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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH Thousands of lawsuits against Merck & Co. swamp courthouses to meet the deadline…
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Let It Ride While You Can
Sad news for online poker fans: Congress has effectively outlawed Internet gambling, as part of legislation widely expected to be signed into law by…
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Masters of their own Domains
ICANN is moving toward greater autonomoy and away from direct ties to the U.S. Department of Commerce. As long as it doesn’t end up…
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Liveblogging an Environment Debate
The Conservative Party Conference in the UK are discussing the environment this afternoon. The Conservatives have rebranded themselves as a green party, fully in favor…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH New York City plans to ban the use of trans-fats in restaurant meals.
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Needed: Broad-based Coalition to Fight for Ag Reform
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Israel’s New Northern Friend
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> While the antics of Canada's left-wing, anti-Israel ideologues have been…
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New study shows promise, but not cure
A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows mixed results in dealing with Type 1 diabetes, also…
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Ring fingers and sports potential
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Full Document Available in PDF An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), former Vice…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a law initiating the nation’s first CO2 emissions…
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Is Mozart anti-Muslim?
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Of Mice and Men
A new study shows that mice that drink moderate amounts of wine everyday suffer from less memory loss and brain cell death. A huge…
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Haymarket Laugh Riot
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No “Grounds” for Antitrust Charges against Starbucks
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Incorrect correction of a correction
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Issues in the News SECURITY Congress moves forward with a plan to mandate tougher safety plant security procedures. CEI Expert Available to…
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“Until some of these scientists are dead.”
Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York City, became a darling of the left by claiming that the…
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The New York Times Gets Chemical Plant Security Wrong
Why do liberals always assume that the solution to every problem is regulation and yet more regulation? That’s the thrust of an editorial…
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Perverse Incentives
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‘Net Neutrality’ for Credit Cards?
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Rachel Carson Lied, Millions Died
We were all happy to see the World Health Organization finally take steps to embrace wider anti-malarial deployment of DDT, but our…
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The Bureau is Exactly 37.1973% Incompetent
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Declining stock market values signal a weakening market for ethanol. CEI Expert Available to…
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Lockyer: SUVs Don’t Kill People, Car Companies Kill People
California’s attorney general has sued carmakers DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Ford and subsidiaries of Honda, Nissan and Toyota for global warming impacts…
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Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?
Last week’s announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in…
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Biofuels, Food, or Wildlife? The Massive Land Costs of U.S. Ethanol
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The attorney general of California sues the world’s six largest automakers, alleging environmental…
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Sound Suggestion on Social Security Security
In what, for now at least, seems like good news, the president’s Identity Theft Task Force has recommended that the federal government…
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Aaron Sorkin VS. the Moralists
No one would ever accuse The West Wing of being anything but a defiantly liberal show. And in many ways, that was part…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Social networking site MySpace prepares to expand operations into China. CEI Expert…
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There Was a Farmer Who Played a Game…
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Best Headline of the Day
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Oman Trade Agreement and Protectionism
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Travel Opportunities for Politicians
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Don’t Tax My Timber
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The White House appoints a new “Cybersecurity Czar” to oversee federal computer security…
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A Taxing Question
The UK Conservatives, currently mulling over the idea of raising “green taxes” while lowering other tax rates, will be paying careful attention to reaction…
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DDT to the Rescue
In an extraordinarily good development, the World Health Organization has officially called for greater use of DDT around the world in order to combat…
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Department of Public Remarks
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1. HEALTH The World Health Organization advises greater use of the insecticide DDT to prevent malaria deaths in developing nations. CEI…
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Credit card ricochet
“Partners in plunder.” That's how an intriguing new book describes the hidden relationship between big government and big business. <?xml:namespace prefix = o…
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Back to Business School
It’s the beginning of the fall semester and MBA programs across the world are preparing students to become good business leaders.
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Drug Testing, Drug Hazards
A clinical trial that went badly awry at London's Northwick Park Hospital in March became the drug-testing community's worst nightmare. Six healthy volunteers ended up…
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White House Wobbles on Warming?
Rumor around Washington has it that the White House is about to change its long-established policy on global warming. It is hard to…
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The Ratings Game
It's a familiar experience for many moviegoers: You walk out of a theater scratching your head, wondering why a movie was given a…
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Senators on 9/11 movie – “Public interest” is what makes us look good
No matter what anyone thought of the ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” the actions of certain senators who objected to the miniseries should…
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Liberty stands up to Spitzer
Sometimes — but not often — some companies hang in there if they’re convinced they are right. That seems to be the case…
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A typology for risk assessment?
New research may help to explain why the term “risk” shouldn’t automatically be applied to new technologies, such as biotechnology. According to…
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Lance Armstrong’s Self-Inflicted Cancer?
