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Fisking Paul Krugman
In today’s New York Times, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman preens about intellectual dishonesty while presenting the most intellectually dishonest case about the cost of…
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CEI Weekly: CEI Challenges UN Global Warming Alarmism
CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features CEI taking part in the debate on climate change as…
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Obama Losing Youth on Health Care
The National Journal had an interesting article this week describing the difficulty Democrats have been having getting young adults interested in the health care debate.
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ACORN Sues Whistleblowers for Exposing Its Wrongdoing in Scandal
ACORN is now suing the whistleblowers who allegedly filmed it promoting illegal sexual activities for $2 million! And not just them, but…
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Put the Fanny State Behind
In the interest or saving trees, the legacy of Mr. Whipple (please don’t squeeze the Charmin!) could be a thing of the past.
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DC Councilman Graham’s Chief of Staff Indicted on Bribery Charges Related to Taxi Legislation
Graham's chief of staff, Ted Loza, has been indicted on bribery charges relating to the taxicab legislation.
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In the Recorder
The Recorder has a brief piece on CCAF on their blog.
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No data, no science
In “The Dog Ate Global Warming,” published yesterday in National Review Online, Cato Institute scholar and climatologist Patrick J. Michaels delivers a body blow to the “science…
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PNAS: Peer Review or Old Boy Network?
On February 25, 2009, Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville testified on…
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Selling the Rope, as Lenin Predicted
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“No Way” to San Jose
In recent years, the San Jose City Hall has led the way in stupid environmental policies. Several years ago, they were among one of the…
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The Economics of Net Neutrality
Over at the Washington Examiner's Opinion Zone, I apply what I learned back in Economics 101 to the net neutrality debate. It's all about scarcity.
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Hard-Left Obama Policies Draw Criticism for Undermining Democracy, Security, and the Rule of Law
In his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama talked a lot about “bipartisanship,” but in office, he has governed from the far left, on both domestic and…
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Gypsy Cabs Coming soon to DC?
If you’ve ever been to Brooklyn, you’ve almost certainly seen firsthand the shortage of taxis that has been created by New York City’s licensing restrictions,…
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Yet Another ACORN Scandal
ACORN, which had its housing funds cut-off by Congress over a recent scandal, is now embroiled in a tax-evasion scandal, reports the…
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Slate’s William Saletan vs. the Food Cops
Slate’s William Saletan has had it with the growing overreach of the food police, a reaction which he acknowledges puts him in unusual company.
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Carbon dioxide by any other name would fertilize as well: Myron Ebell quoted in Climatewire
Today’s ClimateWire (subscription required) carries an analysis by reporter Lauren Morello that begins: Say goodbye to “greenhouse gases.” Say hello to “carbon pollution” and “heat-trapping gases.” Morello…
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Funny, That
An article in today's New York Times laments the difficulty of "building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have…
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Lee Doren on Glenn Beck discussing “The Story of Stuff”
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Regulation of the Day 55: Home Environmental Inspections
If cap and trade passes, almost all homes for sale would be required to undergo an environmental inspection. The home cannot be sold until it…
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ACORN’s Empire Will Expand Under Obama’s Health-Care Plan and Financial Rules
Congress recently voted to cut off federal housing funds to controversial group ACORN. But since most federal money goes to ACORN-related…
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Rent-seeking utilities: you reap what you sow
Yesterday, in State of Connecticut et al. v. American Electric Power et al., the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals decided that states and other…
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Obama’s UN speech and energy facts
Sounding more like Yes Men prankster than president, President Obama spoke of rising seas, floods, drought, and climate refugees. Yet his policies have been…
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Obama Speech to the UN: The Data
Myron has already pointed out how most of what the President claimed were the threats from global warming are exaggerated. Here’s the data to…
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Finding Something to Praise in Obama’s Speech Today
While this speech is mostly hogwash, I am surprised and delighted to be able to find one thing to praise in it: Later this…
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Obama Speech to the UN
President Barack Obama’s speech on global warming to the United Nations today is based on fantasy. Here are some quotes from the speech followed by…
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Costco Fuel Settlement
Costco, along with other fuel retailers, has been sued over the way it measures gallons of fuel in some states. The putative class plaintiffs have…
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Regulation of the Day 54: Shovelnose Sturgeon
Why does the Fish and Wildlife Service want to list it as a threatened species? Because it looks like the pallid sturgeon, which is currently…
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AP: Obama Health-Care Plan Raises Taxes, Breaks Campaign Promises
The Associated Press is now chiding President Obama for falsely claiming that his proposed tax on uninsured people is not a tax. It is…
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New Frontier? Hardly
Today in the Washington Examiner, James Jay Carafano of The Heritage Foundation makes a strange case for what he describes as the opening of…
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Yvo de Boer’s low/inflated expectations
In today’s E&E TV interview with Monica Trauzzi (http://www.eenews.net/tv/), UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer did not balk at Trauzzi’s statement that, “Senate Majority Leader Harry…
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ObamaCare’s Smoke and Mirrors: Huge Costs Paid for by Imaginary Savings
Obama’s health care plan uses imaginary savings to finance massive new spending. His claim that it will not increase the deficit is based on the…
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LibertyWeek 61: How About FCC Neutrality?
