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CEI Podcast for June 15, 2011: Do ATMs Kill Jobs?
In a recent NBC interview, President Obama blamed ATMs for taking away bank tellers' jobs. Communications Coordinator Lee Doren points out that innovation doesn't affect…
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Standardized Test Scores Continue to Disappoint
Children would be far better served if government were to take a leading role in K-12 education… oh, wait.
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Regulation Roundup
A new Senate bill would make lip-synching to other people’s music a jailable offense, plus more.
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CEI Podcast for June 9, 2011: The Other Black Friday
Online poker has been illegal since April 15, now called Black Friday by poker fans. Policy Analyst Michelle Minton goes over the controversy and explains…
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Regulation of the Day 180: Braiding Hair
Businesses often use regulations as a cudgel to bludgeon their competitors. Occupational licensing is one of the most-abused types of regulation.
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Regulation of the Day 179: Giving Food to Homeless People
Last Wednesday, three people were arrested in Orlando for giving food to homeless people.
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Regulation of the Day 178: Helping Tornado Victims
Mike Haege, a tree-trimmer in Hastings, Minnesota, was threatened with jail and fined $275 for helping clear damaged trees from tornado victims' yards.
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Regulation Roundup
Tennessee makes it illegal to use someone else's Netflix password, plus more.
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Top 3 Myths about Immigration
According to Ben Powell, the three most common immigration myths are that immigrants are a drag on the economy, they steal our jobs, and that…
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CEI Podcast for May 31, 2011: FDA Rescinds Approval of Breast Cancer Drug
Conko believes this battle boils down to one question: who decides which treatments patients can use? Will it be the FDA, or doctors and patients?…
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Liberalize High-Skilled Immigration
Over at the Daily Caller, Alex Nowrasteh and I tell the story of Jeffrey Lin. He is a Ph.D student at CalTech who holds three…
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Immigration Reform Can Jumpstart Economy
Jeffrey is a talented electrical engineering PhD student at CalTech. He already holds three patents. One of his inventions may cure glaucoma. It is…
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Regulation Roundup
Some of the zanier happenings in the world of regulation:…
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CEI Podcast for May 26, 2011: President Obama Proposes Deregulation
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar, announced today that the administration intends to repeal regulations from 30 different agencies. CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain…
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Sunstein and Obama, Deregulators?
Winston Churchill observed that "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." We may finally be…
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Regulation of the Day 177: Single-Wide Trailers
In Cordova, Alabama single-wide trailer homes are illegal. After years of lax enforcement, regulators are cracking down after tornadoes left many residents homeless.
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Regulation of the Day 176: Cooking a Burger
In North Carolina, it is illegal to cook a burger to an internal temperature under 155 degrees.
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Regulation of the Day 175: Firing Dwarves
It would be nice to help out and give a job to someone who needs it, but for many employers, it’s just not worth the…
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In Other TSA News…
TSA officials recently performed a bomb drill at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and didn't tell anyone about it in advance.
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TSA Sing-Along
The good folks at Reason.tv have released an educational music video about the TSA featuring singer-songwriter-comedian Remy. Worth watching.
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CEI Podcast for May 18, 2011: Suing Chuck E. Cheese
Communications Coordinator Lee Doren breaks down a bizarre class action lawsuit against Chuck E. Cheese's. The suit accuses the company of offering gambling services to…
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Regulation of the Day 174: Lying about the Size of the Fish You Caught
If you live in Texas, look over your shoulder before you tell a tall tale about your last fishing trip.
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There is No More Fat to Trim from Government Budgets, Part 3
The USDA is spending $2 million to take pictures of what San Antonio school children eat for lunch.
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TSA Pats Down Infant
Surprisingly, no explosives were found during extra screening, including what a TSA official describes as a "modified pat-down" of the suspicious infant.
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Regulation of the Day 173: Yellow Pages
San Francisco is phasing out the distribution of hard-copy Yellow Pages.
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Congressional Economics
Congress might as well pass a law guaranteeing an above-average lifestyle for all Americans.
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Congressional Economics
The House of Representatives is not exactly a bastion of economic knowledge. But it can be a goldmine for economic educators if they know where…
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Regulation of the Day 172: Bestiality and Baggy Pants
NBC Miami's Brian Hamacher with the second-best lede I've read this week: "Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop…
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CEI Podcast for May 5, 2011: Salt
A new study says that high-salt diets may not be as harmful as once thought. Research Associate Daniel Compton takes a look.
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Regulation of the Day 171: Cream Puffs
This blog will be paying close attention to the heated legislative battle in Madison to give the delicious cream puff its due.
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Free Trade Agreements Don’t Kill Jobs
Over at the Daily Caller, I look at employment data and find out that the labor force has grown by 23 million people since NAFTA…
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Free Trade Agreements Don’t Kill Jobs
The U.S. is slowly working towards free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. After years of wrangling, they might even pass this…
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“Ten Thousand Commandments” on Capitol Hill
Regulatory reform is at least as important as spending, taxes, and deficits, but it doesn’t get nearly as much attention. That’s why we are pleased…
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Regulation of the Day 170: Kinder Eggs
Kinder eggs are a type of candy that enjoys worldwide popularity. They are also illegal in the United States.
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Regulation of the Day 169: Singing “Kung-Fu Fighting”
A British man was arrested for singing the 1970s hit “Kung-Fu Fighting”.
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Regulation of the Day 168: When Chickens Mate
In Hopewell Township, New Jersey, chickens are only allowed to mate on 10 pre-selected days per year.
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CEI Podcast for April 28, 2011: High-Speed Rail
Land Use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner looks at China's experience with high-speed rail, and finds that it may not be a very good…
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There Is No More Fat to Trim from Government Budgets
Over the last five years, the DC Metro has spent $2.4 million on back pay... for work that was never performed.
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Substantive Reform Must Include Cutting Regulatory Burdens
In today's Investor's Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I argue that reformers shouldn't forget about regulation:…
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Hayek vs. Keynes, Round Two
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Giving Back to the Community
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Regulation Cuts Must Be Part Of Serious Reform
Spending reform is all the rage in Washington, with both parties offering proposals to rein in the deficit. President Obama has proposed a mix…
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Polls Are Useful
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Regulation: The Hidden Tax
Wayne Crews and I have a piece in today's Sacramento Bee summarizing the main findings of Wayne's "Ten Thousand Commandments" study.
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Regulation: The Hidden Tax
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CEI Podcast for April 21, 2011: The Male-Female Pay Gap
Carrie Lukas, Managing Director of the Independent Women's Forum, argues that the pay gap between men and women isn't due to discrimination.
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Icemakers: Mankind’s Doom
An article at Time explains "How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet," and what regulators are doing about it.
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There is No More Fat to Trim from Government Budgets
Workforce Central Florida, a government agency, is spending $73,000 to give away 6,000 capes and some cardboard cutouts.
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A Market Failure in Air Traffic Control?
Air traffic control is simply too important an issue to leave to the free market. It is time to put the government in charge of…
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