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Red Tape Discourages Entrepreneurs, CEI Expert Explains in Fraser Institute Book
Today, the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank, released a new book on worldwide barriers to entrepreneurship, Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the…
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National Sandwich Day: Get a Great Deal, Celebrate a Big Consumer Win
There's a new aspect of National Sandwich Day to appreciate this year—the big win for consumers in a spoiled class action settlement deal against sandwich…
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Reason’s Bastiat Journalism Prize Celebrates Writers Who Advance Freedom
Leftist intellectual and media bias can be as disheartening and maddening as it is relentless. So thank goodness for the Reason Foundation and its annual…
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Human Achievement of the Day: Fashion
On March 19, I will celebrate Human Achievement Hour instead of Earth Hour. The choice is easy: take an hour out of the evening to feel…
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Climate Salvationism: Can Government Make Renewable Energy Turn a Profit?
CEI Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on Fox Business “Cavuto” last night discussed whether making renewable energy profitable is a legitimate government goal. Watch the interview:…
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Krauthammer on Questioning Climate Science
The left seems to have decided the only way to win at global warming politics at this point is by smearing critics of climate change…
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Girl Model Documentary: Exploitation or Opportunity?
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Summer Plans? Apply for IHS Summer Seminars on Liberty
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America’s Unsavory WWII Alliances Depicted in Dezenhall Book, “The Devil Inside”
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Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Just Doesn’t Understand Tax Cuts or Grover Norquist
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WaPo Freaks the Heck Out Over Gov’t Shutdown
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Elitist WaPo Rant Against “Extreme Couponing,” Affordable Food
A Washington Post reporter today heaped scorn on "Extreme Couponing," a TLC show about people who go to great extremes to clip and use coupons. …
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*Atlas Shrugged* Movie #Succeed
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CEI Co-Sponsoring CPAC + Breitbart/GOProud “Big Party”
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US Loses Ground in 2011 Index of Economic Freedom
The U.S. dropped from 8 to 9 on the just-released “Index of Economic Freedom” put out by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street…
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Americans Resist Blame Game Over Arizona Shooting, Poll Suggests
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“Odd Couple!” Nader/Public Citizen Attorney and Richard Epstein Urge Supreme Court to Hear CEI’s Tobacco Case
“Odd couple.” That’s how a Forbes report just described a pairing of former Nader/Public Citizen attorney Alan Morrison and University of Chicago Law School Prof.
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Happy 80th Birthday, G. Gordon Liddy!
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Tobacco Control Hysteria Goes Global
The wars on tobacco and smokers have gone global, as evidenced by international bureaucrats from the World Health Organization meeting in Uruguay this week…
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CEI Takes Corrupt Tobacco Deal to Supreme Court
On Monday, CEI took its constitutional challenge to the corrupt 1998 tobacco deal to the US Supreme Court, appealing the case from Fifth Circuit…
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Government Workers Oppose Cuts in Government Jobs…Really
It turns out that government workers have a vested interest in opposing cuts in government jobs. Who knew, right? The Washington Examiner today ran…
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Fox Business: Government Is Burning Our Money
Americans are peeved about the economy. Or, 85 percent of us are, according to an ABC News article. So, we need government to…
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Gaga for Liberals? Liberal Women Crowd Forbes Top 100 List
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Rosh Hashanah Begets… Global Warming?
What could Rosh Hashanah have to do with environmental activism? My colleague Sam Kazman found out last year, listening to a sermon with a surprise…
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Video Exposes Labor Union Protesters – No “Living Wage,” No Health Insurance, No Union Membership
Video: Unions hire non-union protesters? Should labor unions pay their protesters the wages and benefits that the unions demand of other employers? CEI labor…
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Fret Over Smoking on “Mad Men”?
“Desperate Housewives” star Kathryn Joosten made a bit of news this week complaining about cigarette smoking portrayed on AMC’s hit TV series “Mad…
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What the Mad Men Tell Us
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State Attorneys General Do Good (For Once), Hit Obamacare with Lawsuits
On the heels of the health insurance takeover staged by the House of Representatives this week, a handful of state attorneys general have filed lawsuits…
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Lagerfeld, Chanel – Jumping the Shark with Global Warming Fashion?
