Los Angeles Times
House passes bill to limit Solyndra-style loan guarantees
Hot Air
One Film That Put Free Speech in the Cross Hairs
From Hot Air: Hans Bader, Senior Attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote on September 13 that “the Egyptian government said, ‘We ask…
Politico
House passes ‘No More Solyndras’
From Andrew Restuccia's article in Politico: Conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, take issue with the provision allowing…
Legal News Line
Group says Obama administration officials skirting FOIA laws
From Michael Tremoglie's article in LegalNewsline: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed a lawsuit alleging an Obama administration official is using a private…
Bloomberg
Republicans Drop Energy Efficiency From Platform
From Ari Natter's article in Bloomberg: “I think it's direct recent empirical evidence of wayward stimulus spending,” William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst…
Environmental Finance
Anti-Solyndra bill doesn’t go far enough, say lobbyists
From Environmental Finance: “Why is [the DOE] running an investment bank?” asked William Yeatman, energy policy analyst for think-tank the Competitive Enterprise…
Forbes
Easterbrook Strikes Again, Slamming Flimsy Derivative Suit
Forbes reports on Ted Frank's victory in another objection to a settlement which benefited the plaintiff's attorney's to the detriment of their clients.
Daily Caller
Free-market think tank sues Treasury Dept. for withholding internal carbon tax documents
From Michael Bastasch's article in The Daily Caller: On Monday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute announced it had filed a lawsuit against the Treasury…
Washington Examiner
Think tank sues EPA for official’s secret emails
From Mark Tapscott's article in The Washington Examiner: A potential landmark government transparency court case took shape today as a conservative think…
Washington Examiner
More than 1600 pages of regulations added to Federal Register last week, cost now $1.8 trillion per year
From Michael Bastasch’s article in The Daily Caller: Last week, 1,641 pages of regulations were added to the 2012 Federal Register, meaning it…
Washington Examiner
Sixty-four free-market groups send letter to Congress opposing wind tax credits
From Michael Bastasch’s article in The Daily Caller: “It is time to end special tax provisions that distort the energy market and increase…
Hot Air
Not ‘Two Decades’ After All… Lilly Ledbetter Deceived DNC, Knew Of Her Pay Disparity Since 1992
From Matt Vespa's post on Hot Air: This is an update on my previous post on Lilly Ledbetter. It appears that not only…
Denver Post
A victory for e-book buyers
From The Denver Post: The settlement orders the publishers to end their contracts with Apple and allow retailers to set their own prices…
Denver Post
Obama, Romney unlikely to share Bush’s space-travel ambitions
From Gus Taylor’s article in The Washington Times: “The real problem is Congress. They don’t really care about actually doing anything in space,”…
Overlawyered
Lawmaker Tries to Shut Up Linebacker, Cont’d
From Overlawyered: I’ve got a post at Maryland for All Families following up on the free-speech controversy that flared up when Del. Emmett…
Forbes
The Path To Job Creation Runs Through Regulatory Reform
From Ed Pozzuoli's column in Forbes: According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews, regulation’s “hidden cost” has ballooned to $1.8 trillion on…
Forbes
Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill Millions of Africans
From William Souder’s article in Slate: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a limited-government, free-enterprise think tank, maintains the website rachelwaswrong.org, which details Carson’s complicity…
Forbes
Congress looks at sales taxes for online purchases
From Burton Speakman’s article in Vindy: Jessica Melugin, an adjunct analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argued it would be burdensome to ask online…
Washington Examiner
How did the U.S. fall behind Canada in air traffic safety?
From Sean Higgins article in The Washington Examiner: We wouldn't have to run a lot of these risks in the first place if the United…
Forbes
Lawyer Fights $10 Million Fee For “Cosmetic” Johnson And Johnson Settlement
Forbes reports on Ted Frank's objection to Johnson & Johnson's settlement that will benefit the plaintiff's lawyers much more than the class members.
