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• By: Hans Bader
• 08/19/2008

Ted Frank has an entertaining and disturbing column in the Washington Examiner about how a compulsive gambler blamed his medication for his irresponsibility.  A jury…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/18/2008

Not everyone is equally likely to get AIDS, notes former World Health Organization official James Chin in “Political Correctness Undermines AIDS Fight,” an editorial in today’s Washington Examiner.   As he points out, “We…

• By: John Berlau
• 08/17/2008

For more than two years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been involved in a constitutional challenge to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the giant…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/16/2008

The next time you hear someone complain about Americans who don’t get needed health care, think of Great Britain, where the government has decided that…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

I promised, and I shall deliver. As it's my last day as an intern at CEI, this is my last Philosopher's Corner post,…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

Who doesn't love a good half-litre? Over at the self-proclaimed “irreverant blog for food outlaws” Crispy on the Outside (which our own…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

The Federal Election Commission has held that bloggers are covered by the same rules as journalists, permitting them to write about candidates without their…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/15/2008

In his latest Washington Examiner column, former CEI Brookes Fellow Tim Carney takes on T. Boone Pickens’s call for policies promoting wind and other…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

The British government has not been known for its high level of respect for privacy. But this truly surprised me. Vnunet reports: The…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/15/2008

America’s corporate taxes are some of the highest in the world, punishing companies for investing in America, driving “capital overseas,” and encouraging companies to…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/15/2008

Forbes magazine grabs a terrific quote from 10,000 Commandments, an annual report authored by Wayne Crews, CEI’s Vice President for Policy.  The report focuses…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

On Tuesday, I reported on overblown concerns that the rate of increase in broadband subscribers is not the same as it used to be,…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/15/2008

It’s Friday again, and also my last day as an intern at CEI. So, I’m posting another Toothpastefordinner comic. Any…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/14/2008

Another update on Congress's continuing investigation into online targeted advertising. Google responded by stating that the company does not engage in Deep Packet…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/14/2008

Thumbing its nose at property rights, the Los Angeles City Council has just passed an ordinance requiring big-box stores like Home Depot to build shelters for the day-laborers…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/14/2008

Our very own Myron Ebell, CEI’s Director of Energy Policy, explains how we can drill ourselves out of the energy crisis.

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/14/2008

U.N. Officials were robbed at a Russian check-point in Gori, a town in Georgia that Russian troops continue to occupy in violation of the…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/14/2008

A lawsuit filed for defamation against Wikipedia has just been dismissed by a federal judge. The ruling holds that Wikipedia is not liable…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/14/2008

If you’re looking for my discussion of how “college education is a waste of time,” which was excerpted on page 24 of today’s Washington Examiner, you can…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/14/2008

Ars reports on a strange move by British ISP Virgin Media. Facing pressure from the government to cut down on P2P downloading (I guess…

• By: Alex Harris
• 08/13/2008

My colleague Courtney Long and I have been posting about a series of contradictory decisions regarding whether eBay should be held…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/13/2008

Your hosts Richard Morrison (me) and Cord Blomquist discuss cyberwarfare in Georgia, an enviro backlash, campaign debates on MySpace, the national debt, Sam Kazman…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/13/2008

Our friends over at Reason TV has produced a snappy little video on the questionable merits of ethanol, starring former CEI Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/13/2008

Bottled water is supposedly so “wasteful” that the U.S. Conference of Mayors had to issue a resolution calling on governments to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/13/2008

In the Wall Street Journal, Philip Howard explains how kids are getting fat (and thus at risk for obesity-related diseases and death) by staying indoors rather than playing outside.  …

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/13/2008

“Just hours after Russia agreed to a French-brokered ceasefire, Russian troops followed by irregular Ossetian militias pushed deep into Georgia, seizing the strategic city…