The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/11/2007

Martin Durkin brings us the documentary answer to global warming alarmism – recently broadcast in the UK. Enjoy: [googlevideo]9005566792811497638[/googlevideo] UPDATE: The Telegraph has a story…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/10/2007

In a ruling I discussed early on Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. struck down Washington, D.C.'s gun ban. But the challenge…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/10/2007

CEI would never argue that the current federal student loan programs are perfect. They are a mishmash of subsidies and regulations that cause distortions, not…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/09/2007

A newish Congressional Research Service report raises some very interesting questions about current proposals that the federal government begin to provide wind insurance. Paired…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2007

Our good friend Tim Carney is in the DC Examiner today on big business opposition to the proposed XM/Sirius satellite radio merger. Among…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/09/2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has just declared Washington, D.C.’s gun ban unconstitutional under the federal Constitution’s Second Amendment,…