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• By: Iain Murray
• 04/20/2006

Animal rights extremism—which the FBI has labeled the biggest domestic terrorism threat—has encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/20/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY A judge denies Microsoft’s request for documents relating to an ongoing antitrust dispute…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington State and meets with Microsoft…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/18/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL Payments from tobacco companies to states are found to have been diverted away…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/17/2006

1. TELEVISION TV networks challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency fines in court. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/15/2006

Reforming telecommunications law is a favored subject in the halls of Congress this year. Hot issues include streamlining video franchising and addressing the "net…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/14/2006

Issues in the News 1. FINANCE An adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests that the SEC will be receptive…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252  …

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252  …

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/13/2006

For more than two decades, the willingness of policy makers to rethink the presumption that economic regulation automatically benefits consumers has driven the deregulation of…

Antitrust

• By: Christine Hall
• 04/12/2006

States are embroiled in a nasty squabble with their business partner of seven years: Big Tobacco. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/12/2006

Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Google defends its business ventures in China. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 04/11/2006

The French climate of economic sluggishness and widespread unemployment has led to a pervasive restlessness. Many—especially the youth—have taken to rioting, striking, and…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., R.W. Grant
• 04/11/2006

  In the 108 years since the passage of the Sherman Act, there has probably never been a clearer and more concise statement of the…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY The government of France tries to force Apple to hand over information about their iTunes…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2006

Issues in the News   1. INTERNET ABC announces a free two-month trial access to its most popular shows…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 04/07/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Barton: As…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 04/06/2006

My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 04/04/2006

  Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273  …

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 04/04/2006

Washington, D. C. 4th April 2006 Hon. Pete V. Domenici Chairman and Hon. Jeff Bingaman Ranking Minority Member Committee…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/30/2006

America has developed a proud paternal bond with the Internet. We've watched and cheered the net's growth from its awkward, text-heavy infancy into…

Antitrust

• By: Myron Ebell
• 03/29/2006

Robert D. Novak's March 23 op-ed column, “Iraq's Oil Crisis,” highlighted one result of the Bush administration's decision to retain nationalized ownership of the…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/28/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Few industries are more demonized than Big Tobacco. From…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/28/2006

Contact: Jody Clarke, 202-331-2252 Washington, D.C., March 29, 2006—While the Department of Transportation touts higher fuel economy standards for light trucks, including SUVs, a fuel…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL An arbitrator is expected to rule today on a lawsuit brought by major…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL An arbitrator is expected to rule today on a lawsuit brought by major tobacco…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/26/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/24/2006

Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A study in the journal Science predicts rapid sea level rise from the effects of global warming…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/23/2006

“People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.” This line from the movie V for Vendetta seems to have convinced libertarian luminaries…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/23/2006

During the Capitol Hill budget debates, many spectators must have found the use of the term “earmarking” somewhat strange.  What does it have…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/23/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  On the Saturday Show (Jan. 21), NPR commentator John Ydstie, in a…

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/22/2006

Like it or not, comic books are no longer the domain of nerds and adolescents. Driven by the box-office success of adaptations of…

Business and Government

• By: Brooke Oberwetter
• 03/22/2006

When Christopher Buckley’s novel Thank You for Smoking came out in 1994 it was a surprising satire of the vilification of the tobacco…

Business and Government

• By: Jesse Walker
• 03/22/2006

Broadcasting has come a long way since the pioneer punk band The Clash blasted Britain's radio regulators with that line in 1979, but in some…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2006

Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Ethanol producers could face problems during the summer driving season when demand is expected to…

Business and Government

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 03/20/2006

“New Drugs Hit the Market, but Promised Trials Go Undone” and “FDA: Drug Companies Drop Ball on Studies,” the headlines blared.

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/20/2006

President Concedes Moral High Ground on Energy by Myron Ebell "America is addicted to oil." With these five words in…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2006

If you wanted to lower electric energy prices in the US, what would you do? If you answered, “Cripple the domestic railroad industry,” you'd…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff, Jason Talley
• 03/17/2006

Jason Talley heads the Bureaucrash pro-freedom activist network—in Bureaucrash’s own parlance, he is the Crasher-in-Chief. He spoke recently with CEI Planet on his…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 03/17/2006

I grew up here in Kansas City, on the Kansas side, Johnson County. Ewing Kaufman left the Kaufman Foundation as his legacy, along with many…

Antitrust

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/17/2006

Death closes so many books that are still being written. A book that was closed over the holidays was the Bill Bradford volume. Bill was…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/17/2006

On February 9, the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a federal agency…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/15/2006

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., March 16, 2006—As the U.S. Senate considers an important budget resolution, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urges…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/15/2006

In Monty Python’s classic "Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch, a Hungarian tourist walks into a British tobacconist’s shop, and, consulting a faulty phrasebook, tells…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/15/2006

Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Delta airlines plans to terminate its pension plan and seek salary concessions amid a struggle…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/13/2006

Is there a point at which societal change moves so fast that some people not only do not see it, but emphatically deny…

Antitrust

• By: Timothy Carney
• 03/12/2006

Some people accuse George W. Bush of seeing the world in simple terms, black-and-white, good-and-evil. He has been quoted as saying, “in Texas,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2006

Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Congress considers the question of what can be done with copyrighted material whose owner cannot…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2006

Issues in the News   1. BUSINESS Democrats in the House of Representative announce a legislative agenda for spurring innovation…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/07/2006

In 2001, the energy giant Enron unexpectedly filed for bankruptcy, laying off 4,000 of its employees and consuming the life savings of thousands more. In…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/07/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., March 8, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the House Democrats’ Innovation Agenda…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/05/2006

Washington, D.C., March 6, 2006—AT&T’s announcement that it will merge with Bell South is a pro-competitive move that will benefit consumers, says <?xml:namespace…

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 03/02/2006

A Friday conference at the American Enterprise Institute will try to answer the question: "Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Serious Business?" And not…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/02/2006

WASHINGTON—The Jack Abramoff scandal has many individual players, but it’s also added fuel to an older and broader theme—the quest to purge politics of money.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2006

Issues in the News 1. E-COMMERCE AOL proceeds with plans to charge a “postage” fee for mass senders of email.

Business and Government