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New Kids on the (Tax-Exempt) Block: The Rise of the “527”s
History will remember the 2004 election for many things, most notably for its effect on the political futures of George W. Bush and Iraq. But…
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For Unions, Protecting Jobs Means Protectionism
On June 7, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Mexican trucks can enter the U.S. without a government agency review of their impact on…
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Tort Law ‘to Make Law’
A recent little-noticed New York Times story says a great deal about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's current legal climate:…
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No-Second-Thoughts “Science”: A Noticeable Difference
Two recent findings, one right next to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., the other as far away as is possible…
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Vol. VIII, No 16
Politics <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Kerry Campaign Issues Energy Plan …
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DEBUNK THE JUNK – July 26, 2004
“Statements of alarm by newscasters and glorification of wannabe experts are two telltale tricks of the fear mongers trade………..others [include]: the use of…
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RFID Tags and Privacy
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology promises many consumer benefits. With RFID, goods on trucks, in trains, and in warehouses can be inventoried without unloading…
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CEI Planet: July 2004
Full Document Available in PDF “Who’s Afraid of RFID?” by Jim Harper…
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McCain-Lieberman: A Regulatory Pandora’s Box
Full Document Available in PDF Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recently compared his push…
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The Greening of the Balance Sheets
Full Document Available in PDF In June, the United Nations’ Global…
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Who’s Afraid of RFID?
Full Document Available in PDF Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are small radio communicators…
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Visions of “Ecodemics”
In Six modern plagues, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters, like many modern-day greens, deems humankind the source of many of the world’s problems. He…
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Celluloid Bolshies
Actor Charles Grodin, in his book “I Like It Better When You're Funny,” recalls a particularly devastating put-down from a critic: “If you…
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Calculating Kyoto’s Costs
Your Sunday edition cites politicians on both sides of the Atlantic weighing in on the U.S. presidential election by complaining of President Bush's…
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CEI Welcomes Report on Biotech Food Safety
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison,…
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Wave of Regulations Will Follow Tsunami of Federal Spending
On top of the $2 trillion in tax revenues the government now collects, agencies issue more than 4,000 yearly regulations. Costing some $800 billion annually, regulations…
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Trade Wars and the Silver Screen
Op-ed pages, political Web sites, and call-in radio shows were abuzz last spring with rants against the “outsourcing” of “U.S. jobs.” Most of those critiques…
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Green Grow the Pressies
In 1995 they told us that Yucca Mountain was going to explode in a nuclear firestorm. It won’t. In 1998 they told us that nuclear-weapons…
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`Businesses Don’t Have Social Responsibilities; People Do’
Calvin Coolidge once said that the business of America is business. He might have added that the business of business everywhere is to pursue profits. …
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DEBUNK THE JUNK – July 25, 2004
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Game of Show and Don’t Tell
In case you missed it, Morgan Spurlock brought his “Super Size Me” sideshow to Capitol Hill yesterday. Sharing the stage was the animal rights-supported Physicians…
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States to Sue Power Companies Over Gases Linked to Warming
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Send Me No Files: Senate INDUCEs a Threat to the Future of Information Technology
Please copy and share this article, download some music files, and photocopy your favorite chapters from Bill Clinton’s new book. It’s fun: Just do it!…
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Vol. VIII, No. 15
Politics Attorneys General Sue Five Big Electric Utilities The Attorneys General of California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and…
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Canada and China Versus America
Riots, vandalism, raucous protests we’re all familiar with hard-edged displays of anti-Americanism abroad these days. But this pernicious envy also takes other forms. Not all…
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State AGs Attempt to Hijack Climate Policy
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Scientists and Scholars Denounce Position of the Catholic Institute for International Relations on GM Crops
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Milan, Italy: July 17, 2004 — An international group of scientists and scholars released a statement…
Comment
Precaution and Labeling: What Do They Mean for International Regulation
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AB 1493 Draft Proposal Comments
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Reformers Are too Willing to Turn a Blind Eye to Liberal Fixes for our Economic Problems
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Sirs, Your edition of July 6 features two distinct columns that demonstrate…
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Reformers are too Willing to Turn a Blind Eye to Liberal Fixes for our Economic Problems
Sirs, Your edition of July 6 features two distinct columns that demonstrate a persistent neglect of economic liberalisation as a way of resolving societal…
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Guess Your Liability
In these days of corporate scandal, who can argue against full disclosure on financial statements? But now comes one cockeyed movement that pushes the concept…
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Spitzer Strains out Grasso While Swallowing Camels
Full Document Available in PDF Recently, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer…
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Fred Smith’s Remarks at the 33rd Annual Fourth of July Conservative Family Soiree
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Can You Overhear Me Now?
The Justice Department has asked the Senate for help in extending hidebound, phone-company style wiretap capability into new Internet-based phone calls (called “VoIP” for…
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Vol. VIII, No 14
Politics Second Senate Vote on Kyoto-Lite Bill is Delayed Again The attempt by Senators Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Az.)…
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Statement of Ben Lieberman Before Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, House Committee on G
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Greens’ New Menace: Shrimp
H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Yesterday’s puritans worried about their neighbors enjoying alcohol or gambling…
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A More Creative and Productive World
Full Document Available in PDF I’m grateful to all of you for…
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Q&A with Soso Whaley
Full Document Available in PDF CEI recently interviewed Soso Whaley, who…
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Ronald Reagan, Freedom’s Champion
Full Document Available in PDF Former President Ronald Reagan’s passing has prompted innumerable words about…
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June Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “A More Creative and Productive…
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Split Decision at the SEC
Nobel Prize economist Ronald Coase long ago warned of a political risk—that of wishing to be an “economic statesman,” which he defined as a person…
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Vol. VIII, No 13
Politics California Regulators Roll Out CO2 Plan for Automobiles The California Air Resources Board (CARB) on June 14 released its draft…
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Testimony of Robert J. Smith on On S. 2543, the National Heritage Partnership Act
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SEC Set To Over-Regulate Mutual Fund Industry With Vote on June 23
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More Regulations Do Not Inspire More Trust (Letter to the Editor)
It is not surprising for regulators to seize upon business failures to argue for more regulation, touting regulations alleged benefits while minimizing its downside. But…
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The FDA Poses Threat to Our Health, Liberty
An unusual and powerful coalition of special interests is lobbying Congress for a new tobacco deal: Put the Food and DrugAdministration in charge of…
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Energy Saving Light Bulbs Initially Dim Enthusiasm
I recently bought my first energy-saving compact fluorescent bulb. According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, if every household in America used one of these…
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Energy-saving Light Bulbs Initially Dim Enthusiasm
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Commercial Tracking Chips Spark Privacy Debate
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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Ad Schemes Bring Retailers Bad Publicity
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RFID Tags and Privacy
Full document available in PDF Radio frequency identification (RFID)…
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A Sign of Things to Come
There’s a war raging across the world. Not the war on terror—but a war against corporations, waged by anti-globalization activists and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Junk Law: The CO2 Litigation of the State Attorneys General
On October 23, 2003, 12 states, three cities, and 14 advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for rejecting an…
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No Growthers’ ‘Green Line’ Shouldn’t Deter Bank Loans
America’s top banks are routinely asked to support all sorts of charitable causes. Yet not all causes deserve support. One such unworthy cause is the tax-exempt…
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Keeping Busy: Federal Regulators Issued Over 4,000 Rules in 2003
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, DC, June 16, 2004—While Washington rule makers made 19 fewer regulations in 2003 than they…
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Feds Added 4,148 Rules in ’03
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Ten Thousand Commandments
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In A Tangle
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They’re Coming for Your Shrimp
H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Yesterday’s puritans worried about their neighbors enjoying alcohol or gambling…
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Bush Administration Makes Right Decision on Phone Competition
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, DC, June 9, 2004 – Today the U.S. Solicitor General's office announced it will not…
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Vol. VIII, No. 12
Politics Cost Estimates Keep Rising on Lieberman-McCain Climate Bill A new study by Charles River Associates provides a fuller picture of…
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Debunk the Junk: June 1, 2004
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Should the Government Fund Nanotechnology Research?
