The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

Washington, D.C. is a wonderful place. Perhaps its hallmark is the lack of shame. A qualification for high office is being able to engage in…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

There's been quite a buzz recently on the second anniversary of Hurricane Kartrina's destruction of New Orleans. Presidential contender Barack Obama even offered a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/28/2007

In England, new centennarian Winnie Langley celebrates her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarrette. Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/28/2007

New census bureau data shows a modest uptick in the number of Americans who do not have health insurance. (The number has not “soared,”…

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/28/2007

The UK Conservative Party has a “Quality of Life” policy group, headed by former Environment Secretary John Selwyn Gummer (whose most distinguished political moment involved…

• By: Fran Smith
• 08/28/2007

Bob Novak in his column yesterday had an interesting take on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Democratic opposition to this trade pact. Novak…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/28/2007

Is it even possible for companies to strike exclusive deals when teams of nerds across the country have been at work on hacking the iPhone…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/27/2007

My colleague Iain Murray notes here at OpenMarket and at Planet Gore about a series of past alarmist NASA pronouncements, which list I…

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/27/2007

In this commendably balanced story by The New York Times’ Andy Revkin about the recent NASA temperature data fiasco, a certain someone at NASA…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/27/2007

The BBC’s sponsorship of a global warming “consciousness raising” event is meeting some well-deserved resistance from inside the broadcaster, reports the Guardian. The event,…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/27/2007

We see that Al Gore et al plan to commit upwards of $100 million to persuade the public to take the hit…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/27/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund highlights a form of local- and state-government level protectionism that often passes under the radar: professional licensing requirements.

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/27/2007

The Washington Post reports that the man responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre had mental problems known to his high school, but that the…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/27/2007

This story makes clear that the Bush administration's climate change team -- for all of their faults, not least of which is a…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/27/2007

Taiwan’s Acer has announced plans to acquire computer-maker Gateway. In its heyday during the 1990s, Gateway ran brash, folksy ads in just about every…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/26/2007

Venezuelan state Boss Hugo offers a response to rumors that his pal Fidel is on his way to meet Satan, which should prove…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The Miami Herals pays its respects upon the passing of an American cultural institution, the South Florida-based Weekly World News. Without the WWN, a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The new issue of The Economist features a letter with a quote worth citing: SIR — I attended a performance by the British songwriters…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2007

Tech Maverick and Internet billionaire Mark Cuban has some choice words for would-be web entrepreneurs of today. Basically, don’t bother: The internet of…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/24/2007

I recently attended the PFF Aspen Summitt which served to both educate and inspire me, so expect a flurry of blog posts over the next…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 08/24/2007

Compliments of Benny Peiser’s invaluable CCNet e-mails (sign up here), here are two quotes that together sum up one of the major obstacles to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/24/2007

Even in the midst of a budget deficit, Virginia governor Tim Kaine is pushing for a massive and costly expansion of state-funded preschool programs. A…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/24/2007

Today in his Washington Examiner column, our friend and former Brookes Fellow Tim Carney highlights yet another way in which rent-seeking businesses are lining…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/24/2007

Today’s Inside Higher Ed reports on a very interesting study about college costs and drop out rates. According to the study (which costs $5.00)…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/23/2007

I came home Thursday to find an Light Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb in my mailbox. I had ordered it on ebay and paid…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

The food fascists are every where. It’s one thing for New York City to ban trans fats from city restaurants. But for the Great Indiana…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

Is nothing sacred? Congress passes an energy bill in the name of fighting global warming, and what it best accomplishes is passing pork off to…

• By: Julie Walsh
• 08/23/2007

Marc Morano has compiled a great list of the latest peer-reviewed scientific studies and quotes from scientists against alarmism. I have composed an executive…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/23/2007

According to a story in today’s Greenwire, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development has conducted a survey showing that people in the real…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2007

A disturbing development in the UK brings to mind CEI’s own dystopian video, from this year’s annual dinner. (Thanks to Megan McLaughlin for the…

• By: Christine Hall
• 08/23/2007

In the name of protecting teens from online predators, the nation's "worst attorney general" - Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal - is leading a crusade…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/21/2007

Jason and the rest of the Bureaucrash crew are making their way across the northeast part of our great continent this week, as part of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/21/2007

The today’s Washington Post carries an interesting story about the Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork bag. As you see from the picture, the bag…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/20/2007

In a recent paper, University of Calgary economist Robert J. Oxoby addresses the eternal question: Who was the better singer to have fronted AC/DC,…

• By: John Berlau
• 08/17/2007

Ivan, those are good points that Oliva makes at the Mises blog. But there is another interesting aspect that makes this an especially…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/17/2007

Late yesterday, a federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s objection to the proposed merger between premium grocery chains Whole Foods and Wild Oats.

• By: John Berlau
• 08/16/2007

As we remember Elvis Presley today, on the 30th anniversary of his death, free-marketeers may find of interest a particular overlooked song Elvis sang about…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/15/2007

A homeless panhandling drug addict in New York City makes about $1 per minute from donations from the public during rush hour, Steven Levitt…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/13/2007

During the 2006 congressional campaign Democrats denounced the Republican majority for its wastrel ways. It was a fair criticism: the GOP lavished money on pork…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/10/2007

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Presidential Vote Up for Grabs…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/09/2007

When Fran returned my copy of Bob Novak’s memoirs, I just happened to open the book to yet another mention of our good friend…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/09/2007

A well-placed source at one of the country’s biggest financial firms has told me that his firm has decided not to write any jumbo mortgages…

• By: Fran Smith
• 08/09/2007

Bob Novak’s just-published memoir, The Prince of Darkness, includes a very nice tribute to one of his former political reporters — Tim Carney. Friends…

• By: John Berlau
• 08/09/2007

I don’t know if George Bush, or anyone in his administration for that matter, is an avid reader of Open Market. They sure haven’t been…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/09/2007

Earlier, I wrote about how people in the Netherlands and Germany were falsely blaming the Minneapolis bridge collapse on low taxes. Classically Liberal features…