The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

It turns out that the Earth actually is being attacked by cosmic rays. New research is strongly suggesting that warming trends on this planet can…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

CEI’s very own Fred Smith was on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show yesterday talking about Al Gore and his notorious carbon footprint. Take it away,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

We’ve weighed in on the debate over “e-waste” – discarded electronics and computer parts – before, most notably via the work of our talented and…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/28/2007

Prince Charles made headlines earlier this week when he suggested to the staff of a diabetes clinic in Abu Dhabi that McDonald’s fast food…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/21/2007

The endless list of calamities laid at the feet of global warming just got a little longer – witness the invasion of France by…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2007

It has been brought to my attention that Open Market’s own Chris Horner is currently bounding up the Amazon bestseller list with his new book,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Ivan has an excellent take on the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage (below), so I’ll limit myself to highlighting a recent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Open Market readers may have seen this already, but I wanted to point out one interesting development from last night’s Grammy awards. The award for…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/11/2007

In the least surprising headline of the weekend, Drudge alerts us: “Socialist candidate in France unveils far-left platform…” Je suis l’état…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/07/2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a woman so passionate about the cause of global warming that she created a new select committee dedicated exclusively to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Unfortunately for members of the lower house of Maine’s legislature, some of their colleagues have decided that they all have less self-control than most 14-year…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Everyone’s favorite “walrus-moustachioed” anti-globalist has set his eyes on high public office. French sheep-farmer/McDonald’s hater Jose Bove has declared he’ll be running for President…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

In today’s Politico, Amy Doolittle has a light-hearted story on the tours that Members of Congress occasionally give for constituents around the Capitol. A…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

The state of California is poised to claim yet another feather for its environmental-pioneer cap with a proposed ban on the sale of incandescent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

American Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report has yet another report today on how U.S. demand for corn to make into ethanol is causing a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/29/2007

Cuban exiles have long been looking forward to the day when their homeland is no longer goverend by aging revolutionary Fidel Castro, but now the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

While we at Open Market know that there's nothing inherently bad about fast food, we're still willing to believe that an outragous stunt like…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

The PETA animal cruelty trial is getting started in North Carolina this week, and the Center for Consumer Freedom is on the case:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2007

We at Open Market HQ just received an email from John Coequyt at Greenpeace, responding to the President’s State of the Union remarks about global…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/17/2007

Living in a nation with a vibrant market economy and a predictable rule of law is generally considered a good thing. Lest we allow ourselves…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2006

In what may be the political understatement of all time, Tom DeLay explains the thinking behind his new blog, in part, with the…