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The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution
It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals…
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If You Really Want to Reduce Gas Prices, Here’s How
Despite claims to the contrary, there is not much the federal government can do about high oil and gasoline prices in the short-term. Indeed, given…
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Vol. VIII, No. 11
The watered-down version of the Climate Stewardship Act that Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Az.) offered on the Senate floor last fall…
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EPA Launches Costly New Smog Standard
On April 15, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its new plan to tighten the national ambient air quality standard for smog. Policy experts warn the…
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Allow Arctic Refuge Drilling to Increase Supplies, While Cutting Red Tape to Make Refining Cheaper: How America Could Lower Soa
Despite claims to the contrary, there is not much the federal government can do about high oil and gasoline prices in the short term. Given…
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EU Is out of Step over Regulation of Modified Products
Sir, The premise of Steven Druker’s rant that the US criticises Europe’s application of the precautionary principle yet uses it itself (“America’s hypocrisy over modified…
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Chemical Risk Expert Testifies Before Government Reform Committee
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Statement of Angela Logomasini: Before the House Committee on Government Reform
Business Journal
We Eat Only What We Choose To (Letter to the Editor)
To answer John Gapper’s question (“Who would be in Neville Isdell’s shoes?”) in his article “How to get fat on a healthy diet” (May 11),…
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We eat only what we choose to
To answer John Gapper’s question (Who would be in Neville Isdell’s shoes?”) in his article “How to get fat on a healthy diet”…
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CEI’s Twentieth Anniversary Report
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The Day After Rupert Murdoch Takes Over America
Fresh off the contrived controversy of Michael Moore accusing Disney of censorship for refusing to distribute his anti-Bush celluloid screed comes another politically charged film.
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Rude Awakening for Hybrid Dreamers
Hybrid-electric cars are the flavor of the moment for environmental campaigners. Activists like Arianna Huffington, Larry David and Leonardo DiCaprio urge us all…
Washington Times
Think Tank Debunks Popular Myths
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Vol. VIII, No. 10
Politics McCain Vows Another Vote on Energy Rationing Bill At a May 6 hearing, Senator John McCain (R-Az.) vowed…
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Nobel Peace Laureate to Discuss Tools for Battling Hunger
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 18th, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug will address a Newsmaker Breakfast sponsored…
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Here Comes Tomorrow
The fatuous new special-effects extravaganza The Day After Tomorrow (which, judging from the plot summaries so far released might just as well have…
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Why the Telecommunications Industry Is Not Like OPEC
A recent cover story in the April 1 issue of America’s Network magazine claims that the four2 Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) are “increasingly coordinating…
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Cultural Wars Benefit No One
What's the dirtiest word in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United States political dictionary these days? That's easy: “outsourcing.”<?xml:namespace prefix…
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Are Global Warming Disasters Really On the Way?
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Crews Rejoins CEI as Vice President for Policy
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., May 11, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce the return of Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
Washington Times
Market Distortion (Letter to the Editor)
Michelle Singletary’s premise that subsidies are market-distorting is indeed correct (“The Color of Money,” MoneyWise, May 2). The Higher Education Act prescribing these guarantees is…
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Adolf Lomborg?
Back in 1990, Mike Godwin, then legal counsel for the advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, noted that online discussions on the various…
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Google Gmail Jousting
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Google Internet search engine embodies the classic tale of the garage-based…
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Socialist Capitalists
It's not easy to explain the anti-globalization movement's attraction or its successes. Much of the writing on the movement's growth, ideology, and influence…
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Sympathy for the Mosquito?
“Save Our Mosquitoes,” isn't a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus killing hundreds and making thousands…
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Soso R. Whaley Featured in The American Spectator
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Does the European Union Believe in Ghosts?: An Unwarranted Fear of Tax Competition
A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of tax competition. The cause for this fear is the upcoming entry of 10 new members into the…
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Enter and Win!
Name that film!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> For a month, you’ve been reading about Soso’s…
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Request for Reconsideration of Response to Federal Data Quality Act Petition Against Further Dissemination of ‘Climate Action’
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Supplemental Information: Request for Reconsideration of Response to Federal Data Quality Act Petition
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Media Conference Call, Wed., May 5
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, DC, May 4, 2004—Her quest started…
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“I Love Humanity; It’s People I Can’t Stand”
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Vol VIII, No. 9
Politics IPCC Chair Trots Out Hitler Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Biotech’s Antagonists
This is part 1 of a two-part series. To read part 2, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…