Citation
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…
Fox News
Critics say ‘transparent’ administration anything but open about federal regulations
Federal agencies are required to report all the regulatory actions they have under consideration in what's known as the Unified Agenda twice a year. In…
Townhall
Wind Blows
Platts
Bay nomination process marked so far by fewer fireworks, outcry by free market groups
Review Journal
Nevada prepares for arrival of fracking
Sun News
Turning lights on
Washington Times
The Light Fantastic
Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Lights-out ‘Earth Hour’ is 60 minutes wasted
Politico
Shut Up With All The Plane Silence Talk, CEI Says
Politico
Turn ON the Lights and Do Something Constructive for the Planet
Daily Caller
White House: raising minimum wage would help women
Fox Business
Small Biz vs. ObamaCare One Step Closer to Supreme Court
Today’s hearing brings the case one step closer to the Supreme Court, according to Kazman, as neither side is likely to bow out. “It was…
Free Beacon
A Tale of Two Cities
Cato
Kansas Court Wrests School-Budget Decisions from Voters
Class Action Countermeasures
Guest Post – The Opt-Out Refund
Class Action Countermeasures features Adam Shulman's and his solution for settlements called the "Opt Out Refund." Adam Schulman of the Center for Class Action Fairness…
National Review
Man vs. Wild — California Water Crisis
National Review’s Law and Disorder Debate, “Man vs. Wild: California in Crisis,” took place in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2014. The keynote speakers were…
Fox News
SolarCity’s skyrocketing stock dependent on government tax giveaways
National Review
The EPA’s Anti-Transparency Antics
Citation
Pruitt Eyes New Legal Discovery To Bolster ‘Sue And Settle’ Attack On EPA
Washington Times
Al Gore’s latest outlandish outburst
Newsmax
Farmers Say EPA Data Dumps to Green Groups Endanger Their Privacy
Forbes
Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be “Proportionate”
News Max
EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Deals Blow to Rural Homes
News Max
Stagflation, Anyone?
Heartlander
Obama Hires Incendiary Podesta as Top Advisor
New York Post
Obama Makes Up His Own Rules
New York Post
Obama Makes Up His Own Rules
Daily Caller
Report: Obama Offers UN Climate Agreement That Doesn’t Need Congressional Approval
Washington Times
EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report
Law 360
Netflix-Walmart Deal Hurt Competition, 9th Circ. Hears
Law 360 reports on the objection to the Netflix-Wal-Mart Settlement in which Ted Frank claims that the settlement was not fair for class members.
Legal Newsline
Eleven AGs, three organizations file appellate briefs in Dodd-Frank challenge
Free Beacon
Experts Slam Schumer’s Junk Science
AV Web
Aircraft Cell Phone Call Ban Sent To House
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Proposed SEC Rules On Crowdfunding Threaten Access To Capital By Locking Out Ordinary Investors
In submitted comments, John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argued that the proposed rules could result in “costly, paternalistic requirements on crowdfunding that have…
Crowdfund Insider
Troops Rallying For Smarter Rules Around Equity Crowdfunding
One News Now
Talking Vehicles’ Hit Brick Wall: ‘A Variety Of Deployment Challenges
Washington Post
Inconvenient Facts for Obamacare
Newsmax
Cuomo’s ‘Tax-Free’ Plan for NY Is Not So Tax-Free
Townhall
Married To The State
Townhall
This Farm Bill Stinks
Daily Caller
Obama Has Done More to Circumvent Congress Than Bush
Washington Post
Obama’s minimum wage plan has more statutory authority than prior “unilateral” actions
The Blaze
Obama Minimum Wage Order Likely To Impact Just 3 Percent Of Federal Contractors
Daily Caller
Al Gore Once Again Suggests ‘Fertility Management’ To Fight Global Warming
Free Beacon
New Study: Unemployment Benefits Weaken Economy
Biotech Now
Cheerios Labeling “Has Emboldened, Not Appeased, Anti-technology Activists”
There continues to be buzz in the media over General Mills’s January 2 announcement to source its original Cheerios’ tiny amount of sugar and corn…
Citation
Energy analyst warns of ‘regulatory capture,’ urges adaptation to climate change
Reuters
UPDATE 1-U.S. judge rejects challenge to Obamacare insurance subsidies
Washington Times
Federal Judge Backs Obamacare Subsidies In Win For Administration
Mass Live
Increased Boston-To-Springfield Passenger Rail Service May One Day Become A Reality
Marc Scribner, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, thinks investment by the state on a primarily private rail line is unnecessary because private…
The Business Journals
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Obamacare’s Tax Credits
Washington Examiner
Bill Clinton Appointee Protects Obamacare From Lawsuit That Would Destroy Federal Exchanges
Bank Investment Consultant
Court Rules In Favor Of IRS On Obamacare Tax Credits
Legal Times
Judge Tosses Suit Over IRS Health Care Law Regulation
New York Times
Federal Judge Upholds Health Care Subsidies
Politico
Obamacare Tax Credit Suit Rejected
Politico
Clean Air Act: EPA’s Charade To Justify War On Coal Plants
Washington Times
EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report
National Journal
When Conservatism Collides With America’s Oil Boom
Even the most committed free-marketers realize Washington will not look on this debate lightly. Old memories die hard, and politicians of all parties are also…
Denver Post
Robert Reich: Income inequality the defining issue for U.S.
Washington Times
Obama Administration Guidelines Could Lead to Racial Quotas in School Discipline
Investor's Business Daily
Taxpayers Losers In Fiat-Chrysler Deal
And for what? Yes, they kept a U.S. company in business. But now it's an Italian company. This prompted John Berlau, a senior fellow at…
The Hill
Court weighs fate of net neutrality
Opponents of the net neutrality rules argue the FCC is stifling innovation by meddling in the marketplace. The agency “needs to…
The Hill
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…
National Review
Maryland’s Low-Energy Chill
The increased cost of energy isn’t just a side effect of Maryland’s environmental agenda; for radical green policymakers, it’s the point, explains Myron Ebell, the…
The Blaze
How the IRS Could Chill Political Speech by Redefining the Word ‘Candidate’
f adopted, such a rules change would be open to broad legal interpretation, said Hans Bader, senior attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free…
The Blaze
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…
Daily Caller
Podesta’s White House return means a more aggressive green agenda
“Since the Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 elections, he has criticized the Obama White House for wasting time on legislation that…
Daily Caller
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.
USA Today
Rising sea levels torment Norfolk, Va., and coastal U.S.
Climate skeptics don't buy the global projections. "We don't know how much sea levels will rise or fall," says Myron Ebell, director of the Center…
USA Today
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,…
USA Today
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…
Washington Examiner
Not-so-friendly skies: Deregulation didn’t fail, it was never really tried
Anderson said that, although the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act eliminated the Civilian Aeronautics Board, the DOJ attorneys to this day use the old CAB antitrust…
Politico
Anthony Foxx: DOT will consider banning cell phone calls on planes
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian group, questioned the grounds for DOT’s move. CEI fellow Marc Scribner said the move “runs counter to legislative intent…
Politico
Path to a successful spectrum auction requires focus
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Fred Campbell recently concluded that restrictions on the participation of large firms in previous FCC spectrum auctions have delayed the provision…
The Atlantic
How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World
Just how free the free market really is today is debatable. The United States is perceived as the paragon of free-market capitalism. And yet over…
McClatchy DC
Regulatory bullying? You bet your life
If companies failed in insurance pursuits, many people would suffer, but the financial system would not be affected in a major way. It is additionally…
The Diane Rehm Show
William Yeatman on the Diane Rehm Show
Fox News
Regulation Nation: Gov’t regs estimated to pound private sector with $1.8T in costs
A new report on the government's regulatory actions was released just before Thanksgiving, and it contains more than 3,300 rules -- which the Competitive Enterprise…
Politico
EPA proposal could shift war on renewable fuels
Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called the program a “Soviet-style production quota system.”…
Politico
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…
ObamaCare faces another challenge in federal court
ObamaCare faces another challenge in federal court
“Congress figured because it was loading up the state exchanges with a lot of goodies that just about every state would make the choice to…
ObamaCare faces another challenge in federal court
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…
ObamaCare faces another challenge in federal court
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…
ABC News
Jessica Alba Leads Mommy War on Synthetic Chemicals
Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based Libertarian think-tank, conducts research and analysis on environmental regulatory issues and said she didn't believe…
Free Beacon
Steyer Panelist Wants Massive Tax Hikes, Smaller TVs
William Yeatman, a senior fellow and energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, also criticized Harvey’s vision. “The fact is that wealthier is healthier,…
Free Beacon
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…
USA Today
Long-shot legal challenges to health care law abound
Politico
Monsanto confronts devilish public image problem
Entrepreneur
The Ridiculous Thing One Congressman Said About Self-Driving Cars
Entrepreneur
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…
Daily Caller
Dodd-Frank enforcement agency puts Indian tribes in the crosshairs
Class Defense Blog
Justice Alito Addresses A Federal District Judge’s Policy Of Requiring Race- and Gender-Conscious Selection of Class Counsel
Class Defense Blog discusses Ted Frank's objections to the staffing race and gender requirements for the class' counsel in the case Martin v. Blessings. One…
Class Defense Blog
Roll out the red tape
Wall Street Journal
Justice Alito Slams Judge for Imposing Race Requirements
The Wall Street Journal discusses a judge who imposed race and gender staffing requirements for law firms representing clients in class action lawsuits. Ted Frank discusses the…
NC Register
Obamacare Threatens to Hit Many Families’ Pocketbooks
Main Street
Could Combined Heat and and Power Save You a Bundle?
"CHP benefits consumers by lowering manufacturers' energy costs," said Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who studies energy issues. "What is…
Arizona Daily Independent
EPA targets wrong cause of haze in Grand Canyon
William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute notes that: “Regional Haze is an aesthetic regulation pursuant to the Clean Air Act. Its purpose is to…
Wall Street Journal
How Lawsuits Fund Lobbyists
The Wall Street Journal discusses how privacy groups that file class-action lawsuits against companies such as Facebook are the real benificiaries, while users may recieve…
Wall Street Journal
Hold the line! Conservative groups push Republicans to save sequester cuts
Eighteen organizations signed the letter to Republican…