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Progressives engage in globalization debate
The Democratic Leadership Council — home to progressive Democrats — last week announced a new Global Economy Project, whose mission is — . .
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Labor senior groups’ gravy train gets lumpy
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Mandatory card check checked — for now
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$4 per gallon for Gas and Milk?
If crossing the threshold of paying $4.00 per gallon of milk feels similar to having paid $50 for a tank of gas, the reasons behind…
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AMA wants investigation of store-based health clinics
Yesterday, the American Medical Association said it had adopted recommendations for state and federal agencies to investigate store-based health clinics. At its annual meeting,…
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First Amendment Double Standards
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued two First Amendment rulings, one expanding First Amendment protection and the other narrowing it. In Morse v. Frederick,…
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Card check update
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A New Way to Fund the Madrassas?
One complaint from national security hawks about the developed world’s use of oil has been that it directs Western money to Middle Eastern sources who…
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Tires from China
Today’s news contains word that The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is calling for the recall of 450,000 Chinese tires that apparently come apart…
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Massive Flaws in Senate Immigration Bill
The Senate immigration bill supported by Ted Kennedy and George Bush will make things worse for high-tech businesses, according to a news story in…
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Workers Win As Senate Nixes Labor Union ‘Card Check’ Bill
Washington, D.C., June 26, 2007— The Senate today voted against shutting off debate on a key union balloting bill. The bill would have circumvented…
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House Takes Up Major Anti-Energy Bill
Washington, D.C., June 26, 2007—Tomorrow the House Energy and Commerce Committee will meet to markup an energy bill containing several controversial provisions. Members are poised…
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Giant penguins in Peru — in warmer climes 40 million years ago
Turns out that giant penguins lived in Peru 40 million years ago, confounding scientists who thought that such large flightless birds wouldn’t have been…
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Dave Barry for Candidate!
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Never Green Enough
Everywhere businesses are going green, but no firm will ever be green enough for the greens. According to an article in today’s New York…
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Omnipave Goes Green
Ain’t this the truth? “Most of what you see today in the green movement is voodoo marketing,” he added. “If they say their product…
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Lawyers Ready to Cash in on Climate Change
We knew the trial lawyers were ready to pounce, and are they ever. In today’s Dallas Morning News, there’s an article about a major…
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Chem Goes PC
An interesting, depressing article in today’s Inside Higher Ed describes the advances that the Green Left have made in the teaching of undergraduate…
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The Rubber Stamp
In the June 23-24 Wall Street Journal, John Fialka and Greg Hitt (“Fights Loom on Energy Bill, Making Passage Uncertain,” subscription required) mention that,…
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Pantless Judge Goes Home Empty Handed
In more legal news, DC administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson has lost his case against his local dry cleaner, whom he was suing…
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The Supreme Court Rulez
The Supreme Court today struck a small chunk out of the mountain of unconstitutionality that is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. From the Mark…
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Re: In Memory: Hans F. Sennholz, February 3, 1922–June 23, 2007
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CEI Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. Legal Judge Roy Pearson loses the lawsuit in which he claimed $54 million in damages from…
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Sarkocialism
The ONLY good thing about the EU in my opinion has been its commitment to a single market and attacks on state aid. The harmonization…
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A couple of bucks stop here
A new survey from the strange combination of Resources for the Future, New Scientist, and Stanford University has some interesting findings not just on…
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Free NYC Garbage!
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A “Choice” We Can Refuse
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Manhattan “farmers” get a lot of pork
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Four nation talks on Doha trade round break down
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It’s Miller Time
Union organizers never, ever intimidate workers whom they are trying to recruit. Believe me? Great! I've got a bridge to sell you. Sound…
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Washington’s Ten Thousand Commandments
Congress is currently considering the president's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 20% of nation's GDP, the budget process at…
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Senate Passes Anti-Consumer Energy Bill
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2007—The Senate last night passed anti-energy legislation that will, if enacted, increase prices for consumers on an array of…
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CEI Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. Congress The Senate passes an energy bill, including efficiency, alternative fuel and anti-price gouging sections.
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Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Lawsuits a Victory for Investors and Entrepreneurs
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202-331-2252 Washington, DC, June 21, 2007—Today’s Supreme Court ruling discouraging frivolous shareholder lawsuits will benefit both investors and entrepreneurs, says John…
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Bills on FDA Reform Could Mean Fewer Medicines
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington DC, June 21, 2007—The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today began mark-up on several bills on…
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Charleston’s Uncommon Tragedy: Fires do less damage today than ever before
Nine firefighters perished as a terrible inferno swept through <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Charleston’s Sofa Super Store this past Monday…
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Junk Science: Climate Activists’ Credibility Gap
Organic yogurt king and Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg may have thought that he avoided the buzzsaw this week by ducking a TV appearance…
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Biofuel pork
A column by Doug Cameron in today’s (June 20, 2007) Financial Times (”Animal plan incites pork-barrel politics“) provides more evidence (as if any were…
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More on the income inequality gap
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Coal to Kyoto: We will bury you
You have probably heard that China is building new coal-fired power plants at the rate of one every week to 10 days. In…
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OECD looks at globalization’s effect on workers
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Farm bill update — more feeding at the trough recommended
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Congress Heads for Energy Policy Train Wreck
Washington, D.C., June 20, 2007—As the Senate continues to debate major anti-energy legislation and the House prepares to take up its own anti-energy legislation, the…
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Cooler Heads Digest
1. The Week in Global Warming News 2. CEI's Insider Information 3. Issue of the Week: Appliance Efficiency Standards4.
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Dying for FDA Reform
Full Document Available in PDF This year, Congress is considering a variety of legislative…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Tax breaks for renewable energy sources sail through the Senate Finance Committee.
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Do We Worry Too Much About Earmarks?
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Inconvenient truth–Nobody knows how to meet world power needs without emissions
Kyotoites assure us we can have our cake and eat it too. We can meet the world’s surging demand for affordable energy and,…
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More on Bogus Food Stamp Challenge
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Dingell drops controversial provisions — for now
Today’s National Journal reports that House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D., Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D., Va.)…
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The “green faerie” flies again
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Let’s Kill the Bilateral Agreement
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Crybaby Judge Can Be Fired for Seeking $54 Million for Lost Pants
Roy Pearson, an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia, recently cried on the witness stand while seeking $54 million from his drycleaners…
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Gone with the Wind
As part of comprehensive legislation to raise energy prices, the Senate is once again considering proposals to set a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) for electric…
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CEI Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. Congress Energy legislation appears to be stalling out in the Senate. CEI Expert Available…
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Blaming SUV owners for genocide in Africa?
Al Gore and other alarmists call global warming a “moral issue.” But for them it is actually a moralizing issue. Global warming allows them to…
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Buying Eyeglasses
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Zero Carbon Computer 100% BS
One of my favorite tech sites, Bit-Tech.net, commented today on a story by the Telegraph entitled “The wooden computer that adds up to zero.”…
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Prospects for more open trade closing up
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CEI’s ‘Send Your Underwear to the Undersecretary’ Campaign Goes *Virtual*
Washington, D.C., June 18, 2007—CEI’s campaign against the U.S. Department of Energy’s disastrous washing machine efficiency rules has gone virtual. Rather than physically mailing underwear…
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Hold the Line on Global Warming
What should conservatives do about global warming? Jim Manzi suggests in his June 25 National Review cover story (“Game Plan”) that conservatives embrace junk…
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Teachers’ “compelled speech” victory could spill over to farmers
Hans, you're right that the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday in Davenport v. Washington Education Association was a victory for the First Amendment. After…
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Court Blocks Use of Tobacco Settlement As Slush Fund
The Mississippi Supreme Court has just upheld a court ruling blocking the diversion of $20 million a year from Mississippi’s multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement…
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Cell Phones and Driving
Interesting new study from James E. Prieger of Pepperdine University and Bob Hahn at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, looking at the…
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Michael Moore’s “Sicko” – Diagnosis: PWNED
Michael Moore’s new attack-umentary on the American health care system, Sicko, seems to be having viral problems of its own. A mysterious source has…
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Reasonable Energy Policy Blown Away in House
The Industrial Wind Action Group just sent along a press release on the emerging monster of a House energy bill and a recent change…
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Open Letter to Caterpillar on Cap-and-Trade
This week heavy-machine manufacturer Caterpillar held its annual shareholders meeting, and we and 70 or so of our good friends weighed in on one…
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Social Workers Seize Children to Receive Adoption Bonuses
In England, as in the United States, local governments receive cash incentives from the national government for adopting out children. In England, this has led…
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Reid’s rant
Yesterday's Greenwire (June 14, 2007) presented the transcript of a speech by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate energy bill. The following…
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Chuck Schumer Thinks You’re Stupid
In his new book, entitled “Positively American,” Chuck Schumer wants you to know that he has a vision. Yes, in between leading efforts…
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Junk Science: Military Suicide Mystery
Researchers and the media did their best this week to scare military personnel and their families with the widely reported headline, “Military Service Doubles…
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FCC Takes on Net Neutrality
Washington, D.C., June 15, 2007—The Federal Communications Commission is currently accepting public comments on its proposal to regulate pricing on broadband networks, commonly referred…
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadband Industry Practices
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A Joint Letter to the U. S. Senate on S. 1419, the Making Energy Less Affordable Act
Washington, D. C. 14th June 2007 Dear Senator: The undersigned organizations are writing to share our concerns about S. 1419,…
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Weeping Judge Seeks $54 Million for Lost Pants
Marc Fisher of The Washington Post gives an entertaining account of the trial in which D.C. judge Roy Pearson is suing his dry cleaners…
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Zero Tolerance Policies and the Abuse Excuse
Today, I published a letter to the editor in The Washington Post, contrasting the treatment of two women recently sent to jail. (Instapundit…
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Supreme Court Protects Non-Union Workers from Union Coercion
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Davenport v. Washington Education Association that it is not a violation of the First Amendment for a…
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The New Rationale for Central Planning
Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus writes in today’s Financial Times on climate change: As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I…
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Long Term Outlook on Underwriting Profits
I had an op-ed yesterday’s Washington Times about the rather dismal insurance situation along the Gulf Coast. A friend e-mailed me to challenge one…
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Teens, Beer and a Party’s Consequences (Letter to the Editor)
The June 9 edition of The Post left me disillusioned with our criminal justice system. The front page told the story of a Virginia mother…
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Food Before Fuel
Feel like you’re getting squeezed by prices at the gas pump? Get ready to experience that same feeling at the grocery store. As ABC News…
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Supreme Court Victory for Teachers’ First Amendment Rights
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Corn-Based Ethanol
A boom in ethanol production is taking place today for variety of reasons. Undoubtedly, the most significant factor is government support and subsidies for biofuel…
Instapundit
Is Killing Your Husband Less Serious Than Serving Kids Beer?
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Multi-billion dollar RPS wealth transfer
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has just published an analysis of Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) “renewable portfolio standard” (RPS) plan requiring utilities by 2020…
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Tesla in the 21st Century
Last week the Daily Mail reported on the advent of a new technology that uses electromagnetic induction to transfer energy wirelessly across spans of…
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Would Dingell’s Legislation Overturn Mass v EPA?
Last week (June 7, 2007), a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chair…
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Victory for Property Rights in New Jersey
There's good news on property rights from New Jersey, of all places. The New Jersey Supreme Court, in Gallenthin Realty v. Borough of Paulsboro,…
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Green gold in California?
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has published a report examining six scenarios under which the Golden State might implement AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions…
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Judge’s Multi-Million Dollar Pants Suit Goes to Trial
Roy Pearson, a Washington, D.C. administrative law judge, is suing his drycleaners for $54 million for losing his pants and posting signs saying “satisfaction guaranteed.” His ridiculous lawsuit is…
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Goodbye Antioch!
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Tobacco Settlement Too Greedy and Venal for Even the ABA
Yesterday, I said that trial lawyers received $14 billion (not million, billion) under the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), in discussing how that lucrative…
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One Nation Under God, With Elevators for All?
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EFF Wrong About iTunes Privacy Concerns
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a story published by the Associate Press last week, says that Apple’s new DRM-Free tracks available through iTunes are…
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Hurricane Eye on Insurers
Throughout the hurricane zone that follows <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's Atlantic coastline from Texas to North Carolina, a populist…
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CEI Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. Internet Maine is poised to become the first state to enact “net neutrality” regulation…
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Cooler Heads Digest
1. Global Warming in the News 2. CEI’s Insider Info 3. Issue of the Week: Price Gouging 4. Action Item: Join the…
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Judge’s Pants Worth $13 Million
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More Nigerians Sue U.S. Tobacco Companies for Billions
More states in Nigeria are suing American tobacco companies for billions of dollars. The suit began when one state in Nigeria decided to…
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Are European Roads Safer Than America’s?
Marlo was just on an interview on CNBC where a question was asked about road accident rates. A Greenpeace spokesman said that European roads were…