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Saudis to Sue Tobacco Companies
The Saudi government is threatening to sue American tobacco companies such as Philip Morris to force them to pay the healthcare costs of Saudi…
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Supreme Court Considers Whether to Preempt State Bank Red Tape
On Thursday, November 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Watters v. Wachovia Bank, which will decide whether federal law preempts state regulators…
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95% of Americans in Favor of Increasing Other People’s Charitable Giving
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For Best Results, Drink Like a Sardinian
There’s more scientific evidence that moderate consumption of red wine is good for you: New research from the William Harvey Research Institute and…
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The Global Warming Case–the cataclysm question
One comment from yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing that’s getting a lot of press is Justice Scalia’s question to the attorney for the petitioning states about…
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Global Warming Hearings & Hurricanes
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard argument in the global warming case. Today is the last day of the 2006 hurricane season, the quietest…
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25 by 25 Assumptions
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Those clever Malthusians
There’s an op/ed in the New York Times today that essentially claims that Malthus was right and that Julian Simon just…
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Supreme Court grills Massachusetts, EPA in global warming case
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman is on-site for two important cases being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court today. He phoned in his quick…
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Usual suspects make the list — environmentalists of all time
Dr. C.S. Prakash alerted me to yesterday’s list in The Guardian of the top environmental campaigners of all time. Not surprisingly, Rachel Carson tops…
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Alarmist Hurricane Predictions Take a Beating
Washington, D.C., November 30, 2006—With the end of the 2006 hurricane season today, residents in storm-prone areas can breathe a sigh of relief.
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What’s needed — and not — in trade agreements
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Breast-Related Assurances from the First Lady of Illinois
Some Illinois political observers are raising their eyebrows about a stack of greeting cards that Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office sent out before the…
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Money Violates Civil Rights Laws, Court Rules
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has just ruled that America’s money bills, such as $1, $10, and $100 bills, discriminate against the blind, in…
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Marketing principles involves having them
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What Spam? It’s against the law.
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Zimbabwe military wants “to listen” to make people safe
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, with 25-plus years of dictatorship under his belt, is now cracking down on cell phones in the name of national…
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Tony Bourdain: Recovering socialist
I’m a big fan of Tony Bourdain, but he describes himself as a socialist. At the same time, he clearly hates what the nanny state…
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Free to Choose on your Computer
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The Media Filter
Dr. Crippen, a doctor who has the misfortune to work in the British National Health Service, has an interesting story about the critical…
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Profiles in Awesomeness
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Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Federal Preemption Banking Case
Contact: Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258 Washington, D.C., November 28, 2006—Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that will…
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The Case of the DDT Deniers
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The Supreme Court takes on the question of whether the federal government should be treating…
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Freedom Fighting from the Kitchen
In the current issue of Doublethink, Baylen Linnekin, founder of the libertarian blog “To the People,” asks the burning question:…
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The Green Revolution South of the Border
In his latest column, The Miami Herald‘s Andres Oppenheimer gives reason for hope for Latin America’s water supply challenges, and offers policy…
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Why Check ‘n Go Is Not the Great Satan
Hot on the heels of John’s op-ed on credit cards fees (and the retailers who want price controls on them) comes a piece by…
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Freedom vs. Democracy – the Perpetual Tension between Voice and Exit
The current debate over whether the SEC should strengthen shareholder participation “rights” in public companies (subscribers see the Wall Street Journal editorial “Board Games”…
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Lake Woebegone Takes over Britain!
The classic motto of Garrison Keillor’s bucolic world — “where all the children are above average” — has now been adopted by David Cameron, leader…
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They Know It When They Smell It
Here at Open Market, we’re big fans of Penn & Teller, particularly their emmy-nominated Showtime program, Bullshit! Our own Angela Logomasini was even a…
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More on the “New” Leadership in Congress
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Antitrust at the Speed of Government
Microsoft met a November deadline imposed by EU officials for sharing “interface’ and “compatibility’ information about its operating system to workgroup server market competitors who…
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States’ Global Warming Lawsuit Rests on Strained Legal Reasoning
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258 …
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Democrats Loosening their SOX?
