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A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?
Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…
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In honor of Free Speech Week, end all regulatory gag orders
Free Speech Week is an annual, nonpartisan celebration of the indispensable right to speak one’s mind. While every level of government is expected…
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The Justice Department’s Proposals for Breaking Up Google’s Dominance Won’t Work
Reason quoted CEI’s expert on antitrust atmosphere Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells Reason that a…
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The Ratings Game
It's a familiar experience for many moviegoers: You walk out of a theater scratching your head, wondering why a movie was given a…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
TRADE Australia helps lead attempts to revive the WTO’s Doha Round trade talks. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Fran Smith…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. ENERGY The Senate votes to move forward with oil and natural gas drilling legislation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of…
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Statement on Regulation of Social Networking Websites
Washington, D.C., July 26, 2006—The House is scheduled to vote today on the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), a bill that would restrict federal…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The House of Representatives votes to re-authorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank. CEI…
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Ignoring Limits on Harassment Liability
Back in 1999, in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the Supreme Court laid down a test for when sexual harassment rises to…
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The High Cost of Petitioning
A radical pro-affirmative action group, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), joined by Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, have filed a Voting Rights Act…
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A License To Complain
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that a worker alleging retaliation for complaining about discrimination may sue even if she has not suffered a…
Letters
“Net Neutrality” Is Bad for the Internet
Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…
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Tracey Ross: TV’s Outspoken Individualist
How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.” As you…
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Harper Falls into the UNESCO Trap
Budgets and softwood lumber deals aren't Prime Minister Stephen Harper's only significant initiatives. On Friday, he followed through on an unfortunate promise he…
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CEI Planet: March – April 2006
Full Document Available in PDF New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’…
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Corporate McSocial Responsibility
Fast-food gadfly Eric Schlosser has a new book out. Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food is Fast…
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Sunset the FCC
Reforming telecommunications law is a favored subject in the halls of Congress this year. Hot issues include streamlining video franchising and addressing the "net…
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Let the Internet Grow Up
America has developed a proud paternal bond with the Internet. We've watched and cheered the net's growth from its awkward, text-heavy infancy into…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A study in the journal Science predicts rapid sea level rise from the effects of global warming…
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V is for Read the Book Instead
“People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.” This line from the movie V for Vendetta seems to have convinced libertarian luminaries…
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Reform the Reformers
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> On the Saturday Show (Jan. 21), NPR commentator John Ydstie, in a…
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Terrorist Heroes
Like it or not, comic books are no longer the domain of nerds and adolescents. Driven by the box-office success of adaptations of…
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Q&A With Jason Talley
Jason Talley heads the Bureaucrash pro-freedom activist network—in Bureaucrash’s own parlance, he is the Crasher-in-Chief. He spoke recently with CEI Planet on his…
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In Memoriam: R.W. Bradford
Death closes so many books that are still being written. A book that was closed over the holidays was the Bill Bradford volume. Bill was…
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Consumers Will Benefit From AT&T-Bell South Merger
Washington, D.C., March 6, 2006—AT&T’s announcement that it will merge with Bell South is a pro-competitive move that will benefit consumers, says <?xml:namespace…
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The Ideas Marketplace — Sans Market?
WASHINGTON—The Jack Abramoff scandal has many individual players, but it’s also added fuel to an older and broader theme—the quest to purge politics of money.
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In the Interests of Stakeholders… and Steakholders
There was good news last month on both sides of our northern border: In response to confirmation of an isolated case of bovine…
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All the news that fits
Newspapers are often criticized for bias in their “news” articles. A prime example was Andrew Pollack's Feb. 14 New York Times piece on…
The American Spectator
What Are Op-Eds For?
Ever since the Cato Institute fired syndicated columnist Doug Bandow over the revelation that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had asked and paid him to…
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Pot Calling Kettle Black?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In senior editor Dave Astor's article on syndicated columnists and their sources of…
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Russia’s Godfather Saga
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer,” was the lesson taught to Michael Corleone by his father Vito in the Godfather movies.
Study
Breaking Patents
The integrity of patents affects the future health of people the world over. Unfortunately, one of the world’s rising economic players is leading the charge…
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Between the stacks – Google book engine needs ingenuity
What bookworm doesn’t love the idea of Google’s new project, Google Library? The ability to search the entire contents of the world’s greatest libraries online…
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Congress Tweaks Patriot Act Provisions, Will Affect the Tech Industry
Congress is in the process of tweaking sixteen separate sections of the USA Patriot Act that were scheduled to sunset at the end of this…
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Bill Banning Bogus Gun Lawsuits Should Pass Constitutional Test
Contact:Christine Hall, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., October 20, 2005—The House passed a bill today banning lawsuits aimed at holding gun makers liable for…
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Twenty-first Century Unionism?
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO's loss of two large unions this week hit Democrats and the labor federation…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CIVIL LIBERTIES The House and Senate Judiciary Committees debate whether or not to reauthorize…
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Fast Food Obesity Lawsuit Threatens Consumers, Rule of Law
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 26, 2004—Yesterday’s reinstatement of the obesity liability lawsuit against McDonald’s resurrects…
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Press Event: Study Shows ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ May Hurt Bottom Line
“Corporate social responsibility” has become a trendy international business philosophy, hailed as good for business and the bottom line. But a forthcoming study finds no…
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Q&A with Jarol Manheim
CEI’s Monthly Planet recently interviewed Jarol Manheim, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science at the George Washington University’s Elliott…
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Reid May Lead on Stock Options
In the discussion of winners and losers from Election 2004, one organization that may have suffered a big blow has been overlooked. This…
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Bracing for e-prohibition on wine?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact for interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Richard Morrison,…
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Big Losers: Unions’ 2004 Electioneering Stuck in Florida 2000
Had Sen. John Kerry won the White House, the AFL-CIO and other union backers were poised to claim credit, regain control over the Labor Department…
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Abusive Behavior
Recent months have seen some regrettable lapses by prestigious scientific journals. Some highly questionable claims have been made, but have been published anyway.
News Release
New Book Challenges Activist Attack on Business, Personal Prosperity
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., November 19, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce the publication…
Study
The Role of Business in the Modern World: Progress, Pressures and Prospects for the Market Economy
Foreward, acknowledgments, and…
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Nick Gillespie Q&A in the October Issue of CEI’s Monthly Planet
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Science Loses Some Friends: Francis Crick, Thomas Gold, and Philip Abelson
Full Document Available in PDF The scientific world lost three important figures in recent…
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What’s Wrong With Combat Pay?
American soldiers are risking their lives in Fallujah. No one would say that they don't deserve a special bonus for wearing <?xml:namespace prefix…
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EU Adopts ‘Imperial Preference’
Commissioner Pascal Lamy’s announcement on 20 October that lesser developed countries that implement the European agenda of the Kyoto protocol and other international treaties on…
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Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation
Full Document Available in PDF Citigroup, America’s…
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Senate Mounts Sneak Attack on Sound Science
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Honk If You Support World Car-Free Day
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 …