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• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/03/2009

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• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/03/2009

Your LibertyWeek hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome you back with a rousing discussion of the much-debated Stimulus to Nowhere and the website…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/29/2009

Wondering who is in line to get their hands on that $825 billion in Pelosi/Obama federal stimulus cash? Let our old friend and venerable investigative…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/28/2009

Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome you back to another episode of LibertyWeek, wherein we start by highlighting CEI’s new Agenda…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/26/2009

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• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/22/2009

Welcome to a very special Inaugural Edition of LibertyWeek with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and Special Guest Ivan Osorio. We get…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/20/2009

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• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/13/2009

Welcome to LibertyWeek’s Silver Anniversary with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and Special Guest William Yeatman. Our 25th episode starts with timely…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/12/2009

It was, of course, inevitable that after a general election, political observers would be talking about everything in Washington suddenly being new. A new president(-elect),…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/08/2009

A special alert to college students, grad students and recent graduates: CEI has an excellent intern program, and we’re always looking for new applicants. Interning…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/07/2009

Working in Washington, D.C. for the last decade, I’ve become familiar with the experience of criminal conduct in city government. The city sports a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/06/2009

A new year brings a new episode of LibertyWeek, with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and Senior Culture Correspondent Ryan Lynch. We…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/30/2008

Happy New Year, LibertyWeek listeners. We celebrate a fresh start with a holiday health update and move quickly into the biggest story Scandal Watch…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/23/2008

Season’s greetings and happy holidays, LibertyWeek listeners – it’s the Christmas Episode! Your festive hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist deliver up the best…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/16/2008

This week your friendly neighborhood LibertyWeek hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist take you on an audio journey. We start with praise for our…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/15/2008

With Barack Obama coming to town, there’s a lot of talk about politicians of both parties working together to accomplish important goals, like bailing out…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2008

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• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/09/2008

Welcome back to LibertyWeek, where your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist bring you the best in news and views, always from the perspective…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/05/2008

Today is the anniversary of Repeal Day, when the passage of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution effectively repealed the 18th, thereby restoring to the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/03/2008

It’s time again to join your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist for this week’s podcast, where we bring you the latest in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/02/2008

This week your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist bring you the latest in free market news from our new location and studio on L…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/25/2008

Note: Due to a change in studios during the Thanksgiving Holiday, Episode 18 was not released according to the usual LibertyWeek schedule. Enjoy it…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/18/2008

Celebrate the new era of Change and Hope with the latest episode of LibertyWeek. Your hosts update you on the trials and travails…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/18/2008

Celebrate the new era of Change and Hope with Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist. Your hosts update you on the trials and travails of Sen.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/12/2008

It’s time again for Ted Stevens’ favorite podcast, LibertyWeek. Join your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist this week for an election…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/04/2008

The best podcast around just got best-er. It’s a new episode of LibertyWeek, hot off of the audio deck. Join your hosts…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/29/2008

Prepare yourself for the latest episode of the best free market podcast around, LibertyWeek. Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist discuss…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/24/2008

My colleague Iain Murray recently mentioned his upcoming review in the American Spectator of Tom Friedman's new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded. While I'm…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/22/2008

Tune in to lucky episode thirteen of the best pro-freedom podcast around, CEI’s very own LibertyWeek, with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/22/2008

Veteran journalist and editor Andrew Sullivan pens a love letter to the his favorite literary format, the blog: No columnist or reporter or…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/15/2008

Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome listeners back to another episode of LibertyWeek. The panel starts by reviewing movie news and taking…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/08/2008

Former CEI Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Neil Hrab has an interesting take on Russia’s offer to help out Iceland with its own personal…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/17/2008

Some people seem to think that having a mind for business and profit means you must be some kind of money-grubbing miser. Far from it,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/04/2008

It’s official – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has admitted to lying under oath and will be resigning within the next 14 days. Mr. Kilpatrick,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/14/2008

Our very own Myron Ebell, CEI’s Director of Energy Policy, explains how we can drill ourselves out of the energy crisis.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/13/2008

Your hosts Richard Morrison (me) and Cord Blomquist discuss cyberwarfare in Georgia, an enviro backlash, campaign debates on MySpace, the national debt, Sam Kazman…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/13/2008

Our friends over at Reason TV has produced a snappy little video on the questionable merits of ethanol, starring former CEI Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/07/2008

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/23/2008

From our good friends at FreedomWorks comes a video alerting viewers to a proposal from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that would create a new…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/12/2008

Mitch McConnell had a great statement on the floor of the Senate this morning regarding gas prices and energy policy. As the Man from…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2008

Former Open Market editor Peter Suderman emailed this week with a new FreedomWorks video on the mortgage bailout. The message is simple – people…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2008

