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• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/16/2007

CEI’s Capitol Hill global warming briefing for Congressional staff is now being broadcast live on C-Span 2, responding to Al Gore’s alarmist agenda. Watch…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/16/2007

What were climatologists (or climate specialists as they used to be called) saying publicly in the 1970s and before? A quick stroll through the New…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/16/2007

A gas station in Parma, Ohio has taken to reselling girl scout cookies at a profit. The media, of course, is having a field…

• 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…