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Coming to America? It’s Going to Cost You
Meanwhile, even unauthorized immigrants from Central America pay between $7,000 and $10,000 in smuggling fees to get across the border, according…
National Review
Lisa Jackson’s Gadfly
Chris Horner is the gadfly determined to force the Obama administration to live up to its professed commitment to transparency. Having exposed outgoing EPA administrator…
Politico
TSA pulls plug on ‘naked’ body scanners
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has questioned how TSA got the scanners in the first place — and if they even work. “Public and expert comments…
Free Beacon
Investing in Foreign Countries
These companies saw their tax liabilities to which they could apply a tax credit either shrink or vanish altogether as a result, said William Yeatman,…
Free Beacon
Beer Distributors Say Yes To Middlemen
The NBWA study comes less than a month after the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C. policy shop, launched a broadside against the…
Washington Examiner
Issa demands EPA reveal all secret email accounts
Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which filed the lawsuit that led to the release of the Richard Windsor emails, criticized the EPA…
West Virginia Record
Class action crusader says ‘floc’ settlement unfair
The West Virginia Record reports on Ted Frank's efforts to challenge an unjust settlement in which the attorneys proposed to get more money than the class members.
West Virginia Record
Will EPA Chief’s Departure Prompt Better Energy Policy?
Given that the respected Competitive Enterprise Institute had to …
Washington Examiner
New mysteries in EPA’s Windsorgate scandal
Because EPA released thousands of emails that failed to satisfy the court's order, Horner said, "this response is deeply troubling and seems to have gravely…
Washington Examiner
Obama Issued $216 Billion in New Regulations in 2012, Showing the Need For Reform
Even though these regulations may seem harmless, the costs add up. Something needs to be done about excess regulations so that the worker can take…
CNS News
Released EPA Administrator’s Non-Public Emails Called ‘Deeply Troubling’
Chris Horner of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute says he discovered Jackson's "false identity" while doing research for his book, "The Liberal War on Transparency.”…
Daily Caller
EPA releases more than 2,100 emails from agency chief Lisa Jackson’s ‘alias’ account
The Environmental Protection Agency released the first round of emails as in response to a lawsuit filed by a conservative group concerned that Environmental Protection…
Politico
First ‘Richard Windsor’ emails duds
DOCUMENT DUMP: EPA on Monday released the first batch of emails from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” alias email account, in response to a…
Fox News
EPA’s release of documents related to email aliases criticized as ‘deeply troubling’
The Environmental Protection Agency released roughly 4,000 pages of documents Monday in response to a request for information about possible secret emails by former Administrator…
Free Beacon
Picking Losers
William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the lawsuit illustrates the dangers of cronyism. “Whenever the government engages in industrial…
Washington Examiner
Glitches mar EPA release of first batch of ‘Windsorgate’ emails
Meanwhile, a few discs of the emails were obtained by parties to the litigation that resulted in the court order for the documents' release,…
Washington Examiner
Something for Everybody (To Hate): Rep. Wilson’s Beach House Bailout
But the bill still has some degree of serious support. In 2007, a version actually passed the House of Representatives 286-155 with co-sponsors that included…
Washington Examiner
To fix government, reform its agencies
Another way would be legislation to have all laws/rules of executive agencies be subject to economic impact studies which would show the dollar amount and…
Washington Examiner
DOJ to Release Secret EPA E-Mails
The White House even arranged for a privately owned computer server for conducting discussions about the controversial United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…
Statesman
Senators, protect us from the EPA
According Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, President Obama issued 953 “major regulations” (meaning regulations with a cost of $100 million or more, or…
Financial Post
Avoiding the ‘Basel cliff’
John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington has called the global bank rules the “Basel cliff” that could decimate many U.S. banks. Banks…
Financial Post
Google Faces UK Lawsuit For Search Results
In July, Google reached a record $22.5 million (£14m) settlement with the FTC to resolve charges that Google bypassed Apple Safari browser privacy…
Financial Post
Chris Christie Won’t Be the 2016 GOP Nominee
Washington Post
Sales Tax, Gas Tax, Mileage Tax: How To Pay For America’s Roads?
