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Odds & Ends: Hot XXX Insider Trading; Paul Newman’s Own Green; Gilder’s Wisdom; A Sunny Mourning
50 EGGS IN AN HOUR 50 EGGS IN AN HOUR? UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED! Hollywood legend Paul Newman hosted a fundraiser in…
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CEI Book Review: The Way the World Works
The Way the World Works 20th Anniversary Edition by Jude Wanniski Introduction by Robert Novak Gateway Books…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released last month, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and use…
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The Risks of Risk Regulation
Portions of the following are adapted from “Deadly Fallout of Too Many Rules” and “Regulated…Out of this World” in the Washington Times, June 2 and…
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Vol. IV, No. 11
House Rejects CAFE Increases The annual fight over whether U.S. auto companies should be forced…
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“Precautionary Principle” Stalls Advances in Food Technology
Reprinted with permission by the Washington Legal Foundation. For more information, please see www.wlf.org. Agricultural biotechnology…
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Institute Blasts Global Warming Misinformation
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2000 – The claims that global warming would harm agricultural productivity are contradicted by a wealth of scientific and…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released earlier this week, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and…
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Global Warming Briefing: What’s Wrong with UN Climate Science?
What:<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> A 1-day conference on global warming science during which climate experts from around the globe will…
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The Forest Service Plays With Fire: Riggs/Simmons Op-Ed in OC Register
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Vol. IV, No. 10
Politics EPA Blasts the National Assessment The National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Change is under attack from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,…
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Stock Market Roulette or Fiscal Snobbery?
One of the great debates of our time is whether it is possible for America to become a shareholder democracy, in which all workers can own assets and…
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Internet Taxation: Why Wyden Won’t Wash
View Full Document as PDF After only three weeks of what apparently passes for congressional deliberation these days, the Internet tax…
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Fueling Los Alamos: Longstanding Federal Land Mismanagement Coupled with Recent Timber Restrictions Create Combustible Mix
Washington, DC, May 11, 2000 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that fires like the one raging at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in…
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House Passes Massive Land-Grab Bill: Majority of Republicans Abandon Private Property and Balanced Budget for Pork
Washington, D.C., May 11, 2000 – In the same week the national laboratories at Los Alamos were evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire on government…
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Mosquitos and Misinformation Surround Malaria Scare
During this spring and summer, you will hear the sounds of many insects: the buzz of the bee, the chirp of the cricket, the…
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10,000 Commandments — New Report Details REAL Cost of Government
Washington, DC, May 9, 2000 – As last minute filers rushed to finish their taxes and write their checks to the government recently, Congress…
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EPA’s Gas Price Contribution
Last December, when the Environmental Protection Agency announced a tough new standard for sulfur content in gasoline, few seemed concerned that the supposedly cleaner-burning fuel…
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Internet Taxation: Controversy Likely to Continue
Less than a month after the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) delivered its report to Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a…
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Global Warming Petition Project (Letter to the Editor)
To THE EDITORS: John B. Judis attacks as “patently false” the statement in our radio ads that “thousands of scientists agree that there’s no solid…
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Show of Force vs Law
Reasonable people might be able to disagree on whether 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be granted asylum in the United States or placed in the sole custody…
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End the “Bank Anti-Secrecy” Assault on Financial Privacy
View Full Document as PDF Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently announced plans to ask Congress to greatly expand the powers of the…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee Statement on Regulatory Restructuring
Washington, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee concludes that the two main objectives of any restructuring of insurance regulation…
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New Smart Air Bag Rule as Bad as the Original Mandate
WASHIGNTON, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that NHTSA’s new smart air bag rule could be a potentially deadly replay…
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Vol. IV, No. 9
Politics New Jersey/Seattle Guinea Pigs? No, this story is not about how global warming is harming guinea pigs in New Jersey and Seattle.
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Thumbs Down On FDA Rules For Biotech Food
Washington, D.C. May 3, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods expected…
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Judge Greene of the 21st Century?
The Justice Department’s plan was simple. Just break up the company into separate firms, based upon product lines. The parts with monopoly or bottleneck…
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New Earth in the Balance; Same Old Muddled Thinking
May 1, 2000 — Ah, how the time flies. It’s been 30 years since Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and company sponsored the first Earth…
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Unwisdom From the Academy
A long-awaited report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of recombinant DNA-manipulated plants that was released last month…
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Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Linked—Again
The latest government press conference on the ozone layer, held on April 5th, announced that this protective shield had been eroded over the Arctic…
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Development Bankruptcy
World Bank/IMF Protestors Had the Right Idea, But For the Wrong Reasons The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are…
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Dazed and Confused: Protestors Blame the Market for Government Abuses
The protests in Washington, DC, ignited by the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attracted a wide array of…
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Kemp: Clean Up the Planet with Sound Science: The Earth Day Crowd Has It All Wrong
Is mankind the greatest threat to the earth, as Vice President Gore and Greenpeace would have us believe, or the best hope for stewardship?…
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Drop the Limits! Limits on Foreign Technology Workers Hurt America
The technology sector accounts for close to one-third of the productivity growth in today’s economy, but the pool of qualified American tech workers…
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Odds & Ends: Airhead Leo; Customers Getting Irate?; Sprawling Mistakes; Ministry for Self Esteem
End Notes for the May issue of CEI UpDate WHO’S THE MAYOR OF LOUISIANA, ANYWAY? The intellectual heir to Raquel Welch appears…
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Government Wants Control of MS
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George Allen Gives Keynote Address at CEI Annual Dinner
Former Virginia Governor George Allen gave the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual Warren Brookes Dinner on April 27, 2000.
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Bust Up Microsoft? CEI Weighs In
Statement of James L. Gattuso, Vice President, and Clyde Wayne Crews, Director, Competition and Regulation Policy, April 28, 2000 “The extreme plan…
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What I Saw At Earth Day 2000
CEI sent Kendra Okonski to roam the Mall in Washington, DC, on Earth Day 2000. Here is her dispatch from the front…
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EPA Issues Worst Case Scenario Regulations
Washington, DC, April 26 – “Congress scored only a limited victory for public safety by ensuring that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not…
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Break up Microsoft? (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Of course Paul Krugman is right, that, along with the loss of a uniform standard that allows many kinds of software to…
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Gorging on Regulations
Congress is now debating the $1.8 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 18 percent of nation’s economic product, the official budget at least…
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Flushed Without Success
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Earth Day Out of Balance
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Dinner To Honor Memory Of Legendary Writer
Washington, DC, April 24, 2000 – Former Virginia Governor George Allen is scheduled to give the keynote address Thursday at the 6th annual…
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CEI Comments to ATF About Alcohol Labeling Rule
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Earth Day 2000—A Time For Celebrating Successes
Washington, DC, April 21, 2000 – There will be a lot to celebrate tomorrow when millions of people around the world gather on the 30th…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issues statements on Commercial Insurance Deregulation, Workers’ Comp, and Electronic Comm
Washington, DC, April 19, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issued three statements of consensus today, concerning commercial insurance deregulation, workers’ compensation…