The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/03/2010

Many in the Internet gambling industry are skeptical about the impact that the new gambling laws, which went into full effect this Tuesday,…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/01/2010

Today is the day that US credit processing companies must begin complying with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). After regulatory…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 05/13/2010

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” —Salman Rushdie Today it was announced that the ACLU…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 05/03/2010

It isn’t greedy CEOs, global warming, or even a really bad, really expensive decade of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico that is the cause…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 04/09/2010

As of April 6th any pub owner offering free drink specials, all you can drink deals, or drinking games could lose their liquor license, end…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/23/2010

CEI appreciates the virtual knuckle-bump we received from the folks over at Treehugger.com for our Human Achievement Hour efforts. Lloyd Alter’s post declares…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/19/2010

Oh yeah, I’m going there. Cigarettes are a human achievement. Just like food items (i.e. chocolate) or beverages (i.e. wine) cigarettes are a consumable product…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/17/2010

Leave it to man to improve upon mother nature. Sure, she’s got trees of every shape color and size, they rustle in the breeze, and…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/16/2010

Since the very first man installed the very first toilet inside the home, women have been there to nag him to put down the toilet…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/12/2010

Thank the calendars it’s Friday! Many of you have already left your jobs and are on the way to a pub to meet some friends…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/11/2010

Today’s Human Achievement of 2009 highlights an oft overlooked benefit of defending individuals’ right to freely innovate and compete: technologies become more available…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/09/2010

No, I’m not talking about a bad Bruce Willis movie (science has yet to come up with a way to prevent box office boredom bombs).

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/08/2010

To continue our daily series of human achievement highlighting, today’s post focuses on what could be the next great revolution in sexual health; the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/05/2010

March 27th at 8:30pm local time is Human Achievement Hour once again! In the lead-up to this year’s celebration of the event, we’ve…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/02/2010

March 27th at 8:30pm local time folks will be sitting in the dark to cast their vote for global climate action. While most of the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/24/2010

Could a private organization get away with handling the Snowpocalypse/Snowmegeddon the way the District of Columbia department of transportation handled it? Maybe, but they wouldn’t…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/17/2010

Vets mean serious business when it comes to protecting their industry from competition in Oklahoma. Similar to other states, OK vets are taking…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/12/2010

Imagine that you brave the cold to complete the laborious task of carving out a parking space on some snow encrusted street. How pissed off…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/11/2010

A billboard appeared in Wyoming, Minn. this week (the person/org responsible is still unknown) with the visage of former President George W. Bush asking…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/09/2010

Judges in California continue to surprise observers nationwide by repeatedly making rational decisions. At least, rational decisions about the adult film industry in the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/22/2010

Insurance commissioner of Washington State, Mike Kreidler wants the legislature to ban the use of credit scores from the measurements insurers use in determining…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/15/2010

Coastal residents in NC are trying to fight a deal that would allow insurance companies to increase the rates for property insurance in these…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/10/2009

As I blogged about earlier this month over at the Objective Standard, states are beginning to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/09/2009

While it is certainly is good news that the state of Maryland hasn’t denied permission to developers hoping to install slots in a new…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/03/2009

Let’s face it, in this era, liberty-minded folk are in the minority (as if there was a time we were the majority). However, just because…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/20/2009

Earlier this week my colleague Ryan Young posted a blog about the FCC’s proposal to increase access to and decrease the cost of broadband…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/19/2009

More cash/Fewer Clunkers Via the Von Mises blog:  According to the consumer pricing index report released by the Bureau of Labor…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/15/2009

Here’s an interesting video from ReasonTV (a Reason Magazine offshoot) that mimics the popular UPS whiteboard commercials. In this video Nick…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/13/2009

The FDA is getting into the business of mixing drinks.  Employing a dangerously questionable array of regulatory powers, the agency is trying to determine if…