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The Tip of the Iceberg
I have a piece in today’s National Review Online about the new bill that would provide optional federal chartering (OFC) for insurance companies. OFC,…
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Re: “Vanity, vanity”…
Regarding Fran’s post earlier today on Vanity Fair‘s new “Green Issue” — I haven’t read it yet, but I’m sure it’s all very…
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Adapting to the IPCC
The IPCC’s second summary report of the year is out. Working Group II’s report on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability predicts a world…
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Now I wanna be a Stooge
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Rhode Island Lead Paint Verdict Ethically Tainted
In Rhode Island, a jury recently returned a verdict holding out-of-state paint manufacturers liable to the state for potentially billions of dollars, under the theory…
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Examiner Columnist Antrim on The Great Global Warming Swindle
Washington Examiner columnist Kathleen Antrim endorses the film The Great Global Warming Swindle: As “The Great Global Warming Swindle” points out, “global warming…
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Bailey on “Consensus”
Another former Brookes Fellow, Ron Bailey, writes in Reason today on green activists’ speaking out of both sides of their mouth when they say…
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Carney and Schulz on Supremes’ CO2 Ruling
Two CEI veterans weigh on on this week's Supreme Court decision reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to not regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from…
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YouTube on fire with “Cigarette” song
These days even expressing ambiguity about cigarettes can put you in danger of the anti-smoking thought police. Conversing about the pleasure of smoking or the…
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Is Bad Regulatory Competition Better than No Regulatory Competition?
I had an interesting conversation about regulatory competition in the context of insurance. A lawyer I was speaking with argued that any regulatory competition structure—even…
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“Vanity, vanity . . .” Myron Ebell featured in Vanity Fair’s “Green Issue”
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“Give me land, lots of land . . . “
An editorial today in the New York Times focused on one of the negative consequences of the corn ethanol boom — a boom fueled…
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Foreign Courts Target U.S. Business for Plunder
The Supreme Court of Canada has just given the green light for British Columbia to force American tobacco companies to pay for smokers’ past…
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Baptists and Bootleggers in the Tropics
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“Take me out to the partido de beisbol”
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Apple, EMI Test DRM-Free
In the wake of the announcement by EMI (along with Apple) that its catalog will now be available on iTunes DRM-free and at…
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Koch on Management
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The Kelo Five Go Green
Our very own Chris Horner is in Human Events today on this week’s Massachusetts v. EPA SCOTUS decision on the regulation of carbon dioxide…
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PLA = Union Ripoff
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Before Che, there was Leon
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So Where do the Shipping Disasters Take Place?
They take place at home. Let me explain. In studies of regulatory policy, the international flags-of-convenience system for shipping often gets cited as an example…
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“Standing” on global warming
The Supreme Court’s ruling on global warming is unfortunate for a number of reasons. It could lead to policies that would sacrifice jobs, economic growth,…
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Bush vs. Gore
Snopes has the lowdown on a very interesting e-mail forward about the homes of George W. Bush and Al Gore. Worth a read.
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Supremes: More Power to EPA Bureaucracy
This morning the Supreme Court issued opinions in two “environmental” (actually, energy) cases with major implications, Massachusetts v. EPA and Environmental…
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More Alarmism about Global Warming and Species Extinction
A recent column (which came to my attention through Google news alerts) repackages stale alarums as news. The claim that global warming is killing Caribbean…
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Modernism (And Libertarianism) at the Corcoran
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An interesting idea for insurance choice
In the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing a good deal about the idea that insurance companies should have the ability to do…
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Craig Newmark on Trust
Cragislist founder Craig Newmark has an interesting op ed in today’s Washington Examiner on ways in which voluntary collaboration will help resolve new…
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Bandow on Unions’ new Global Strategy
What’s worse than trade protectionism and compulsory unionism? Trade protectionism and compulsory unionism that shred national sovereignty, as CEI adjunct fellow Doug Bandow writes in…
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Climate Alarmism for Fun and Profit
Via Roger Pielke Jr, we have the unedifying spectacle of at least one leading IPCC scientist engaged in selling alarmist predictions of what…