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Turning Free Speech Upside Down
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and…
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The Sweetest Urban Legend of All
Keeping the holiday theme going, we now turn to the perennial Halloween boogieman, the anonymous candy poisoner. For decades, parents have been warned to…
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What Is All the Hyperventilating About?
If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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What balance?
When a journalist publicly declares he doesn’t believe in balance on a particular issue, you know things are really bad. When I was a journalist,…
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Kazman vs. Cupcake
CEI’s Sam Kazman had the quote of the day. It happened during a debate on CNBC’s Morning Call over whether NYC should ban restaurants from…