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Regulation of the Day: Solid Waste
When an agency screws up really badly, political leaders will sometimes change the agency's name. The EPA’s Office of Solid Waste is now called the…
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Obama’s Job-Killing Stimulus Package Replaced Investments With Welfare, Out of Political Correctness
Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package was purged of most investments in roads and bridges, and filled instead with welfare and social spending,…
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Energy Taxes, Tap vs. Bottled Water and Gov. Crist’s War on Florida Homeowners
Debate intensifies over the Waxman-Markey climate bill. Minneapolis launches an advertising campaign to persuade residents to drink tap water in stead of bottled water. Florida…
New York Post
Trojan Hearse
The House votes this week on the American Clean Energy and Security Act—which claims to be about slowing global warming, but in fact is a…
New York Post
Crist rejects bill that aimed to lure property insurers to Florida
New York Post
Will Congress Switch Off the Lights?
When running for president, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised that his election would be "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow…
New York Post
Standing Athwart Nationalization
My organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has frequently been accused of being "in denial" regarding important issues. It’s a charge we most often wear…
New York Post
Case of Denial
New York Post
State Farm Vows to Leave Fla. as Gov. Crist Vetos Unregulated Rates
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CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA
The public shouldn’t be kept in the dark by an agency supposedly committed to transparency.
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A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act’s Arbitration Provision
EFCA clause allows government power to forcefully impose contracts on parties…
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Regulation of the Day: Rice Inspection Certificates
Our rice is in crisis. Inspection certificates currently contain some data in the grade line section that better belongs in the results section. Fortunately, the…
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LibertyWeek 48: Total Privacy Awareness
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Political Science at EPA, Climate Legislation in the House and Consumer Insurance Reform
The Environment Protection Agency suppresses an internal study on global warming for political reasons. The House of Representatives prepares to consider the Waxman-Markey climate bill.
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Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on Proposed Endangerment Finding
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public policy organization, hereby submits these…
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CEI Fellow Blasts Florida Governor Crist’s Veto of Consumer Choice Insurance Bill
The head of the insurance project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute attacked Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to veto the Consumer Choice Insurance Bill.
News Release
EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency actively suppressed a scientific analysis of climate change because…
New York Post
Greens, libertarians team up
Washington Examiner
EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study, CEI Says
Washington Examiner
Crist Vetos Fla. Insurance Deregulation Bill
MPR News
Climate Bill Still Faces Tough Road, Despite Peterson’s Support
MPR News
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Untouched in Financial Overhaul
The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing mandates. But Obama’s…
MPR News
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Untouched in Financial Overhaul
The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing mandates. But Obama’s…
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Obama Backs Corrupt Status Quo in Financial Rules Overhaul
The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing…
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Minneapolis Drops $75k to Defend Stinky Tap Water
Cities around the nation are spending thousands in taxpayer dollars to promote tap water because of the alleged environmental problems with bottled water. But…
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Cap and Trade Round-Up
Word has it that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade/energy tax bill is finally hitting the floor of the House, probably this Friday. CEI is decidedly in the…
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Opposition briefing in Bluetooth
The plaintiffs and defendants each filed their briefs yesterday in the $0-for-the-class and $800k-for-the-attorneys settlement. Note that defendants were required to pay $1M in notice…
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Hearings Open on Coercive and Counterproductively Costly Health Care Bill
Congressional Democrats are pushing hard to complete their health care bill before next week’s recess, but their hopes for a quick passage and the…
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FDA Tobacco Regulation May Harm Public Health By Blocking Healthy Alternatives
FDA regulation may actually undermine public health by making it harder to market to smokers other tobacco products, like snus, that are not as lethal…
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Burning Rivers, Broadband Price Controls and Beach House Bailouts
Residents of Cleveland observe the 40th anniversary of the infamous Cuyahoga River fire. Congress considers a bill to regulate the pricing of broadband Internet service.
MPR News
Eliminating Prison Rape
It has been far too long in coming but, yesterday, the Federal Prison Rape Elimination commission released its report on elimination and prevention efforts…
MPR News
Nationalization Review
Given the Obama administration’s rapid takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to conservatives that, in the…
MPR News
Obama Signs “Deceptive” FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill
Yesterday, Obama signed into law a deceptive FDA “tobacco regulation” bill that will undermine public health in the long run by protecting cigarette manufacturers…
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Statement on Waxman-Markey Energy-Rationing Bill
Washington, D.C., June 23, 2009—House Democratic leaders plan to bring to the floor this week the Waxman-Markey energy-rationing bill, H. R. 2454. …
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CEI Launches Information Site Devoted to National Regulatory Modernization for Insurance
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced the formal launch of a new website devoted to news and information about the National Insurance Consumer Protection Act…
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California’s New Diesel Regulation Is All Pain for No Gain
California's new diesel truck regulations would drive business out of the state…
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Commission Asks Justice Department Why Pro-Obama Thugs Got Away With Menacing White Voters
Members of the NBPP were caught on film blocking access to the polls and physically and verbally intimidating voters. . . When the defendants did…
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FTC to Monitor Blogs for Undisclosed Compensation
So much for the idyllic “free information” model of the internet. The Federal Trade Commission is drafting new rules that would extend its authority to encompass bloggers who…
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Obama Administration’s Anti-Travel Policies Hit New Low
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the new passport requirements implemented at the U.S.-Canada border. As I noted at the time, most Americans–including…
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Supreme Court Limits Voting Rights Act, But Declines to Strike Down Key Section of the Act
The Supreme Court expanded the ability of local governments to “bail out” of a draconian provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires them…
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Stimulus Waste, California’s Deficit and Internet Privacy
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) releases a report citing millions of misspent dollars from the federal economic stimulus package. The state of California faces a $24…
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CEI Launches Website Condemning ‘Beach House Bailout’
Washington, D.C., June 19, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today launched a new website, nobeachhousebailouts.org, offering news and information about legislative proposals in Congress for…
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On 40th Anniversary of Cuyahoga Fire, Myths Loom Larger Than Reality
Today is the 40th Anniversary of the famous Cuyahoga river fire in Cleveland, Ohio. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating the anniversary, because it…
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CEI Rejects New Broadband Price Control Bill
Rep. Eric Massa recently announced legislation to place government control over fees on broadband usage. With the introduction HR 2902 - the "Broadband Internet Fairness…
MPR News
Ecuador’s Counterproductive Fight Against Illegal Immigration
Ecuador’s government has devised a new way to discourage illegal immigrants, mainly from Cuba and China, from entering into fake marriages with natives in…
MPR News
Time for a Raise
Are Democrats in Congress really not supporting a Republican bill to allow union workers to earn more money? That was not a misprint: Republicans in…
MPR News
Waxman-Markey: Death Knell for U.S. Jobs, Low-Cost Energy
Perhaps the most destructive legislation in our country’s history will soon be voted on in the House — the Waxman-Markey tax bill in the guise…
MPR News
High court on Voting Rights Act
National Review
Regulated to Death
May 19 was a perfect day for a White House photo op. The sun was out, the Rose Garden was full, and everyone was…
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The Irony of the Liberty Bill
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U.S. Senate Investigates Mobile Phone Exclusivity Deals
A group of US Senators has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing their concern that the exclusive arrangements that are common between wireless…
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E-Cigarette Smokers Could Be Left Out in the Cold
The “smokes” may be different, but the Food and Drug Administration’s ever-vigilant watch to keep us safe from ourselves in its quest to quantify…
National Review
Accident Chasers
Gov. Charlie Crist might have missed the mark with some of the bills he signed last week, but his Tuesday signing of a ban…
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Stimulus = Welfare + Quotas + Corruption
Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package is now being used to force states to adopt racial quotas in government contracts, even if their state constitution…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rubbish and Bad Regulations
Ever since gas hit $4 a gallon on June 8 of last year, energy policy has been an all-consuming passion of America's political class. Thus,…
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Obama Administration Gives Miranda Warnings to Enemy Combatants in Afghanistan, Even Though They Are Not Legally Required
The Obama Administration is now requiring investigators to give Miranda warnings to some “captured foreign fighters” in Afghanistan, advising them that they…
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Senators Act on Clean Water Restoration Act
Yesterday, in a mere one hour and seventeen minutes, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sailed through S. 787—the Clean Water Restoration Act…
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Privacy Declared Public Good
Bruce Schneier, eminent cryptographer, has declared market failure. He points to what he calls a meta-problem: Those entrusted with our privacy often…
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The $60,000 Obama Health-Care Plan: It’s “Eye-Poppingly” Expensive on a Per-Person Basis
Obama’s health-care proposals will cost well over a trillion dollars, without providing universal coverage. They are so “eye-poppingly” expensive that even Congressional Democrats have…
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Taxes without Borders
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Regulation of the Day: The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
The State Department has renewed its membership in the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. This will cost taxpayers more than $2 million in annual membership dues.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
How to Start a Trade War: Rep. Neal’s Terrible Plan to Tax Offshore Reinsurance Companies
