The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/20/2007

I tagged along with Team Bureaucrash this afternoon while Crasher Mercalic took some great video footage of today’s anti-Mugabe rally in front of the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/20/2007

Former Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Tim Carney has distinguished himself yet again, this time with a fancy book award. He’s the winner of the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2007

Finally, I’ve received some unsolicited commercial email that has nothing to do with Section 419 or natural male enhancement. The flag-waving proprietors of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/13/2007

From yesterday afternoon’s edition of “Closing Bell”…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2007

Yesterday’s “Climate Crisis Action Day” rally on Capitol Hill featured an array of distinguished speakers, from Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2007

While the UK might not have yet adopted full-scale thoughtcrime penalties, the Brits are hot on the path of “envirocrime.” Ealing Council in west…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

As regular Open Market readers will know, we’ve been skeptical of former Vice President Al Gore’s climate crusade for some time. The news right…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

Today, in preperation for the latest installment of The Al Gore Show on Capitol Hill, (anti-)global warming campaigners staged a rally in front of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

Malaria, a disease that kills over a million people a year, might just have a potent new foe. A new insecticide, perhaps? Actually, just the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/11/2007

Martin Durkin brings us the documentary answer to global warming alarmism – recently broadcast in the UK. Enjoy: [googlevideo]9005566792811497638[/googlevideo] UPDATE: The Telegraph has a story…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2007

Our good friend Tim Carney is in the DC Examiner today on big business opposition to the proposed XM/Sirius satellite radio merger. Among…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2007

Former CEI research associate Achim Schmillen has a great op-ed today in the Detroit News on proposed new “data retention” regulations: Do you remember every…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/05/2007

CEI and Bureaucrash operatives paid a visit to CPAC 2007 on Friday to take in the annual cavalcade of conservative conferees and the ideas…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

Behold: two news stories below. The first is from 1978, the second from 2006. I can hardly wait to see what the 2032 headline will…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

I received a press release this morning from Wind Watch, a group dedicated to opposing the menace of the wind. With windchill-adjusted temperatures in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

Finally, a man who knows how to speak truth to power. Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer has come out with the ideal solution…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

It turns out that the Earth actually is being attacked by cosmic rays. New research is strongly suggesting that warming trends on this planet can…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

CEI’s very own Fred Smith was on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show yesterday talking about Al Gore and his notorious carbon footprint. Take it away,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

We’ve weighed in on the debate over “e-waste” – discarded electronics and computer parts – before, most notably via the work of our talented and…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/28/2007

Prince Charles made headlines earlier this week when he suggested to the staff of a diabetes clinic in Abu Dhabi that McDonald’s fast food…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/21/2007

The endless list of calamities laid at the feet of global warming just got a little longer – witness the invasion of France by…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2007

It has been brought to my attention that Open Market’s own Chris Horner is currently bounding up the Amazon bestseller list with his new book,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Ivan has an excellent take on the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage (below), so I’ll limit myself to highlighting a recent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Open Market readers may have seen this already, but I wanted to point out one interesting development from last night’s Grammy awards. The award for…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/11/2007

In the least surprising headline of the weekend, Drudge alerts us: “Socialist candidate in France unveils far-left platform…” Je suis l’état…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/07/2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a woman so passionate about the cause of global warming that she created a new select committee dedicated exclusively to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Unfortunately for members of the lower house of Maine’s legislature, some of their colleagues have decided that they all have less self-control than most 14-year…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Everyone’s favorite “walrus-moustachioed” anti-globalist has set his eyes on high public office. French sheep-farmer/McDonald’s hater Jose Bove has declared he’ll be running for President…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

In today’s Politico, Amy Doolittle has a light-hearted story on the tours that Members of Congress occasionally give for constituents around the Capitol. A…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

The state of California is poised to claim yet another feather for its environmental-pioneer cap with a proposed ban on the sale of incandescent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

American Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report has yet another report today on how U.S. demand for corn to make into ethanol is causing a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/29/2007

Cuban exiles have long been looking forward to the day when their homeland is no longer goverend by aging revolutionary Fidel Castro, but now the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

While we at Open Market know that there's nothing inherently bad about fast food, we're still willing to believe that an outragous stunt like…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

The PETA animal cruelty trial is getting started in North Carolina this week, and the Center for Consumer Freedom is on the case:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2007

We at Open Market HQ just received an email from John Coequyt at Greenpeace, responding to the President’s State of the Union remarks about global…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/17/2007

Living in a nation with a vibrant market economy and a predictable rule of law is generally considered a good thing. Lest we allow ourselves…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2006

In what may be the political understatement of all time, Tom DeLay explains the thinking behind his new blog, in part, with the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/04/2006

Shakespeare in Love star Gywneth Paltrow has decided that dinner party chatter is much more entertaining in her adopted England than in the redneck-infested…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/30/2006

Quick quiz: what political types are more likely to donate to charity – lefty liberals or crochety conservatives? The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/28/2006

Chrissie Thompson of the Washington Times has written the best newspaper story of the day: a profile of Bureaucrash and our very own Jason…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/27/2006

Maura Reynolds of the Los Angeles Times takes note today, as we here at Open Market did last week, of the staggering age…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/21/2006

Since the midterm election results came in, many a headline writer and pundit has repeated the line about how Americans voted for “new leadership” in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2006

As news of Milton Friedman’s death today makes its way around the world, the reactions (and tributes) are pouring in. Fred’s own take joins…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/09/2006

Thanks to our friend Neil for reminding us that today is “World Freedom Day” (at least according to the White House). Here’s the proclamation:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/08/2006

Arizona voters have provided us with another positive development coming out of the midterm election – reform of eminent domain abuse, which passed by…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/08/2006

America’s finest news source has the best round-up of election coverage I’ve seen so far – “Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections: Resounding Victories In All…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2006

Now that the polls on the East Coast are closed and we’re all waiting to see which way the balance of power will fall, follow…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2006

Former Ku Klux Klan leader Samuel H. Bowers died in a Mississippi state prison this weekend, while serving a life sentence for the 1966…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/03/2006

Jeff Wrase at the Joint Economic Committee emails this morning with good news – the lowest levels of unemployment in over five years. The…