Did Karl Lagerfeld jump the shark with his fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel? The collection – by one of the most famous and historic…
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WaPo + “Climate Insurance” Translated
Today’s Washington Post editorial on global warming (“Climate Insurance”) is especially ridiculous. You can certainly read it for yourself, but I’m going to do…
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CEI at CPAC this week!
CEI is co-sponsoring the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, which is expecting to draw a crowd of some 9,000 -10,000 people…
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Why Won’t Al Gore Debate?, Part 2
CEI has a gift for Al Gore, arriving just in time for the holidays. You may recall that CEI last month rushed to the cause…
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Video Response to Will Ferrell MoveOn.org: People Are Saying Mean Things About Big Government!
Remember that Will Ferrell, celebrity-packed video on Obamacare last month? The one from MoveOn.org? One of those “we’re from Hollywood, and we’re here to…
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Video Evidence Suggests Chevron Lawsuit Riddled With Corruption, Santacruz Comments on the Case
A major scandal has arisen in the biggest environmental lawsuit in history - the $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron oil company brought by a lawyer…
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Citizen Showing Gadsden flag ‘Stopped and Detained’ by Louisiana Police
Louisiana police stopped and detained a U.S. citizen for displaying the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag on his car. This lead G. Gordon Liddy…
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DC Tea Party Draws Big Crowd in Pouring Rain
Hundreds of people turned out in the pouring rain for Washington, DC’s Tea Party – one of many tax protest events taking place around the…
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America – full of Socialists?
Almost half of Americans either prefer socialism to capitalism or are downright confused, according to a Rasmussen poll released today. Twenty percent of Americans…
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CEI stages “Celebrate Coal” counter-rally on Capitol Hill today
Despite the fact that the DC area was just clobbered with snow last night and this morning, hundreds of left-wing environmentalists descended on Capitol Hill…
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CEI at CPAC – Fred L. Smith, Jr.
CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. dropped by CPAC today to speak on a panel about government bailouts. He also made appearances on Radio Row…
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Obama Inaugural Speech Spurns Notion of Apologizing
Listening to President Obama’s inaugural address today, I was struck by his rhetoric with respect to “apologizing for our way of life.” It was…
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A sunny future for capitalism?
Strangely, Hudson Institute scholar Irwin Stelzer seems to forecast a sunny future for capitalism in a DC Examiner op-ed today. Stelzer writes about the…
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Targeted online advertising – finally one hits the mark!
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CEI Encounter With Sopranos “Tony” in DC
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It’s the French, again
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Give Big Gov’t Advocates a Chance!
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How ’bout that Wash Post write up on EPA greenhouse gas decision/hearing!
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Lawmakers Skewer Big Gov’t In ‘Little Book’
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‘Eco-fashion’ — for a zillion bucks?
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State attorneys general target social networking sites
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State attorneys general in town today to criticize activist colleagues
The Federalist Society helpfully hosted a panel discussion today on the on-going abuse of power by state attorneys general – otherwise known as attorney…
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GE credit card saves me from guilt!
Thank goodness for GE's kind offer to alieve my guilt. Seems that GE is issuing a credit card that allows users to contribute a portion…
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More on Singletary and Greenie Home Ec
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How’s that? Save money by painting yourself green?
I’m worried about Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post‘s personal investment columnist. From her, you would expect to hear advice on how to build personal wealth…
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Historic buildings vs. enviro-think
In today’s Wall Street Journal, an interesting article (reg. req’d.) on the collision between building preservation and enviro-think. Seems that people who move into…
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“Our Planet” has a MySpace page!
Turns out “our planet” has a MySpace page. I ask you: full of pomposity? Just puttin’ that out there. I’m all in favor of a…
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Virtual Second Life = Libertarianism Is a Failure ??
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Limbaugh reads CEI letter on the air
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How To Go Green For A Gazillion Bucks
The May issue of Vogue arrived on my doorstep this week, filled with all the usual high fashion photos and news. But this issue also…
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Ethanol may cause more smog, deaths?
Does use of ethanol fuel generate more smog and health problems than use of carbon-based fuels? Check out the new study by a Stanford University…
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Prince Charles brain flash – Let’s just ban McDonald’s!
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Al Gore – energy conservation is for the little people?
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Neo-luddites embark on anti-consumption year
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Supreme Court grills Massachusetts, EPA in global warming case
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman is on-site for two important cases being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court today. He phoned in his quick…
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