Daily Caller
Obama’s African-American Clients Got Coupons, Not Cash
From The Daily Caller: Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told TheDC, “When it comes…
Forbes
Facebook Allies Accused Of Profiting From Suits Against It
Forbes mentions Ted Frank's consideration of objecting to a settlement that paid attorneys a much larger amount than the class members. Ted Frank…
Overlawyered
Victories for Ted Frank’s Center for Class Action Fairness
Overlawyered discusses Ted Frank's victory in the objection to the Sears shareholder settlement. Ted’s successful 7th Circuit objection in June in a Sears…
Boston Herald
Mass. biotech reaps Monsanto deal
From Ira Kantor's article in The Boston Herald: Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and co-author of…
Boston Herald
Tech issues infuse RNC and DNC platforms
From Ted Johnson’s article in Variety: Fred Campbell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Communications, Liberty and Innovation Project, said that the significance…
New York Post
Obama’s stealth killer car tax
From Michelle Malkin's syndicated column: Sam Kazman at the Competitive Enterprise Institute explained a decade ago: “The evidence on this issue comes from…
PJ Media
Higher Education Bubble Spawns Demographic Decline Among Educated Americans
From Instapundit: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Higher Education Bubble Spawns Demographic Decline Among Educated Americans. As college…
Human Events
Romney Energy Plan Makes Bold Contrast From Obama
From Audrey Hudson's post in Human Events: In addition to his strong support for fossil fuels, Romney recently took a tough stance against…
Daily Caller
GOP Platform includes Internet Freedom, language indicates influence of Rand Paul and libertarian-Republicans
From Josh Peterson's article in The Daily Caller: The GOP efforts are currently being modeled on the recent stance taken by the Ron…
Human Events
Internet Freedom Enters the Final Draft of the GOP Platform
From John Hayward's post in Human Events: These ideals have gained increasing support from many quarters of the libertarian and conservative movements, and…
SNL
Vacated CSAPR could open power plants to onerous haze rule requirements
Chief among the concerns for states, according to William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
News Busters
CNN Ignores Conservative Experts When Slamming Romney Welfare Ad as ‘False’
From Matt Hadro's article in Newsbusters: Hans Bader, senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, added that "Waiving work requirements in favor of…
Investor's Business Daily
Capitalism’s Record Of Success Beats The Government Option
From Steve Stanek's article in Investor's Business Daily: John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has noted the government's claimed number of "jobs…
Investor's Business Daily
Bailout Losses
John Berlau Featured in Special Report on Auto Bailouts…
Law 360
Netflix Subscriber Fights $27M Wal-Mart Antitrust Deal
Law 360 reports on Ted Frank challenging the Netflix-Wal-Mart settlement that did not benefit class members. Theodore H. Frank, a Netflix subscriber and…
Law 360
UN Slams U.S. Ethanol Policy
Sam Kazman talks about the consequences of ethanol mandates and subsidies on fox Business' Cavuto…
Tucson Citizen
EPA versus Arizona on regional haze issue
From Jonathan Duhamel's article in The Tucson Citizen: A previous post: EPA war on coal threatens…
Overlawyered
California’s Prop 37: Prop 65 in Organic Garb
From Overlawyered: From Hans Bader: would the measure be open to challenge as unconstitutional, or as federally preempted? …
Fox News
Taxpayer losses tied to auto bailout rise
From Doug McKelway's article on Fox News: John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues the stock decline reflects the liability of the…
Overlawyered
Maryland Roundup
From Overlawyered: If you think the current federal crusade on disparate minority school discipline rates is unreasonable, check out the…
Overlawyered
Facebook And FTC Agree Settlement Over Privacy Row
From Nathan Eddy’s post in TechWeekEurope: The FTC said it took action after Google violated a previous settlement with the…
Overlawyered
Ethanol vs. the World
From The Wall Street Journal: For more evidence, consider the ethanol waiver requested by the hunger charity ActionAid and the free-market Competitive Enterprise…
QC Online
Editorial: Naked truth about TSA
From an editorial in The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus: The fact that TSA is pursuing the case is no surprise given…
Barron's
Laws Gone Wild? Drowning in Regulation
Barron's highlights Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory burden. According to a forthcoming report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute called Tip of…
Overlawyered
Feds’ Crusade on Disproportionate Minority School Discipline Rates
From Overlawyered: Also includes a sidebar on the feds’ somewhat contrasting “anti-bullying” campaign. More: Hans Bader, plus a letter from…
E Week
Google $22.5M Settlement With FTC Over Privacy Criticized by Industry Group
From Robert J. Mullin's article in eWeek: A group promoting competitive innovation on the Internet has criticized the FTC’s “headline-grabbing settlement” for $22.5…
E Week
Womack Seeks to Close Quill Loophole, Force Online Stores to Pay State Sales Tax
From Neil McCabe’s column in Townhall: Christie said taxation of online sales an important issue to all the nation’s governors and endorsed federal…
E Week
Red state farmers, conservatives clash over farm bill
From Tom Lutely’s article in The Billings Gazette: Conservative groups like Americans for Prosperity, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the Competitive…
NJ
In the light of day, that solar plan looks like cap-and-trade
From Paul Mulshine's column in The Star Ledger: That’s a bailout. On that Myron Ebell of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute is in…
Overlawyered
Chicken Scraps
From Overlawyered: I joined hosts Mark Newgent and Andrew Langer of RedMaryland on their BlogTalkRadio show Monday evening to talk…
Overlawyered
Unhappy Birthday to You
Call the State National Bank of Big Spring,…
Overlawyered
State of the Web: Which vision of an ‘open Internet’ would you fight for?
