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Scientists Developing Fungus-Resistant Wheat
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Immelt Met by Protestors: ‘Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Cronyism Has Got to Go!’
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Proposed Interagency “Voluntary” Guidelines — Censoring Speech While Stifling Free Enterprise
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Justice Department’s Witch Hunt Against Banks Will Harm Economy
The Justice Department is now extorting multimillion dollar settlements from banks, by accusing them of racial discrimination because they use traditional, non-racist lending criteria…
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Energy Secretary Wants to Force You to Save Money
Energy Secretary Steven Chu admitted the paternalistic motivation for the effective ban on incandescent light-bulbs on Friday. Such honesty from a bureaucrat is somewhat…
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Regulation of the Day 183: Throwing Wet Sponges
Apparently British regulators don’t think their subjects are sponge-worthy.
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Morning Media Summary
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Government Bureaucrats “Stealing You Blind,” New Book Reveals
Washington, D.C., July 11, 2011 – So-called public servants are “stealing you blind” with inflated salaries, early retirement, massive pensions, leaving a legacy of red…
Op-Eds
Government Pay Raises–It’s an Inside Con Job
Washington Examiner
The New Robber Barons
Washington Examiner
Protestors Disapprove of Immelt’s Keynote Speech on Creating Jobs
Washington Examiner
The Left’s 14th Amendment Lie
Washington Examiner
Why Republicans Are Fighting to Save the 30-Cent Light Bulb
New York Times
Red Tape Update: I Demand That You Audit Me
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Stimulus Dollars Funded Mexican Coffin Industry through “Operation Fast and Furious”
Not content with just using American tax dollars to subsidize foreign "green jobs" that replaced U.S. jobs, the Obama administration used stimulus dollars…
New York Post
O’s Subsidymobiles
Yahoo! News
Death for Bigger Cars Will Mean More Deaths
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Small Businesses, Virginia Child Support, and the CEI Podcast
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Schumpeter on Why People Are Bad at Arguing
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Unemployment Rises, Driven Up By Failed Government Policies
U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months . . . Non-farm…
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CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Nutritional Principles and Guidelines for Food Marketing to Children
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is non-profit organization…
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Regulation of the Day 182: The Definition of a Hot Dog
Having solved the state’s fiscal crisis, California’s state legislature has moved on to more important issues, such as the legal definition of “hot dog.”…
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Strangely Specific Regulations
The next someone tells you the economy is dangerously unregulated, refer them to this list:…
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CEI Weekly: Big Labor Alliance With Democrats in Jeopardy
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How Wealthy Are You?
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Obama Administration Creates New Debts to Pay Off Trial Lawyers Even as it Demands Increase in Debt Ceiling
The Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Sandoval (2001) that outside the employment context, people bringing discrimination lawsuits under the civil-rights laws generally have…
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Morning Media Summary
Yahoo! News
Constitutional Nonsense on Debt
Lo and behold! As we celebrated this Fourth of July amid the debt-ceiling fight, the netroots and progressive pundits suddenly discovered the Constitution’s relevance in…
One News Now
Unions ‘Have Nowhere Else To Go’
One News Now
Vincent Vernuccio Criticizes TSA Push for Unionization
Vincent Vernuccio again slams the TSA, this time for stealing from passengers and failing to do a better job of policing their own, while…
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CEI Podcast for July 7, 2011: How Much Does Regulation Cost?
One federal study says federal regulations cost $1.75 trillion. Another says it's $62 billion. The difference is almost a factor of 30. Vice President for…
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Mica and Duncan’s Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill Calls for 42% Cuts from SAFETEA-LU Levels
Today, House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) and Highway and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.) announced they would be introducing a $230-billion,…
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Big Government Continues to Hurt Small Businesses Most
The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy released a study showing that the burden of government regulation disproportionately falls onto small businesses. Specifically, those with…
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New Video on the D.C. Taxicab Medallion Bill
Reason.tv has a new video up today, “D.C. Taxi Heist: How a new law would screw drivers and riders,” that explains why Washington’s proposed…
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Broadband Access, and the Regulation of the Day
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Morning Media Summary
One News Now
Rethinking Regulations for Biotech Crops
Florida Political Press
Ron Rushing, Citizen Candidate For U.S. Senate Opposes Sun Rail Project
Florida Political Press
MD Union Finds Sneaky Way to Force Non-Members to Pay Up
Daily Iowan
The Growth of the Administrative State
The Daily Iowan reports on Wayne Crews's report on the size of the federal regulatory burden. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has issued its…
Daily Iowan
William Yeatman Criticizes EPA for Killing Jobs
CEI's William Yeatman exposes the anti-job, anti economic growth policies of the EPA. Yet another example of how government regulation fails to prioritize job creating…
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Wasteful Stimulus Spends $7 Million Per Household to Get Montana Residents Broadband Access
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Virginia’s Child Support Guidelines Likely to Become Grossly Excessive for Most Households
Virginia seems likely to increase its child-support obligations on non-custodial parents, based on flawed methods of calculating child-rearing costs that overstate child-rearing costs. As I…
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The Tragedy of the Truth
The Yale Cultural Cognition Project recently released a new study with surprising findings. According to the data of their national survey, people who are…
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Morning Media Summary
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Public-Sector Unions in the Northeast are a Tough Group to Please
Openmarket.org The cozy relationship between liberal governors in Northeast states and Big Labor is becoming strained. Elected Democrats are realizing how strongly strings were attached…
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Regulation of the Day 182: PowerPoint Presentations
A political party in Switzerland is seeking to ban Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in meetings.
Daily Iowan
Equal Treatment Under Law ‘Completely Unfair’, Judges Rule
Daily Iowan
The Cost Of Government Regulation
“You, there: stop complaining and start hiring!” That is essentially the Obama administration’s message to businesses. This is an administration that seems to believe that…
Daily Iowan