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U.S. tech: Get to China
We once scorned the idea the Internet could be censored. Many politicians have tried to stop porn, but always to no avail. Spam still…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Civil rights leader Andrew Young joins the steering committee of the group Working Families for…
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ESA Coalition Letter to Senator James M. Inhofe
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A federal court ruling on copyright could undermine Google’s Book Search program.
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WTO and Biotech Food: Who Really Won?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization decision on biotechnology applied to agricultural products, finally released earlier this month, elicited a great deal of buzz…
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The Kyoto Bubble?
It is one of the hallmark features of a capitalist economy that investors will react to changes in policy and regulation in order to…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE A new report finds executives at mortgage lender Fannie Mae responsible for an…
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Weak Energy Week
This has been “Energy Week” for President Bush as he barnstormed around the country in follow-up to his State of the Union message that…
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Making a Meth of the PATRIOT Act
If you thought al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents were the major threats facing America, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) says you’re wrong. According to Dent,…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Three major oil companies prepare to open a major new natural gas pipeline…
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Issues in the News 1. SUPREME COURT The nation’s highest court hears a constitutional challenge to the Clean Water…
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Supreme Court Reviews Water Quality Regulations
Washington, D.C., February 21, 2006—The U.S. Supreme Court today hears arguments over the reach and constitutionality of the Clean Water Act, setting the stage for…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL McDonald’s french fries are attacked for containing traces of wheat and dairy products. CEI…
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Supreme Court Reviews Water Quality Regulations
The U.S. Supreme Court today hears arguments over the reach and constitutionality of the Clean Water Act, setting the stage for a potentially…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The EPA tells people not to throw out their Teflon cookware CEI Expert Available to…
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Unhappy Birthday
This week marks the first anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol's coming into force. It's an unhappy birthday. The one-year-old has been badly treated by…
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In the Interests of Stakeholders… and Steakholders
There was good news last month on both sides of our northern border: In response to confirmation of an isolated case of bovine…
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All the news that fits
Newspapers are often criticized for bias in their “news” articles. A prime example was Andrew Pollack's Feb. 14 New York Times piece on…
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Kyoto: A Quiet Anniversary
Global warming alarmists marked the Kyoto Protocol’s first anniversary in subdued fashion this week. The treaty so far has been a failure and its…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Paramount Pictures agrees to distribute a documentary on global warming starring former Vice President…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Congress investigates the business operations of Google and other U.S. Internet companies in China.
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Will Congress Open the Market for Online Television?
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., February 15, 2006—The future of video content online could begin today in the Senate…
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Issues in the News 1. BUDGET President Bush’s proposed federal budget attracts an array of critics. CEI Expert Available to Comment:…
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On First Anniversary, Kyoto’s Future Looks Bleak
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Issues in the News 1. HURRICANE KATRINA The House of Representatives finds failures in the response to Hurricane Katrina at all levels…
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The top ten reasons to cut corporate welfare
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />The federal budget is too big. It's way too big. George W. Bush has called for total…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING National Academy of Sciences agrees to referee climate-change research. CEI Expert Available…
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Issues in the News 1. BIOTECHNOLOGY The World Trade Organization rules against European restrictions on genetically modified foods. CEI…
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Beware False Profits
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,…
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Low-Fat Diet Myth Busted
The widely-believed notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went “poof” this week—although the busting of that myth shouldn’t be news to…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Evangelical leaders come out in favor of mandated carbon dioxide emission cuts. …
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Free Enterprise Fund and Competitive Enterprise Institute to Announce Constitutional Legal Challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley
WHAT: Sarbanes-Oxley was rushed into law in 2002 with good intentions following unprecedented corporate scandals. Yet, elements of Sarbanes-Oxley now serve as classic examples…
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Free Enterprise Fund and Competitive Enterprise Institute Launch Constitutional Legal Challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley Act
CONTACT: Christine Hall, 202-331-2258, [email protected] Washington, DC (February 8, 2006)—The Free Enterprise Fund and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on Tuesday launched a…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS A Verizon Communications executive blasts Google for freeloading on Verizon infrastructure as Congress prepares to debate…
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Pew’s ‘Agenda for Climate Action’ Equals Higher Energy Prices for American Consumers
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., February 8, 2006—The latest report from the Pew Center on Global Climate is being touted as the ‘first comprehensive…
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‘Oil Addiction’ Talk Boosts Enviro Leftists
“<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America is addicted to oil.”With these five words in his State of the Union speech, President…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AOL and Yahoo announce plans to charge to send certified email, fueling the debate…
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CEI Praises Major WTO Decision on Biotech Food
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…
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Three Cheers for WTO Decision on Biotech Food
What do an <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Iowa corn grower, a Thai rice farmer, and a Dutch grocery shopper have…
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Issues in the News 1. AUTOMOBILITY The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases a new report on car size…
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Woodpecker Racket?
Last year’s reported sighting in eastern Arkansas of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, raised the hopes of bird-watchers everywhere.<?xml:namespace prefix…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin calls for the temporary shutdown…
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Issues in the News 1. STATE OF THE UNION President Bush calls for more federal spending on alternative energy sources,…
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We Have It Coming
Americans are about to learn the hard way about the unintended consequences of over-regulation and flawed policy initiatives. Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial…
The American Spectator
What Are Op-Eds For?
