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SEC ‘Proxy Access’ Rule Could Empower Unions, Political Activists
Op-Eds
Obama’s War on Free Checking
“Free checking as we know it is ending,” says the lead paragraph of a widely read and tweeted story from The Associated Press. Noting…
National Review
Obama’s Tax Cut for Rich Oil Companies
National Review
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Champions Renewable Fuel Standards
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Ethanol and Energy Efficiency
The U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke today at the National Press Club on the future of biofuels in the United States. His…
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New CEI Podcast — October 21, 2010: Relic of Prohibition
CEI Director of Insurance Studies Michelle Minton analyzes proposals to privatize Virginia's liquor stores.
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General Motors’ Losses Hidden by Deferral of Union Pension Obligations
Any General Motors bonds issued this year will be classified as junk by a key ratings agency. Why? There’s some risk GM will go…
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Ray LaHood’s Smoke and Mirrors
This morning, The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire quoted me “disapproving” of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s TIGER II grant picks. LaHood “countered” critics of…
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Afternoon Links: October 21, 2010
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Sex in the Board Room!
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The Free Checking Restoration Act of 2011
“Free checking as we know it is ending,” says the lead paragraph of a widely-read and tweeted story this week from the Associated Press.
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More Stimulus Money Wasted
A lot of money was wasted in weatherization projects paid for by the stimulus package, note The New York Times Green Blog and Professor…
Newsletter
Annie Leonard, Poker Games, and the Ethanol Tax Credit
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More Support for Privatization of Virginia Liquor Sales
Yesterday, the Virginia Retail Federation (the advocacy arm of the Retail Alliance and the Retail Merchants Association) came out in support of privatizing liquor…
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H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers
To bring workers they need into the United States, American companies sponsor their H1-B work visas. The rapid pace of technological and scientific development is…
Letters
Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress: …
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data: “Canada’s privacy commissioner said Tuesday that Google’s recent Wi-Fi sniffing was a serious violation…
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Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry
Michigan auto insurance premiums are among the highest in the nation. Rather than attempting to regulate insurance company and individual behavior, Michigan legislators would much…
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Medical Trial and Error
The Atlantic has an interesting profile of medical researcher John Ioannidis, who famously concluded in a groundbreaking 2005 study that the scientific conclusions of most…
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The illegal Apple backdating class action settlement
Did you buy Apple stock between 2001 and 2006? Ira Stoll and Jim Copland have discussed the outrageous Apple backdating lawsuit resulting…
Wall Street Journal
Ray LaHood: The Man With the Money
Progressive Railroading
USDOT doles out TIGER II grants for 75 transportation projects
E&E News
Free-market group decries DOT’s ‘sloppy social engineering’
Insider Online
Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry: Some Concrete and Practical Proposals
Insider Online
The Free Checking Restoration Act of 2010
Insider Online
An Appeal to End Ethanol Tariffs, Subsidies
Insider Online
CEI: Open Borders to High Skilled Workers
Insider Online
Biofuel or Bust? Ethanol Subsidies Should be Dropped
The long struggle to make ethanol a viable and relevant auto fuel in America got a boost recently from the Environmental Protection Agency, but allowing…
News Release
The Case for Opening Borders to Highly Skilled Workers
News Release
Tax-Subsidized Ethanol Boondoggle Set to Expire
MacLeans
Burning Down the House
MacLeans discusses Iain Murray's article for the Washington Examiner on private insurance companies. That could be why the fire incident, far from discouraging…
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“Rent Is Too Damn High” Candidate’s Rent is Actually Quite Low
Oh look, a politician building a campaign on the premise that he understands his constituents’ plight is actually…very far removed from the issues that are…
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Exploiting the Poor: International Trade
On last week’s Stossel (no video available yet), was mentioned that rich countries gain their wealth through the exploitation of poor countries. Professor Marc Hill of Columbia University…
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Obamacare Will Spawn Crowded Waiting Rooms and Pointless Busywork for Doctors
Health care costs will go up under Obamacare for many reasons, such as the wasteful red tape it imposes on health savings accounts (HSAs). Max…
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Afternoon Links: October 20, 2010
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Rent Control: Why Is It So Bad?
