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Cesar Chavez Day – Interesting Timing
March 31 was Cesar Chavez Day. Cesar Chavez Day has been celebrated in California for some time. But this year, for the first time, it…
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China’s Currency and U.S. Trade Deficit
Cato Institute’s Dan Ikenson had a timely opinion piece in Friday’s Wall Street Journal. He deconstructs the popular argument that China’s “undervalued” currency is a…
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Nanny State Prevails on Maryland Wine Laws
Legislators in Maryland have disappointed the state’s wine lovers yet again by failing to pass a bill that would have allowed residents to receive wine…
Newsletter
Fuel Efficiency, Imports, and H1N1
The Obama Administration plans to increase fuel efficiency standards. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative releases the 2010 National Trade Estimate report. The Centers…
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The Numbers on Public Sector Unions and State Debt
In today’s Washington Examiner, David Freddoso outlines the close correlation between state government debt and public sector unions. As he notes, “the states with…
Spectator
Canadian Defense Against Climategate
Spectator
Let the Hondurans Decide (Letter to the Editor)
Charles Krauthammer was right to criticize the Obama administration for trying to force Honduras to reinstate its ex-president, a paranoid, power-hungry, would-be dictator who…
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D.C. area poll shows, once again, OTHER Americans are crummy drivers
Why are people killed in Toyotas? Because a huge number of Americans are killed by motor vehicles of all types and Toyota has been the…
L.A. Times
U.S. vs. China on Clean Energy (Letter to the Editor)
The story says "China overtook the United States for the first time last year in the race to invest" in clean energy — as…
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Friday Regulation Roundup
Some of the stranger governmental goings-on I dug up over the week.
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President Obama’s Export Rhetoric
Trade policy that focuses only on exports while ignoring or taxing imports is likely to be counterproductive, but isn’t likely to be adopted by the…
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CEI Weekly: CEI Joins Push for Privacy Reforms
CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features CEI's involvement in the Digital Due Process coalition to preserve…
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“A Good Friday to Remember,” my essay in NRO
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CDC dumping swine flu vaccine – after media dumped the truth
What do you get from a phony flu scare? Among other things, lots of worthless vaccine. “Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer…
AOL News
The Deadly Price of the Auto Mileage Mandate
The Obama administration just announced an increase in fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global…
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Car buyers rejecting “Toyota Terror” accusations
“Terror on the Roads: Runaway Toyotas,” was the title of an entry on a prominent Brazilian blog March 31. But today Toyota Motor Sales…
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Menthol cigarettes aren’t cool to the FDA
In what could be one of its most paternalistic moves, the Food and Drug Administration is considering banning menthol in cigarettes – not because…
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The Case Against Subsidized High-Speed Rail
President Obama’s stimulus package set aside $8 billion in subsidies for high-speed rail projects in the United States (known as the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail…
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The Climate Peer-Review Process: Hopelessly Broken
The Climategate scandal showed how several of the world's top climate scientists were hell bent on keeping "skeptical" views out of the scientific literature and…
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Coming Soon: The Auto Purchase Mandate
As threatened, the new CAFE standards have arrived, with the EPA muscling in on territory reserved by statute to the Transportation Department. As Marlo Lewis…
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Bailout Watch: Union and Public Employee Pensions
As the strain on state and local government budgets around the country worsens, public employee unions have gone on the defensive, painting themselves as scapegoats…
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Regulation of the Day 131: Airport Vendors
Laws are supposed to be made by legislative branch, not the executive. What we have here is one more case of regulation without representation, out…
Newsletter
Big Labor, Stimulus Money, and the Census
Washingtonian magazine interviews union president Andy Stern. The Mercatus Center publishes a study on how the $800 billion stimulus package was distributed. Daily Kos reports…
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Regulatory Problem, Regulatory Solution?
A dying patient in the UK's NHS made the news after nurses refused to bring him a glass of water, despite his repeated begging. Had…
Cato At Liberty
Ending the Black Market in Low-skilled Labor
Cato At Liberty
Ending the Black Market in Low-skilled Labor
Pajamas Media
ClimateGate Whitewash
Pajamas Media
How Can Obamacare Be Truly Fixed?
President Obama may have added his signature to the health care legislation last week, but Republican leaders have decided they won’t go gently into…
Cafe Hayek
Immigration
The Star
Another Earth Hour ignored.Too bad it’s the right idea
Real Clear Politics
Big Brother on Your Tail
Investors.com
Hiding NASA Decline
Investors.com
Scuttle the National ID (Letter to the Editor)
The article "Immigrant rights advocates pressure Obama" (Politics, March 12) detailed this month’s White House immigration meeting but curiously omitted talks about a national…
Investors.com
Consumer Use and Government Regulation of Title Pledge Lending
Investors.com
Coming Soon: The Auto Purchase Mandate?
News Release
EPA Takes On New Power Over Transportation, CO2 Regulation
EPA Announces Deadly CAFE Regs, CO2 Mandates EPA Takes On New Power Over Transportation, CO2 Regulation Washington, D.C., April 1, 2010 – The Environmental…
Fox News
EPA Green Police Mount Energy Assault
Get ready for the green police. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency will commit itself to becoming an environmentalist Big Brother, like a not-so-jolly green giant.
ABA Journal
Unsettling Advocate
ABA Journal details Ted Frank's decision to start Center for Class Action Fairness and his fight to make settlements fair for class members.
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Washingtonian mag: Stern is “union boss number one”
The current issue of Washingtonian magazine features a long, fairly in-depth interview with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andrew Stern, whom author Chris…
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“We’re twisting arms. We’re threatening people.”
So said United Teachers of Los Angeles President A.J. Duffy at a rally, which reason.tv now makes available in a new video on public…
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“How a pit bull is like a Prius,” my Philly Inquirer article today
What could pit bulls possibly have in common with Toyotas? Pit bulls, after all, tend to be smaller and furrier. And whatever you do, never…
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$800 Billion Stimulus Package Doled Out Based on Politics; Districts with High Unemployment Were Shafted
“How is stimulus money allocated? Unemployment isn’t a factor, but politics is,” found George Mason University researcher Veronique de Rugy in…
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Climategate Whitewash
The UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has issued its report into the so-called Climategate scandal. As might be expected, it’s pretty…
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Myron Ebell on Offshore Drilling
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Republicans Will Lose Many Seats in Congress Due to Right-Wing Paranoia About the Census
Republicans will lose many seats in Congress due to right-wing paranoia about the census and refusal to fill out Census forms, gloats the liberal…
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How to Fix Immigration’s Black Market
Alex Nowrasteh and I have a piece in today's Detroit News arguing that liberalization, not regulation, is the way to shrink immigration's massive black market.
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Barack Obama and Liberal “Good” vs. Freedom
There's a great op-ed by Shelby Steele in today's Wall Street Journal, called "Barack the Good". In it, Steele argues that "today's liberalism is focused…
ABA Journal
Aussie Securities Case May Make U.S. Litigation Magnet
Headquartered in Melbourne, the second largest city of the land down under, National Australia Bank is firmly attached to its home country. The primary…
News Release
White House Sleight of Hand on Oil Drilling
The White House announcement today that limited areas off the coasts of North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and Alaska will be open to oil and gas…
Detroit News
Fix Immigration Rules to Crush Black Market
America has a huge immigration black market. Millions of undocumented workers enter and leave the United States every year, without any regard for the legal…