CEI Weekly: The Government Continues to Attack Personal Choice
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CEI Weekly
January 14, 2011
>>Featured Story
In wake of recent power grabs by the FDA, John Stossel dedicated an episode of his show to discussing how nanny state regulations violate inviduals’ right to govern themselves. CEI President Fred Smith was invited to explain why people should be concerned about decreasing personal freedoms and why the government so often gets away with destructive regulations. Watch the video segment here.
>>Shaping the Debate
The Limitations of Public-Private Partnerships
Marc Scribner’s Issue Analysis
Our Mistaken Sugar Policy is Killing American Jobs
Fran Smith’s letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal
The Online Poker Players Next Door
Michelle Minton’s op-ed in The Washington Times
The FDA Needs Strong Medicine
Henry I. Miller’s op-ed in Forbes
U-VA Receives New FOIA for Global Warming Documents
Chris Horner’s citation on The Washington Post Blogs
>>Best of the Blogs
Financial Advice From Two Sides of an Age Gap
By Kathryn Ciano
The Political Climate is Too Dull and Conformist Already
By Hans Bader
Autism Doctor a Fraud, But Hardly Alone
By Michael Fumento
By Trey Kovacs
January 12, 2011: Public-Private Partnerships
Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner talks about his new CEI Issue Analysis, “The Limitations of Public-Private Partnerships.” Marc argues that PPPs are an improvement over the status quo in surface transportation because they introduce at least an element of competition into a sector where there is usually none. But PPPs are harmful in real estate developments because they tend to favor politicians’ preferences over those of consumers.