When rent is “too damn high,” people move. Yet many cities still impose rotating rent controls, in a misguided attempt to make housing more…
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Exploiting the Poor: The Minimum Wage
Many people believe that the minimum wage is a major source of America’s prosperity. Actually as of 2009 only 4.9 percent of (employed) workers…
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Poker and Private Property in South Carolina
In South Carolina, the fate of five men has hung in the balance for the last four years. They crime they have been accused of…
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Rent Is Too Damn High
Not much to add to this brilliant insight: The rent is too damn high! Jimmy McMillan doesn’t get into details about what he intends…
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Malthusian Indoctrination of Children Funded with Your Tax Dollars
Many people are familiar with Annie Leonard, creator of “The Story of Stuff,” a factually inaccurate viral video being shown in classrooms throughout America. In…
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Say Goodbye to Free Checking
“Say goodbye to traditional free checking, as banks feel squeeze from new regulations,” reads the AP headline. “Free checking, a mainstay of American banking…
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The Scientific-Technological Elite, Foreign Funding, and Joe Miller’s Immigration Gaffe
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Of Mice and Men and Christine O’Donnell
A recent exchange between Christine O’Donnell and Bill O’Reilly, with a lack of scientific information on both sides. O’REILLY: Everybody knows that scientists have…
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Morning Media Summar
Tech: Privacy vs. Profits: “The threat to privacy posed by digital technology is about to take a turn for the worse. At least,…
MacLeans
Your tax dollars at work: EPA now funding propaganda videos telling kids juiceboxes are destroying the planet
MacLeans
Your tax dollars at work: EPA now funding propaganda videos telling kids juiceboxes are destroying the planet
Energy Tomorrow
Is EPA Protecting Human Health?
Energy Tomorrow
The GM IPO
Energy Tomorrow
What Democrats Are Hiding & Why They’re Really Scared
Energy Tomorrow
AG Jerry Brown Is Complicit With SoS Debra Bowen In Promoting Election Fraud In California
News Release
CEI Blasts Anti-Mobility TIGER II Grants
Washington, D.C., October 20, 2010 – The Department of Transportation today revealed its list of 73 Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) II…
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Your Shriveling 401(K): Thank Financial Red Tape and the Foreclosure Furor
If your 401(K) has shrunken recently, it may be due to falling bank stocks, like Bank of America stock, which has fallen from over $19…
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Free Market Burns — Fire Department Doesn’t Help
This post was coauthored by Jered Piepenbrink and Alex Schibuola. On October 3, a home burned to the ground in Obion County, Tennessee, though it…
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China Might Halt Rare Earth Exports
The New York Times reports: “China Said to Halt Some Mineral Shipments.” HONG KONG — China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals…
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Building Height Restrictions: Where I Agree with Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias of the Center for American Progress links to a Washington Post article that notes that office rents in downtown D.C. are now…
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Afternoon Links: October 19, 2010
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A Surge Toward a New “Scientific-Technological Elite”?
AEI’s Steve Hayward, in his article “Power Surge,” presents what he says is an innovative solution to foreign oil dependence and global warming: pump huge…
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Obama’s Nativist Scare Tactics May Backfire on Him
President Obama has made the baseless claim that the Chamber of Commerce is spending foreign money on political campaigns. This claim was widely disseminated…
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The East German Immigration Model
A U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska thinks that the U.S. should follow East Germany's example when it comes to immigration.
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Meager Part-Time Work Masks Unemployment
Unemployment is often masked by part-time work, since people who would prefer to work full-time are not treated as unemployed by government statistics if they…
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Outsourced Emissions, Internet Gambling, and TIGER II
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: The World is Full of Interesting Things: “That’s the name of a brilliant slideshow created by Google’s Creative Labs. You’ll find a…
News Release
Experts Urge Michigan’s Next Governor to Reform Insurance Regulations
Contact: Lee Doren, 202-331-2259 Washington, D.C., October 19, 2010 – Michigan’s next governor has his work cut out for him. It is no secret that…
Energy Tomorrow
Would You Like a Union With That, Comrade?
