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Embrace Private Conservation of Land and Natural Resources
Full Document Available in PDF Private stewardship and markets play a…
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CEI Podcast — December 21, 2010: What’s Next for Immigration Reform?
CEI Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh goes over the good and the bad of the DREAM Act, which recently stalled in the Senate, and offers his…
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Restore the Constitutional Right to Property
Full Document Available in PDF The right to property is an essential part of a free society, and widespread private property ownership…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: FCC to Vote on Internet Regulation Plan Despite Economic Warnings: “Lawmakers are on high alert as the Federal Communications Commission prepares…
Boston.com
FCC passes ‘net neutrality’ Internet regulations
One News Now
High court turns deaf ear to jilted business owners
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Facilitate Electricity Competition
Full Document Available in PDF A fully responsive electricity industry would use active demand and…
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Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector
Full Document Available in PDF The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are…
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Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy
Full Document Available in PDF The federal politicization of science in…
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Advance a Global Pro-Trade Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Increasing liberalization of world trade is one…
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Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, the First Amendment’s…
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Avoid Hampering the Internet through Net Neutrality Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Some observers have speculated that 2009…
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Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
Local Techwire
FCC prepares to adopt ‘net neutrality’ rules
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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
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Clarify the Role of Intellectual Property in the Economy
Full Document Available in PDF Copyright and patent laws protect…
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Keep Government’s Hands off the Net and E-Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF As a network of networks, the…
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Allow Immigrants to Help Fill America’s Need for Workers
Congress should implement more flexible, less restrictive immigration laws, with the ultimate goal of an immigration system that lets law-abiding workers from anywhere fill any…
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Let Market Forces Regulate Internet Gambling
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to gamble; in 48 states they…
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Protect Sensitive and Disaster-Prone Natural Areas
Full Document Available in PDF Overdevelopment of wetlands, barrier islands, old growth forests,…
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New York Energy Drink Ban Hearing at 2:30 on Tuesday
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Alcohol Regulatory Roundup: December 20, 2010
While most lawmakers have checked out for the holiday vacation already (mentally and/or physically), there are still some movers and shakers out there getting frothed…
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Update on D.C. Metro Bag Checks
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Phase Out the National Flood Insurance Program
Full Document Available in PDF Since it emerged in its current form…
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Encourage Competition between Different Types of Depository Institutions
Full Document Available in PDF Three major types of depository institutions—banks,…
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New Hayekian Anthem
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Liberalize Homeowners, Automobile, Life, and Commercial Insurance Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF A confusing patchwork of state-level…
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Develop Smart Policies to Help Homeowners Deal With Natural Catastrophes
Full Document Available in PDF Natural catastrophes such as…
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Forge a Bipartisan Approach to End Corporate Welfare
Full Document Available in PDF One of government’s primary current undertakings…
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Afternoon Links: December 20, 2010
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Avoid Privacy Regulation that Could Worsen Personal Security
Full Document Available in PDF There are two great ironies in…
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Congress Set to Fail Online Poker Players
As I have written about before, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced a bill earlier this month that would legalize a limited form of online…
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Avoid Extending Antitrust Regulation into New Competitive Realms
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past several decades, until…
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Allow Workers and Employers to Work without Burdensome Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF One of America’s greatest economic…
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Increase Access to Energy
Full Document Available in PDF Economic prosperity and our standard of living depend…
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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose More Risk than Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF Although…
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Liberalize Telecommunications
Full Document Available in PDF Appeals to the “public interest” and claims of airwave scarcity have long been…
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Food Safety Modernization Act Passes; Unconstitutional Provision Supposedly Removed
The Food Safety Modernization Act was passed again by Congress on Sunday, apparently without a provision that earlier drew criticism for violating the Constitution by having a…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the…
News Release
FCC Commissioners Should Reject Net Neutrality Rules
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2010 – Tomorrow morning, the FCC will hold a vote on network neutrality rules, mere days before Christmas celebrations begin.
Before It's News
FCC Threatens to Impose Destructive Rules on Internet
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The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
Before It's News
Future FSA, HRA charges to fund ObamaCare
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Alcohol Rules Disrupt Holiday Cheer
Appeared in: The Providence Journal You might want to send a beautifully packaged wine and cheese gift basket to friends in New York State.
Media Matters
The Wind Subsidy Bubble
Media Matters
Ohio, Wisconsin Reject High-Speed Rail Funds
Media Matters
Public Employee Unions Bankrupting States
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses who will confront public employee unions over their unsustainable pensions.
Media Matters
The Fed’s Christmas Gift: Reduced Fees for Fat-Cat Merchants
On a snowy Thursday in the nation’s capital – with little more than a week to go until Christmas – the Board of Governors of…
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Rip-Off: College Tuition Bubble and Debt Burdens Grow Worse
Forbes magazine recently blew the whistle on how skyrocketing college tuition is ripping off the public. Thanks to some colleges’ greed, and the federal and state financial…
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Judicial Hellholes Kill Jobs and Redistribute Wealth
The most recent list of judicial hellholes has just been released by the American Tort Reform Association. It lists “courts in Philadelphia; California’s Los Angeles…