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Capital Bikeshare, Western Jobs, and Fred Smith
Blog
Mises on Political Parties
Op-Eds
Burn Baby Burn?
The recent case in Olbion County, Tennessee, where municipal firefighters watched a house burn to the ground because the residents had not paid a…
Canada Free Press
In Defense of Plastic
Canada Free Press
No Chickening Out on Trade Retaliation
Canada Free Press
Nation’s Worst Attorney General: Blumenthal Steered $65 Million in Legal Fees to Political Allies
Blog
Prop 23 Will Boost California Employment By Half Million In 2012, 1.3 Million in 2020, Study Estimates
If approved by the California electorate this November, Proposition 23 will suspend the implementation of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, until the State’s unemployment rate…
Blog
Sharing Isn’t Caring
Late last month, Washington, D.C. launched its Capital Bikeshare (“CaBi” to its groupies) program to much acclaim from the usual suspects — New Urbanists and…
Blog
Fred Smith Featured in Politico’s “Answer This”
Fred Smith was profiled today in Politico‘s “Answer This” column by Patrick Gavin. Here are a few highlights: What’s a common and accepted practice for…
Blog
Washington’s New War on the West
The economic track record of the current administration and Congress is not a good one. Unemployment remains stubbornly high at nearly 10 percent, and many…
Blog
Texting on the Stygian Ferry
“Border collie jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune.” Those were the last words of Malibu plastic surgeon Frank Ryan, best known for…
Newsletter
McDonald’s Health Insurance, Privatizing Virginia Liquor, and the Minimum Wage
Newsletter
CEI Weekly: CEI Hosts Labor Policy Reception
Blog
CEI Weekly: CEI Hosts Labor Policy Reception
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI staff. This week features CEI's Labor Policy Reception.
Canada Free Press
Raise the H-1B visa cap
Rupert Murdoch’s and Michael Bloomberg’s testimony Thursday on Capitol Hill about immigration reform missed one timely and important mention. October 1st marks the beginning of…
Canada Free Press
The Green Agenda
Canada Free Press
FDA: Genetically Modified Salmon Are Safe for Consumption, Environment
Forbes
The Expanding State
Forbes highlights a statement from Wayne Crews on the expanding state. [President] Obama’s economic program fundamentally consists of fostering a compulsory “Declaration of…
Forbes
Viticulture briefs
Forbes
GM Admits to No Repay of Bailout
Blog
Virginia ABC Store Privatization: Improving Plan, Dimming Political Support
When Virginia’s governor Bob McDonnell’s unveiled his plans for privatizing the state-run liquor sales system nobody was terribly thrilled. The plan’s basic outline (as I…
Blog
Obamacare May Force McDonald’s to Drop Health Coverage for Employees
Michelle Malkin points out that “McDonald’s has notified the feds that it may be forced to drop health insurance for some 30,000 workers due…
Newsletter
United Auto Workers, the Sugar Program, and the CEI Podcast
Cigar Magazine
No Smoking in the Castle
Full Document Available in PDF Firsthand. Secondhand. Thirdhand. Are these rounds in a poker game? Different degrees of gossip reliability? Various…
Cigar Magazine
Dare We Mandate a Gender Balance Quota?
