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In right’s energy-subsidy clash, shades of Koch vs. Pickens
E&E News
The Obfiscation Agenda
Beverage Industry Today
Health Benefits of Alcohol Defended
Washington Post
Feds not Needed
New York Times Magazine
Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual dinner and CEI president Lawson Bader are mentioned in a New York Times magazine feature article examining the opportunities…
Watchdog Wire
Report: Governments Mask Pension Debt, May Put Taxpayers At Risk
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's report, "Understanding Public Pension Debt" was featured by Nevada's Watchdog Wire: A new report once again sheds light…
Investor's Business Daily
Big Government Can’t Keep Up In Digital Era
Article by Michael Barone Earlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of ObamaCare backers who argued that…
LA Times
Lawyers Challenging Health Subsidies Seek Quick Supreme Court Ruling
Lawyers challenging President Obama's healthcare law filed a quick appeal with the Supreme Court on Thursday, urging justices to take up the issue this fall…
Business Insurance
D.C. Appeals Court Strikes Down ACA Insurance Subsidies for Federal Exchanges
Daily Press
D.C. Court Ruling Deals New Blow to Affordable Care Act
President Obama's healthcare law was dealt a new blow Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that due…
McClatchy DC
D.C. Court Ruling Deals New Blow to Affordable Care Act
President Obama's health care law was dealt a new blow Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that due to a wording glitch in the…
The Washington Times
DRIESSEN: What’s really behind anti-Keystone fanaticism?
Hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has promised to give $100 million to anti-Keystone Democrats, and Hollywood elites are lending their support and filmmaking skills to…
The Hill
NSA sued for EPA records
A group of conservative and environmental organizations is suing the National Security Agency (NSA) in order to obtain records about top officials at the Environmental…
The Hill
Obama Sprinting to Finish Line to ‘Transform’ America
Cato Institute
Piling On: More New Research Shows No Link Between “Polar Vortex” and Global Warming
Spurred by all of this, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent a petition to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)…
Cato Institute
Which Study Has The Right Conclusion On Obama Climate Rule?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has long studied the effects of government rules, estimates that “government compliance and intervention” cost the economy $1.8 trillion…
Cato Institute
Distracted Drivers Or Driverless Cars?
The treatment of self-driving vehicles by policymakers represents one of the major barriers to their emergence, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Only New…
Cato Institute
Consumer Groups Fight Back Against Junk Science Tactics
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s report analyzed the “constant barrage of news headlines” that is instilling fear in consumers about synthetic and natural chemicals.
Cato Institute
The Odd Couple Converge
Cato Institute
Obama’s chief science adviser must explain secret emails
Cato Institute
White House sued over official’s email records
Cato Institute
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Cato Institute
More Profits, Fewer Jobs, But Many Fewer Workers, Too
William Galston makes a valid point with his comment that low interest rates may be counterproductive in the country’s search for more employment (“Soaring Profits…
Cato Institute
We all need a fresh start in 2014
Another change? We need to stop the avalanche of regulations that are slowing our recovery. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) reports that government agencies issued…
Cato Institute
Electronic surveillance capacity of state, local government creates strange bedfellows
There is growing bipartisan support in Congress for the USA Freedom Act, which would limit the bulk, suspicionless surveillance of Americans. While Congress considers the…
Cato Institute
Children of the corn subsidies
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Taxpayers for Common Sense support the Feinstein-Coburn Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2013.