Ever since the Cato Institute fired syndicated columnist Doug Bandow over the revelation that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had asked and paid him to…
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The Deadly Toll of Federal Fuel Regulations
A new study this week from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reinforces what researchers have long known: larger vehicles are safer than smaller ones…
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America Addicted to Oil?
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY President Bush is expected to address the role of alternative fuels in…
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Will Congress Open the Market for Online Television
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 31, 2006—The future of video services online could begin today in the Senate Commerce Committee with a…
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An Assessment of Montreal COP/MOP 1
Full Document Available in PDF The December 2005 Montreal “COP-MOP” Kyoto…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Jury selection begins today in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth…
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Pot Calling Kettle Black?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In senior editor Dave Astor's article on syndicated columnists and their sources of…
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Gutting Kyoto
The worldwide press hailed the December negotiations in <?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Montreal over the Kyoto…
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Letter to EPA on Human Volunteer Pesticide Testing
Full Document Available in PDF The use of human volunteers in research studies…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY A miner who survived an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West…
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EPA Makes Right Decision on Use of Human Volunteers in Pesticide Safety Studies
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FDA May Make Breathing Difficult for Asthmatics
The government may tell asthmatics to “take a hit” for the environment. But that “hit” won't be from their inhalers, which might be taken…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Finance company BB&T announces that it will refuse loans to developers attempting to…
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I’m Proud to Be a Coal Miner’s Grandson
To hear Senators Byrd and Rockefeller speak, one would think that the coal mining industry in this country is one of the major sources…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A major computer hacker pleads guilty in federal court to hijacking hundreds of thousands of…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration approves fat-blocking drug Xenical for over-the-counter sales.
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Open Federalism
The businessman puts the cash in an envelope. He leaves it on the agreed upon restaurant table. Another man, a government bureaucrat, walks over…
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What Does It Mean to Be a (Canadian) Conservative?
In yesterday’s Canadian election, the new Conservative Party swept into power for the first time since 1993. Paul Martin and the Liberals, it turns…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY CBS News reports on the massive petroleum reserves currently being explored in the oil sands…
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Why Cable ‘A La Carte’ Won’t Roll
Americans love channel surfing, and many spend their evenings flipping through the vast ocean of inexpensive programming available through cable television packages. But…
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How Roe Destroyed Privacy
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Our Miserly Uncle
Although it may be heresy for a libertarian or a conservative to say, I really like living in Washington. I try to be grateful every…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The World Health Organization raises concerns about resistance to a key…
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No Future in Kyoto Dreaming
In 1977, the punk rock band the Sex Pistols shocked England with their nihilist anthem “God Save the Queen,” where they declared there was “No…
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Starborn Society
Science fiction has long been stereotyped as a hardware-obsessed, techno-jargon laden refuge for computer nerds and outcasts. Especially on television, which lacks the geek…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration announces new guidelines for prescription drug…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY International leaders warn that the world is not ready to confront a possible…
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PETA: Cruel and Unusual
The FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS A new Maryland law requiring Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health benefits has other…
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Sarbanes-Oxley vs. the Free Press
Back in June, when New York Times reporter Judith Miller was about to go to jail on contempt charges for refusing to testify…
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A Boon for U.S. Consumers
Although Wal-Mart has been America's largest retailer since 1990, the company has only recently begun expanding into California, and the reaction from many quarters has…
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Some Hard Truths About Bird Flu
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing medicine, epidemiology, virology and even…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The Maryland legislature moves to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health…
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Plants Bad for the Environment? Celebrities Causing Frogs to Croak?
Could it be that celebrities are planting the forests that are causing the global warming that is growing the bacteria that are wiping out the…
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Issues in the News 1. ECONOMICS Offical plans for rebuilding New Orleans draw harsh criticism from local homeowners. CEI Expert Available…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The EPA proposes to change the standard for testing gas mileage…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Google’s new video service raises questions about copyright protection technology. CEI Expert Available for…
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Fill the Moat, Lower the Portcullis
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing aspects of medicine, epidemiology,…
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Flu pandemic prevention
This month's outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in Turkey—as many as 50 human cases and several deaths—looks very like what we might see…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update Monday, January 9, 2006 Issues in the News 1. SUPREME…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Frequently-fined radio host Howard Stern makes his much-anticipated move to satellite broadcasting next…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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The Tale of a Medical Device
Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…
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Let a Thousand ISPs Bloom: A Hands-Off Approach to Global Tech Development
Simply uttering the phrase “Internet governance” is enough to make some people cringe with visions of Big Brother. But Internet governance is not—and shouldn’t be—some…
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Millennium Challenged? New Approach to Foreign Aid Threatens to Become More of the Same
Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…
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The CEI Planet – November – December 2005
Full Document Available in PDF Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Researchers claim a temperature rise 55 million years ago could shed light on the current…
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Russia’s Godfather Saga
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer,” was the lesson taught to Michael Corleone by his father Vito in the Godfather movies.
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Russia and Ukraine settle a dispute over natural gas that threatened European energy supplies. CEI…
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Cruel and Unusual: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
On January 9, two employees of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will appear in court to answer felony…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY A conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens to undermine natural gas supplies to much of…
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Ominous Prospects for Aging
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described “a growing backlash against the pharmaceutical industry that is already affecting the development and…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The price of oil dipped slightly yesterday, heading towards an end-of-year close of about $60 a…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS Technology security firms are warning computer users to beware of a flaw in Microsoft Windows which…
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MSA Opposition Brief
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