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Tobacco Scam
In 1998, the big tobacco companies entered into a $250 billion settlement with trial lawyers and the attorneys general of 46 states. Big Tobacco agreed…
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Look Out for Hurricane Fred
Our fearless leader, Fred Smith, is on the road again, spreading the good news of free markets and limited government. Yesterday he spoke to a…
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Regulation Before Occupation
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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Are you now or have you ever been a skeptic?
From this week’s Evans-Novak Political Report: Important Bush Administration officials are ready to leave the government rather than undergo two years of hell from Democratic…
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Congress votes highest civilian honor to Dr. Norman Borlaug
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to award a Congressional Gold Medal — the nation’s highest honor — to Dr. Norman Borlaug, credited…
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To Play the King
Prince Charles has decided his staff should bicycle everywhere and that he himself should practice what he preaches,…
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Does Diversity Mean No Whites?
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a minority-oriented school can exclude members of all but one race (Native Hawaiians), even if…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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Oreskes Confusion
Appearing on “Oprah,” Al Gore cited a review of the climate change literature by Dr. Naomi Oreskes of the University of California as the last…
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Oprah Viewers Respond
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CEI’s Marlo Lewis on Oprah
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Creative Destruction, The Musical
Alex Singleton’s LibertarianHome blog (go bookmark it) today highlights a new Economic Research Council report on the British pop music business called Creative…
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Fly Me (Privately) to the Moon
Like an old boyfriend you stopped calling months ago, NASA has decided it wants to re-capture America’s heart with a bold new proposal. The aeronautical…
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An End to Racial Engineering?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two important racial discrimination cases. Parents in Seattle and Louisville are challenging their children’s exclusion from…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Hates Capitalism
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The Science of ‘Deathenol’
The Internet Skeptic (“Critical Analysis of Today’s Headlines”) emails today about some of his recent YouTube videos. One that caught my eye was…
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Today’s must-read
A must-read is today’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal (free subscription required) — “Global Warming Gag Order — Senators…
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I invented that sandwich!
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When in the course of human events…
Seemingly forgetting about a little thing called the Declaration of Independence, Albert Gore Jr., former Vice President of the United States of America has joined…
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Specialty crops want their share of farm subsidies
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A Graphic Display of Government Power
Word from /. has it that the Justice Department’s Antitrust division just found a couple more potential tech victims: graphics chipmakers Nvidia and AMD…
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CEI’s first employee — done good and done well
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GAO report needs to hit harder
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Saudis to Sue Tobacco Companies
The Saudi government is threatening to sue American tobacco companies such as Philip Morris to force them to pay the healthcare costs of Saudi…
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Supreme Court Considers Whether to Preempt State Bank Red Tape
On Thursday, November 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Watters v. Wachovia Bank, which will decide whether federal law preempts state regulators…
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95% of Americans in Favor of Increasing Other People’s Charitable Giving
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For Best Results, Drink Like a Sardinian
There’s more scientific evidence that moderate consumption of red wine is good for you: New research from the William Harvey Research Institute and…
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The Global Warming Case–the cataclysm question
One comment from yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing that’s getting a lot of press is Justice Scalia’s question to the attorney for the petitioning states about…
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Global Warming Hearings & Hurricanes
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard argument in the global warming case. Today is the last day of the 2006 hurricane season, the quietest…
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Those clever Malthusians
There’s an op/ed in the New York Times today that essentially claims that Malthus was right and that Julian Simon just…
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Supreme Court grills Massachusetts, EPA in global warming case
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman is on-site for two important cases being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court today. He phoned in his quick…
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Usual suspects make the list — environmentalists of all time
Dr. C.S. Prakash alerted me to yesterday’s list in The Guardian of the top environmental campaigners of all time. Not surprisingly, Rachel Carson tops…
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What’s needed — and not — in trade agreements
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Breast-Related Assurances from the First Lady of Illinois
Some Illinois political observers are raising their eyebrows about a stack of greeting cards that Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office sent out before the…
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Money Violates Civil Rights Laws, Court Rules
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has just ruled that America’s money bills, such as $1, $10, and $100 bills, discriminate against the blind, in…
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Marketing principles involves having them
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What Spam? It’s against the law.
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Zimbabwe military wants “to listen” to make people safe
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, with 25-plus years of dictatorship under his belt, is now cracking down on cell phones in the name of national…
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Tony Bourdain: Recovering socialist
I’m a big fan of Tony Bourdain, but he describes himself as a socialist. At the same time, he clearly hates what the nanny state…
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Free to Choose on your Computer
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The Media Filter
Dr. Crippen, a doctor who has the misfortune to work in the British National Health Service, has an interesting story about the critical…
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Profiles in Awesomeness
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Freedom Fighting from the Kitchen
In the current issue of Doublethink, Baylen Linnekin, founder of the libertarian blog “To the People,” asks the burning question:…
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The Green Revolution South of the Border
In his latest column, The Miami Herald‘s Andres Oppenheimer gives reason for hope for Latin America’s water supply challenges, and offers policy…
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Why Check ‘n Go Is Not the Great Satan
Hot on the heels of John’s op-ed on credit cards fees (and the retailers who want price controls on them) comes a piece by…
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Freedom vs. Democracy – the Perpetual Tension between Voice and Exit
The current debate over whether the SEC should strengthen shareholder participation “rights” in public companies (subscribers see the Wall Street Journal editorial “Board Games”…
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Lake Woebegone Takes over Britain!
The classic motto of Garrison Keillor’s bucolic world — “where all the children are above average” — has now been adopted by David Cameron, leader…
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They Know It When They Smell It
Here at Open Market, we’re big fans of Penn & Teller, particularly their emmy-nominated Showtime program, Bullshit! Our own Angela Logomasini was even a…
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