Workers at some of America’s fast food restaurants could be in for some interesting times soon. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is attempting…
Energy Tomorrow
Armageddon: What Democrats Are Hiding & Why They Are Really Scared
Mac World
Mobile Phone Bill Shock: FCC, Carriers Face Off
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Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits
Products
MCI’s Layered Approach: A Horizontal Leap Nowhere
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A Republican Sweep Might Not Stop Online Gambling
Many analysts and pollsters are predicting a Republican sweep of the coming midterm elections in the House. While Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) seems untouchable,…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: 2010 Telephony Edition
One hundred and twenty-six years after Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, AT&T, America’s largest provider of fixed telephony (and third largest non-oil company in…
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The Huffington Post Report on Tax Liens and Banks May Miss the Point
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Ben Lieberman on Consumer Costs of Regulations
Watch the interview on YouTube. …
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Afternoon Links: October 18, 2010
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Killed by Pension Accounting
Think accounting rules are a boring topic? You wouldn’t if the fate of your business rested on it. Indeed, a rule change may be coming…
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Democrats Took the Most Foreign Money
It turns out that Democrats have taken twice as much foreign money in this election cycle as Republicans. They’ve taken “more than $1 million…
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“Livability” versus Mobility: TIGER II
Since the early 1990s when advocates of so-called Smart Growth took control of federal transportation infrastructure policy, we have increasingly heard transportation projects described as…
Newsletter
Bill Shock, Daycare Unions, and Food Crusaders
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China Mocks U.S. Over Subsidy Investigation
An update to Friday’s post: Bloomberg (and the The New York Times) reported this weekend on China’s response to U.S. accusations…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Facebook in Privacy Breach: “Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting…
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EPA Ozone Standard Would Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs, Study Estimates
A recent study by the Manufacturer’s Alliance/MAPI finds that EPA’s proposed revision of the “primary” (health-based) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone (O3) would have…
Organic Wine Journal
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
Organic Wine Journal
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
Organic Wine Journal
Pension Insanity in France
Organic Wine Journal
EPA Lawsuits: Digging through the Morass of Litigation
CIO
Mobile phone bill shock: FCC, carriers face off
CIO
Pension Insanity in France
PC World
Mobile Phone Bill Shock: FCC, Carriers Face Off
PC World
Spirits Industry Engaging in Special-Interest Manipulation
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Salt Lake City Tribune that a representative of the National Beer Wholesalers Association drafted his recent congressional…
PC World
Delaying Foreclosures Only Adds to Pain
Federal housing promotion policies over-stimulated the supply and demand for housing and that destabilization continues. Efforts to make home ownership a “human right” are partly…
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Restricting What People Eat, Based on the Ignorance of Food Snobs
There are increasing calls for the government to restrict salty food and fast-food restaurants, and tax fast food, to curb obesity. This is especially true…
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Obamacare Results in 47 Percent Premium Hike
Obamacare has just led to a 47 percent increase in some health insurance premium rates in Connecticut: The state’s largest insurer has been approved to…
PC World
Ben Lieberman on consumer costs of regulations
CEI Senior Fellow in Environmental Policy Ben Lieberman explains how new environmental regulations for household appliances will end up costing consumers more money. These increased…
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A Potentially Bold Fiscal Policy Experiment in U.K.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron plans to cut 192 independent government agencies in an…
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Mackinac Appeals Court Decision that would Unionize Independent Home Daycare Workers
Yesterday, the Mackinac Institute of Michigan took another step in its lawsuit challenging the forced unionization of independent daycare workers. The litigation is in response…
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“Illegal” Green Energy Subsidies
In a move that surprised no one, The New York Times reported today that the U.S. agreed to go ahead and formally investigate…
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Bill Shock Shouldn’t Be A Federal Issue
The FCC proposed new rules today aimed at combating wireless “bill shock,” a term that describes mobile subscribers getting hit with overage charges they…
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Afternoon Links: October 15, 2010
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Obama Supports Giving $250 Checks to Seniors
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Food vs. Fuel? Part Deux
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its estimate on yields from 2010 corn crops to 12.7 billion bushels for 2010…
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