On the right, many groups take issue with McDonnell's plan to rely on sales taxes for roadway funds. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think…
Washington Examiner
20 Windsorgate questions for Obama administration
Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to make public Monday the first batch of 3,000 of 12,000 "Richard Windsor" emails sought by…
Washington Examiner
Top EPA official used private email account to correspond with environmental groups
A second Environmental Protection Agency official stands accused of using a personal email address to shield communications with environmental activists from public disclosure. Court documents…
Washington Examiner
McDonnell’s tax plan draws heat from across the spectrum
The focus on general sales tax revenues, rather than a tax on those who use the roads, also raised eyebrows. The Competitive Enterprise Institute said…
Washington Examiner
Bush officials, Environmental Defense Fund join in appeal to conservatives
Myron Ebell, who directs the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, dismissed the council as "one of several attempts by the environmental movement…
Washington Examiner
Ethanol mandates and starving kids in Guatemala
Our federal law requires refiners buy ethanol. This results in ethanol imports from places like Guatemala. This spurs the ethanol industry in Guatemala. This exacerbates…
New York Times
Easing of Rules for Banks Acknowledges Reality
“If Basel had been implemented this year as written, it almost certainly would have thrown the U.S. and other economies into a recession more than…
New York Times
Lisa Jackson’s Resignation
Bloomberg Business
Duane Morris, Troutman Sanders, Munger: Business of Law
Bloomberg reports on the case In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation, in which Center for Class Action Fairness objected to the settlement which would grant…
Forbes
Class-Action Firms Capitalize On Wretched Market For Law-School Grads
Forbes mentions Ted Frank's objections to the marked up fee requests from lawyers who worked on the Citigroup class action lawsuit. Class-action activist…
Minding the Campus
How Law Schools Evade Market Competition
The plain truth, as many lawyers will tell you (Harvard Law graduate Hans Bader, for instance), is that law school is mostly a drawn-out prelude…
ABA Journal
Does Legal Fees Motion in $590M Citigroup Case Include $1K Per Hour for Low-Paid Contract Lawyers?
ABA Journal reports on Ted Frank's objections to the lawyers' marked up fee claims in a class action lawsuit where most of the work was done by…
Washington Examiner
Watchdog: Transparency advocates see tough year, growing ‘Windsorgate’ scandal at EPA ahead
According to Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), there is substantial evidence that Jackson was not the only EPA official…
Forbes
Plaintiff Lawyers in Citigroup Case Seek Big Markup For Outside Attorneys
Forbe reports on Ted Frank's objection to the platiffs' lawyers' fee requests in the Citigroup class action case because it is clear that they marked…
Forbes
David Vitter and Lisa Jackson are universes apart: James Gill
Vitter is not alone in his suspicions. The EPA’s inspector general, at the behest of Republicans on the House Science Committee, had begun an investigation…
Forbes
EPA’s Jackson to resign
Jackson leaves the agency while under scrutiny from a federal lawsuit filed by the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, which claims that the administrator used an…
Forbes
In Ireland, carbon tax cuts deficit and pollution
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has even filed a Freedom of Information suit seeking the release of Treasury Department emails containing the…
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
Common Cause vs. First-Amendment-protected political speech, part umpteen [Hans Bader, CEI]…
One News Now
CEI’s Report Card on the EPA
Ryan Young reports that the information is included in a report card [pdf] of sorts by his organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). "There is…
One News Now
Obama’s Regulatory Cliff Draws Near
The scope is staggering. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the overall regulatory burden has reached $1.8 trillion annually, and $215.4 billion in compliance costs…
Fox News
Attorney claims EPA chief resigned over alias email accounts
Jackson, in a brief written statement, said Thursday she is leaving the EPA after four years on the job, for "new challenges, time with my…
Washington Examiner
‘Richard Windsor’ departure from EPA is a victory for transparency
Then, in the course of litigation initiated a few months ago by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Horner, an internal memo from the…
Daily Mail
Did EPA Chief Lisa Jackson resign because emails she sent from a secret alias account will go public next month?
A Washington attorney suing the Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to disclose information about the creation and use of the ‘secondary’ email accounts, says the…
Daily Caller
EPA chief Jackson resigns amid transparency investigations into secret emails
“Life’s full of coincidences, but this is too many,” Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner told FoxNews.com. “She had no choice.” The Justice Department…
ARS Technica
Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps
Ryan Radia and Fred Campbell, technology policy experts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argue against a bill sponsored by…
Free Beacon
The Domino Effect of Green Energy Failure
William Yeatman, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described the Obama administration’s funding of green energy companies as “vertical monopoly-type subsidy.” A vertical…
Free Beacon
William O’Keefe: Will the Carbon Tax Make a Comeback?
The centerpiece of Mr. Clinton’s first budget was a tax on energy use, as measured in British thermal units, or BTUs. At that time,…
