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Tech: Top 10 Tech Disasters That Haven’t Happened… Yet: “Congratulations: You’ve survived another year, and 2010 was quite an eventful one. For…
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Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?
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What’s Next for the FCC and Net Neutrality?
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When Spending More Doesn’t Help. . .Spend Even More?
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Senator warns of potential ‘apocalyptic pain’ regarding economy
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Chris Horner on Global Warming
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner talks about how claims of global warming are used to…
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Chris Horner on Global Warming Certainty
ompetitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how global warming is used to explain essentially any…
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Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?
America spends far more on education than countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Italy, both as a percentage of its economy, and in absolute…
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CEI Weekly: Public Employee Unions Are Bankrupting States
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For the TSA, all risks are created equal
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on…
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Debit Card Restrictions Bad News for Consumers
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U.S. Blows Hard at Chinese Wind Power Subsidies
Well, the U.S. has taken it one step further — it has gone to the World Trade Organization for “consultations” about China’s green energy…
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Environmental Working Group Should Win Annual Junk-Science Award
If there ever was a year-end, junk-science award, it should go to the Environmental Working Group — every year. Perhaps more than any group,…
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Ethanol and NASCAR
The ethanol industry earlier this year teamed up with NASCAR in order to better promote expensive, highly subsidized, not so environmentally friendly…
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The Streetcar Delusion: Minneapolis Receives Funding to Bolster Wasteful Rail Transit
Delusional Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood continues to flush taxpayer dollars down the toilet on increasingly idiotic rail programs. The latest example of LaHood’s anti-mobility…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Skype Outage hits users worldwide: “Millions of Skype Internet phone users worldwide couldn’t make calls — or were dropped in mid-conversation —…
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December 23 roundup
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Activists Target Important Agricultural Fertilizer
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NPR Covers Corn Ethanol Boondoggle
NPR’s “Morning Edition” has finally caught on to the ethanol boondoggle. It’s doing a three-part series on ethanol that started yesterday. And it gets…
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FCC Net Neutrality: Some Networks are More Neutral than Others
Today’s decision [by FCC bureaucrats] will help preserve the free and open nature of the Internet [as defined by the government] while encouraging innovation [as…
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The Colombia FTA Deserves a Speedy Vote
President Obama needs to look beyond pushing only the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement to standing behind ratification of the other pending trade agreements with…
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The Obama Administration’s Misguided War on For-Profit Colleges
In Forbes, economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University documents the blunders behind the Obama administration’s war on for-profit colleges that wiped out $8 billion…
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Will Net Neutrality Save the Internet?
Reason.TV created an excellent video explaining Net Neutrality and arguing against it. I’ve heard too many people irrationally claim that big corporations are going to…
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Confusion about “Conflict of Interest”
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Compare and Contrast Biofuel Predictions
From the Ethanol Producer Magazine: For years, cellulosic ethanol has been five years away from commercial viability. With several companies making significant progress in…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover: “Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and…
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Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
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Global warming explanations made up as they go along
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Severe winter weather caused by global warming?
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Alcohol Regulatory Roundup: December 21st
Maryland: Lawmakers will likely pass a measure next year allowing direct shipping of wine to Maryland residents. Vineyards, especially smaller wine makers, claim that…
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Afternoon Links: December 21, 2010
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Recognize the Role of Private Enterprise in Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Resist Over-Caution on Nanotechnology and other Frontier Sciences
Full Document Available in PDF Nanotechnology is the cutting-edge science and…
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Protect Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, Congress has faced mounting public pressure…
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Improve Food Safety and Quality though Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Full Document Available in PDF Few…
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Enhance Auto Safety
Full Document Available in PDF Automotive safety is the primary mission of the National Highway Traffic…
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Ensure Consumers’ Access to Bottled Water
Full Document Available in PDF Bottled water offers many important benefits—including portability, emergency…
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Purify Federal Water Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Drinking Water. Drinking water policy should focus on how best…
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Recognize the Deadly Effects of Over-Regulating Medicines and Medical Devices
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, governments and environmental activists…
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Obamacare Makes State Budget Problems Worse
Obamacare is making state budget problems much worse, as governors now lament. Earlier, CEI filed an amicus brief in Florida v. HHS on…
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Reform Wetlands Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Wetlands regulations do a poor job of protecting wetlands habitat. Much…
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Rethink Water Rights Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Battles over limited water supplies in the United States and…
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Recognize the Elitist Nature of “Anti- Sprawl” Measures
Full Document Available in PDF For the greater part of the last…
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Trash Counterproductive Waste Disposal Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Solid waste. Much of the nation’s current solid waste…
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Develop New Approaches to Preserve Ocean Resources
Full Document Available in PDF The world’s fisheries face severe decline. Indeed,…
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Clarify the Role of Invasive Species
Full Document Available in PDF In the past, policies addressing problem plants…
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Protect Endangered Species
Full Document Available in PDF The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is bad for…
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