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Send Your Underwear to the Undersecretary
Sam‘s latest obsession has produced glorious YouTube offspring. Inspired by the current issue of Consumer Reports, he’s been drawing our attention to the fact…
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Sell the Elephant to Save It
The International Fund for Animal Welfare is complaining about people selling items made from elephant ivory on eBay, arguing that such sales hurt elephant…
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Bureaucrash’s Blaze of Glory
When it rains anti-anti-smoking indignation, it pours. In addition to Brooke’s press statement, Jason reminds me that Bureaucrash was hot on this MPAA/smoking tip…
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These Foolish Things Remind Me of the MPAA
As Eli informed us this morning, the MPAA has caved into Big (anti-)Tobacco and decided to rate movies that include smoking by adults more…
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More on Unsustainable Policies
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Sustain This
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Don’t Count Your Cobs Before They’re Grown
Corn growers are riding high these days, as ethanol moves into place as the default alternative fuel for automobiles. Lots of money is pouring into…
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The Present State of America’s Future
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go
Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming’s hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it…
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Cable News Grudge Match: Sam vs. Phil on CNBC
In case you missed him earlier today, here’s our very own Sam Kazman debating Phil Clapp of the National Environmental Trust on federal…
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Libertarian Smack Down
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The Department of Energy Liberates Us from Clean Clothes
CEI doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with the editors of Consumer Reports (to put it mildly), but they do have a great feature in the…
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Sam’s the Man
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Another Victim of the Nanny State
In the spirit of Friday afternoon, allow me to direct your attention to the sad demise of Sudan’s only married goat. Her name was…
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The CAFE Debate: Safety v. Mileage
With today’s Senate hearing on fuel economy, it’s a good time to turn again to CEI’s work on the Department of Transportation’s corporate average…
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Chris Horner on Glenn Beck’s Global Warming Special
In case you missed him last night:…
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A Knight to Slay the Green Dragon
Our friend Peyton Knight had an (intentionally) hilarious op-ed piece in yesterday’s Examiner, highlighting the (unintentionally) hilarious display of eco-hypocrisy in Vanity Fair‘s…
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Glenn Beck Takes on Global Warming Alarmism
Here’s the transcript from last night’s CNN/Glenn Beck special on global warming, which included our very own Chris Horner. Beck sets the tone of…
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Rep. Scott Garrett on Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) delivers remarks to the Center for Entrepreneurship’s recent conference on “Entrepreneurs, the Stock Market and the American Dream.”…
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Myron Debates Carbon Offsets and ‘Green’ Power on CNBC
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Anyone Want to Buy Some Venezuelan Oil Futures Contracts?
Hugo Chavez, celebrating Communist New Year in style, has stripped the world’s major oil companies of operational control of drilling projects in the Orinoco…
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Incandescent Damsels in Distress
The front page of today's Washington Post breaks the dramatic story I've been waiting to see reported on for some time: U.S. consumers don't care…
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Free Kareem Roundup
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Supporting Online Gaming Is No Gamble
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank has proposed repealing last Fall’s ban on Internet gambling, though according to the punsters at the Associated…
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Free Kareem Rally in DC
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ED Ads: Tick’d off By Annoying Child Actors
First came Greenpeace’s Angry Kid: Now come ED’s clock kids: Why do big environmental groups think adults like being lectured by bossy…
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Back to the Paleo Future
The delightful and fascinating blog Paleo-Future has some entertaining video clips up from a short film produced by AT&T in 1993, showing what…
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More on the Neutrality Battle
If this whole net neutrality thing sounds a bit complex, let The Simpleton’s Guide explain it all. Because after all, simple is better:…
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What’s the Gift for a One-Year Lobbying Anniversary?
The inaptly named Save the Internet coalition is celebrating its first anniversary today, and Wayne is on the case: “We all can probably agree…
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Clotheslining Progress
It seems recent posts by myself and Fran were all too prescient. The clothesline is apparently merely beginning its green-inspired comeback. Following Kathy…