Your host Richard Morrison welcomes returning guest co-host William Yeatman and special guest commenter Ryan Radia to the program for Episode 61 of the…
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ACORN Tied to Brooklyn Land-grabber
The multi-billion dollar Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn, New York--subsidized to the tune of $1.6 billion by New York taxpayers--is facing new scrutiny after…
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Regulation of the Day 53: Y2K
In which the case for regulatory sunset provisions is inadvertently made.
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Will climate change cause water wars? Will Waxman-Markey enhance U.S. energy security? No and No.
Last week, on the free-market energy blog MasterResource.Org, I posted a two-part column on climate change and national security. In a nutshell, I argued…
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An Independent Analysis
The Greens keep trying to change the subject when it comes to what the released Treasury documents about cap-and-trade actually show. They’ve got a bunch…
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Just Breaking
The Treasury Department just released to my CEI colleague Chris Horner the unredacted FOIA documents on their internal discussions of cap and trade policy that…
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Energy Ration Coupons Cost A Mint – Even When They’re Given Away for “Free”
My former CEI colleague and now academic Jonathan Adler has an unfortunate post over on The Volokh Conspiracy manifesting a fundamental misunderstanding of how cap-and-trade…
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CEI Weekly: CEI Reveals True Cost of Cap and Trade
CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features coverage of CEI's findings from Treasury documents of the administration's…
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Chevron Plaintiff Lawyer’s Least Favorite Writer
In Forbes yesterday, New York lawyer Steven Donziger, consultant attorney for Ecuadorian plaintiffs in the suit against Chevron, criticizes my article,…
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Big Green Fury & Bile Belies Big Green Fabrications
The greens have responded with, so far as my experience has it, unprecedented fury and bile to my FOIA request exposing the Department of the…
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Democratic Governor Criticizes Deficit-Exploding Obama Health-Care Plan; Middle Class Faces Huge Health and Global-Warming Tax Hikes
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (D) is criticizing Obama’s health-care plan as “the mother of all unfunded mandates,” saying it will force states to spend…
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Enviros flail over FOIAed Treasury documents
A headline in yesterday’s evening edition of Greenwire (subscription required) declares: “Treasury; enviros go on offensive against media reports of cap-and-trade costs.” In fact, enviros went on…
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Oregon DOJ Uses Copyright to Keep Public Records Behind Paywall
Imagine a state in which the public records retrieval process is so convoluted that the government needs to publish a user manual explaining how to…
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Waxman Joins Markey Again to Sponsor a Terrible Bill
You know them from the cap-and-trade climate bill that failed to generate funding for Obama’s proposed health reforms. Now, they’re joining forces again. Rep. Henry…
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WaPo on CEI’s FOIA release – biasing by innuendo
Today the Washington Post carried a follow-up article on CEI’s release of Treasury’s estimates — through a FOIA request — on the cost of…
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Public Option Is Not The Worst Aspect Of ObamaCare
"If liberal health-care reform is going to make people better off, why does it require "a very harsh, stiff penalty" to make everyone buy it?…
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Firing Blanks on FOIA Part II
In his update to his post, Declan McCullagh notes an objection by the Center for American Progress: The fourth objection is the most compelling.
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Firing Blanks in Response to FOIA
A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion…