Ways Congress Can Fix COICA Copyright Bill
On November 18, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). The bill would enable the U.S. Attorney General…
Tech Liberation
‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
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Reviewing the Bidding on the Climate Files
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Are auto efficiency standards doable?
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Congress Should Amend COICA, Think Tank Argues
Washington, D.C., November 19, 2010 — Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to approve the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA).
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In re Classmates.com class action settlement objection
We filed our objection late Thursday, and submitted ten other pro se objections that people took the trouble to send us for forwarding. Is…
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Little Green Idiocy: Taxpayers Taking A Bath On GM Is Great News!
Right Wing News references Iain Murray's Daily Caller article on General Motor's IPO. Ironically, Johnson knows so little about business that he doesn’t realize…
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Regulation of the Day 159: Playing Chess
"A squad of cops in bulletproof vests" arrested seven men for playing chess in a New York City park.
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Afternoon Links: November 18, 2010
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Charles Rangel: Swamp Still Full
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Chinese Woman Sent to Labor Camp for Re-Tweet
When Cheng Jianping didn’t show up for her wedding ceremony on October 27th, her fiancé and family thought she’d gotten cold feet. But this week,…
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TSA Officers Are Not Screened for Psychological Problems
“I want to do patdowns on airplane passengers. What would TSA need from me before I have authority to do whatever is required to check…
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Now! In Black and White, the Toyota Hysteria Exemplified!
It’s not “live!” It’s not even “In color!” And there’s no sound. But it’s quite stunning. A surveillance video posted by Fox Chicago News…
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Texas Veterinarians Want a Cut of Horse Dentists’ Profits
Three cheers for horse dentists in Texas and the Institute of Justice (IJ) which took up their defense. After three years, IJ and the horse…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Sen. Rockefeller: FCC Should Take Fox News, MSNBC Off Airways: “SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV): “There’s a little bug inside of me which…
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Joe Biden vs. Adam Smith
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ClimateGate Scandal One Year Later, Many Questions Remain
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2010 — Friday, November 19th marks the first anniversary of the release of the e-mails and files from the University of…
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FDA Criticized for Ban on Alcoholic Energy Drinks
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Halfway Between Sanity and Bedlam
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What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
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What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
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Wall Street to GM: Let’s Put Those Bad Days Behind Us
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Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
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The Ecological Monster Who Said… Peep
Call it the Election Day dog that didn’t bark – or, possibly, the oiled bird that didn’t fly. The BP oil spill had virtually no…
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Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law
Free expression in the digital age faces a major test before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the court heard oral arguments debating the…
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GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
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Immigration law a threat to Texas competitiveness
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, made headlines recently for prefiling an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
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FDA criticized for banning alcoholic energy drinks
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Agencies target ‘blackout in a can’
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ClimateGate 1 Year Later: Networks Barely Cover Scandal, But Defend and ‘Exonerate’ Accused Scientists
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Blowin’ in the Wind
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Union Leader to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Greg Conko on “Frankenfish”
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the benefits and safety of genetically engineered foods. Humans have altered the genetic material of their food…
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Vincent Vernuccio on Medal of Freedom and GM IPO
Competitive Enterprise Institute Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses President Obama awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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Records on appeal
Under Fed. R. App. Proc. 30(b), appellants and appellees are to coordinate the production of a joint record on appeal, the appendix of the…
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GM IPO Date Set for Tomorrow: What’s Good for New GM is Bad for the Rest of America
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
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TSA’s John Pistole Offers to Probe Senators: Shouldn’t He Buy Them Dinner First?
TSA chief John Pistole offered to give enhanced pat-downs to senators at a hearing today on TSA's new screening policies.
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Last Call for Ethanol: Biofuel Lobby Out in Full Force
With 2011 a month and a half away, the ethanol industry is pushing full steam ahead for a renewal of the tax credit and tariff…
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The Power of Incumbency: Charlie Rangel Edition
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Afternoon Links: November 17, 2010
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Union Dues, New Jersey Gambling, and Social Security
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Why You Should CARE About the Ban on Four Loko
Late yesterday evening, the maker of Four Loko announced it was removing caffeine from the popular alcohol beverage. This came following media-driven hysteria, state…
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Union Members: Where Do Your Dues Go?