Did the use of performance-enhancing drugs cause seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s testicular cancer? That’s what a Sports Illustrated columnist suggested this…
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Here He Is, Your Komodo Dragon…
There’s a new book for anyone ever frustrated by the bureaucratic enforcement of the Endangered Species Act: The Hunter’s Guide to Endangered Species by…
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Green Leaders: Three chief executives who embraced environmental causes neglected their firms’ core business needs
Green CEOs and good business just don't mix. Witness this past week's embarrassing examples of Ford Motor Co.'s Bill Ford and BP's Lord John…
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Time to “Give Back” the EEZ?
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Take Your Dirty Economic Development Elsewhere
It’s only been a couple weeks since the state of California decided to create a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, and some businesses are…
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Is Hugo Boss?
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Getting those priorities straight!
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Worried about Immigration? Worry more about welfare state dependency!
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Trading Up to Free Global Markets
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A new study suggests a connection between global warming and stronger hurricanes.
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Meet the New Change, Same as the Old Change?
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Beyond Accountability
Our friend Steve Milloy is back on the shareholder activist battleground, with a petition before the SEC to change the rules…
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E Pluribus Equine
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BP’s mixed messages on core ‘old world’ activities
Sybil Ackerman (“BP is deserving of censure, but not a vendetta”, September 1) raises interesting points but fails to assign responsibility for BP's problems…
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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. SAFETY A recent…
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Issues in the News 1. Retail Politics The New York Times reports on Wal-Mart’s funding of research groups. CEI…
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Osorio Takes on Latin America
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IPN to UNFPA: Drop Dead
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A Backyard Texas Tea Party
Despite recent good news on the oil front, some people are still upset with current energy prices. Louisiana oilman Steve Jordan has even decided…
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The EPA’s Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Standards, Lung Disease, and Mortality
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REACH: Coming to a Shore Near You
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The Food and Drug Administration approves the first fully implantable artificial heart.
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Welcome to Washington, Wal-Mart
WASHINGTON – As liberal politicians, vocal unions and editorial pages argue that Wal-Mart underpays and mistreats its employees (The Boston Globe even implied that Wal-Mart…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY President Bush makes access to affordable energy the focus of his Labor Day…
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Why spurning food biotech has become a liability
Henry I. Miller, MD, Gregory Conko & Drew L. Kershen By rejecting gene-spliced ingredients in their products, some major food companies may be…
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1. ECONOMY California’s new plan to restrict greenhouse gas emissions could prove costly. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy…
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Weathering Hurricane Hysteria
It’s peak North Atlantic hurricane season again and much is being made of a supposedly increased hurricane threat due to man-made global warming.
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill to put mandatory caps on greenhouse gas…
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Katrina and Her Policy Waves
Despite the lack so far of any hurricanes hitting America this hurricane season (at time of writing), environmental activists are using the memories…
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Issues in the News 1. HURRICANE KATRINA A recent survey of Hurricane Katrina survivors finds a renewed sense of…
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Katrina and Her Policy Waves
Full Document Available in PDF A year on, global warming alarmists are…
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Turning MySpace into TheirSpace
Like a coffee shop or a mall, the Internet has evolved into a digital “third place,” a location we visit not only for…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A new study by Nielsen NetRatings finds MySpace.com to be the web’s fastest growing brand.
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No, Rice Krispies Aren’t Bio-Toxic
If you listen to environmental activists these days, you might think that snap, crackle, and pop coming from your Rice Krispies is the…
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Boomers Targeted in New Waistline Scare
“Just a few extra pounds could mean fewer years, study finds,” headlined a front-page, above-the-fold story in the Washington Post this week. The…
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New ‘Center for Entrepreneurship’ to Examine Financial Regulation
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington, D.C., August 24, 2006— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce the launch of a new…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Oil company BP, citing mechanical failures, makes further cuts to oil production in Alaska’s Prudhoe…
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Judicial Activism in Overdrive: Massachusetts, et al, v. EPA
August 31 is the deadline for filing the petitioners’ brief with the Supreme Court in Massachusetts et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Plaintiffs, who…
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“Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary”
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2006 Annual Dinner and Reception paid homage to Hollywood. The evening, themed “A Night at the Movies,” featured P.J. O’Rourke,…
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Beware False Profits
The Evangelical Climate Initiative has issued “An Evangelical Call to Action” on global warming. Signed by 86 evangelical leaders, it calls for Evangelical Christians to…
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CEI Planet: July – August 2006
DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PLANET (PDF) “Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary” by P.J. O’Rourke…
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How the Market Can Steal Identity Thieves’ Thunder
This past June, a coalition of business leaders calling itself the Consumer Privacy Legislation Forum—representing such heavyweights as Eli Lily, Google, Microsoft, and Procter &…
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The Responsible Corporation
Does anybody believe that companies should be socially irresponsible? I don’t think so. The problem is that few people can seem to agree on…
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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. LEGAL A recent federal court verdict on…
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School District Claims Individualism is Racism
Washington, D.C., August 22, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to a Seattle school district’s race-based…
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Amicus Curiae Brief in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH Congress considers a law to pre-empt states from requiring food safety warnings more stringent than…
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A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth
Executive Summary An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Vice President Al Gore’s book on “The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be…