Full Document Available in PDF Support for diversity on corporate boards has…
Cigar Magazine
Vincent Vernuccio on Union Shutting Down GM Plant
Competitive Enterprise Institute Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio explains how the UAW chose to shut down a GM plant in Indiana instead of accepting a…
Blog
Sugar Program Opponents Stake Out Their Position
Sugar producers got a sweet deal in the 2008 Farm Bill. Now, with the next bill scheduled for 2012, some opponents of the U.S. sugar…
Blog
CEI Podcast – September 30, 2010: William F. Buckley
Products
Uncle Sam Wants to Cuddle
We have heard much recently about the “Europeanization” of America, particularly in the context of socialized health care or expanded environmental regulation. Yet few have…
Blog
Wholesale Special Interest Manipulation
Sometimes politicians say things so dumb that no one could have made them up. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Salt Lake City…
Newsletter
CEI’s Labor Policy Launch, Beer and Wine Middlemen, and Lessons from the Stimulus
Cigar Magazine
SEC “Proxy Access” Rule Could Empower Unions, Political Activists and Undermine Investors
Cigar Magazine
Washington Ideas Forum
Cigar Magazine
Let’s You and Him Fight
Cap-and-trade is dead because the public finally caught on that it is a stealth energy tax, a big reason being that it makes coal –…
Cigar Magazine
Fish Enough for All
Ron Arnold alleged yesterday that Jane Lubchenco and the bureaucrats at NOAA are killing the New England fishing industry. Averse as I am to…
Cigar Magazine
Rank and File Democratic Congressman’s Brother Dependent on Government Grants for Company’s Success
Cigar Magazine
Secret BLM Meetings Cause Uproar in Wyoming
Study
Persuasion and Issue-Framing
Blog
Take a Look at U.S. Tariffs – They Raise Costs and Restrict Choice
With so much focus on “unfair” trade vis-à-vis U.S. trade partners, especially China, it’s sometimes sobering to look at protectionist U.S. policies that restrict…
Blog
Science Credibility Flu Away – At Least in Europe
Throughout the phony flu pandemic I warned that health officials would lose credibility because basically everything they were telling us was false and, unlike…
Blog
Ethanol: Following the E10 to E15 Debate
The ethanol industry was patiently waiting for the EPA to approve an increase from 10 percent ethanol blends to 15 percent in gasoline. They…
Study
Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not ‘‘Pro-Business’’
Full Document Available in PDF Chief Justice John Roberts has often been depicted as an advocate of narrow rulings and a judicial philosophy…
Blog
The Failed Stimulus Package Reveals What Economy Really Needs
A failure can make for a valuable learning experience, and the stimulus package is no exception. Clearly the stimulus has not worked, and from…
Blog
22,000 Lose Their Health Insurance Due to Obamacare
Approximately 22,000 senior citizens just lost their health plan with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which dropped its Medicare Advantage Program due to “cuts in…
Newsletter
Beer and Wine Sales, Chinese Tariffs on U.S. Poultry, and a Net Neutrality Debate
Products
Bill Would Mandate Equal Pay for Unequal Work (Letter to the Editor)
Diana Furchtgott-Roth was right to criticize a bill that would require some people who do unequal work to be paid equal amounts. The perverse “Paycheck…
News Release
Businesses File Lawsuit Against SEC Over Proxy Access Rule
Cigar Magazine
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
The quest by wine and beer wholesalers to maintain their “middleman” role within the liquor industry is simply bad news. A bill making its way…
Cigar Magazine
United Auto Workers Local Costs 650 Jobs in Indiana
Cigar Magazine
An Annoying Regulation for Every Room in the House
Cigar Magazine
Obama’s Energy Regulations on Household Appliances Sparks Cost Debate
Cigar Magazine
Blumenthal Supports All that is Wrong
Blog
New EPA Rules Will Cost More than 800,000 Jobs
New EPA rules will cost more than 800,000 jobs, probably far more, according to a newly released congressional report. That includes the EPA’s…
Blog
Not Wright for Internet Gambling
Some Net gamblers are lamenting the indictment of California State Senator Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) who was indicted by a grand jury for alleged voter…
Newsletter
Water Heaters, the Green Jobs Myth, and the CARE Act
Blog
No Chickening Out on Trade Retaliation
Trade relations between the U.S. and China are heating up, with both countries bringing antidumping charges against the other — some in retaliation for earlier…
Blog
Using Government to Weed Out Competitors
In states throughout the country, beverage distributors are stepping into the political ring and in every case the opponent is the same: competition. Since prohibition,…
Cigar Magazine
Response to How Would GOP’s ‘Pledge’ Affect Economy? – Pledge Takes On Overregulation
Though much of the commentary on the GOP’s “Pledge to America” has forcused on the areas of taxes and spending, the provision that may contain…
Cigar Magazine
Pledge Takes On Overregulation
Though much of the commentary on the GOP’s “Pledge to America” has forcused on the areas of taxes and spending, the provision that may contain…
Washington Examiner
Big Green: Don’t Get Hit on the Campaign Trail by This Environmental Wrecking Ball
San Francisco Examiner
Big Green: Global warming and EPA’s threat to regulate everything
San Francisco Examiner
A Capper for Christie?
Blog
An Unpaid Internship at the White House
@whitehouse on Twitter alerted me this morning that applications for internships at the White House are due by October 3. I couldn’t help but look…
Newsletter
Household Energy Efficiency Standards, Barr’s Flip-Flop on Ethanol, and the Pledge to America
Blog
Regulation of the Day 151: Water Heaters
The EPA recommends setting your water heater to 20 degrees Fahrenheit. But OSHA recommends setting it to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Why the difference?…
Newsletter
CEI Weekly: Congress Should Liberate to Stimulate
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features John Berlau's debate with Heather Boushey from the Center for…
Study
Are Corporations Suicidal?
