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• By: CEI Staff
• 03/28/2014

Few cries for attention are less effective than turning off the lights and sitting in the dark for an hour. Who can watch if they…

• By: Marc Scribner
• 03/28/2014

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed comments on DOT’s proposal to ban in-flight cell phone calls, going against what most groups have said by opposing…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/28/2014

Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. notes that schools’ well-meaning attempts “to hold black kids accountable by enforcing codes of conduct are called racist” by…

• 03/28/2014

This week I remarked upon the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. I just learned there is an alternative sponsored by…

• 03/26/2014

View Full PDF here A group of four plaintiffs in Virginia filed a lawsuit on September 16, 2013 against the federal government…

• By: Aloysius Hogan
• 03/26/2014

All raising the minimum wage is going to do is keep women at home, counters Aloysius Hogan, a senior research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/25/2014

From buying “organic” to “gluten-free,” consumers seem to be more interested than ever in the ways their food is produced. This spring, legislators in more…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/25/2014

Washington refuses to control spending, and it certainly doesn’t control the costs of federal regulations it imposes on citizens at the rate of over 3,500…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/25/2014

Official time” is the process by which taxpayers subsidize unions whose full-time officials are nominally government employees by paying them as if they were working…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/24/2014

This spring, legislators in more than 20 U.S. states will consider proposals to mandate special labeling of genetically-engineered (GE) foods, but there is a deep…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/24/2014

View Full Document Here In last October’s government shutdown, the Obama administration closed down, or blocked access to, many private businesses that…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/24/2014

Comments Submitted by Marlo Lewis (Competitive Enterprise Institute), Joseph L. Bast (Heartland Institute), Wayne Brough (FreedomWorks Foundation), Myron Ebell (Freedom Action), Paul Gessing (Rio Grande…

• Christine Hall
• 03/24/2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Annie Dwyer, (202) 331-2277Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258 Competitive Enterprise Institute Celebrates Human Achievement Hour…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/24/2014

After many years in Washington, D.C., it’s hard not to notice how little it has changed since President Kennedy called it “a city of Southern…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/21/2014

Critics of federal support for green energy projects say Agua Caliente, and the discrepancy between the economies of Yuma and Midland, is indicative of a…

• 03/20/2014

Full document available here A group of four plaintiffs in Virginia filed a lawsuit on September 16, 2013 against the federal government…

• By: J. Caleb Johnson
• 03/20/2014

Last week, Maryland State Senator Delores Kelley said, “[T]he general public is not smart enough to know when they’re about to be fleeced.” She…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2014

Representative Sean Duffy (R., Wis.) recently attempted to attend an advisory committee meeting of the Consumer Financial Protection Board. The agency declined to let him…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/17/2014

Ostensibly, Spartan mothers, as their sons went into battle, would say, “Come home with your shield, or on it!” I did not say such encouraging…

• By: Aloysius Hogan
• 03/16/2014

Imperial president? Moi? In announcing a contentious overtime-pay proposal on Thursday, President Obama seems to have shed any pretense of willingness…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/14/2014

Last month, America celebrated the birthday of one of the country's earliest business innovators and large-scale entrepreneurs.  During a time period of America's existence as…