Cato Institute
Drowning In A Costly, Intrusive Federal Regulatory Flood
Earlier this week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has a long history of highlighting Washington’s regulatory excess, said that during the first week of December,…
Cato Institute
Experts: DOT probably has legal legs to ban calls
The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute offered a dissenting voice Thursday, calling it “clearly arbitrary and capricious” for DOT to ban cellphone calls under consumer protection…
Cato Institute
The Battle of Two Hedgehogs
As it happened, Simon won the bet. Because of his victory, he became a conservative hero. He died in 1998, but he continues to be…
Cato Institute
A New Wave of Challenges to Health Law
More than a year after the Supreme Court upheld the central provision of President Obama’s health care overhaul, a fresh wave of legal challenges to…
Cato Institute
Beer industry is important — and overtaxed
The Competitive Enterprise Institute points out that the beer industry in America supports more than 1 million jobs and $1 billion in economic activity. Here in…
Cato Institute
UAW chief’s legacy to be decided in South
The Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute even put a message on a billboard near the factory in June that said: “Auto unions ate Detroit. Next meal…
Cato Institute
Obamacare Will Kill the Middle Class
This is what it looks like when government tries to create a more perfect society by intervening in the private economy and taking away consumer…
Cato Institute
Roll out the red tape
Cato Institute
Hold the line! Conservative groups push Republicans to save sequester cuts
Eighteen organizations signed the letter to Republican…
Cato Institute
The heavy price of regulations
Moreover, countless other federal, state, local and international regulatory authorities are busy interpreting, implementing and imposing rules under thousands of laws, ordinances and treaties. The…
The Wall Street Journal
Latest Legal Challenges to the Health Law: A Guide
A fourth lawsuit is pending in Virginia. That case, as well as the one in Washington, is in the hands of Michael A. Carvin, a…
The Wall Street Journal
How to Fix Too Big to Fail
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out in its constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank, Title I of the law gives the FSOC the ability to…
The Wall Street Journal
Obamacare’s Next Bout: More Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) took the primary lead in finding funding and potential plaintiffs, as well as coordinating future…
The Wall Street Journal
Health Law Faces New Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, is coordinating the suits and helping with their legal costs, a spokeswoman said…
The Wall Street Journal
Cuts can be made, but politicians have to want to make them
The program costs $9 billion annually and really should be eliminated since crop insurance is commercially available. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, even a…
The Wall Street Journal
Regulatory overreach is the new normal
The Federal Register lists proposed and final rules, notices, corrections and presidential documents. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the 1939 Federal Register was 2,620…
The Wall Street Journal
Regulating The Citizenry: What Really Happened During The Partial Government Shutdown
During the partial government shutdown, other agencies were also busy regulating the American people. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute reports, the federal government set…
The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge To Sweeping EPA Carbon Rules
The appeal was supported by the U.S. Chamber, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Southeastern Legal Foundation as well as companies like coal…
The Wall Street Journal
IG: ‘No evidence’ EPA used private emails to keep records secret
Jackson also came under fire from critics when documents released to the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute showed that in late 2009, she asked an official…
The Wall Street Journal
Sunday pops
But Competitive Enterprise Institute numbers crunchers easily identified billions upon billions of dollars of the fattest of fat. But, then again, it’s pretty difficult to…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/#ixzz2fSp0xDgF
Conservatives go all out against FERC nominee
This anti-Binz alliance includes the 60 Plus Association, American Commitment, the American Energy Alliance, the American Tradition Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the Caesar Rodney Institute,…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/#ixzz2fSp0xDgF
Colorado Energy Plan Looms as Issue for Obama FERC Nominee
Binz’s detractors include the Denver-based Independence Institute and the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, both describe themselves as advocates for limited government. They say he guaranteed…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/#ixzz2fSp0xDgF
Conservative groups rally against Obama’s energy nominee
The letter also alleges that Binz would slow down FERC action on natural gas pipeline and export projects. Other groups that signed the letter…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/#ixzz2fSp0xDgF
Betting on the Apocalypse
ONE day in October 1990, the iconoclastic economist Julian L. Simon walked out to get the mail at his house in the Washington suburb of…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/#ixzz2fSp0xDgF
Volkswagen and UAW Are Getting Cozier, but Will They Ultimately Match Up?
The UAW also remains staunchly opposed over any aims in Chattanooga by politicians in Tennessee, a conservative redoubt where much of the opposition to the Detroit…
Politico
Also in Court News – Mann Defamation Continues
ALSO IN COURT NEWS — MANN DEFAMATION CASE CONTINUES: A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday shot down a request by National Review Online to…
Politico
VW and UAW meet over U.S plant, report says
Critics argue that the union’s bargaining style is partly to blame for the recent struggles of Detroit’s automakers. One anti-union group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Politico
Judge refuses to toss climate scientist Mann’s defamation lawsuit
Mann sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative advocacy group, in 2012 over their blog posts that alleged his research…
Politico
Activists and workers protest minimum wage and working conditions at fast food restaurants across Boston
Critics of the fast food protest movement say that the minimum wage was never meant to support a family and that the government should not…
Politico
Unsettled Science
A superior court judge in the District of Columbia thinks she knows better, last month using the “settled science” principle to side with Penn State…
Politico
Is It Time to Fire the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
But instead of being given a voice, opponents of giving the NSA more power through CISPA were ridiculed by the Committee. Chairman Rogers (R-MI)…
Politico
Sen. David Vitter raising more questions about EPA’s use of personal email accounts
The email between Jackson and the Siemens’ official was obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group that opposes what it says is overregulation by…
Politico
As Bristol Bay fight heats up, EPA’s McCarthy may visit proposed mine site
Politico
Federal judge dismisses states’ challenge to Dodd-Frank law
Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit brought last year by State National Bank of…
Politico
5 questions on high-speed rail and its U.S. future
According to a June report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, the Federal Railroad Administration “has strict crash safety regulation for passenger…
Policy.Mic
The Curious Case Of Michael Mann and the Most Controversial Chart in Science
Both Mann and the researchers at East Anglia have been investigated by almost a dozen different organizations, including both the governments of the…
Policy.Mic
Twelve Attorneys General Sue the EPA
According to a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), EPA granted FOIA fee waiver requests to environmental groups 92 percent of the time, but…
Policy.Mic
Apple, Facebook, Google and others urge greater government transparency
More than 50 parties signed the letter, including the ACLU, American Library Association, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Salesforce.com,…
Policy.Mic
House farm bill sows seeds for bigger legislative fight
The Competitive Enterprise Institute said the bill “greatly expands the crop insurance subsidy program.” Some subsidies could become permanent, too, because the bill repeals laws…
Policy.Mic
Enviros, lefty groups, free-marketeers team up against nuclear corporate welfare
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Tex., has filed an amendment to kill this bailout. A handful of groups from the libertarian-leaning R Street and Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Policy.Mic
Dodd-Frank, Obamacare And The Erosion Of The Rule Of Law
Just four months later, on July 21, 2010, Obama signed another monstrosity into law: the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, an 850-page bill that has generated…
The Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s fatal flaw
Michael Carvin, who argued the Supreme Court’s Obamacare cases last year, is working with the Competitive Enterprise Institute to reverse the agency’s decision. “The…
The Washington Times
July Zeitgeist
The Washington Times
Bad regulation is our biggest public scam
In the US, the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently surveyed the extent and cost of federal regulations. The Federal Register, a compendium of regulations, has swollen…
The Washington Times
Now the Environmental Protection Agency
The allegations were first made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. It claimed the EPA was not being fair as…
The Washington Times
Government regs hurt passenger rail
That’s the message of this paper from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The writers point out the American safety regulators require passenger rail cars to…
The Washington Times
Top political appointees use secret email accounts
This article was also featured on the Drudge Report. The EPA’s secret email accounts were revealed last fall by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
The Washington Times
Abuse of Power Is Clearly Obama Policy
But maybe the answer lies in the workings of the Environmental Protection Agency, which appears to have been operating like a brother from another mother…
The Washington Times
EPA stonewalled records requests by Republican-led states
The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the EPA granted fee waivers for 92 percent of FOIA requests from major…
The Washington Times
Obama uses government to crush opponents
The Freedom of Information Act provides citizens access to government documents for a reasonable fee. When Obama’s environmental supporters seek a fee waiver, they get…
The Washington Times
Group goes to court over text messages of Obama’s EPA nominee
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking potential messages to or from McCarthy, the agency’s top air…
The Washington Times
A Legacy Litigated
Here’s the thinking behind the lawsuit, funded in part by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute. The problem, apparently, is a drafting…
The Washington Times
The cost of regulations: Economic tyranny
The big-government Obama administration’s propensity for end runs around Congress exacerbates the unchecked growth of federal regulations that diminish both liberty and prosperity.
The Washington Times
More mischief
Now comes word that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing the Freedom of Information Act. Agencies can charge FOIA request makers for the…
The Washington Times
EPA makes information requests more difficult for conservatives
According to EPA records obtained by the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, since January 2012 the agency has granted fee waivers for 75 out of…
The Washington Times
Uh Oh: Obama’s EPA Mistreated Conservative Groups, Too?
It’s not just the IRS that treats groups on the right differently from the rest. According to documents obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the…
The Washington Times
Consternated Conferences
The conservative movement’s factions also pushed back against the often puzzling decisions of the American Conservative Union board, which controls CPAC. The gay conservative group…
The Washington Times
What we learned about immigration reform yesterday
Not a single right-leaning think tank rose in defense of Heritage’s anti-immigration study. The American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute, the Competitive Enterprise…
The Washington Times
US Senate approves Internet sales tax
Opposing the bill are several trade groups and Internet companies, including TechAmerica, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, eBay, Etsy, the Information Technology…
The Washington Times
Obamacare Gets New Court Challenge
Opponents of the health-care overhaul have filed a new lawsuit Thursday against the federal government on behalf of four individuals and three employers in the…
The Washington Times
Jones aims to curb cyber-snooping
Under CISPA, private emails and a user’s Internet browser history could be sent to the federal government. Users would have no way of knowing whether…
The Washington Times
Privatize almost everything
Finally, if you are having trouble with the quiz at the beginning, you might wish to go the websites of major free-market think tanks, such…
The Washington Times
Watchdog group seeks FOIA records on nonprofit EPA ‘bullied’ out of contract
ATI and another nonprofit, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, have also sued the EPA over alleged violation of open records acts, accusing the agency of protecting…
The Washington Times
Pass CISPA. Don’t Pass a Big, Messy Copyright Bill
There’s still the matter of a new FCC chairman. It’s important that we get a humble FCC chairman, not a wild-eyed activist. A letter…
The Washington Times
The Circuit: MetroPCS shareholders approve T-Mobile deal
The letter, dated April 23, is signed by TechFreedom as well as Heritage Action, Americans for Tax Reform and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “We urge…
The Washington Times
Barbara Boxer Reveals EPA Email Aliases During Gina McCarthy Hearing
The secret email accounts were publicly revealed last fall by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think-tank that was tipped off about Jackson’s alias…
The Washington Times
EPA vows better records management amid criticism
A pair of conservative groups – the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the American Tradition Institute – have expanded their push for more records disclosure…
The Washington Times
Conservative groups sue for EPA officials’ instant messages
Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for instant- message records for several top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor”…
The Washington Times
Morning Energy
EPA COMMUNICATIONS LAWSUITS CONTINUE WITH IM COMPLAINT: The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute last Thursday filed a new lawsuit that continues the…
American Thinker
Michael Mann’s latest bogus claim
Michael Mann, the Father of the Hockey Stick graph — you know, the one where they had to “hide the decline” — seems to have…
American Thinker
Bills would require warrants for police to use GPS tracking
Groups voicing support for the GPS Act include the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform’s DigitalLiberty.net, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Electronic Frontier…
American Thinker
Slowly, GOP shifting on same-sex marriage
The final safe haven within the conservative movement for anti-gay bigotry — the American Conservative Union’s CPAC convention, held last week in Maryland — received…
American Thinker
Inside the Beltway: CBS is the Clueless Broadcast Network
American Thinker
Conservative case for gay marriage
In more signs of change, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference were widely criticized by mainstream conservatives for excluding pro-gay organizations from this…