CEI Weekly: CEI Looks at Finances of Big Unions
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CEI Weekly
November 19, 2010
>>Featured Story
Union members are used to paying dues; but do they know how their money is being spent? A new video created by CEI Labor Policy Analyst Vincent Vernuccio takes a closer look at the financial reports of major unions. Vernuccio appeared on Fox Business this week to talk about the video and to explain how unions’ financial reports reveal union leaders’ true priorities. Watch the interview here.
>>Shaping the Debate
Chances for $4 Billion “Green Car” Bailout Improving
Chris Horner’s interview on Your World With Cavuto
He’s Not Worthy
Vincent Vernuccio’s interview on Varney & Co.
Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law
Ryan Radia’s op-ed on AOL News
High-Speed Train Wreck
Iain Murray and Marc Scribner’s op-ed in The McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Stop Pretending It’s High-Speed Rail
Marc Scribner’s op-ed in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Sierra Club’s War on Coal
Chris Horner’s Study in Capital Research Center’s Green Watch
Cap-and-Tax is Dead But Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Marlo Lewis’ op-ed in The Washington Examiner
Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
Greg Conko’s citation in The Washington Post
>>Best of the Blogs
GM IPO Date Set For Tomorrow: What’s Good for GM is Bad for the Rest of America
By John Berlau
TSA Versus America
By Brian McGraw
Celebrate Egyptian Blogger Kareem Amer’s Freedom by Defending Free Speech
By Michelle Minton
Fiscal Commission Should Support Increased Energy Production, Not Increased Energy Taxes
By Ben Lieberman
Be Thankful For BPA-Lined Goods This Thanksgiving
By Angela Logomasini
>>CEI Podcast
November 15, 2010: Free Speech and Video Games
Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia gives his take on a Supreme Court case concerning California’s ban of violent video game sales to minors. Keeping such things away from children is traditionally a job for parents.
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