Our good friend Steve Milloy gets some ink today in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where columnist Jack Markowitz profiles the Free Enterprise Action Fund:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/06/2008

And so film legend and freedom lover Charlton Heston has left us, at age 84. There are already hundreds of obituaries and tributes,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/04/2008

On the topic of Rep. Campbell’s innovative new addition to the tax code, it seems strange that any serious people are really complaining…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/01/2008

Congratulations are in order to our friend Steve Milloy, who is celebrating the 12th year of his flagship website, Junkscience.com. Ever since 1996 he’s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/28/2008

The National Center for Public Policy Research has a new study, and Internet ad, on the proposal to list the polar bear under the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/11/2008

Tomorrow the House Natural Resources Committee will be holding a markup on H.R. 2016, the National Landscape Conservation System Act. Naturally, our adjunct fellow…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2008

The President is signing the $168 billion economic stimulus package today, in hopes of averting a recession triggered by, among other things, rising mortgage…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2008

Cord’s recent C-SPAN appearance, debating the issues surrounding the proposed Microsoft / Yahoo deal (and by extension any big tech buyout or merger) is…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/04/2008

The final Bush budget is out for FY 2009 (though not on paper, notes The Hill), and the criticism is already flying. Speaker of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2008

Drudge today links to Jake Tapper’s “Political Punch” column at ABC News, where he reports on a speech given by Bill Clinton yesterday in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2008

The multi-dimensional debate over political correctness at The Smithsonian (everything from exactly how many children Thomas Jefferson fathered to the proper display of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/28/2008

Well, President Bush has given his final State of the Union address and the news stories analyzing it are soon to be legion. Among…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2008

It appears that there is finally some scientific evidence that a warmer Atlantic ocean could have an effect on future hurricane activity. Unfortunately for the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/23/2008

Our good friend Jim Blasingame of the Small Business Advocate radio show recently had our very own Myron Ebell on to talk about global…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/18/2008

I’m dreaming of a white…climate change protest. As you might have seen on the Drudge Report, a demonstration in support of cap-and-trade legislation in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/17/2008

New estimates are out on the impact of increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations, as the recent energy bill did. It’s not pretty.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/15/2008

Have you ever had a steak so excellent, you wish you could eat it more than once? How about a milkshake to good, you wish…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/10/2008

School officials in Greenwich, Connecticut have decided that the kids under their charge are in danger, and they’ve moved to ban the offending substances that…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/07/2008

Last week John did an excellent job of putting recent unemployment numbers in historical perspective. Some market observers seem to be freaking out because…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/03/2008

Our old pal Jay Ambrose has a great column today on the recent decision by Congress to outlaw the sale of traditional incandescent light…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

It’s official, oil has broken the $100 a barrel threshold. Why are prices so high and what can we do about it? Our very…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

Since we’ve been lamenting the incipient demise of the incandescent light (Bulb 1.0), I’d say it’s a good time to review The Simpleton’s Guide…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/21/2007

Make sure to take a look today at Tim Carney’s latest Friday column for the DC Examiner, this time on the travesty of an…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/18/2007

The Federal Communications Commission today scored a victory for freedom of the press. In this case, the freedom to own both a newspaper and a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/18/2007

Chris gives up the straight story on what happened at those big UN global warming negotiation in Bali last week.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2007

Just in time for the multi-holiday shopping season, Bureaucrash is here to solve all of your gift-giving needs. Tell that special someone how much you…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/27/2007

The FCC today is going to consider expanding its authority to saddle cable TV with many of the same regulations as broadcast. That, to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/21/2007

Bureaucrash has decided to take the anti-capitalist mentality to its natural extreme in a new video, just in time for the holiday season. What would…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/19/2007

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2007

We’ve had quite a bit to say about the anti-energy bill currently being co-sponsored by Joe Lieberman (D/I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), including the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2007

There’s a new report out on the waste, fraud and abuse in government, this time focused just on the Golden State. So why California?…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/14/2007

Nicole Williams of the State Policy Network passes on an announcement today (via the TaxPayers’ Alliance) on the salaries of public sector employees in the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/14/2007

The local transit authority for the Washington, D.C. area – known to most residents simply as “Metro” – is having problems getting feedback from…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/14/2007

Author Dick Taverne has the cover story in this month’s issue of Prospect, in which he takes on the unwarranted negative reputation GM foods…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2007

This Friday Bureaucrash and friends will be hosting a demonstration in support of student and blogger Kareem Amer, who has now been in prison in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2007

In a legislative drama that mixes politics as usual with examples of strange bedfellows and reputational role reversals, it looks like Congress will finally get…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2007

Our good friend and adjunct Steve Milloy has a column out today at FoxNews.com, taking apart the latest American Institute for Cancer Research study…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2007

The Senate farm bill is headed to the floor, even as Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin is expressing reservations about some of the…