Citation
Industry must talk to consumers about safety concerns
Op-Eds
Department of Labor Inspector General Nominee: Too Political, Too Controversial
Fresh from the recess appointment of former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, President Obama has nominated another controversial figure to…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Coming In This Week’s Business Press
Blog
In defending Kagan, Media Matters embraces Bush Justice Department
Well, who woulda thunk it?! George W. Bush’s Justice Department is now considered a citadel of wisdom by the legal eagles at the liberal Media…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Kagan and the Agency-Exhaustion Doctrine: A Response to Media Matters
Well, who’da thunk it? George W. Bush’s Justice Department is now considered a citadel of wisdom by the legal eagles at Media Matters for America.
Las Vegas Review Journal
In Defending Kagan, Media Matters Embraces Bush Justice Department
Well, who woulda thunk it?! George W. Bush’s Justice Department is now considered a citadel of wisdom by the legal eagles at the liberal Media…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Article particles: Obamacare org chart and other offerings
Las Vegas Review Journal
EPA Rejects 10 Endangerment Challenge Petitions
Las Vegas Review Journal
EPA Rejects Claims Challenging Threat Posed By Climate Change
Las Vegas Review Journal
EPA Rejects Claims Challenging Threat Posed By Climate Change
Toledo Blade
Digging out of the ditch
The Toledo Blade mentions Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory state. Federal regulations cost Americans $1.16 trillion in 2007,…
Blog
Give & Take: Fifth Amendment Complicates Net Neutrality
Opponents of net neutrality, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, have pointed to numerous grounds upon which the detrimental scheme could be challenged. These…
Blog
The Open Internet and Lessons from the Ma Bell Era
Blog
CEI Weekly: The History of Environmentalism
CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features CEI's RJ Smith in his own short film on the…
Newsletter
Online Gambling, Offshore Drilling and the Complexity of Obamacare
The House Financial Services Committee passes the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. Today the House of Representatives will vote on an energy…
Blog
Want to be a pro bono economic expert? In re Apple & ATTM Antitrust Litig.
When Apple introduced its iPhone into a smartphone market where it had 0% market share, it cut a deal with AT&T Mobility to make it…
National Review
Brownback’s Mountains
It looked like we had dodged a bullet. With an election looming, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) decided that a provision requiring…
National Review
Why Democrats are Pushing the $165 Billion Union Pension Bailout
National Review
He Auto Know Better
President Obama is telling people today that the Auto Bailouts worked. He’s claiming that the auto industries are showing a profit and hiring thousands…
News Busters
AP Cites Discredited NOAA Bureaucrat to Push Global Warming Alarmism Report
Business and Media
AP Cites Discredited NOAA Bureaucrat to Push Global Warming Alarmism Report
Tulsa World
Credit reports used by insurance companies
Tulsa World
EPA Won’t Reconsider Greenhouse Gases Stance
Tulsa World
EPA denies requests to reconsider GHG finding
Tulsa World
EPA rejects petitions questioning whether climate change is man made
News Release
House Takes Baby Steps on Internet Gambling Reform
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010—This week the House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, originally introduced…
News Release
House to Vote on Oil Spill Bill
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010—Today the House of Representatives will vote on an energy bill to address BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The bill,…
News Release
Senate Plan to Prevent Oil Spill Should Eliminate Government Cap on Liability
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010—The Senate is preparing to vote next week on a bill aimed at preventing future BP-style oil spills—a plan that could…
News Release
EPA Refuses to Reconsider Harmful Energy Regulations
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010 – The EPA Thursday rejected petitions to reconsider the agency’s move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a “public endangerment”…
Blog
NOAA to Skeptics: We’re Right, You Can’t Deny It
A recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has received wide media attention, has come to the conclusion that evidence for anthropogenic…
Letters
Letter to House Financial Services Committee
Blog
Understanding the Health Care System
Check out this flow chart of what the health care system will look like once Obamacare is implemented.
