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Infrastructure Pork versus Infrastructure Investment: In Washington, There is No Difference
The labor theory of value still survives -- at least in politics. Both Democrats and Republicans still believe that "government must create jobs," and if…
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Will the Super Committee Legalize Online Poker?
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Wanted: Alcoholic Truck Drivers
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Feds to Trucking Company: You Cannot Fire Alcoholic Drivers
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Should We Charge For Immigrant Visas?
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EEOC: Drinking History no Reason to Withhold Heavy Trucking Jobs
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CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index
WASHINGTON — With state governments across the country struggling to balance budgets and fund basic services over the demands of big government unions, the…
Washington Times
Obama’s Proposed Regs Would Cost Billions Annually
Washington Times highlights Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory burden. And a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think…
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Broken Window Fallacy: Hurricane Irene Edition
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More Barriers to Job Creation from Obama Administration: Employers Must Hire Alcoholics as Truck Drivers Despite Liability Risk
The president is full of hollow rhetoric about creating jobs, even though his stimulus package destroyed jobs in our export sector and…
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Scholarships to Study Free-Market Ideas
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AT&T-T-Mobile Merger Delayed
A few months ago, the FCC said it would hand down a decision on whether to allow AT&T and T-Mobile to merge within 180 days.
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CEI Weekly: Obama Launches Weak Deregulation Initiative
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Laundry and Employees’ Rights
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Keynesian Policy Does Not Create Growth
Washington Times
Obama Administration: Employers Must Hire Alcoholics as Truck Drivers Despite Liability
Washington Times
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray knows that up-to-the-minute weather information is too crucial to leave in the hands of government. He argues that…
Washington Times
Letter Writer Wrong About Hoover’s Tactics
A recent letter writer erred in claiming that Herbert Hoover cut taxes and government spending in the Great Depression (“O’Reilly Missed Lesson on Great Depression,”…
Washington Times
Time to Stop Increasing Education Spending?
Washington Times
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought…
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No, the Government Didn’t Cut Spending During the Great Depression, and More Government Spending Won’t Fix the Economy
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Regulation Roundup
Some of the stranger rules I've dug recently:…
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CEI Weekly: Obama Launches Weak Deregulation Initiative
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Morning Media Summary
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The Texas Empire Strikes Back
Well, I made a prediction here yesterday: It will be interesting to see how those in Congress who have been demanding…
Washington Times
End the War on Salt
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Privacy Mandates are Bad News for Web Users
When Congress returns from its summer recess, Internet privacy will be high on its agenda. Half a dozen bills introduced this session aim to address…
Orange County Register
Green Jobs Revealed as Fiscal Black Hole
Biersdorf and Associates
Eminent Domain Abuse and Attorney Fee Recovery
Biersdorf and Associates
Immigration Tariff: Reforming a Broken System
America’s immigration system is broken. Years of overregulation aimed at micromanaging the system has produced nearly 100 different types of visas, each with its…
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Who’s Afraid of Snuggles the Bear?
As the East Coast braces to be pummeled by Hurricane Irene, a new study in the Journal Air Quality and Atmosphere…
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Space Policy, Education Spending, and the EPA
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CEI Podcast for August 25, 2011: Mr. Fuddlesticks
Mr. Fuddlesticks is an anonymous YouTube user who posted embarrassing videos about the Renton, Washington police department. They convinced a judge to let them request…
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The Sidewalks of Madison
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NLRB to Businesses: Tell Employees they Can Unionize
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a new rule “requiring most private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor…
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Sirius XM settlement approved
Judge Baer approved the $0 Blessing v. Sirius XM settlement and $13 million fee award yesterday. The decision contradicts (and ignores) Bluetooth,…
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Morning Media Summary
Biersdorf and Associates
Bureaucrats Have Gone Rogue
G.O.P. presidential candidates should emphasize that reining in the E.P.A. is a constitutional imperative. Yes, Americans are worried about jobs and the economy, but arguing…
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Rekindling the Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. is now memorialized with an imposing statue on the D.C. National Mall. While the honor is long overdue, his legacy should…
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Our Space Policy Chickens Have Come Home To Roost
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle last month, the U.S. and its international partners are now entirely reliant on non-U.S. providers for transportation to…
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Time to Stop Increasing Education Spending?
Even The New York Times is now questioning the massive spending increases on education that have occurred over the last generation in a discussion…
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Eminent Domain, Rick Perry, and the Trans-Texas Corridor
Attorney Alan Ackerman has a post up highlighting and commenting on an article that argues that critics of Texas Governor Rick Perry from the right…
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Deregulating the Legal Profession and the Berlin Wall
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Morning Media Summary
Biersdorf and Associates
Politicization of Justice Department Worsens
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Obama’s Deregulation Initiative Falls Short of Substantive Reform
Washington, D.C., August 24, 2011—President Obama announced that independent agencies will wipe as many as 500 rules from the books in the coming months.
Biersdorf and Associates
Costly Red Tape for Energy Providers
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains that when the EPA tries to impose stricter emissions rules on energy companies, the costs are transferred to the…
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Politicization of Justice Department Worsens
If you are a moderate or conservative, don't expect to get a job with the Justice Department during the Obama administration. All 15 of the…
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FCC Repeals 83 Regulations
The repeals will become official upon publication in the Federal Register.
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More Bailouts, Urge Left-Leaning Journalists
Left-leaning journalists are urging more mortgage bailouts to try to increase consumer spending, since they erroneously think that inadequate consumer spending is the principal cause…