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Declaration of Independence: ringbolt of America’s freedom
Frederick Douglass called the Declaration of Independence the ringbolt to the chain of our national destiny. He argued that its principles are our saving principles.
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June added 147,000 jobs to economy, increase in discouraged workers: CEI analysis
The jobs report for June showed an increase of 147,000 jobs in the economy, exceeding economists’ expectations. An increase in discouraged workers and a…
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New York City breadlines
Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for New York City’s mayoral Democratic primary, proposes to address the city’s housing and affordability crisis through rent control (rent freezes…
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FDA Legal Challenges, Obama’s Broken Pledge and Stimulus Roundup
CEI Senior Fellow Gregory Conko explains why the FDA policy violates the First Amendment and why freeing up manufacturer speech would have important benefits for…
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Sen. Baucus Pushes Small Business Jobs Act
Information Week
Google Becomes Focus Of Federal Antitrust Hearing
Information Week reports on Wayne Crews's statements at a Congressional hearing on competition in the changing digital marketplace. Another speaker, Wayne Crews, vice…
Information Week
CEI: Small Business Jobs & Credit Act – another ‘Big Government boondoggle’
Information Week
How Regulations Accumulate as a Small Business Grows
The Senate votes this week on a small business tax-break bill which also contains controversial provisions to boost community-bank loans to small business. That is,…
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Statement by CEI’s John Berlau on the expected Senate passage of the “Small Business Jobs and Credit Act”
Washington, D.C., September 16, 2010 – The Senate is expected to end debate on a bill that it says will aid small businesses and result…
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Clearing the Way for High-Tech Jobs
The U.S. economy may be growing again, albeit slowly. But employment rolls continue to languish. This frustrating state of affairs has left many Americans…
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California’s Union War
Voting began Monday in one of the most disputed union elections in recent years. The contest pits the powerful Service Employees International Union…
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The War Between SEIU and NUHW: What it Tells Us About Card Check
The battle between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) started coming to a close at several northern California…
Real Clear Markets
A Real Small Business Assist
In his 45-minute lecture/speech in Cleveland last week — which mostly consisted of blaming his predecessors for the state of the economy and…
Real Clear Markets
MBL featured in Spectator, Gazette over weekend
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Stimulus without Spendulus: A How-To Guide
This week brought more Subprime Stimulus from an administration attempting to ignite the economy with a burnt-out match. The Obama proposal to allow the expensing…
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Tightening Credit Hurts Small Businesses
The Sept. 1 editorial “On better terms” conceded that overall interest rates have risen on credit cards after the passage of the Credit CARD…
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Credit Cards and Financing the Next Big Thing
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Credit Card Regulation: Big Government vs. Small Business
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Obama’s Accidental Emissions-Reduction Plan
President Obama’s imminent proposal to allow businesses to expense capital equipment through the end of next year is something my colleagues at CEI —…
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Hypocrisy Is Big Labor’s Big Problem
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Hypocrisy Is Big Labor’s Big Problem
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CBO Says Stimulus Will Increase Deficit (Letter to the Editor)
In his Commentary column, “The Recovery Act Worked,” Michael Cassidy wrongly denies that the $800 billion stimulus package “will make the federal deficit worse.” It…
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Private Sales Don’t Increase Drinking
Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding “Police Concerned Over Privatizing Liquor Stores”: The fear of law enforcement agents that privatizing liquor sales will result in increased underage drinking,…
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Land based casinos should love online gambling
A heated battle is brewing between thousands of online poker players and California’s largest land-based casino. It began in July when Commerce Casino Vice President…
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Mary Kay Henry Takes over SEIU
Full document available in pdf Originally appeared in…
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Caution: Big Labor Hypocrisy at Work
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Trading on the Recession
China recently overtook Japan as the second largest national economy in the world. Thirty years ago, when China began liberalizing its economy under the leadership…
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Unions Hire Non-Union Picketers
The Mid-Atlantic Region of Carpenters (MARC) is notorious for hiring non-union workers to walk their union picket lines. These paid non-union picketers are usually…
Real Clear Markets
Caution: Big Labor Hypocrisy at Work
Forbes
Hurricane Katrina, Houston And The Humanitarian Case Against Zoning
On a Monday morning in late August 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the…
Forbes
Lobsters Should Fear Mother Nature More than Plastics
If you trust the headlines, you might think that the biggest challenge facing the lobster industry in New York and New England is pollution —…
Heartland
Broadcast Spectrum Bill Raises Property Rights Concerns
Heartland
No More Ethanol for America, Please
In “Ethanol for America,” Jim Nussle accuses opponents of subsidized ethanol of misleading the public, while trumpeting ethanol’s alleged success story. As is the case…
Heartland
Casey-Pomeroy Bill Would Bail Out PBGC, Union Pensions
Superior Telegram
Cost of Government Takes Longer to Pay
Superior Telegram
Seeking Food Safety, Getting Human Harm
Congress is set to consider a food-safety bill when it returns from the August recess. But the bill has so far stalled because of…
Cafe Hayek
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Visa Fee Hike Will Adversely Impact Indian Companies, Admits US
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Visa Fee Increase Could Impact Indian Firms: USA
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Visa Fee Increase Could Impact Indian Firms: USA
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Visa Fee Increase Could Impact Indian Cos: US
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Dems Giving Support to Yet Another Union Bailout
The so-called Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010, introduced by Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.), got a huge boost when Senate Majority Whip Dick…
All Gov
Fannie and Freddie Must Go
After ramming through a “financial reform” bill that increases government controls on such ”ants” (hat tip to House Minority Leader John Boehner’s comments — distorted…
All Gov
Visa Fee Hike Could Impact Indian cos: US
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Visa Fee Increase Could Impact Indian Companies: US
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Government watchdog group calls White House Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Summit a “sham”
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Biotech Beets Banned
Daily Caller
Federal Register Hits 50,000 Pages
On Friday, the 2010 Federal Register eclipsed the 50,000-page mark with a notice from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Dr. Robert F. Hunt, D.O., had…
Daily Caller
Bobby Bailout: Casey to Put Taxpayers on Hook for Teamsters’ Shenanigans
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The FDA’s Deadly Overcaution
In the past two months, there've been news accounts of two major diagnostic advances in medicine. One involves a far more efficient HIV detection…
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Ewanick safe under new GM CEO
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Civil Rights Division Pursues Wacky Radical Agenda (Letter to the Editor)
It was extremely depressing to read that the Obama Justice Department blocked Amazon from selling a talking Kindle reader because its “talk” button doesn’t have…
