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Thanks, UN, for Shrinking My Carbon Footprint by 25%
The latest iteration on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming it being eagerly awaited. While we bide our time,…
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Radicals for Capitalism
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Do global warming fears justify protectionism?
Ever since the United States decided to push for “sustainable development” concepts to limiit free trade under the Shrimp-Turtle decision (for internal political reason –…
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Can Libertarians Become Liberaltarians?
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Marlo responds to Al Gore
CEI’s Marlo Lewis’ appearance on Oprah’s show on Tuesday, Dec. 5, opposite Al Gore was via a taped two-minute segment juxtaposed against Gore’s 30-minute plus…
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Amazingly efficient merger approvals, cont.
Congress leaves town today, with just two appropriations bills completed (that can be a good thing!). Agencies aren’t going anywhere, but there must be something…
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EIA: Fossil fuels will provide same 86% share in 2030
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts continuing strong demand for fossil energy. EIA’s just-released Annual Energy Outlook 2007 states: “Despite the projected rapid growth of…
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Popping with the Popcorn Board
As I was skimming government agencies’ websites for topical issues, a U.S. Department of Agriculture press release today sidetracked me. It seems that the Secretary…
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Tobacco Scam
In 1998, the big tobacco companies entered into a $250 billion settlement with trial lawyers and the attorneys general of 46 states. Big Tobacco agreed…
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Look Out for Hurricane Fred
Our fearless leader, Fred Smith, is on the road again, spreading the good news of free markets and limited government. Yesterday he spoke to a…
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Regulation Before Occupation
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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Are you now or have you ever been a skeptic?
From this week’s Evans-Novak Political Report: Important Bush Administration officials are ready to leave the government rather than undergo two years of hell from Democratic…
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Congress votes highest civilian honor to Dr. Norman Borlaug
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to award a Congressional Gold Medal — the nation’s highest honor — to Dr. Norman Borlaug, credited…
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To Play the King
Prince Charles has decided his staff should bicycle everywhere and that he himself should practice what he preaches,…
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Does Diversity Mean No Whites?
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a minority-oriented school can exclude members of all but one race (Native Hawaiians), even if…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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Oreskes Confusion
Appearing on “Oprah,” Al Gore cited a review of the climate change literature by Dr. Naomi Oreskes of the University of California as the last…
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Oprah Viewers Respond
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CEI’s Marlo Lewis on Oprah
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Creative Destruction, The Musical
Alex Singleton’s LibertarianHome blog (go bookmark it) today highlights a new Economic Research Council report on the British pop music business called Creative…
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Fly Me (Privately) to the Moon
Like an old boyfriend you stopped calling months ago, NASA has decided it wants to re-capture America’s heart with a bold new proposal. The aeronautical…
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An End to Racial Engineering?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two important racial discrimination cases. Parents in Seattle and Louisville are challenging their children’s exclusion from…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Hates Capitalism
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The Science of ‘Deathenol’
The Internet Skeptic (“Critical Analysis of Today’s Headlines”) emails today about some of his recent YouTube videos. One that caught my eye was…
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Today’s must-read
A must-read is today’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal (free subscription required) — “Global Warming Gag Order — Senators…
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I invented that sandwich!
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When in the course of human events…
Seemingly forgetting about a little thing called the Declaration of Independence, Albert Gore Jr., former Vice President of the United States of America has joined…
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Specialty crops want their share of farm subsidies
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A Graphic Display of Government Power
Word from /. has it that the Justice Department’s Antitrust division just found a couple more potential tech victims: graphics chipmakers Nvidia and AMD…