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Scientists record the quietest hurricane season in 10 years, confounding alarmist…
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New Book ECO-FREAKS Reveals Destructive Environmental Agenda
Contacts: Peter Nasaw, (212) 966-4600, Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258 Washington, D.C., November 28, 2006—Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring advice actually killed…
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Advice on global warming policy to the EU: airline taxes for all.
The European Commission has turned its attention to the substantial greenhouse gas emissions produced by air travel. They want to tax all commercial airline flights…
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Dems throw down gauntlet on Andean free trade deals
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Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip on Climate Science
The global warming debate this week features a furious back-and-forth between our pal Al Gore and Christopher Monckton (a/k/a Viscount Mockton of Brenchley), a former…
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Court Ensures Painful Death for Terminally Ill
Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to vacate and rehear its Abigail Alliance v. Von Eschenbach decision, which would have required the…
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Painted Portraits: The YouTube of the Fifteenth Century
German media tycoon and art historian Hubert Burda has a fascinating essay titled “How People See Themselves,” about the history of portraiture and what…
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Stern’s Critical Flaws
The Stern Review on the economics of climate change has come in for more criticism from experts in the field. Following Richard Tol, we…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CULTURE The politically-loaded film Fast Food Nation hits movie theaters. CEI Expert Available…
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Meet the 110th Congress: Everything Old Is New Again
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Film reviewer @ CHUD.com goes foaming at the mouth over global warming
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A Sequel We Could Have Done Without: The Return of the Dingell
OpenMarket’s consulting physician, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution, has some strong words (and unfortunate predictions) about what we can expect from…
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Keeping an Eye on the CBS Legal Department
CBS is appealing new FCC indecency regulations (and fines) in court, arguing that the new rules run afoul of the First Amendment. Which, of…
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Weighty Problem
As Brooke notes below, obesity has been tied to global warming. One of the lessons obesity campaigners drew from that study was that losing weight…
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So Who is the Bizarro Captain Planet?
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Democrats talk while the planet sizzles
The Republicans in Congress in recent years have held few hearings on global warming. But whenever they did, a long line of Democrats on whatever…
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The Real Inconvenient Truth: “either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or wrong”
In what is hopefully not a larger trend of turning PowerPoint presentations into cinematic features, Al Gore’s shockumentary An Inconvenient Truth hits DVD shelves today.
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Fake Boobs and Phony Science
To follow up on a thread from yesterday, FDA’s decision to let silicon gel filled breast implants back on the market is noteworthy for two…
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Stern went beyond global warming alarmists’ ‘consensus’
Sir, Martin Wolf's attempted defence of the Stern report (“After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action”, November 15) completely fails to…
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Talking of silicon…
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Si vis pacem, para commercium
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We must all aspire to live in squalor
The enormously clever British environment minister David Miliband is very concerned that Kyoto appears to be falling apart because developing nations aren’t…
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Gore ‘Inconvenient Truth’ DVD Dogged by Falsehoods
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary is scheduled for a Tuesday DVD release, but here’s what won’t…
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Al Gore is Captain Planet
The DVD version of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is released this week. In addition to the movie, the DVD will feature a…
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Unhappy Days Are Here Again
“The American people voted for change and they voted for Democrats to take our country in a new direction,” said a triumphant Nancy…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 1: Pollution
“We have vastly increased the amount of carbon dioxide—the most important of the so-called greenhouse gases.” (AIT, 25) Hold on a minute…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 2: Hurricane Katrina
“Textbooks had to be re-written in 2004. They used to say, ‘It’s impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic.’ But that year, for…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 3: Warming Rate
“And in recent years the rate of increase has been accelerating." (AIT, 72) That’s just plain wrong. Over the last…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 4: Moulins
"When the [melt-]water reaches the bottom of the ice, it lubricates the surface of the bedrock and destabilizes the ice mass, raising fears that…
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E.U. Parliamentary Comittee Approves New Chemical Regulations