Blog
Obama Hypocritically Embraces Legal Doctrine He Earlier Attacked
In response to a lawsuit by the Obama Justice Department, a federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton has enjoined parts of Arizona’s new law…
Study
Who Should Pay for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Liability and Incentive Issues Raised by the Deepwater Horizon Incident…
Newsletter
The Origins of Environmentalism, a Shady Attorney General and Immigration Lawsuits
The inability of the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a climate change bill causes activists to question the state of the environmental movement. CEI…
Blog
A tort reform advocate’s dream, my article in Forbes.com
It’s a tort reform advocate’s dream–meaning a defendant’s worst nightmare. As I write in my Forbes.com article, “California Trial Lawyers Find A Geezer Goldmine,”…
Blog
Dewey v. Volkswagen, Water Ingress Settlement fairness hearing
A tiny percentage of Volkswagen and Audi sunroofs will leak into the vehicle unless care is taken to keep the plenum clear of debris; a…
Tulsa World
Elena Kagan’s War on Small Business
Solicitor General Kagan urged against letting a small firm challenge a regulatory agency in court. Would a Justice Kagan do the same? Now that Congress…
E&E News
EPA Rejects 10 Endangerment Findings
American Thinker
The Left and Its Talking Points
American Thinker
Editorial: Time for Senate to feel the heat
American Thinker
Alarmist ‘State of the Climate’ Report Draws Fire
American Thinker
Study: Climate change ‘undeniable’
American Thinker
EPA rejects ‘Climate-gate’ bid to scuttle carbon rules
American Thinker
EPA reaffirms human health risks of greenhouse gases
American Thinker
EPA rejects petitions to reconsider danger of greenhouse gases
American Thinker
EPA Rejects Chamber of Commerce Petition to Disputing CO2 Endangerment Finding
American Thinker
EPA Rejects Claims Challenging Threat Posed By Climate Change
American Thinker
EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule
American Thinker
Should Internet Gambling Be Legalized?
The question isn’t should gambling online be legalized, but rather, does the federal government have the authority to criminalize the activity? The answer is: no.
NCPA
A Moratorium we Need
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses the proposal for a one year moratorium on new regulations that affect business with Iain Murray. …
Blog
History of Environmentalism
Blog
Jim Hood: Another of the Nation’s Worst State Attorneys General
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has a truly awful record, as today’s Wall Street Journal notes, citing his links to trial lawyers who tried…
Newsletter
Campaign Finance, Alcohol Regulation and Underage Senior Citizens
Senate Democrats lose a key vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill to regulate campaign finance spending. Congress is considering a bill that would allow…
Lake County News
Groups Call Alcohol Regulation Bill An Affront to Consumer Freedom’
Lake County News
Another Activist AG Bites the Dust
Lake County News
AG Edmondson loses primary in governor’s race
Lake County News
Research Says Climate Change Undeniable
Lake County News
Arizona’s Immigration Surprises
Arizona’s new anti-immigration law, which goes into effect on July 29, has been a rallying point for many conservatives. It reinvigorated the lackluster administration of…
News Release
Judge’s Injunction on Arizona Immigration Law Doesn’t Stop Law’s Harmful Impact
Washington, D.C., July 28, 2010 — Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law goes into effect Thursday, despite a partial injunction handed down Wednesday by U.S. District Judge…
Blog
Bill to Regulate Political Speech Fails
It was mostly Democrats who favored the DISCLOSE Act. But Republicans are no heroes on this issue. Don't believe their posturing.
