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• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/01/2009

It’s a half-hour before the start NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII, and the pregame show has already been on for longer than a football…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/28/2009

So they’re down to one — original member, that is. Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell, one of the last two surviving founders of the seven-piece…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/15/2009

Miami has been named the fattest city in America by Men’s Fitness magazine, and its neighboring burg of Hialeah among the nation’s most…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/12/2009

The American economy’s current vulnerable state has prompted many people and businsses to trim expenses, but governments seem to be doing precisely the opposite. In…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/06/2009

Ron Asheton, founding guitarist for proto-punk pioneers the Stooges, was found dead at his home this morning. Asheton's buzzsaw guitar, combined with Iggy Pop's snarling…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/02/2009

When Barry Goldwater and Frank Sinatra both passed away in 1998, it felt to me like the 20th century was truly coming to an end.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/09/2008

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Change to Win (CtW) union coalition have each released statements denying involvement in the corruption…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/09/2008

The arrest this morning of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris involves a tangled web of conversations between Blagojevich and…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/08/2008

Bill Kristol, in his New York Times column, argues for Republican timidity in fighting big government. His reason? Conservative Republicans have achieved little in that…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/14/2008

Today’s DC Examiner features a (very) brief interview with Bureaucrash Crasher-in-Chief Pete Eyre, in which he explains how the new Bureaucrash Social network…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/14/2008

So was it ever off? From CBSNews.com: CIA Says Hunt For Bin Laden Is On (Thanks to Margaret Griffis for the CBSNews link.)…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/12/2008

Seen on the street today: If it is any consolation, there is at least one world in which…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/05/2008

Organized labor came out big for Barack Obama and other Democrats running for offices across the country, so we can expect the unions to demand…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/03/2008

Yma Sumac, the multi-octave exotic Peruvian songstress died Saturday in Los Angeles. Her music never fit into any genre, defying all attempts at categorization. Even…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/31/2008

In City Journal, Claire Berlinski looks at the effects of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) by looking at a precedent of EFCA…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/19/2008

In his Examiner column today, former CEI Brookes Fellow Tim Carney explodes the myth of AIG as a stalwart defender of free markets that…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/15/2008

Toronto city officials are considering some drastic measures to tackle what they see as a crisis of mounting piles of garbage. Reports the Toronto…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/11/2008

…looks very different than it does in the United States. And by Miller, I mean Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). In 2001, Rep. Miller and several…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/09/2008

Shopfloor.org draws a stark contrast between The New York Times‘s stated position on unions for other employers, and its own laying off…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/03/2008

Cuba punk rock musician Gorki Aguila Carrasco was spared jail this week, after the Cuban government arrested him on the ridiculous charge of “…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/29/2008

Today, in time for Labor Day weekend, I’ve got two new articles out on current goings-on in organized labor. In The American Spectator, my…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/28/2008

In a move reminiscent of Minority Report, the Cuban government has arrested punk rock singer Gorki Aquila Carrasco, for charge of “pre-crime social…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/26/2008

The scandal that broke at the largest union local in California earlier this month, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, has…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2008

…to promise much and deliver little, if anything — all the while making themselves feel just great. The Israeli news site Ynetnews.com reports: A…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2008

An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal gives “Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern credit for tenacity” in pressuring private equity firms. SEIU,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2008

In response to my two posts on the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), I got forwarded this story. Pro-union student activists, in a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/22/2008

Union organizers try to recruit workers by saying that they’ll go to bat for them when things get tough for them. So it’s fair to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/22/2008

Following up on my earlier post about The Los Angeles Times‘ investigation into allegations of financial malfeasance by the head of a California affiliate…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/22/2008

This week, The Los Angeles Times featured a three–part series on suspicious dealings at a local of the 2 million-member Service Employees…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/15/2008

In his latest Washington Examiner column, former CEI Brookes Fellow Tim Carney takes on T. Boone Pickens’s call for policies promoting wind and other…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/06/2008

In his current column, The Wall Street Journal‘s Thomas Frank blames “conservatism” for horrid conditions at an Iowa meatpacking plant, specifically the Labor Department…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/31/2008

Last night I attended a preview of the new film Swing Vote, which is being released tomorrow. It revolves around one man, Bud Johnson…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/23/2008

Today’s Wall Street Journal features a truly ridiculous letter by Mary Beth Maxwell, who heads the far-Left pro-organized labor group American Rights at…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/21/2008

This afternoon, the Senate Republican Conference held a hearing on an ongoing attempt to undermine the secret ballot process in union organizing elections. Specifically…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/08/2008

The UK National Children’s Bureau recently issued a 366-page guide on how to spot and discourage racist behavior in children. Three-hundred and sixty-six pages…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/03/2008

The story of the Colombian army’s daring, flawlessly executed, rescue of hostages held by the FARC terrorist group has an interesting detail: The stunning…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/30/2008

My friend Tom Palmer says that whenever he sees somebody sporting a Che Guevara t-shirt, he likes to ask the wearer, “That’s a great…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/19/2008

What to do when busybody neighbors try to tell you what you can and cannot do on your own property — and seek local government’s…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/13/2008

Euroskeptics have long complained about the European Union’s “bureaucratic deficit,” EU institutions’ insularity from voters in the member states. It’s bad enough that there…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/13/2008

Among television political interviewers, Tim Russert was the best, so much so that there is little I can add to the tributes to his life…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/06/2008

Today’s Los Angeles Times profiles Guatemala’s Universidad Francisco Marroquin, which I’ve had the pleasure to visit on a few occasions, and its founder,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/06/2008

Tim Carney continues to expose the rent-seeking motives behind a lot of environmental regulation, in this case cap and trade legislation. As he notes,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/05/2008

Roky Erickson, the 1960s Texas psychedelic rock pioneer, sang of seeing demons and space aliens, which visions were often the result of his taking…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/05/2008

Want to promote organic farming? Then take over a country, destroy its economy, and starve its people — and then make them grateful for allowing…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/03/2008

Fittingly only a few days after CEI’s dinner celebrated the Great Revolutionary Ideas, it’s time to pay tribute to a music revolutionary, Bo Diddley,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/02/2008

Ever since Fidel Castro handed over the official reins of power to his (not that much) younger brother Raul, pundits and editorial writers have taken…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/02/2008

Whenever I see farmers protesting, I usually expect them to be crying out for government favors in the form of higher subsidies and trade barriers…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/28/2008

I wonder what Matt Welch means when he accuses Czech President Vaclav Klaus of “resisting most efforts to come to public (let alone legal)…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/16/2008

Tim Carney continues exposing the politically motivated pork that politicians dole out to buy support and campaign contributions. This week, in his DC Examiner…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/08/2008

From The Onion. (Yes, it’s ironic. )…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/24/2008

…ugly things happen — at least for organized labor, which enjoys monopoly representation under the Wagner Act. Unlike for other services, individuals usually face…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/22/2008

Thus spoke CEI’s Myron Ebell at yesterday’s launch of the Hot Air Tour, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, in time for Earth Day.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/22/2008

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/30/2008

One of the most ignorant and gratingly common complaints about American politics is that of their being bland, uninteresting, and failing to engage large segments…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/30/2008

In his latest column, former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow Tim Carney looks at how rent-seeking opportunities based on  feel-good environmental campaigns, which are currently…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/28/2008

In today’s New York Times, a feature story profiles a project to create a national economic planning supercomputer by the socialist government of Salvador…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/22/2008

In his latest Examiner column, Tim Carney looks at hedge fund manager Julian Robertson’s lobbying for cap-and-trade legislation and bet on a U.S. economic…