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Hungary Goes Hollywood
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The Unions Like Puppies, Too
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Hands Across the Sea
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In Vino Veritas
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Terminal Shortage
When government controls everything, it necessarily has to ration it, which leads to shortages. It’s probably a toss-up at the moment as to which is…
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More on Milton Friedman
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The climate is just like Bambi
The Los Angeles Times today has a story by Robert Lee Hotz that reports on a new scientific article reviewing what’s going on with…
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NOAA’s Ark: A Report That Includes Two of Every Conclusion
There’s a new study on the Arctic and global warming released by NOAA, and the results are, well, mixed. The Los Angeles Times reports:…
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God is Dead… Legally speaking, that is
Sir Simon Jenkins has a must-read column today on how the UK’s Health and Safety Executive has decided to abolish the…
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How Milton Friedman Made Me Buy A New TV
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Good Government! (Sit!…Stay!…)
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. ECONOMICS Legendary economist Milton Friedman dies at age 94. CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith,…
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More on the Friedman Legacy
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John McCain Wants to Be One of the Cool Kids
Sen. Inhofe continues telling it like it is on the subject of climate change, this time in Nairobi at the (take a deep breath)…
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Capitalism and Freedom
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Junk Food Blogging
Sandy Szwarc, a registered nurse, certified culinary professional, CEI friend, and all around good person, recently started a blog on the science of food —…
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The Logic of Smoking Regulation: Your Apartment Is Now a Public Place
Dana Yates of the San Mateo, California Daily Journal brings us a bracing look at the future of tobacco regulation – a total ban…
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Power Lies
The lede of this Washington Post article [“Loudoun Excluded From Utility Route“] is jarring to me: Dominion Virginia Power has excluded most of Loudoun…
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UN Global Warming Talks Go Nowhere – As Usual
As the United Nations climate negotiations in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Nairobi, Kenya come to an end, the failure of the path…
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Friedman’s Legacy
Though I never met him, Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was one of the earliest influences on my political development. In…
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Junk Cinema
Fast Food Nation kicks off with a suit-clad fast food chain boss telling one of his executives to investigate a meat packing plant rumored to…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Wall Street firms prepare to calculate the costs imposed by financial regulations like…
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Is DailyKos a tool of big oil?
Some may think that; we couldn’t possibly comment.
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Kelo Ruling Gutting Property Rights Will Live On
In Kelo v. New London (2005), the Supreme Court ruled 5-to-4 that private property (like your home) could be seized by the government for use…
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Beyond Petroleum?
Today’s Washington Post carries a full-page ad by BP boasting that the company, which calls itself “beyond petroleum,” is “investing up to $8 billion over…
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We know how he feels
Tony Blair is resisting demands from the environmental pressure groups and, err, the Conservative Party to impose annual targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the…
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No Beef to Breast Cancer Scare
“Breast cancer risk linked to red meat, study finds,” headlined the Washington Post’s front page last Tuesday. “Younger women who regularly eat…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart plans a price-cutting blitz for the holiday shopping season. CEI Expert…
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The Unboring Pundit
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> John Tierney's Tuesday column began innocently enough. He…
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Political Science
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Researchers find new growth in forests around the world. CEI Expert Available…
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America’s Lights Go Out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim…
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Election Wins for Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2006—Reform of the onerous Sarbanes-Oxley accounting mandates was a winning issue for Democratic and Republican candidates in the election of 2006,…
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An Assessment of Kyoto and Emerging Issues for the 12th Conference of the Parties
Full Document Available in PDF…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Representatives of corporate America convene in New York to talk about “social responsibility.”…
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What will we do when America’s lights go out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was etablished, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes…