Blog
Another American Bird Species Faces Extinction
Blog
I’d Have Settled for a Statue in Antwerp
According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, Al Gore and his take on global warming have become all the rage in…Belgium. It’s seems…
Blog
Bean Counters Caucus in DC
The American Financial Services Association is holding its 90th annual meeting here in Washington this week, and attendees are tackling a number of challenges…
Op-Eds
And Now a Word From Our Critics
FridayBalance is an important conceit of American journalism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, previously partisan newspapers edged toward respectability and…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A government report out of the UK predicts dire economic consequences from global…
Blog
SEJ 2006: Marc Morano Takes on Alarmist Reporting
We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…
Blog
SEJ 2006: Open Source Journalism
There was yet more cool action from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this afternoon as Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn explained…
Blog
Vietnam Set for WTO Membership
Blog
SEJ 2006: Across the Web
As CEI’s presence at the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists continues, I’ve noticed that the event’s blogosphere presence has grown…
Blog
SEJ 2006: Energy Companies Try to Out-Clean Each Other
Energy companies, both new and old, are crowded into the Society of Environmental Journalists conference here in Burlington, Vermont, all playing up the environmental profile…
Blog
Bush and Pelosi up the Ante for Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
Blog
SEJ 2006: Battle of the Automakers
The Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this week is in full swing, with panels and exhibits on everything from sustainable forestry to avian flu.
Op-Eds
What’s the Doughboy Afraid Of?
WednesdayVermont is cold. That message will be repeated several times Wednesday night but it's bleeding obvious from the minute I step out of…
Blog
Smoking your way to the presidency?
I was waiting for Reason to blog about this article in The New Republic. It focuses on the fact that presidential maybe-sayer Barack…
Blog
Can money offset venality?
Prizes sponsored by private individuals and organizations seem to be the new way to provide incentives for technological and other advances. Now a wealthy…
Blog
Fencing out emigrants better than building levees?
Blog
Bootsy Collins He Ain’t
Op-Eds
Business Bankrolling of the Left
Big business primarily supports right-wing advocacy groups, right? Think again. A recent report from the Capital Research Center shows Fortune 100 corporate foundations…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News ENERGY Exxon Mobil reports second largest quarterly profit ever for a publicly traded U.S. company. …
Blog
An Ostentatious Display of Escaping Poverty
Statist environmentalists’ stern condemnation of what they consider spendthrift consumption is nothing new in the West—but developing countries unaccustomed to such hectoring might be taken…
Blog
No Unnecessary Travel Allowed in the War on CO2
I’m going to be flying to Vermont tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are also taking airline trips soon, including a few to far off…
Blog
Does Gulfstream Make a Hybrid Jet?
In a shocking development, we find out this morning that environmentally fixated, hybrid-loving celebrities don’t necessarily live the green dream that they preach…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT…
Blog
If Current Trends Continue …Environmentalists Will Continue to Be Wrong!
In a changing world, it seems that at least one thing is certain: If current trends continue, environmentalist predictions about the future will continue to…
Blog
Another doomsday report – Simon redux
Shades of Paul Ehrlich: WWF in a new report says that the earth cannot support its human population, especially those in the developed world…
Blog
COPA: “So Much Easier than Parenting”
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), signed by President Clinton eight years ago, has yet to be enforced. Kids have grown up waiting to be…
Blog
A funny picture is worth a thousand Chinese proverbs
Blog
The Newest Cell Phone Accessory: Lead Underpants
A new study out of the UK suggests that mobile phone radiation may be responsible for increased infertility in men. This observed decline in…
Op-Eds
Rules of Ridicule
“Ridicule is man's most potent weapon,” says the fifth rule of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky's classic…
Comment
Amici Curiae Brief of Climatologists and Scientists Sallie Baliunas, John R. Christy, Chris De Freitas, David Legates, Anthony L
Study
Giving Chase in Cyberspace
Full Document Available in PDF In the debate over identity theft and online security, commentators…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. POLITICS State officials accuse Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of undermining recent legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. CEI…
Blog
“Socialism or Death”â€â€Is There a Difference?
Blog
Ted Kennedy, Hero of Socialist Labor
Blog
Going Wobbly at Starbucks
Blog
Politics Nerds Rejoice
Students at my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, have created a very wonky alternative to the season’s popular fantasy football leagues: fantasy Congress.
Blog
Big government tattoo artists
Op-Eds
Blunting the greenhouse panic
A new study provides experimental evidence that cosmic rays may be a major factor in causing the Earth's climate to change. Given the…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE…
Blog
Maybe That’s Why the Lacrosse Scandal Disappeared from the News
Scientists at Duke University and Imperial College London have reportedly developed a cloaking device for solid objects. All of the relevant Romulan and Harry…
Blog
“The politics of relative position is the egalitarian welfare statist’s new favorite game”
Blog
The Latest Wal-Mart Scandal
Blog
Ralph Harris, RIP
Blog
Cars, Women and Minorities
Op-Eds
Fishy Dietary Advice
Researchers announced this week that the health benefits of eating fish outweigh the risks. But as far as the data indicate, the scales are…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE The American Meteorological Society holds a congressional briefing, “Is Global Warming Impacting, or…
Blog
News of YouTube’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An argument from Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle on why big business can never be cool, even when it acquires something that…
Blog
Small Government Hate Speech?
Craig Bannister of CNSNews just passed on a story out of Marquette University in which graduate student Stuart Distler was banned from displaying the…
Blog
Frank Luntz, Save Us!
Blog
And Now for a Word from the Critics
We’ve just heard that our friend Marc Morano will be one of the panelists at the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists conference in…
Blog
They’re Coming to Audit Your Avatar
Fox News this morning raises the alarming prospect of the IRS taxing financial transactions taking places in online virtual communities like Second…
Blog
Vote for Alternative Energy with Your Feet
Tokyo rail users will now be expected to not only pay for their own tickets, but also to power the machines that sell them.
Op-Eds
The Man for All Seasons
Life really can imitate art. Leon Hesser's straightforward yet gripping biography of Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder known as the Father of the…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart expands discounts on generic drugs. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on why…
Blog
Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles
From The Wall Street Journal, via \. The unusual alliance demonstrates a new tack being taken by the music industry to deal with…
Blog
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Revisited
Marc Morano over at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is drawing our attention today to an op-ed in L’Express last month…
Blog
Do Something for Africa: Stop Foreign Aid Now
Blog
Hugo Nowhere
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Universal sues popular video-sharing websites, after signing a revenue sharing deal with YouTube.
Blog
The Newest/Oldest Lesson: Why Energy Is Bad
In reference to my previous post about morally righteous (anti-) global warming celebrities, I suggested that those who are horrified by CO2 emissions should…
Blog
It’s Tough Out There for a Morally-Consistent Performer
Tired of loosely-informed celebrities nagging you about global warming? It’s beginning to look like the most hard core among them could end up taking themselves…
Blog
Europe Takes a Stab at the Multimedia Revolution
Sometimes, a regulatory idea comes along that is so stupid and offensive, one assumes it couldn’t actually be real. “Who could possibly think this is…
Blog
A Storm of Scientific Controversy on Capitol Hill
The CEI email server is abuzz this morning with news of an upcoming briefing on global warming and hurricanes being put on by the…
Blog
The Sleeping Pill Ate My Homework
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SAFETY President Bush hosts a swearing-in ceremony for incoming Secretary of Transportation Mary E.
Blog
Great Modern Economists, Podcast Style
Blog
When Cosmic Rays Attack
Our friend Steve Milloy has an excellent column on a new global warming study out of Denmark, and the unsurprising reasons it doesn’t seem…
Blog
Race-Based Student Assignments
In a case pending before the Supreme Court, the Seattle School District argues that it should be allowed to use race when assigning…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The FDA approves a new drug to treat severe cases of Alzheimer’s disease.
Blog
She’s Huge in Europe
More fame for Angela! Her concise and pithy assessment of the EU’s proposed chemical regulations made it as environmental news service Greenwire’s…
Blog
Why All of Human History Has Been Leading Toward Google
Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has an interesting take on Google’s place in history, and how the Google Library project could…
Blog
Making Decisions on the Fly
Our occasional journalisitic nemesis George Monbiot, as part of the promotional flurry surrounding his new book, is taking the presidents and directors of big…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. INTERNET President Bush prepares to sign a bill effectively banning Internet gambling. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice…
Blog
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps opposes minimum wage
Blog
Libertarians Know How to Swing
Blog
You Want that Social Conscience Expression for Here or to Go?
Blog
Registering Some Problems With REACH
The Wall Street Journal reports today that U.S. and European firms were unsuccessful in an attempt to make the proposed chemicals policy in…
Blog
Nobel winner – friend of entreprenuers
Blog
Foley – a friend to “Big Sugar”
Op-Eds
Big business loses a buddy with Mark Foley resignation
WASHINGTON – We’re still figuring out who knew what and when about former Florida Rep. Mark Foley’s behavior toward pages, but the disgraced…
Op-Eds
A Nobel Prize For Pinpointing U.S. Greatness
America is now five for five in the Nobel Prizes this year. And the announcement of Edmund Phelps as the economics recipient is…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The Justice Department approves the merger of AT&T and BellSouth Corp., leaving the decision…
Blog
Assessing the Content of Google’s Character
To continue the Google-YouTube discussion begun by Peter, take a look at what some /. folks are saying about Google’s potential exposure to…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Google buys Internet video pioneer YouTube for $1.65 billion.
Blog
Google Gets Good Marks as Internet Librarian
Google raised some doubts (some even from CEI) about copyright protection when they launched Google Library, but now the project is having just the…
Blog
Big Money Loves Big Government
Blog
CBO Speaks: Deficit Slightly Smaller, Still Huge
Blog
Update: Foley to Move to Amsterdam, Run for Parliament
News out of the Netherlands this week is bearing an odd parallel to DC’s most talked about scandal involving a now-former Congressman from…
Blog
Free Government Cash: Mixed News From Germany
It seems that German welfare queens have been enraging their hard working fellow citizens by driving expensive cars while on the dole. The Christinan Democrats…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. ENERGY…
Blog
Green Technology’s Cutting Edge
Blog
Pesticide Bans No Minor Mistake
Tina’s Rosenberg’s article in today’s New York Times addresses the devastating impact that misguided bans of the pesticide DDT have had on…
Blog
X PRIZE launches another prize – mapping genes
The foundation that gave a huge prize for launching a private spaceship yesterday announced a multi-million dollar prize for fast-track technology…
Op-Eds
Are Bad Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy Near You?
In “The Third Man,” the brilliant, shadowy, 1949 film, Orson Welles' character, Harry Lime, is a morally bankrupt, cynical racketeer and dealer of…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Google launches a new global initiative dedicated to promoting literacy. CEI Expert Available…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A coalition of churches mounts a campaign to promote Al Gore’s global warming…
Blog
More Katrina Waste
Blog
Tobacco Litigation Update
In Schwab v. Philip Morris, a federal judge in Brooklyn recently approved a class-action racketeering lawsuit against tobacco companies on behalf of millions…
Op-Eds
Petronoia
As the price of oil and gas rose to 1970s oil crisis levels over the past year, pundits flew out of the woodwork…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH Thousands of lawsuits against Merck & Co. swamp courthouses to meet the deadline…