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Eco-sailors, Free Speech Restrictions and Global Warming Legislation
A group of “eco-sailors” is rescued from dangerous weather conditions by the crew of an oil tanker. A new bill would punish hostile speech online…
News Release
Time to Start Paying Organ Donors
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Op-Eds
Just What Is Waxman-Markey For?
As the House of Representatives girds to debate the Waxman-Markey energy and global warming bill, no one seems to be asking the most…
Citation
The Misapplication of Peer Harassment Law in College and University Campuses
Blog
Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker
“An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth [England] on a 5,000-mile carbon-emission free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker,”…
Blog
So, Mr. Waxman, how much global warming will your bill avert?
MAGICC reveals that an 83% reduction in U.S. emissions “will only produce a global temperature ’savings’ during the next 50 years of about 0.05ºC.”…
Newsletter
Chrysler’s Future, Chevron in Ecuador and Flex-Fuel Cars on the Road
A bankruptcy judge approves Chrysler’s request to start spending $4.5 billion in government loans. Ecuador sues Chevron for $27 billion over alleged environmental damage from…
Op-Eds
Hating the Thought of Hate Crimes
The Washington Times rightly criticized the federal hate-crimes bill, but it left out the the strongest reason for opposing it (“Thought crimes,”…
Op-Eds
Double Jeopardy Is Always Unfair
David Bass aptly criticizes the unfairness of the federal hate crimes bill and the false reasoning of the leftwing religious activists who back it.
News Release
Barney Frank Internet Gambling Bill Aims at Legalization
Barney Frank Internet Gambling Bill Aims at Legalization “A Step in the Right Direction,” Analyst Says Washington, DC, May 6, 2009 – A bill to…
Blog
Destabilizing Afghanistan: the Quagmire Expands
The anti-American Taliban extremists are resurgent not only in Afghanistan, where they once sheltered Osama Bin Laden, but also in neighboring Pakistan (which has nuclear…
Blog
LibertyWeek 41: SCOTUS Scurry
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Chris Horner on the White House Energy Summit
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A funny take on people’s resistance to new technology
"Meet Bronze!" "Bronze is Your Friend!" "Bronze is Brilliant; User-Friendly; and Multi-Purpose!" "Stone is Dead, Prepare for the Age of Bronze!"…
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Cato on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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Flex-fuel mandates: throwing bad regulation after bad
Rent-seeking–the whoring after market-rigging rules and subsidies–is a true addiction, an appetite that grows with feeding. For the ethanol lobby, it’s not enough that government props up…
Newsletter
Cap and Trade Compromise, the Return of Bed Bugs and Jack Kemp, RIP
The White House floats the idea of allowing new oil and gas drilling in exchange for support of a cap and trade system for greenhouse…
Blog
David, Goliath and Chevron
How is little Ecuador going to collect from big Chevron? In 2007, investigative reporter Greg Palast posed the question to Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa regarding…
News Release
Obama Tries to Broker Deal on Greenhouse Gas Restrictions
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Washington Examiner
Greenbacks for Green Energy Come from Taxpayer Pockets
President Barack Obama recently named business consultant Jeffrey Zients as head of a new performance office tasked with reducing government waste. The irony…
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RIP Jack Kemp
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Bed Bugs Bite
Don’t let the bed bugs bite was always a frightening thought when I was a kid. But today, it’s even scarier since bed bugs are…
Newsletter
Justice Souter, Global Warming Negotiations and Florida Insurance Reform
Justice David Souter announces his retirement from the Supreme Court. Leading up to global warming negotiations in Copenhagen, a new study calls for the elimination…
Orange County Register
Only magic wand would slash CO2
Orange County Register
Lobbyists help Dems draft climate change bill
Orange County Register
GM Troubles Repeat British Auto Industry Mistakes of the 1970s
General Motors is now co-owned by the American taxpayer and labor unions. As a Briton, I find this development astonishing. It repeats…
One News Now
Obama and energy, 100 days later
One News Now
Federal Hate Crimes Bill and Double Jeopardy Issues
Human Events
Federal War on CO2 Leaves Americans Waiting to Exhale
Human Events reports on Iain Murray's presentation at the Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank. As Iain Murray explains, achieving this goal involves numbers almost…
Sentinel and Enterprise
Waxman, Markey devise a bill to give us all gas
Sentinel & Enterprise reports on Iain Murray's presentation at the Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank. As Iain Murray explains, achieving this goal involves numbers…
Korea Times
CO2 Leaves US Out of Breath
The Korea Times reports on Iain Murrays presentation at the Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank. As Iain Murray explains, achieving this goal involves numbers…
Blog
Bye Bye, Justice Souter
Liberal Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. On social issues, this makes little difference: whoever replaces him will satisfy liberal litmus tests,…
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Congress to Tackle College Football
Having solved all of America's other problems, Congress is turning its attention to how college football's national championship is decided.
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Status Report on International Climate Treaty
There are only seven months until the global community plans to adopt a successor climate treaty to the failed Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen, but negotiators…
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Obama’s pending cybersecurity overhaul should heed the “Cybersecurity Commandment”…
Not many details have appeared, but the Atlantic reports on a speech given by the administration’s Melissa Hathaway in McLean, VA: In her speech,…
Newsletter
Consumer Credit, Social Security and Swine Flu
The House of Representatives votes to limit credit card fees and interest rates. President Obama endorses raising Social Security taxes. Vice President Biden advises Americans…
National Review
Waiting to Exhale The federal war on CO2
Herald Extra
The real cost of global warming cures
the Daily Sentinel
MURDOCK: War on CO2 leaves Americans out of breath
the Daily Sentinel
Causing Emotional Distress Through Online Postings
News Release
CEI Analyst Hails Florida Insurance Bill Passage
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Study
SERFF Liberation
The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing Needs Competition…
Townhall
Green Jobs: All Pain for No Gain
It is said that there is a scientific consensus on global warming. There isn’t, but there is an economic consensus that policies based on…
Blog
Censoring Critical Blogs as “Harassment” Would Violate the First Amendment
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LibertyWeek 40: Keepin’ It on the CL
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Advice for Conservatives
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Chrysler bankruptcy an opportunity to reject Obama nationalization
Is 48 hours enough time to save Chrysler from being nationalized?…
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Detroit, D.C.
Today’s Wall Street Journal further drives home the difficult position in which the United Auto Workers, Chrysler, and General Motors are likely to find themselves…
Newsletter
Credit Card Rules, Obama’s First 100 Days and the Auto Bailout
The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on new regulations for credit card companies. Political observers judge the progress of Obama’s first 100…
News Release
Obama Mitts Off Chrysler Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Obama Mitts Off Chrysler Chapter 11 Bankruptcy CEI Comments on Obama Takeover of Chrysler Washington, D.C., April 30, 2009—In the next 48 hours, Chrysler…