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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…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The number of tropical storms for the 2006 season falls below average, countering…
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Issues in the News 1. TOBACCO A federal judge finds cigarette companies at fault for deceptive marketing. CEI Expert Available…
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Politicized Science Produces Bad Public Policy
A new study about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Vietnam veterans once again spotlights the need to separate the process of establishing veterans’ benefits…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Oil prices fall to early summer levels. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A new study finds a cooling trend in the world’s oceans, confounding conventional…
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The Dwarfs Beat the Justices
Guess what — a new poll shows that the Seven Dwarfs are better known in the U.S. than the Supreme Court Justices. According to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY High gas prices continue to fuel voter dissatisfaction. CEI Expert Available to…
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Issues in the News 1. POLITICS The America’s Future Foundation holds a policy roundtable event titled “Big Business: Friend…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Cities and states adopt global warming policies without federal mandates. CEI Expert Available to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Oil prices fall after a terrorist threat is stopped. CEI Expert Available to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY BP management was warned of infrastructure decay several years before the company’s shut down…
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1. ENERGY Oil prices continue to fall after storm fears calm. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow…
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Review of Robert Nelson’s ‘Economics as Religion’
As an undergraduate math major, I found economics confusing. I understood self-interest: I have a TV, you have a $100 bill, both of…
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Prometheus or Pandora – Addressing the Biotechnology Issue
Biotechnology, the newest way in which man seeks to tease from nature her secrets so as to improve his condition, is under intense scrutiny today.
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TRADE Australia helps lead attempts to revive the WTO’s Doha Round trade talks. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Fran Smith…
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1. ENERGY The Senate votes to move forward with oil and natural gas drilling legislation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of…
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Wasting Time at the Farm Bill Hearing
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Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE The Environmental Protection Agency proposes tightening air quality standards. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Microsoft faces a shareholder vote on its support for network neutrality legislation.
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Statement on Regulation of Social Networking Websites
Washington, D.C., July 26, 2006—The House is scheduled to vote today on the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), a bill that would restrict federal…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The House of Representatives votes to re-authorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank. CEI…
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Splinternets
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The FDA approves a new sunscreen, long available in Europe and Canada, that…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY High summer demand for electricity in California could force rolling blackouts throughout the…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL A federal court in Texas charges three British bankers yesterday with fraud related…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Oil prices hit a new spike amid continuing military and political unrest in…
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Issues in the News 1. TRADE Heads of state issue a call to revive World Trade Organization negotiations, previously…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT University of Colorado biologists install an “early warning system” in the Rocky Mountains to…
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EPA’s Never Ending Dioxin Scare
If ever there was an example of what’s wrong with the intersection of government and science, the Environmental Protection Agency’s 20-year campaign to scare…
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America the Parent?
Why is government trying to be our parent again? Congress’s latest effort is the campaign to regulate video game content. Yet this is…
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Issues in the News TRANSPORTATION New orders for Boeing could take a toll on its European rival, Airbus. …
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to extradite three bankers to the U.S. to…
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Who is Ripping Off U.S. Consumers?
Washington, D.C., July 11, 2006— When big business gets its way in Washington, the result is higher taxes, stricter regulation, and bigger government all…
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Global Warming FAQ
Full Document Available in PDF Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Lorillard Tobacco Co. signs an agreement with over 30 states to curtail Internet…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The Discovery Channel prepares to air a new documentary on climate change science titled “…
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UNITE-HERE on the Attack: Pioneer of Corporate Campaigns Pushes Harder Than Ever
Full document available in PDF America’s national hotel chains are bracing for union trouble. The UNITE-HERE labor union thinks it has found…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL A court in Florida overturns a massive $145 billion verdict against several tobacco…
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1. HEALTH The West Nile virus makes a comeback in the Midwest. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Blue Origin, the private space travel company started by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos,…
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Issues in the News GLOBAL WARMING Environmental activists push global warming policies on the local level. CEI Expert Available…
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“Who Killed the Electric Car?” – Not the Auto Industry
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., June 30, 2006—A new documentary blames General…
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Ignoring Limits on Harassment Liability
Back in 1999, in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the Supreme Court laid down a test for when sexual harassment rises to…
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Issues in the News TRANSPORTATION A documentary about the development of the electric car hits movie theaters. CEI Expert…
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Joint Letter in Support of OCS Bill
Full Document Available in PDF June 28, 2006 Dear Member of Congress: Rising energy costs…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Amid furious lobbying, the Senate rejects net neutrality rules, which would have regulated…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Regulatory State
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Issues in the News 1. REGULATION President Bush urges adoption of the line item veto as a…
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Protection Against Unanticipated Lawsuits
On Monday, in Arlington Central School District v. Murphy, the Supreme Court limited the court costs recoverable under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act…
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The High Cost of Petitioning
A radical pro-affirmative action group, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), joined by Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, have filed a Voting Rights Act…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE The Senate Finance Committee considers the nomination of Goldman Sachs chairman Henry Paulson…
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A License To Complain
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that a worker alleging retaliation for complaining about discrimination may sue even if she has not suffered a…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case challenging the EPA’s decision not…
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Public Comment Regarding Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin
June 15, 2006 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget 727 17th Street, N.W. New Executive Office Building, Room 10201 Washington,…
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Statement on the “Audio Flag” Provisions of the “Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment”
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2006—Among the provisions in the "Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act" being marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Senate takes up telecommunications reform, including a look at the…
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“Net Neutrality” Is Bad for the Internet
Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH KFC is sued over the oils it uses to make its…
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Letter to the FCC regarding “must carry” laws for cable operators
Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations would…
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Issues in the News 1. POLITICS Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), under investigation for corruption, faces the loss of his seat on…
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Get Rid of the High Places
In one of the least surprising developments of 2006, a Louisiana politician has been snared in a corruption scandal. Democratic Congressman William Jefferson has…
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Data Mismanagement
Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, now say that Sarbanes-Oxley can be unduly burdensome on business. The law that, in…
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Congress to Vote on Internet Regulation
Washington, D.C., June 8, 2006—Congress is scheduled to vote on a plan for putting the federal government in charge of regulating Internet traffic,…
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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 seem to agree on…
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Issues in the News 1. TELEVISION Congress considers vastly expanding FCC fines for broadcasting “indecent” programming. CEI Expert…
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Don’t Fence Me In
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Homeowners who challenged the authority of the government to seize their property for economic…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Student groups poke fun at the global warming alarmism of Al Gore’s new documentary…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Mobile and Internet telephone bills are expected to rise under a…
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The Law of the Sea Treaty: A Bad Deal for America
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CEI to FactCheck.Org: Re-Check Your Facts
Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI’s) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds…
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Trouble at Treasury: Paulson Wrong Choice for Secretary
Washington, D.C., May 30, 2006—The White House made an unfortunate mistake in nominating Henry M. Paulson, Jr. to be the next Secretary of the Treasury, according…
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Statement on the Enron Verdict and Sarbanes-Oxley
Washington, D.C., May 26, 2006—Members of the Enron jury should be commended for their deliberative process. They carefully weighed the evidence involving complex accounting issues…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The House of Representatives passes legislation that would open a portion of the…
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House Should Vote for Afforable Energy
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Global Warming Skeptic Claims Environmental Conversion
Al Gore’s new global warming movie is apparently causing some to think that a major turning point in the debate is at hand.
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Drudge…