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Contradictory Financial Regulations Cause Problems
It’s a case of “When Regulations Collide.” As we’ve seen in the energy field, contradictory regulations cost jobs as employers struggle to comply with…
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King v. Sebelius: Reply Brief in Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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King v Sebelius: Declaration in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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King v Sebelius: Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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King v Sebelious: Declarations
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King v. Sebelius – Defendants’ Memorandum in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Full Document Available in PDF The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “Act”) includes a series of measures that will…
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King v Sebelius: Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment
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King v Sebelius
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Glitches and Errors Widespread on Obamacare Health Insurance Website
In addition to the Obamacare web site glitches that left people unable to purchase insurance despite hours or days of trying, the website dramatically…
Washington Examiner
Treasury evasions on carbon tax email mock Obama’s ‘most transparent administration ever’ claim
A Washington, D.C., federal court this week ordered briefs to be filed in the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s struggle to obtain Treasury Department “carbon tax” emails.
Washington Post
Letter to the Editor: Consumers have help in identifying non-bioengineered foods
In his Oct. 19 letter on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Tom Natan stated that “the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not allow foods…
National Review
Dodd-Frank’s Diversity Quotas
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CEI Podcast for October 24, 2013: The Social Cost of Carbon
Like anything else, carbon emissions have both costs and benefits. Marlo Lewis, a Senior Fellow in CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, discusses a new…
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Alcohol Crimes Decline in Washington After Liquor Sales Privatization
In the lead up to Washington State voters approving privatization of liquor sales in the state, opponents claimed—as they always do—that the increased availability and…
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The Implications of Kludgeocracy
Steven Teles tells us in the fall issue of National Affairs that over the next decades, the challenge of "kludgeocracy" will come to the forefront of…
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CEI Today: Obamacare ruling, Katy Perry, BPA risk & pregnancy, and social cost of carbon
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Scientific Literacy and a Storm in a Tea Party Cup
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Stop Watching Us: End Suspicionless NSA Mass Surveillance
By now, pretty much everybody has heard that the U.S. National Security Agency is indiscriminately collecting private information about all Americans who use a…
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More Bipartisan Opposition to Obama Administration’s Move to Block Airline Merger (Including Rahm Emanuel)
Another day, another round of public bipartisan opposition to the Obama Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block the pending American Airlines and US Airways merger.
National Review
The Real Reasons We Have a Public Pensions Crisis
America’s public pension funds are in trouble because sketchy Mr. Wall Street sold some slack-jawed pension fund managers on risky investments with promises of high…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Obamacare in court, putting regulators on a budget, and perverse sugar subsidies
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Is Katy Perry Causing Childhood Obesity?
No, of course not! However, a coalition of health advocates seems to be making that assertion when they sent her a letter this week…
Cheap Over-the-Counter STD Test Turbocharges Casual Sex
Cheap Over-the-Counter STD Test Turbocharges Casual Sex
Imagine you’re a young Millennial prowling for a hookup. It looks like tonight might be your night. But when the magic moment arrives, instead of…
Letters
Coalition Letter Opposing Reform-Less Water Resources Reform and Development Act
Full Document Available in PDF Coalition Letter Opposing Reform-Less Water Resources Reform and Development Act We understand that H.R. 3080, the…
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The NSA: Upgrading from Privacy Destruction to Job Destruction
At a recent Cato Institute event on NSA spying activities, the ACLU’s Chris Soghoian stated that NSA activities were not only a threat to…
Forbes
A Miscarriage Of Science: BPA’s Unproven Pregnancy Risk
The headlines are out: Pregnant woman should fear the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) because a “new study” says it increase the risk of miscarriage. Fortunately,…
The American Spectator
BART’s Bogus Ride
It was the 1970s and Britain was the “sick man of Europe.” Labor unions had toppled one Conservative government and were bullying the existing Labour…
The Wall Street Journal
Latest Legal Challenges to the Health Law: A Guide
A fourth lawsuit is pending in Virginia. That case, as well as the one in Washington, is in the hands of Michael A. Carvin, a…
Daily Mail
Bombshell: Federal judge suddenly green-lights lawsuit that could stop Obamacare in its tracks
The Treasury Department, they contend, 'has reasonably interpreted the Act to provide for eligibility for the premium tax credits for individuals in every state, regardless…
News Release
Obamacare Lawsuit May Proceed, Judge Rules
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 – A federal judge Tuesday ruled that a lawsuit challenging a major IRS Obamacare regulation may proceed, denying the government’s motion to…
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FTC Likely to Approve Office Depot, Office Max Merger
According to news sources, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to approve the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax, the second- and third-largest office…
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Public Pensions Are Not Property
Across the nation, state and local governments in dire financial straits face great difficulty in their efforts to bring their budgets under control. Pensions are…
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Sugar Policy Drives Out Candy Companies
“Cheaper sugar sends candy makers abroad” says a headline in today’s Wall Street Journal (gated). The article noted that increasingly U.S. candy makers are…
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CEI Today: Obamacare in court, NLRB nominee, and America’s credit rating
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J.P. Morgan Settlement Rips Off Taxpayers and Investors, Punishes Some Alleged Victims
Recently, The Washington Post reported that J.P.Morgan will pay $13 billion to settle lawsuits against it by the federal government and two…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
Shutdown edition: 3 new regulations. Two Coast Guard safety zones and a catch limit for herring.
Daily Mail
How to Fix Too Big to Fail
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out in its constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank, Title I of the law gives the FSOC the ability to…
Daily Mail
Obamacare’s Next Bout: More Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) took the primary lead in finding funding and potential plaintiffs, as well as coordinating future…
Human Events
Football Team’s Name Is No Business of Congress or the President
Human Events
Health Law Faces New Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, is coordinating the suits and helping with their legal costs, a spokeswoman said…
Human Events
Cuts can be made, but politicians have to want to make them
The program costs $9 billion annually and really should be eliminated since crop insurance is commercially available. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, even a…
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Loosened Laws in New Jersey Result in Brewery Boom
Only a year after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law that would allow breweries in the garden state to sell beer…
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CEI Today: Financial privacy, IMF wealth confiscation, and Dems against Obama on airline merger
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Halbig V Sebelius – Government’s Memorandum in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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Plaintiffs’ Proposed Order Granting Preliminary Injunction
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Plaintiffs’ Exhibits in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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Affordable Care Act Lawsuit – October 4 Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction and/or Summary Judgment
Full Document Available in PDF At long last, the Government has filed a brief defending the IRS Rule on the merits. (Dkt.
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Affordable Care Act Lawsuit – October 4 Supplemental Declaration in Support of Preliminary Injunction
Full Document Available in PDF In my declaration of August 5, 2013, I attested that I did not wish to purchase comprehensive…
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Costly Anti-Bullying Programs Backfire
Countless tax dollars have been spent on anti-bullying programs, and 49 states have anti-bullying laws. After New Jersey passed a broad anti-bullying law, hundreds of schools…
National Review
Grilling the Park Service Bullies
The Park Service closed the City Tavern in Philadelphia, a meeting place for those who signed the Declaration of Independence, even though the tavern, at…