Blog
Coalition Letter: Wine and Spirits Bill Affont to Consumer Choice
Today, CEI sent a letter to all members of Congress regarding H.R. 5034. This is the bill that would allow states to impose a…
Blog
Chris Horner on the Politics of Cap and Trade
Blog
Regulation of the Day 144: Underage Senior Citizens
Bob Russ is 66 years old. He was denied entry to the Oregon Brewer’s Festival because he lacked a valid photo ID to prove he…
Letters
Groups Call Alcohol Regulation Bill “An Affront to Consumer Freedom”
Full Document Available in PDF Washington, D.C., July 27, 2010 — Today a coalition of nonprofit and consumer groups sent a letter…
Blog
Hans Bader on the Nation’s Worst Attorneys General
Newsletter
Big Labor’s Agenda, the Death of Cap and Trade and the Politics of ‘Mad Men’
Big Labor has been pushing hard to make Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren the new consumer protection czar. Besides the possibility of a lame-duck session, the…
News Release
Groups Call Alcohol Regulation Bill “An Affront to Consumer Freedom”
Washington, D.C., July 27, 2010 — Today a coalition of nonprofit and consumer groups sent a letter to Congress expressing concerns about H.R. 5034, the…
Lake County News
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…
Lake County News
Chris Horner on the Politics of Cap and Trade
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner debates the politics and economics of a cap and trade scheme for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Lake County News
Hans Bader on the Nation’s Worst Attorneys General
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Attorney Hans Bader talks about his report "The Nation's Worst State Attorney General."…
Blog
America’s Worst State Attorney Generals Exposed; Consumers and Businesses Ripped Off
The nation’s worst state attorney generals use lawsuits as a weapon to redistribute billions of dollars from businesses and consumers to their wealthy trial-lawyer friends…
Blog
LibertyWeek 103: Katherine Mangu-Ward Edition
Newsletter
Online Privacy, Food Safety and Unemployment Benefits
The Senate Commerce Committee prepares for a hearing on consumer online privacy. Environmental groups sue to compel the Food and Drug Administration to ban the…
Pokerati
Tea Party Conservatives Support Efforts to Quash UIGEA
Pokerati
Obama Administration Made Illegal Race-Based Decisions When Closing GM and Chrysler Dealerships
News Release
Free Market Groups Urge Reform of Internet Gambling Law
Washington, D.C., July 26, 2010—Today a coalition of free market organizations, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, released a joint letter to Congress regarding upcoming legislation…
Blog
What the Mad Men Tell Us
Washington Post
BG&E’s Smart Grid Program Faces another Regulatory Hurdle
Washington Post
Financial Overhaul Just Another Case of Government Overreach
Washington Post
Climate Alarmism
Blog
Who is Elizabeth Warren and why does Big Labor Love Her?
The Dodd–Frank Financial Regulation Bill, which President Obama signed today, created yet another Czar to head yet another Executive Agency, the…
Blog
Rockefeller Bill – Is It Good Enough?
Blog
CEI Weekly: The Nation’s Worst Attorneys General
CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features Hans Bader's newest study on the worst attorneys general in…
Blog
Automakers Face Potentially Massive Race-Discrimination Class-Action Lawsuit Thanks to Obama Administration
“Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler…
Blog
Hopes for Federal Property Insurance Expansion: Gone with the Wind
Insurance industry members are wiping there collective brow after a bill was pulled from the floor of the House of Representatives before a vote.
Blog
Senator Pat Leahy Doesn’t Even Read Supreme Court Decisions Before Blasting Them
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is fond of blasting Supreme Court decisions even before reading them. In his eyes, its decisions are all part of a…
Newsletter
Congress’ Confidence Level, Attorneys General Gone Wild and Liberating Wine Sales
A recent poll found that only 11% of Americans have confidence in Congress. CEI releases a report on America’s worst state attorneys general. New York…
Washington Post
Deal for Credit Firm Draws Fire for GM
Blog
Jerry Brown Is the Nation’s Worst State Attorney General
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is the worst state attorney general in America, as I documented in a recent study. But how was…
Blog
Wine in Grocery Stores, Still on the Table in New York
A proposal to allow New York State supermarkets sell wine might re-emerge this year if Governor David A. Patterson can break the state’s budgetary stalemate.
Blog
The Nation’s Worst State Attorneys General
The nation’s worst state attorneys general abuse the power of their office for political ends, undermining the rule of law. In…
Blog
Public’s confidence in institutions at odds with Administration’s and Congressional attacks
In a new Gallup poll on confidence in institutions, Congress ranked last out of 16 institutions consumers were asked to consider. Only 11…
Blog
Richard Blumenthal Rated Second-Worst Attorney General in America
Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal has just been rated the second-worst state attorney general in America by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in its recent…
Blog
Economists vs. Economics
Blog
New Jersey’s Not-So-Palatial Xanadu
The retail and entertainment development formerly known as Xanadu Meadowlands—recently renamed The Meadowlands—has been plagued with problems since the planning stage. The East…
Newsletter
Cap and Trade, Financial Regulation and Toyotas and the Truth
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) mentions plans to pass a cap-and-trade bill in a post-election “lame duck” session if necessary. President Obama signs the Dodd-Frank financial…
Washington Post
CT’s Blumenthal Second Worst State AG
Property and Casualty Insurance News
Administration Opposes Adding Wind To NFIP As Vote Looms
Forbes