Full Document Available in PDF…
Washington Examiner
Big Green Regulations Suffocate Jobs, Economic Growth
Washington Examiner
U.S. Citizenship: A Brass Ring for Terrorists?
Washington Examiner
High Cost Is Not Worst Thing About Obamacare (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to criticize Obamacare for being even more costly than many of its opponents expected, but the worst things about it…
Newsletter
Carbon Prices, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pledge to America
Blog
An Annoying Regulation for Every Room in the House
The Obama administration isn’t satisfied giving the American people several big things we don’t want — the stimulus package, expanded bailouts, Obamacare — but it…
Blog
CEI Weekly: Congress Should Liberate to Stimulate
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features John Berlau's debate with Heather Boushey from the Center for…
Blog
Five Radicals Approved for Judgeships by Senate Judiciary Committee
Five radicals have been approved for judgeships by the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines. The committee held over for…
Blog
Bob Barr, [un]Principled Supporter of Ethanol
Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, had a piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post titled Extending Ethanol Tax Credit Makes Sense. It’s…
Products
So. SEIU’s Andy Stern Leaving, or Pushed Out
Study
Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade
Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…
Washington Examiner
No Regulation Without Representation
Having excoriated the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress — on this site and elsewhere — for falling short of principles on TARP…
Washington Examiner
Physician-legislator Dr. Ritze Speaks Out Against ObamaCare
Blog
CEI Podcast – September 23, 2010: The Frankenfish Myth
CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko, author of The Frankenfood Myth, talks about the promise and imagined peril of genetically modified salmon.
Blog
GOP “Pledge to America” Includes Constructive Reg Reform
The House Republican “Pledge to America” unveiled today has been criticized by RedState’s Erick Erickson and other center-right pundits for a lack of specifics.
Blog
Immelt Has Some “Thought Bullets”
Mr. “Ecomagination” — GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt — called on the U.S. to put a long-term price on carbon so this country could compete with…
Blog
Obama Financial Czar Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Liberal Law Professor Says
Obama has appointed controversial Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to informally run the powerful, newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that will regulate the…
Newsletter
The ECPA, Green Energy, and Paycheck Unfairness
Blog
Watch the Center on “Stossel” tonight
The Center for Class Action Fairness will be featured on “Stossel” tonight: Fox Business News, 9 PM and midnight Eastern. I talk with John…
State Journal Register
Illinois Must Get Out of Regional Cap-and-Trade
State Journal Register
China Winning Renewable Energy Race
News Release
Free Market Groups Urge Congress to Update U.S. Privacy Laws
Washington, D.C., September 23, 2010 — If you store sensitive files on your personal computer which law enforcement authorities wish to examine, they generally…
State Journal Register
Welcome Back, Congressional Review Act
The Obama administration, congressional Democrats, and their organized labor allies threaten to exacerbate the economy’s weakness by expanding the size of government by leaps and…
Blog
Motion to Stay Makes Strong Case Court Should Overturn EPA Global Warming Rules
Last Thursday (September 16, 2010), three groups, each led by the Coalition for Responsible Regulation (CRR), filed motions with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to “stay” (put…
Comment
Joint-Statement Submitted to House and Senate Committees on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary held separate hearings on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) on September 22, 2010, and September 23,…
Blog
Canada’s Green Energy and Jobs Programs Butt Up Against WTO Rules, says Japan
Do green energy and green jobs mandates run counter to World Trade Organization rules? Japan says “yes” in relation to Canada’s program for renewable…
Letters
Fearing Voter Disapproval, Senate Resurrects DISCLOSE Act Ahead of November Elections
Full Document Available in PDF We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…
Study
Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…
Blog
Many Free Checking Accounts Disappearing Due to Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law
The so-called financial “reform” bill that passed Congress — the Dodd-Frank Act — is wiping out many free checking accounts, since…
Blog
Unfair ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ Shafts Workers With Hazardous Jobs
We wrote earlier about the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill of Orwellian deception that would result in employees unfairly receiving equal pay…
Newsletter
Cybersecurity, Distracted Driving, and Car Free Day
State Journal Register
GM Caught in a Lie, Still Owes The United States Billions
National Review
LaHood: Distracted Regulating
My Northwest