The Open Market Blog

• By: Marc Scribner
• 11/08/2010

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• By: Lee Doren
• 11/08/2010

There has been an enormous spike of news reports regarding the National Football League and concussions. The NFL has discussed increasing fines after reports…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/08/2010

1. A DNC Committeeman says the White House communications team is so bad they couldn’t sell cocaine to Charlie Sheen. And thus a new…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/05/2010

In our half-political, half-private world, there are a growing number of public-private partnerships.  Almost nothing in the current world can be done without implicit or…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2010

1. The British are insisting that Guy Fawkes Day go green. 2. A British study concludes that Portugal’s drug decriminalization did not…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features Fred…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2010

Myron Ebell, the Director of CEI's Center for Energy and Environment, talks about the 2010 midterm election, what will happen in the lame-duck session, and…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/04/2010

1. A 12-year-old girl fooled her would-be kidnapper by telling him she’d dialed 911 on her IPod. 2. As San Francisco bans happy…

• By: Alex Schibuola
• 11/04/2010

If we took the entire 2009 total government transfer payments paid to persons and distributed it amongst the households below the poverty line, how much…

• By: Kathryn Ciano
• 11/03/2010

What do the art markets know that we don’t? Here we are in the depths of the second dip to this recession, and art is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/03/2010

1. An EU court has ruled that fathers must be permitted to take “breast-feeding leave” an hour a day for the first 9 months…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/03/2010

CEI President and Founder Fred Smith and I have an article in The Daily Caller expressing cautious optimism about yesterday’s election results. Our main points:…

• By: Lee Doren
• 11/03/2010

I’m sure you have heard the Leftist mantra before: “The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer.” In fact, Robert Reich’s newest book…

• By: Hans Bader
• 11/03/2010

By intervening in GOP Senate primaries in Delaware, Nevada, and Colorado, in favor of candidates who went on to lose the…

• By: Alex Schibuola
• 11/02/2010

I am not a member of the Tea Party movement, but am a curious observer, and I am sympathetic to the original objective of reigning…

• By: Marc Scribner
• 11/02/2010

My colleague Hans Bader wrote earlier about the rash yard sign vandalism and theft that seems to have hit some Republican campaigns around the…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/02/2010

Over at The Daily Caller, I tally up the arguments for and against voting. Think them through. Do what's right for you. And don't look…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/02/2010

1. Which Senators have the biggest egos? (Hint: you can tell by the size of their vanity walls.) 2. If the Twitter community was…

• By: Brian McGraw
• 11/01/2010

I recently came across this article: “Ghost Billboard Erected on U.S.-Canada Border.” The title says it all, there is a large metallic outline of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/01/2010

1. Is the Department of Defense developing a flying car? 2. Why does Esquire think that “Republicans have cornered the market on…