The physical layer of the Internet is owned by a tight cabal of powerful corporations that includes behemoths like AT&T and Verizon Communications. During the…
National Review
What is NYU Going to Do?
From George Leef's post in The National Review: The furor over Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s opposition to same-sex marriage…
Overlawyered
Labor and Employment Roundup
From Overlawyered: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains why he sees no contradiction in opposing the Employment Non-Discrimination…
Fortune
Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars
Fortune discusses the problem with cy pres awards and references Ted Frank for more details. The key recurring concern with any class action…
Law Fare Blog
Ryan Radia of CEI on the Liability Exemption Provisions of Lieberman-Collins
From Paul Rosenzweig's post on Lawfare: Ryan Radia, who works for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes in with a few a couple of…
Law Fare Blog
Expanding Title IX
Hans Bader discusses the legal and practical implications of expanding Title IX. Fox News Channel's Fox&Friends, July 24, 2012…
Law Fare Blog
Answers to Your Questions on Skilled Immigration
From The New York Times‘ Economix blog: Q. Do you agree with David Bier from the Competitive Enterprise Institute that “highly skilled foreign…
Forbes
Carbon Taxomania: Bipartisan Stupidity On Steroids
From Larry Bell's column in Forbes: As my respected friend Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) notes, “During…
Forbes
Libertarians make the case: net neutrality is unconstitutional
From Cyrus Farivar’s article in Ars Technica: A group of well-known libertarian organizations has filed an amicus brief (PDF) to the US Court…
America's Future Foundation
Profiles in Liberty: Fred Smith
From Tom Swanson's column for America's Future Foundation: As he prepares to name a successor, Fred Smith has big plans for the…
Hot Air
ABC News releases first home video of Colorado shooter James Holmes
Power Magazine
EPA’s “Sue and Settle Rulemaking” Criticized in New Report, Congressional Hearing
From POWER magazine: The EPA's Regional Haze program, established by the Clean Air Act in 1977, seeks to remedy visibility impairment at federal…
Washington Times
Carbon tax proposal by left-right coalition sparks backlash
From Daniel Wiser's column in The Washington Times: Continuing discussions about the carbon tax have sparked a backlash among other conservative policy analysts.
Forbes
Obama: Biggest Spender in World History
From Peter Ferarra's article in Forbes: Moreover, as Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Hans Bader reported in May, “The Democrat Congress [in 2008], confident…
Forbes
Showstalgia
Heartland Institute
Enviro Groups Rally Against Fast-Tracking California High-Speed Rail
From Kenneth Artz's article on Heartlander Digital Magazine: Marc Scribner, the land-use and transportation policy analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, agrees, saying,…
Politico
Low-key carbon tax talks fuel conservative outcry
From Darren Goode's article in Politico: But conservative carbon tax critics did a pre-emptive strike — leaking the agenda to select reporters hours…
Politico
Is China doing capitalism better than the United States?
D.C. anchor Mike Walter interviews Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., and Fred Smith, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute about a…
One News Now
Roads funding at dispute, new options exist
From Chris Woodward's column in OneNewsNow: Marc Scribner, land-use and transportation policy analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, believes things will reach a…
One News Now
Big Solar Projects Ignite Backlash
From Eric Obernauer’s article in The New Jersey Herald: As for the subsidies now received by fossil fuel industries, Brian McGraw of the…
News OK
EPA rule will be costly for Oklahoma, U.S. Chamber study says
From Jay Marks' article in The Oklahoman: “Despite all the publicity for other regulations, one of EPA’s more dubious, and arguably illegal regulatory…
Reason
A Conservative-Progressive Carbon Tax Plot?
