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CEI’s lawsuit to stop Wisconsin’s disenfranchisement of prediction market participants
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has just filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a grave threat to democracy from a state that touts itself…
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Disney sues FCC over alleged ‘retaliatory campaign’ against ABC: CEI analysis
Today, Disney filed a First Amendment lawsuit against President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in response to the…
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Wisconsin threatens to strip the vote from prediction market participants
Many actions today are termed “threats to democracy,” and this is often an exaggeration. But the term fits to a tee the Wisconsin Elections…
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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.
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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…
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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 …
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Antitrust: Sherman’s March Across the Globe
President Bush’s bipartisan Antitrust Modernization Commission held its first meeting in July. But after 114 years, America’s antitrust regulatory regime is overdue for burial, not…
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Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation
Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation by Prof. Jarol B. Manheim, George Washington University (Lawrence…
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CEI Planet: September 2004
Full document available as a pdf. Tort Law “to Make Law,” by Ivan Osorio and Elizabeth Jones …
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Conflicting with Reality: Or, Scientists are Human, Too
Full Document Available in PDF Former New England Journal of…
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Q&A with Don D’Cruz
Full Document Available in PDF CEI recently interviewed Don D’Cruz, a Research Fellow…
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Successful Philanthropy for Liberty
Full Document Available in PDF Every donor who creates a foundation must answer some…
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Tort Law “to Make Law”
Full Document Available in PDF A recent little-noticed New York Times story says…
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Conflicting with Reality
Former New England Journal of Medicine editor Jerome Kassirer, in an August 1 Washington Post op-ed, argues that conflicts of interest in medical…
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Gaming the World’s Poor
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Upon returning from a United Nations-sponsored conclave in 1954, philanthropist Preston Hotchkis warned…
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Global Taxation
Your article “U.N. development goals fall short” (World, yesterday) explores the United Nations' “millennium development goals,” another in a series of efforts to…
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Spitzer’s ‘Obligations’
Darren Dopp claims that his boss, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, was right to sue Dick Grasso for collecting $190 million in pay during…
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Tort Law ‘to Make Law’
A recent little-noticed New York Times story says a great deal about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's current legal climate:…
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Tort Law ‘to Make Law’
A recent little-noticed New York Times story says a great deal about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's current legal climate:…
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New Kids on the (Tax-Exempt) Block: The Rise of the “527”s
History will remember the 2004 election for many things, most notably for its effect on the political futures of George W. Bush and Iraq. But…
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DEBUNK THE JUNK – July 26, 2004
“Statements of alarm by newscasters and glorification of wannabe experts are two telltale tricks of the fear mongers trade………..others [include]: the use of…
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Celluloid Bolshies
Actor Charles Grodin, in his book “I Like It Better When You're Funny,” recalls a particularly devastating put-down from a critic: “If you…
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Wave of Regulations Will Follow Tsunami of Federal Spending
On top of the $2 trillion in tax revenues the government now collects, agencies issue more than 4,000 yearly regulations. Costing some $800 billion annually, regulations…
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`Businesses Don’t Have Social Responsibilities; People Do’
Calvin Coolidge once said that the business of America is business. He might have added that the business of business everywhere is to pursue profits. …
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Trade Wars and the Silver Screen
Op-ed pages, political Web sites, and call-in radio shows were abuzz last spring with rants against the “outsourcing” of “U.S. jobs.” Most of those critiques…
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DEBUNK THE JUNK – July 25, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “What we did in making nutrition labeling mandatory did not help obesity.
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Game of Show and Don’t Tell
In case you missed it, Morgan Spurlock brought his “Super Size Me” sideshow to Capitol Hill yesterday. Sharing the stage was the animal rights-supported Physicians…
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Reformers Are too Willing to Turn a Blind Eye to Liberal Fixes for our Economic Problems
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Sirs, Your edition of July 6 features two distinct columns that demonstrate…
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Guess Your Liability
In these days of corporate scandal, who can argue against full disclosure on financial statements? But now comes one cockeyed movement that pushes the concept…
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Q&A with Soso Whaley
Full Document Available in PDF CEI recently interviewed Soso Whaley, who…
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June Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “A More Creative and Productive…
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A Sign of Things to Come
There’s a war raging across the world. Not the war on terror—but a war against corporations, waged by anti-globalization activists and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Keeping Busy: Federal Regulators Issued Over 4,000 Rules in 2003
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, DC, June 16, 2004—While Washington rule makers made 19 fewer regulations in 2003 than they…
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CEI’s Twentieth Anniversary Report
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Nobel Peace Laureate to Discuss Tools for Battling Hunger
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 18th, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug will address a Newsmaker Breakfast sponsored…
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Cultural Wars Benefit No One
What's the dirtiest word in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United States political dictionary these days? That's easy: “outsourcing.”<?xml:namespace prefix…
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Are Global Warming Disasters Really On the Way?
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Socialist Capitalists
It's not easy to explain the anti-globalization movement's attraction or its successes. Much of the writing on the movement's growth, ideology, and influence…
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Soso R. Whaley Featured in The American Spectator
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Enter and Win!
Name that film!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> For a month, you’ve been reading about Soso’s…
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Media Conference Call, Wed., May 5
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, DC, May 4, 2004—Her quest started…
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Soso Whaley’s McDonald’s Diet Results!
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Soso Whaley and her doctor, Dr. Rayner Dickey, are proud to announce the results of her…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 30, 2004
“I always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 23, 2004
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 29, 2004
“I’m on a seafood diet, I see food, I eat it.” – Dolly Parton<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Abusing Substance Abuse Data
I haven't covered the issue of alcohol for a while, but a recent set of headlines had a reek of moonshine about them.