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Great Modern Economists, Podcast Style
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When Cosmic Rays Attack
Our friend Steve Milloy has an excellent column on a new global warming study out of Denmark, and the unsurprising reasons it doesn’t seem…
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Race-Based Student Assignments
In a case pending before the Supreme Court, the Seattle School District argues that it should be allowed to use race when assigning…
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She’s Huge in Europe
More fame for Angela! Her concise and pithy assessment of the EU’s proposed chemical regulations made it as environmental news service Greenwire’s…
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Why All of Human History Has Been Leading Toward Google
Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has an interesting take on Google’s place in history, and how the Google Library project could…
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Making Decisions on the Fly
Our occasional journalisitic nemesis George Monbiot, as part of the promotional flurry surrounding his new book, is taking the presidents and directors of big…
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Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps opposes minimum wage
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Libertarians Know How to Swing
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You Want that Social Conscience Expression for Here or to Go?
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Registering Some Problems With REACH
The Wall Street Journal reports today that U.S. and European firms were unsuccessful in an attempt to make the proposed chemicals policy in…
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Nobel winner – friend of entreprenuers
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Foley – a friend to “Big Sugar”
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Assessing the Content of Google’s Character
To continue the Google-YouTube discussion begun by Peter, take a look at what some /. folks are saying about Google’s potential exposure to…
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Google Gets Good Marks as Internet Librarian
Google raised some doubts (some even from CEI) about copyright protection when they launched Google Library, but now the project is having just the…
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Big Money Loves Big Government
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CBO Speaks: Deficit Slightly Smaller, Still Huge
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Update: Foley to Move to Amsterdam, Run for Parliament
News out of the Netherlands this week is bearing an odd parallel to DC’s most talked about scandal involving a now-former Congressman from…
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Free Government Cash: Mixed News From Germany
It seems that German welfare queens have been enraging their hard working fellow citizens by driving expensive cars while on the dole. The Christinan Democrats…
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Green Technology’s Cutting Edge
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Pesticide Bans No Minor Mistake
Tina’s Rosenberg’s article in today’s New York Times addresses the devastating impact that misguided bans of the pesticide DDT have had on…
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X PRIZE launches another prize – mapping genes
The foundation that gave a huge prize for launching a private spaceship yesterday announced a multi-million dollar prize for fast-track technology…
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More Katrina Waste
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Tobacco Litigation Update
In Schwab v. Philip Morris, a federal judge in Brooklyn recently approved a class-action racketeering lawsuit against tobacco companies on behalf of millions…
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Let It Ride While You Can
Sad news for online poker fans: Congress has effectively outlawed Internet gambling, as part of legislation widely expected to be signed into law by…
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Masters of their own Domains
ICANN is moving toward greater autonomoy and away from direct ties to the U.S. Department of Commerce. As long as it doesn’t end up…
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Liveblogging an Environment Debate
The Conservative Party Conference in the UK are discussing the environment this afternoon. The Conservatives have rebranded themselves as a green party, fully in favor…
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Needed: Broad-based Coalition to Fight for Ag Reform
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New study shows promise, but not cure
A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows mixed results in dealing with Type 1 diabetes, also…
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Ring fingers and sports potential
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