The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/12/2007

Today on National Review Online, I contribute to a symposium on Hugo Chavez. There is little the United States can do about Hugo Chavez’s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/11/2007

Martin Durkin brings us the documentary answer to global warming alarmism – recently broadcast in the UK. Enjoy: [googlevideo]9005566792811497638[/googlevideo] UPDATE: The Telegraph has a story…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/10/2007

In a ruling I discussed early on Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. struck down Washington, D.C.'s gun ban. But the challenge…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/10/2007

CEI would never argue that the current federal student loan programs are perfect. They are a mishmash of subsidies and regulations that cause distortions, not…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/09/2007

A newish Congressional Research Service report raises some very interesting questions about current proposals that the federal government begin to provide wind insurance. Paired…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2007

Our good friend Tim Carney is in the DC Examiner today on big business opposition to the proposed XM/Sirius satellite radio merger. Among…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/09/2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has just declared Washington, D.C.’s gun ban unconstitutional under the federal Constitution’s Second Amendment,…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/09/2007

I have a piece in yesterday’s NR Online–my first CEI publication–that may seem a little counterintuative coming from a free market organization like CEI.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/09/2007

A very interesting story in the Washington Post today notes that China is moving to protect private property. The Communist party apparently realizes that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/09/2007

February was an interesting month; here in Washington, the media and the new Democratic congress are moving rapidly ahead to push alarmist global warming policies.

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

By now, approximately one million people have asked me, “So, have you seen those news reports that organic food is causing a rise in food…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

The Nationl People’s Public Radio show “Few All Things Considered” had an interesting segment on daylight savings time last night. As readers should know,…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 03/08/2007

Today’s Globe and Mail reports that a recent study summarizes the “latest scientific evidence” on the dangers of eating too much fish containing trace levels…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2007

Former CEI research associate Achim Schmillen has a great op-ed today in the Detroit News on proposed new “data retention” regulations: Do you remember every…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/07/2007

The split among Christians over global warming is growing wider. While it appeared liberal environmentalists had pretty much convinced evangelicals that catastrophic global warming is…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/07/2007

An article in the Wall Street Journal today (p. B6, subscription required) focuses on the sharp spike in Midwest farmland prices resulting from the ethanol…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/07/2007

Some global warming-related stories you may have missed: British companies involved in the Emissions Trading Scheme enjoy a $1.5 billion profits windfall while energy…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/06/2007

A few of us from CEI attended an event today featuring John O’Sullivan, author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister. O’Sullivan…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/06/2007

Wired Blogs reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling which found that Ziinet.com and 700law.com, two sites offering…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/05/2007

CEI and Bureaucrash operatives paid a visit to CPAC 2007 on Friday to take in the annual cavalcade of conservative conferees and the ideas…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/05/2007

Last night’s new episode of “The Simpsons” skewers the No Child Left Behind Act’s testing requirements — in only a few seconds. School district…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/05/2007

So goes a chart heading in an article on oil production in today’s New York Times. The article points out that new technology, fueled…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/05/2007

A Sunday New York Times editorial, “The must-do list,” reviews the attacks on civil liberties in U.S. policies since 9/11. Worth a read, especially…