Representatives from the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a number of environmentalist activist groups met behind closed doors yesterday apparently for the fifth time…
Marietta Daily Journal
Strikes for swipes: Study finds debit-card fee cap could hurt economic recovery
From Michael J. Pallerino's article in The Marietta Daily Journal: “Banks can only shift so much of the costs to consumers,” said John…
Washington Examiner
Conservative think tank AEI hosted secret meeting with liberal groups on carbon taxation
From The Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential: A copy of the agenda was obtained Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the…
Washington Examiner
When Corporate Welfare is Illegal — the ‘Gift Clause’
From Tim Carney’s column in The Washington Examiner: When the Rhode Island government gave a $75 million loan guarantee to Curt Schilling’s software…
The American Spectator
Obama v. Job Creation
From Doug Bandow's op-ed in The American Spectator: Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced the latest edition of his…
The American Spectator
Completing its First Year, U.S. Consumer Financial Bureau Sued by Small Texas Bank
From The Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s Watchdog Bytes blog: The filing of the lawsuit by a smaller bank seems to be a strategic move…
The American Spectator
Sorrell: A Different Kind of Election
From Andrew McKeever’s column in The Manchester Journal: In Vermont, Sorrell’s toughest test won’t likely be in the November general election, but rather…
The American Spectator
‘Internet freedom’ becomes hot cause for politicians across political spectrum
From Brandon Sasso’s article in The Hill: On Tuesday, a coalition of more than 100 advocacy groups unveiled their “Declaration of Internet Freedom,”…
Bennington Banner
Court Ruling on Blogger Sparks Debate
From Andrew Amelinckx's article in The Bennington Banner: In the wake of a district court judge’s ruling forcing Dan Valenti to remove references…
Douglas County Sentinel
Federal Regulations Hurting Georgia and Local Banks
From Haisten Willis' article in The Douglas County Sentinel: Economist John Berlau, Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital at the Competitive…
Daily Caller
Senate highway bill contains ‘smoothing’ pension gimmick
From Angela Malik's article on The Daily Caller: Marc Scribner, a transportation analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, explained that smoothing “in theory…
Daily Caller
Groups Release Dueling Internet Freedom Declarations
From Grant Gross’ article in CIO: One declaration, backed by Free Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology and…
Daily Caller
Groups That Fought Anti-Piracy Bills Post Their ‘Declaration of Internet Freedom’
From Jennifer Martinez’ article in The Hill: Libertarian groups TechFreedom and the Competitive Enterprise Institute released their own declaration over the weekend and…
The Wire
This Declaration of Internet Freedom Is Vague
From Rebecca Greenfield's article in The Atlantic: We're not the only ones to find this declaration too simple. As a direct response, TechFreedom…
The Wire
Another Energy Department-Funded Program Goes Under
From Chris Woodward’s article in OneNewsNow: Brian McGraw, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute‘s Center for…
The Wire
Anti-SOPA Veterans Issue Declaration of Internet Freedom
From Timothy B. Lee’s article on ArsTechnica: But not everyone was enthusiastic about the declaration. Indeed, a coalition of right-of-center organizations promoted…
Wall Street Journal
The Road to Fiscal Hell
From Stephen Moore's column in The Wall Street Journal: Without the drilling money the bill elevates fiscal accounting hocus pocus to new heights.
Reason
Government Mini Golf: The Federal Regulations For Putt-Putt Courses
From Peter Suderman's post on Reason's Hit & Run: Under the umbrella of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the federal government has issued…
Politico
Transpo Bill Briefings Go Late
From Adam Snider and Burgess Everett's post in Politico's Morning Transportation: The Competitive Enterprise Institute isn’t exactly heartened that pension smoothing is going…
Washington Post
Romney Finally Punches Back on Outsourcing
From Jennifer Rubin's post in The Washington Post's Right Turn: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote about…
Daily Caller
Supreme Court Rules 7-2 Against SEIU
From Angelica Malik's article in The Daily Caller: Ivan Osorio, of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute said, “The Court’s ruling is a significant…
Daily Caller
Obama’s Consumer Watchdog Gets Sued
From Suzy Khim’s post in The Washington Post‘s WonkBlog: The State National Bank of Big Spring, Tex., the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the…
Washington Post
Competitive Enterprise Institute Files Lawsuit Against Obama’s Consumer Watchdog
From Allen McDuffee's post in The Washington Post's ThinkTanked: The Competitive Enterprise Institute is one of a small number of think tanks that…
Washington Post
Long Odds for Suit Challenging CFPB
From Mike Catalini’s post in The National Journal: The suit is being brought by State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, a tiny…
Washington Post
Lawsuit Challenges Consumer Protection Bureau
From Jim Puzzanghera’s article in The Los Angeles Times: The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by the…
Cato At Liberty
Taking a Stand against Nanny Grants
From Walter Olson's post at Cato @ Liberty: As The Hill reports, and Marc Scribner relates in more detail at CEI “Open Market,”…
Popular Science
The Battle Over Climate Science
From Tom Clynes' article in Popular Science: On a summery afternoon in mid-March, Senator Inhofe dashes onto the stage at the Heritage Foundation,…
Popular Science
Texas Bank to Take Lead in CFPB Lawsuit
From Rachel Witkowski’s article in American Banker: The State National Bank of Big Spring will file a lawsuit Thursday afternoon in the U.S.