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Four Loko Crackdown: FDA Set to Ban Caffeinated-Alcohol Drinks
It looks as though the FDA is now set to ban the small but growing market for so-called alcohol-energy drinks, such as Four Loko and…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating in SunSpider Benchmark?: “A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating…
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Celebrate Egyptian Blogger Kareem Amer’s Freedom by Defending Free Speech
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Stop pretending that it’s high-speed rail
On Nov. 2, voters across Wisconsin made their voices clear on government-run passenger rail: Don't build it. Voters in Dane, Kenosha and Racine counties soundly…
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Banning Four Loko: Bloggers on the ‘Blackout in a can’ controversy
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Small Businesses Not Growing? That’s Because Regulations Are
The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will hold a hearing Thursday, November 18, on “Assessing the Regulatory and Administrative Burdens on…
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Chris Horner on Chevy Volt Subsidies
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses why government support is needed to keep…
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Vincent Vernuccio on Where Union Dues Go
Competitive Enterprise Institute Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio explains how unions take money from their members in…
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High-Speed-Train Wreck
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses revamped rail systems with Iain Murray and Marc Scribner. The Obama administration and high-speed rail proponents…
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Afternoon Links: November 16, 2010
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TSA Screening: What are the Limits?
Top security officers claim these invasive scans are necessary for our safety. In a news conference at Reagan National Airport, Department of Homeland Security Secretary…
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Milton Friedman on Other People’s Money
Milton Friedman always had a way with words. His brilliance in the following video not only explains the moral problem with using other people’s money,…
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Pro-Pedestrian Advocates Push Deadly Policies
One thing that never surprises me is how often anti-car zealots fail to consider trade-offs before blindly screaming for their preferred policies. Take, for example,…
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In re Apple Inc. Securities Litigation: parties modify settlement
You may recall that I was not pleased with an Apple settlement that provided for $2.5 million to go to a series of universities…
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Time to Privatize? The Economics of Social Security
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Online Casino Gambling Moves Forward in New Jersey
As I reported last week, though federal attempts to legalize online gambling have seen little progress in the last year, states’ efforts have shown…
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Spitzer, Seoul, and Wall Street
Eliot Spitzer, who occasionally publishes over at Slate, wrote yesterday about President Obama’s “disastrous Asia trip” and decried America’s fall from grace as a world leader.
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: 2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea: “Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner…
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Energy Department’s Green Bank is a Waste of Money (Letter to the Editor)
Unfortunately for American taxpayers, the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program is even worse than the Journal thinks. Running a bank is outside the…
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Texas Should Not Copy the Arizona Anti-Immigration Law
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle made headlines recently for introducing an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be disastrous for…
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Where Do All Those Union Dues Go?
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Protest San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban – While You Still Have a Choice
Washington, DC., November 16, 2010—The Competitive Enterprise Institute invites you to consider taking your family to McDonald’s for Happy Meals on Saturday, November 20th, to…
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FDA’s Caffeine Power Grab
Washington, D.C., November 17, 2010: The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called a pending FDA ban on caffeinated-alcoholic beverages a misguided and arbitrary extension of…
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Union Members: Where Do Your Dues Go?
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Pat-Downs or Full-Body Imaging? TSA Airport Security Backlash
The TSA has crossed a line. Its new security procedures require employees to either touch passengers’ genitals or take pictures of them. The public backlash…
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Afternoon Links: November 15, 2010
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Tobacco Control Hysteria Goes Global
The wars on tobacco and smokers have gone global, as evidenced by international bureaucrats from the World Health Organization meeting in Uruguay this week…
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CEI Podcast — November 15, 2010: Free Speech and Video Games
Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia gives his take on a Supreme Court case concerning California’s ban of violent video game sales to minors.
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The TSA Can’t Help Being Annoying
With the holiday travel season approaching fast, public anger at the federal Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) increasingly invasive airport passenger screening procedures — full…
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