The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/05/2007

It’s now at the newstand nearest you — the May 2007 “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair — featuring CEI’s own Myron Ebell in an…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/05/2007

Authoritarian thugs are often puritanical and self-righteous, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is earning his place in the pantheon of dictatorial killjoys, by limiting alcohol…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/04/2007

I’ve posted before on interesting snippets of trade data the Progressive Policy Institute publishes. This week’s PPI topic heralds the Opening Day of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 04/04/2007

I’ve been reading Charles Koch’s The Science of Success recently. Koch himself, of course, is likely one of the greatest benefactors of the libertarian…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/03/2007

Today’s Washington Examiner features a very good editorial on the District of Columbia’s consideration of Public Labor Agreements in its proposed $2.3 billion…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/03/2007

Slate features a great essay on Leon Trotsky by British critic Clive James, excerpted from his volume, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 04/02/2007

The Corcoran gallery’s new exhibit on modernism will reward a visit from an interested libertarian. Although it comes from the dry-as-dust Victoria and Albert…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 03/29/2007

Is there a special award for someone who lays out a lengthy argument in support of some law, and then yanks the rug out from…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/22/2007

One of Bureaucrash’s latest project in defense of liberty was recently featured on NPR’s Day to Day. In the link, crashers are seen outside…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/21/2007

In a piece posted to its website today, Consumer Reports describes how its January report on infant car seats went very wrong. Given…

• 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: Ivan Osorio
• 03/21/2007

Keep up with Al Gore’s Capitol Hill appearance with Iain Murray, live blogging on Planet Gore. His latest entry follows: Al…

• 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: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/21/2007

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) in his opening statement said today that we are witnessing an all-out assault on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. If this…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/21/2007

Fred — Your reference to my personal hero Cookie Monster reminded me of a rumor I had heard that he was going to become “Veggie…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/21/2007

Iain’s recent post on the Exchequer taking over dormant accounts in the UK deserves a U.S. perspective as well.  Under…

• 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: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/20/2007

The Sesame Street generation has found their champion in James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who claims to have been…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

I cannot put it better than Stephen Pollard, who sums up this article with the well-known oxymoron, “We’re from the Government, we’re here…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

Latest wizard wheeze from Her Majesty’s Government – if you’ve left money unused in a bank account for a while, you obviously don’t need it…

• 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: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Eli, that table actually refers to the generating capacity of new facilities – c.1300 MW over the next few years. There’s not really any way…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/19/2007

Iain–For the most part, I agree with your post. HRC’s statement is inane. But, in fact, an increasing but still very tiny percentage of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/19/2007

Today's Wall Street Journal (online version by subscription only) contains a rather shocking chart on page 1 showing enormous rates of air travel fatalities in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Senator Hillary Clinton opines: “I turn off a light and say, ‘Take that, Iran,’ and ‘Take that, Venezuela.’ We should not be sending our…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

The current Entertainment Weekly has an interesting little tidbit about the pre-Oscar party for Al Gore thrown by Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith (photos…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/19/2007

“Al’s Big Adventure,” appearing today in NRO’s Planet Gore blog, features CEI’s Chris Horner giving Congress some pointers about Mr. Gore’s upcoming testimony.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/16/2007

I am pleased to say that both this blog and the main CEI web site get through the GreatFireWall of China test. Interestingly, National…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/16/2007

In preparation for Al Gore’s congressional testimony promoting his climate alarmist agenda, CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis presented a rebuttal to many…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/16/2007

CEI’s Capitol Hill global warming briefing for Congressional staff is now being broadcast live on C-Span 2, responding to Al Gore’s alarmist agenda. Watch…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/16/2007

What were climatologists (or climate specialists as they used to be called) saying publicly in the 1970s and before? A quick stroll through the New…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/16/2007

A gas station in Parma, Ohio has taken to reselling girl scout cookies at a profit. The media, of course, is having a field…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/15/2007

Iain, in addition to Eli, here’s another CEI Yank putting in a good word for your home country. They do it right…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Some stories for your delectation: Two papers from the Director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska NASA is…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/15/2007

To me, the best green invention in the world is the compact fluorescent light bulb: these bulbs cost more up front but they last about…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/15/2007

Sirius and XM are both losing cash, fast. So, they’ve proposed a merger to cut costs, but that has to be endorsed by regulators. That’s…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/15/2007

In Raich v. Gonzales, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco held yesterday that there is no fundamental right to take medical…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Eli is, of course, correct. Amtrak is in no state to be privatized yet, and the botched BR privatization demonstrated that privatizing a railroad…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/15/2007

Iain — What the U.K. is doing with that rolling stock is obviously bizarre. But, as bad as it is, I’m not totally turned…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Libertarian wrestler Val Venis (real name Sean Morley) has started a blog, The Freetarian.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Climate scientist James Annan makes an important point about the economics of climate change in a comment (#4) over at Prometheus: “Putting it…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Here are some tidbits and links you may have missed: “Deniers” vs “Alarmists” in a debate in NYC tonight More calls for individual…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/14/2007

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the District of Columbia's gun ban in Parker v. District of Columbia,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/14/2007

The Internet is abuzz with worry about the possible negative implications of the merger of AT&T and BellSouth. One of the biggest fears is that…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/14/2007

The British government’s “green” vision may force homeowners to pay penalties if they don’t make their homes energy efficient. A story in today’s Daily…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/14/2007

Doesn’t anyone in the UK understand the economic concept of “sunk costs” any more?  Three men wrongly convicted of murder and released after many years…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/13/2007

A few days to catch up on, so here are quite a lot of global warming-related stories you may have missed: China will not be engaging in…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/13/2007

The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that would require social networking sites, such as MySpace or Facebook, to verify the age of users of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/12/2007

CNN anchor Thomas Roberts has come forward with a story about how a Catholic priest abused him as a child. Roberts went through a…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 03/12/2007

Call it a case of Oscar Envy or simply the road more well-traveled, but Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a headline, “Kerry’s new book…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/12/2007

In response to a federal appeals court’s decision Friday striking down the District of Columbia’s gun ban, the head of the Brady Center to Prevent…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 03/12/2007

By now you’ve read about the EU’s purported “binding” promise (again) to lead the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, during the announcement of which…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 03/12/2007

When the White House published the Climate Action Report (CAR) in 2002, it did so in very misguided fashion. …

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/12/2007

An amusing story out of Australia: Execs at a television network are scratching their heads over why their fellow Australians didn’t watch a show about…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/12/2007

A poll commissioned by Wal-Mart (third item down) found that the negative publicity surrounding the world’s largest retail chain has had hardly any effect…