Fox Business
Federal Court Throws Out Subsidies: What Happens Now?
Millions of Americans rely on subsidies to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act’s mandate, but the fate of those cost-saving tax credits is…
Chicago Tribune
Latest Obamacare Legal Knot Won’t Be Easy To Untangle
U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals courts released conflicting rulings hours…
Town Hall
Lois Lerner’s Illegal Instant Message Trick
I asked the leading force for government transparency in the country, Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whether it was legal for the IRS…
The Washington Free Beacon
UAW Continues Unionization Efforts at Volkswagen Plant in Tennessee
Labor experts told the Washington Free Beacon that the union is unlikely to face any consequences for breaking the agreement. It is up to the…
Pensions and Investments
Public Policy Group Calls For Risk-Free Public Pension Discount Rate
State governments could provide a clearer picture of public pension debt as it relates to state budgets by using a low-risk discount rate, said a…
Citation
Worried Moms: Global Warming Endangers Our Kids
From CBN News: WASHINGTON — Moms who are hot to stop global warming came with their kids to ask Congress Wednesday to…
Citation
Chris Horner discusses EPA overreach with Neil Cavuto
Frontpage Magazine
Obama Is Out of Order
The Court ruled 5-4 in Harris v. Quinn that SEIU cannot compel people who care for their loved ones to become union members. Nor can…
Fox News
Supreme Court Ruling on Union Dues Could Cost SEIU Millions in Payback
One of the nation's most powerful labor unions could face a costly onslaught of lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars in dues, after the…
Watchdog.org
Taxicab industry has history of lobbying, donations
The Virginia DMV’s order for Uber and Lyft to cease all operations in the commonwealth is the latest showing of the taxicab industry’s influence in…
Watchdog.org
When it Comes to Uber, Consumers May Speak Loudest
Uber was founded in 2009 as a venture-funded transportation company, allowing riders and drivers to connect on their mobile devices and see other people’s reviews…
The College Fix
California ‘Affirmative Consent’ Sex Bill Imposes Low Legal Standard for Guilt
CNN
Supreme Court narrowly limits reach of labor unions
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, however, celebrated the ruling as a major victory. "This decision delivers a major blow to the coercive powers…
The Freebeacon
Obama Allies Court Corporate Support for Climate Regulations
Whether the administration’s proposed policies will address those impacts is another question. “It’s weird that their argument is that [anthropogenic global warming] is bad for…
Human Events
Expert’s Take: TV Broadcast Rights
The Supreme Court this week ruled against a television broadcast company whose business model was infringing on copyright law. Ryan Radia, associate director of technology…
WBUR Boston
Supreme Court Aereo Decision Also A Blow To Boston’s Tech Sector
The media company Hearst Corporation, which owns WCVB-TV in Boston, says it is pleased with the ruling for protecting its right to be compensated. The…
WBUR Boston
CEI Dinner Video 2014: The Power Breakfast Club
The Hill
Green Group’s Unscientific Attack on Soap
NRDC claims that triclosan, the active ingredient in antibacterial soaps, disrupts human thyroid functioning, but that assertion is based on a shoddy study in which…
Personal Finance Hub
Report finds regulation compliance costs businesses $1.86 trillion
Over the past several years, think-tanks and market-related organizations have released reports that have given the United States low grades when it comes to red…
The Hill
Conservatives Turn to NSA for Help Getting White House Records
In a new twist to the surveillance debate, conservative groups are asking the National Security Agency for help obtaining phone and email records about 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…
Newsmax
CEI’s John Berlau: US Needs ‘Rational’ Immigration Program
Newsmax insider John Berlau, Newsmax insider and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Newsmax on Monday he feels the wave of undocumented children…
The Washington Times
Watchdog rebuffed on EPA data turns to NSA
A pro-business watchdog group sued the National Security Agency on Monday, demanding that the spy agency turn over metadata logs for some phones registered to…
Business Insider Australia
How A ‘Bunch Of Commies’ Are Forcing The Fortune 500 To Stop Destroying Rain Forests, Overfishing, And Burning Fossil Fuels
Even Greenpeace’s detractors have taken note of the organisation’s newfound potency. Fred Smith, former president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and founder of the…
Business Insider Australia
Obama Sprinting to Finish Line to ‘Transform’ America
Washington Examiner
OMB: 13-year High For New And Costly Federal Regulations
The group that tracks regulations, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Secrets that Obama has issued far more big dollar regs in his first six years…
Mint Press News
Black And Hispanic Students Punished More Severely Than White Counterparts
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
On school discipline and zero tolerance, Eric Holder draws the wrong lessons [Hans Bader, CEI "Open Market"] “Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap…
Investor's Business Daily
Study Hits Holder’s ‘School-Prison Pipeline’ Charge
As the attorney general again warns schools that even race-neutral discipline policies discriminate against black students, a study finds serial misbehavior "completely" explains the racial…
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…
Washington Post
The Obama Economy Offers Bad News For Millennials
Ronald Reagan lightened the weight of government as measured by taxation and regulation. Obama has done the opposite. According to the annual "snapshot of…
National Review
Quick Hits
Hans Bader writes about how Harry Reid killed a bipartisan patent-reform bill, and simultaneously undermined one of President Obama’s favorite talking points.
News Busters
Google Honors Radical Environmentalist Rachel Carson on Her Birthday
John Berlau, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, explained DDT was actually used to preserve lives. He outlined in his book “Eco-Freaks” several positive…
News Busters
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.
News Busters
The Odd Couple Converge
Augusta Chronicle
Is The Private Sector Supposed to Serve Only Government? Of Course Not
For example, Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in his latest compendium on federal regulations (Ten Thousand Commandments), alone estimates that their compliance…
National Review
The Hard Sell On Climate Change; Media Outlets Continue To Push A Crisis Scenario, And The Public Isn’t Buying
More and more people in the middle of America — both geographically and culturally — have come to believe either that global warming is…
EE News
Public interest in climate change declining, but unaffected by recent scandals — study
Mass Live
Boston taxi drivers’ union to protest ride sharing service Uber
Services like Uber and Lyft upset cab drivers because they challenge the longtime status quo that has devolved into a cartel that limits innovation and…
National Review
Holder vs. Roberts
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized Chief Justice John Roberts in a commencement speech a few days ago: "Chief Justice John Roberts has argued that the…
One News Now
GM In Heavy Case Over Faulty Ignition Switches
Earlier this year, Toyota agreed to a $1.2 billion settlement with the Justice Department in a criminal probe over the company's recall of Toyota…
The Hill
Experts Debate Government Role In Alternate Fuels
Alternative fuel vehicles could improve the United States’ energy security and protect it from volatility in the oil market. But Myron Ebell, director of…
Newsmax
Climate Change Remains Unsettled, Say 31,072 Scientists
One more fallacy that the climate-change movement doesn't like to remember is the infamous "hockey stick" predictor, said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at…
Forbes
President Obama’s Global Warming Calculated Deception Means Democrats Have Abandoned Working People
In light of the incontestable real climate science discussed above, the Obama Administration’s National Climate Assessment released last week can only be considered an exercise…
Daily Caller
Wal-Mart, Other Big Corporations Not Opposing Minimum Wage Hikes
The Real News
TRNN Debate: Should The Internet Be Regulated Like A Utility?
ANTON WORONCZUK, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Anton Woronczuk in Baltimore. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has just voted three…
Mapping the Internet
Parallel Internets, Another Internet Treaty Or Both? The Next Pieces Of The Internet Governance Jigsaw Puzzle – Part 2
For a long time before Brazil, Angela Merkel and others had awoken to the possibility of networks separate though connected to the currently US-dominated…