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Happy Labor Day, y’all
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Is reincarnation too important to leave to the market?
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Big Labor [hearts] Big Government
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Health Nannies’ Worst Nightmare
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A question well worth asking about the BBC’s “Planet Relief”
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Fund on licensing
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“Fidel Castro will never die”
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Weekly World News, RIP
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And the party on the left is now the party on the right…
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Carney on Education Pork
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Is the Department of Pre-Regulation Coming Soon?
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No such thing as a victimless ban
UK Telegraph columnist A.N. Wilson weighs in on a little-noticed pernicious effect of nanny statism. What do the following have in common:…
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Fund on Mine Your Own Business
Today in OpinionJournal.com, John Fund looks at the environmentalist-led campaign against a proposed mine in Rosia Montana, Romania, documented in the film Mine…
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Out on the Experimental Economics Frontier
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Peru’s Post-Earthquake Prospects
The horrendous devastation of the recent earthquake in Peru could only have been exacerbated by government incompetence. That's my conclusion after reading Ian Vazquez's…
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The Uncreative Indestructibility of Modern Farming
Over at the Mises Institute’s website, Dan McLaughlin highlights a little-discussed pernicious effect of U.S. farm policy: the short-circuiting of the market’s creative destruction.
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Federal judge rejects FTC’s arguments against Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger
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In Brazil, a Moment of Silence against State Incompetence and Corruption
Tomorrow, Friday August 17, at 1:00 pm (local time), our friends at Brazil’s Instituto Liberdade will participate in the campaign “Worn Out,” (Cansei)…
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Burning the West by Lawsuit
Today in The American, Capital Research Center’s James Dellinger and Stephen Albert highlight an exacerbating factor to wildfire threats: environmental group lawsuits. At issue…
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I can’t even parody this
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When don’t rich New England liberals love wind farms?
When it’s near their expensive vacation homes! From “The Daily Show.” Enjoy.
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Carney on LOST
In his new column, Tim Carney looks at the unprincipled shortsightedness of companies supporting the Law of the Sea Treaty. [T]he American Petroleum…
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More Kudos for Carney
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Detroit Mulct City
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Next: Complaints about Blogging Being Outsourced to China
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Collaring Markets into a Chokehold
Greg’s post on the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger brings to mind another pending merger: that between satellite radio firms XM and Sirius, which, while…
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Tangent on Antonioni — and Tom Snyder
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Just when you thought the Farm Bill couldn’t get any worse…
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Carney on “Abuser Fee” Abuse
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“Fisher Price mining tools”
Pundits discuss the merits of preserving traditional cultures….well, not really — from the Onion News Network, strategies for making poor Africans feel good about…
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Brother, can you spare several hundred million bolivars?
The online version of Foreign Policy features a list of the word’s five worst currencies: The Somali shilling, Iraqi dinar, North Korean won, Venezuelan…
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A Dopp of Smear
The Wall Street Journal weighs in today on expose of smear tactics used by Darren Dopp, a communications aide to former New York Attorney…
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Pickets for Hire Raise Homeless Activists’ Ire
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Call me a dictator, will you? I’ll show you!
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Re: Historical Perspective on the Second Amendment
Brad, While I find your observation that “that the crime rate would go down if every single household were given a handgun” to be…
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Thoughts on the Immigration Debate, part 2
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Thoughts on the Immigration Debate
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Too much union disclosure?
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War Over The War
When Ken Burns releases a documentary, America watches. This is partly because of his uniquely compelling style, but also partly because his stories are those…
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Macomber on Brookes
At The American Spectator, Shawn Macomber has very good article on Warren Brookes, after whom CEI’s journalism fellowship is named. He highlights Brookes’s…
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Government Wisdom
The House Agriculture Committee’s homepage features a message from the chairman that includes this line: Every American who eats should recognize the importance of…
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When “plenty of attitude” is a good thing
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Live Earth’s Ratings Meltdown
As Iain noted earlier, in the UK, TV ratings for Live Earth were dismal for an event so hyped. Now the Nielsen overnight…
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Bad apple doesn’t fall far from the rotten tree
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222,623.63 Miles of Smug
Britain’s Daily Mail has estimated Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts’ environmental footprint, and calls the event “an exercise in hypocrisy on a grand scale.” A Daily Mail investigation…
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Price signals don’t lie
And today in Nigeria they bring some needed, and rare, good news in an otherwise dismal situation: The price of machetes has halved…
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Seeking to Expand Ranks and Increase Salaries, Not Improve Education
With Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, the nation’s teachers unions are certain to make major demands on their Capitol Hill…
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More on Sicko
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Sicko’s Sick Stunt
MTV film critic Kurt Loder takes apart Michael Moore’s Sicko. The entire review is well worth reading, but here’s a sample, Loder on Moore’s…
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It’s not like anyone could have foreseen it…
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Is net neutrality a new religion?
Silly reactions to the Federal Trade Commission’s new net neutrality report shouldn’t be surprising, but I didn’t expect the ridiculous-beyond-parody (over at Fark.com):…
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Rain Man, Regulator
Wired blogger Scott Gilbertson is upset about the Federal Trade Commission’s report urging caution regarding net neutrality regulation. The Chairman of the FTC…
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Next: Mandatory equal air time for rock and disco
Isn't it comforting that Dick Durbin is watching out for Americans' impressionable minds? He recently told The Hill, “It's time to reinstitute the Fairness…
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Labor senior groups’ gravy train gets lumpy
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Mandatory card check checked — for now
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Card check update
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Re: In Memory: Hans F. Sennholz, February 3, 1922–June 23, 2007
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A “Choice” We Can Refuse
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It’s Miller Time
Union organizers never, ever intimidate workers whom they are trying to recruit. Believe me? Great! I've got a bridge to sell you. Sound…
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The Victims of Communism Now Have a Memorial – It’s About Time
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CNN’s Frank Sesno on oil: Where’s the price?
With the energy debate heating up, CNN chimed in on the issue over the weekend. The hour-long CNN Special Investigations Unit program, "We…
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Employer Association Cites CEI’s 10KC on the cost of workplace regulatory compliance
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Two new Osorio publications from CRC
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Government Picks Winners and Losers in Entertainment
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Rachel wrong on NRO and CBS
Iain’s National Review Online piece on Rachel Carson’s other legacy — alarmism as a political tactic — was also picked up by CBS…
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The Fashion of Optimal Climate Stasis
Remember global cooling? If you don’t, you’re not alone; few people do. But the fact that climate hysteria has made a 180-degree turn begs…
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Look Who’s out of Prison
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Like Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, Rachel Carson is still wrong
CEI’s Angela Logomasini gives kudos to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Olka.) for his stand against honoring the 100th birthday of environmentalist icon Rachel Carson. Here’s…
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The latest, and biggest, form of church shopping
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Today is Rachel Carson’s 100th birthday
And to observe the occasion, CEI's Jeremy Lott and Erin Wildermuth provide a reality check on her legacy in today's Baltimore Sun: In 1948,…
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CEI Dinner in The Washington Post
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CEI’s Dinner in The Washington Times
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Danny Glover cares about poor Hatians so much…
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And a good life it’s been
Featured today in Fark.com under the heading of “Hero” is a story to give Michael Jacobson nightmares, headlined “Bad habits key to…
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Who does Al Gore think he’s kidding?
Don’t expect to see The Who at Live Earth, the upcoming global warming propaganda-fest concert organized by Al Gore. As a longtime Who…
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Mises on Immigration
As long as I’m on the subject of immigration, a complex matter, I always find Ludwig von Mises always quotable, providing clarity in such…
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A Free Market means a Free Labor Market
CEI's mission of "advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government" doesn't come with the caveat of "unless it costs too much under our…
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Did the undersecretaries of Famine and Pestilence get the memo?
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Preview – Myron Ebell on Penn & Teller
The next episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” on Showtime will feature CEI’s Myron Ebell on nuclear power. For a preview, check out the…
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CAFE klatsch
President Bush is set to address the nation this afternoon on plans to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, reports the Greenwire news service.
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go No More
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You, too, can be a Concerned Scientist for $35
Today, Human Events reprints Iain’s, Myron’s, and my article on the Union of Concerned Scientists (which was first published in Capital Research…
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Will Sarko deliver?
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Re: Sam’s the Man
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Environmentalism a religion? Naaaah!
Penn & Teller will need a new way to do their Gideon Bible card trick (for an explanation, read the book) at the Gaia…
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Nobel Laureates Say the Darndest Things
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The Latest from Chavezuela
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Re: How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?
I spent the day reading. I did drive my car, though — and it’s not a hybrid.
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Union Decline – It’s not just in America anymore
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Google glacier going, going, gone
For what I only surmise was the observance of Earth Day, Google had a figure of its logo as a melting glacier (which still appeared…
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Careful What you Wish for, Sheryl
Sheryl Crow should be careful what she wishes for. Iain’s post on her green evangelist mission with Laurie David reminds me of a similar…
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Re: You would need a heart of stone
Rationing toilet paper isn’t all that Sheryl Crow is pursuing to save the planet. She recently told People magazine that she intends to…
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Re: Guns in Virginia
Following up on Eli’s post below, the blog Classically Liberal (linked to from Freedom News Daily) notes that not only is…
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Earth Day Prep II
In a release announcing its Earth Day preparations, the Earth Day Network urges people to “Register and Find Earth Day Events & Sermons.” [Emphasis…
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Earth Day Prep
With Earth Day coming up, will winter-like temperatures take some steam out of the recently invigorated climate alarmist train? That may be a fear among…
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Re: “Vanity, vanity”…
Regarding Fran’s post earlier today on Vanity Fair‘s new “Green Issue” — I haven’t read it yet, but I’m sure it’s all very…
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Now I wanna be a Stooge
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Examiner Columnist Antrim on The Great Global Warming Swindle
Washington Examiner columnist Kathleen Antrim endorses the film The Great Global Warming Swindle: As “The Great Global Warming Swindle” points out, “global warming…
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Bailey on “Consensus”
Another former Brookes Fellow, Ron Bailey, writes in Reason today on green activists’ speaking out of both sides of their mouth when they say…
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Carney and Schulz on Supremes’ CO2 Ruling
Two CEI veterans weigh on on this week's Supreme Court decision reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to not regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from…