The Open Market Blog

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/22/2007

One of Bureaucrash’s latest project in defense of liberty was recently featured on NPR’s Day to Day. In the link, crashers are seen outside…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/21/2007

In a piece posted to its website today, Consumer Reports describes how its January report on infant car seats went very wrong. Given…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2007

Yesterday’s “Climate Crisis Action Day” rally on Capitol Hill featured an array of distinguished speakers, from Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/21/2007

Keep up with Al Gore’s Capitol Hill appearance with Iain Murray, live blogging on Planet Gore. His latest entry follows: Al…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2007

While the UK might not have yet adopted full-scale thoughtcrime penalties, the Brits are hot on the path of “envirocrime.” Ealing Council in west…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/21/2007

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) in his opening statement said today that we are witnessing an all-out assault on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. If this…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/21/2007

Fred — Your reference to my personal hero Cookie Monster reminded me of a rumor I had heard that he was going to become “Veggie…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/21/2007

Iain’s recent post on the Exchequer taking over dormant accounts in the UK deserves a U.S. perspective as well.  Under…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

As regular Open Market readers will know, we’ve been skeptical of former Vice President Al Gore’s climate crusade for some time. The news right…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

Today, in preperation for the latest installment of The Al Gore Show on Capitol Hill, (anti-)global warming campaigners staged a rally in front of…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/20/2007

The Sesame Street generation has found their champion in James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who claims to have been…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

I cannot put it better than Stephen Pollard, who sums up this article with the well-known oxymoron, “We’re from the Government, we’re here…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

Latest wizard wheeze from Her Majesty’s Government – if you’ve left money unused in a bank account for a while, you obviously don’t need it…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

Malaria, a disease that kills over a million people a year, might just have a potent new foe. A new insecticide, perhaps? Actually, just the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Eli, that table actually refers to the generating capacity of new facilities – c.1300 MW over the next few years. There’s not really any way…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/19/2007

Iain–For the most part, I agree with your post. HRC’s statement is inane. But, in fact, an increasing but still very tiny percentage of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/19/2007

Today's Wall Street Journal (online version by subscription only) contains a rather shocking chart on page 1 showing enormous rates of air travel fatalities in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Senator Hillary Clinton opines: “I turn off a light and say, ‘Take that, Iran,’ and ‘Take that, Venezuela.’ We should not be sending our…