The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/01/2007

The folks at the National Auto Dealers Association have come up with a neat little web widget for the car curious. You can…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/01/2007

News from Congress Now on this afternoon’s machinations by members of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee: Highlighting the difficult straddle facing proponents, a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/24/2007

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/22/2007

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2007

Normally I’m a fan of celebrity chef Mario Batali. His appearances on Iron Chef America are always entertaining, and he’s got a great sense…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/15/2007

Wayne emails today with a link to an NPR story about an ominous milestone in U.S. history: The first member of the Baby…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/12/2007

Our very own Marlo Lewis was on CNN this morning (twice!) to inform viewers why Al Gore does not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Early…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/05/2007

Chris was on Hannity & Colmes last night, and you’re going to want to watch all the way through to the end to hear his…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/04/2007

Over the past few months, many an Open Market post has been dedicated to the issue of compact fluorescent (CFL) lightbulbs vs. traditional incandescents.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/04/2007

Our good friend Steve Milloy of Demand Debate brings us a new video on global warming and the influence of carbon dioxide on the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/03/2007

In a federal government beset by so many other problems, it’s practically charming to discover a little ol’ fashioned government waste that clocks in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/01/2007

In a story that reminds me of why I’ve never wanted to have children, the Wall Street Journal has a perversely fascinating story (sub.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/26/2007

CEI analysts appeared twice today on CNBC (so far), enlightening the financially astute and debating their fellow guests. First up, Editorial Director Ivan Osorio takes…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Fran – I certainly agree with your response to the promotional video for Naomi Klein’s new anti-capitalist manifesto – loco indeed. At one point…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Mining giant Barrick Gold has recently announced a fascinating challenge to would-be mining engineers of the world: if you can think up a new…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Fans of Sid Meier’s classic video game Civilization are framiliar to the challenge of designing an entire society, God-like from above. Fans of energy…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/20/2007

If you’re an Australian Labour Party supporter with more money than sense, it appears that the answer is yes. By the way, one wonders…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/20/2007

Wall Street Journal science columnist Robert Lee Hotz has a fascinating profile of epidemiologist John Ioannidis and his view that because of unacknowledged biases…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2007

Like seemingly ever other magazine these days, Parenting is going green, with an essay contest in which parents describe changes they’ve made at home…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2007

Wayne has reminded us here at Open Market that today marks the observance of an important holiday, Talk Like a Pirate Day (if…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/17/2007

Curve-aceous economist Arthur Laffer (and his colleague Wayne Winegarden) have a new study out this week, estimating the costs to the U.S. economy…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/14/2007

Shocking allegations, from the New York Times by way of Editor & Publisher: In their regular “Freakanomics” column which will appear in this Sunday’s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/13/2007

CEI analysts are frequent guests on TV news programs, and this week has been no exception. See below for a taste of recent interviews and…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2007

A lot of large mammals in Africa and Asia are currently threatened with extinction because the products into which they can be made into are…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2007

Wayne passes along a link today to a story about my favorite urban subculture of the moment: the freegans. Los Angeles Times staff writer…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/31/2007

Julie Satow of the New York Sun does a great job today profiling our very own Angela Logomasini’s new study on the costs…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2007

Tech Maverick and Internet billionaire Mark Cuban has some choice words for would-be web entrepreneurs of today. Basically, don’t bother: The internet of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/21/2007

Jason and the rest of the Bureaucrash crew are making their way across the northeast part of our great continent this week, as part of…