For much of the last decade, Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal has banged away at proposals for vast tax increases on "offshore affiliated reinsurance"–coverage that…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Industry, Consumer Groups Rally For and Against Florida “Consumer Choice” Bill
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Federal Regulatory Burden Hits $1.17 Trillion by Bob Barr
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Stoning of Soraya M. is a difficult film to watch, but worth taking the time to do so. The film . . . depicts…
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U.S. Civil Rights Commission Opposes Federal Hate Crimes Bill on Double Jeopardy and Civil Liberties Grounds
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has decided to oppose the federal hate-crimes bill. The Commission calls the bill a “menace to civil…
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Obama care: The Daily Horoscope of Policy
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Regulation of the Day: Parole Rules for Federal Prisoners
Today’s Regulation of the Day comes to us from the Department of Justice ($26 billion 2009 budget, 112,000 employees). Parole rules for DC offenders and…
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Clean Water, Banking Regulations and Air Quality
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee marks up the “Clean Water Restoration Act.” President Obama announces major new controls on the…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Obama Stimulus Package Is Destroying Jobs
The Examiner was right to protest President Barack Obama’s firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin after he exposed wrongdoing by prominent Obama supporter Kevin…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Jimmy P’s Top Ten Blogs Posts of the Day
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Letter to Governor Charlie Crist Regarding HB 1171 “The ‘Consumer Choice’ Bill”
Dear Governor Crist: I am writing to strongly encourage you to sign HB 1171 into law. This bill, rightfully dubbed the “consumer…
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National Regulatory Modernization for Insurers
Frequently Asked Questions on Standardizing National Insurance Laws…
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Clean Water Hoax
Sen. Barbara Boxer and company are going to bring the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) up for full committee mark-up and vote in their Thursday…
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Obama Seeks to Mandate More Risky, Low-Income Loans by Banks, in New Financial Rules
The President has just announced proposals for a major overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even…
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HHS Secretary: Health Insurance Industry Needs Competition… With Government
In an AP interview on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called for competition in the health insurance market. No, not between…
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Wasteful Regulation
The issue of “e-waste” has been receiving a lot of attention recently, mostly from critics concerned about discarded electronics being shipped off to developing…
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In re Bluetooth Headset Product Liability Litigation
“If you bought a Bluetooth headset between June 30, 2002 and February 19, 2009, the settlement of a class action lawsuit may affect your…
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Welcome
This is the blog for the Center for Class Action Fairness, a non-profit project founded by Ted Frank to provide pro bono…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Obama’s $700 Billion New Tax
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Idaho a Good State for Homeowner-Insurance Customers, Survey Says
Atlanta Journal Constitution
FDA’s Bad Medicine
President Barack Obama promised to shake up the Food and Drug Administration, so it’s no surprise that his new FDA leadership team has made…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Obama’s Latest Economic Overhaul Calls for More Risky Loans
The President has just announced proposals for a massive overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even MORE risky…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Tourism Bill to be Combined with Hate Crimes Bill
If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime…
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Holder’s Hate Crime Confusion
News Release
Obama Overregulation Plan Won’t Fix Financial Crisis
Obama ‘More of the Same’ Overregulation Plan Won’t Fix Financial Crisis President Should Lessen Burdensome, Ineffective Mandates, Like Sarbanes-Oxley Washington, D.C.,…
American Spectator
Farmer Brown Fights Back
To all appearances, green special interests are on a roll. They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions.
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Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill
If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime — even…
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Earmarks By Another Name
During the 2008 presidential campaign and even in the months following President Barack Obama’s election, Democrats in Congress and the administration have said…
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FCC Hearings, Banning Plastic Bags and Union Graft in Detroit
Federal Communications Commission chairman-designate Julius Genachowski faces a confirmation hearing in the Senate. Cities across the country move to ban plastic grocery bags. Trustees of…
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Regulation of the Day: Clean Air in Columbus, OH
Today’s Regulation of the Day comes to us from the EPA. One would think that regulators, seeing heartening results, would pat themselves on the back…
American Spectator
Insurance Report Card Gives Louisiana an “F”
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Obama’s Speech to AMA on Healthcare Misses the Point
In a speech before the American Medical Association on Monday, June 15, President Obama pitched his plan for heathcare reform. The main thrust of the…
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One Policy, One System, Universal Service
Under that Orwellian slogan, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or “Ma Bell,” operated its telephone monopoly for the better part of the 20th century.
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Dinner Movie: It’s a Wonderful Institute
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Motoring around the World on Motor City Workers’ Dime
Detroit can astound even the most seasoned political cynic, and now it’s done it again. As the Detroit Free Press reports, the trustees…
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Langer: Consumer Safety at Risk
Check out Andrew Langer’s excellent piece in today’s Roll Call addressing challenges for the potential new chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
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LibertyWeek 47: Persian Powder Keg
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Danger: Reusable Grocery Bags
Writer Michael Shaw recently produced a very interesting blog post and article on reusable grocery bags. Most of us might think the only…