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CEI Planet: September – October 2008
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CEI Planet: June – July 2008
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CEI Planet: April – May 2008
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CEI Planet: January – February 2008
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CEI Planet: November – December 2007
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“Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary”
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2006 Annual Dinner and Reception paid homage to Hollywood. The evening, themed “A Night at the Movies,” featured P.J. O’Rourke,…
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Beware False Profits
The Evangelical Climate Initiative has issued “An Evangelical Call to Action” on global warming. Signed by 86 evangelical leaders, it calls for Evangelical Christians to…
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CEI Planet: July – August 2006
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How the Market Can Steal Identity Thieves’ Thunder
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The Responsible Corporation
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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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New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’ for European Biotech?
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Time to End Big Sugar’s Sweet Deal
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Accountability, Power, and Our CAP Project
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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
Animal rights extremists—whom the FBI has labeled America’s biggest domestic terrorism threat—have encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a great victory…
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CEI Planet: March – April 2006
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CEI Planet: January – February 2006
President Concedes Moral High Ground on Energy by Myron Ebell "America is addicted to oil." With these five words in…
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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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How Sarbanes-Oxley Hinders Technology Transfer
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In Memoriam: R.W. Bradford
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President Concedes Moral High Ground on Energy
“America is addicted to oil.” With these five words in his State of the Union speech, President George W. Bush confounded steadfast allies on…
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
On February 9, the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a federal agency…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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The Tale of a Medical Device
Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…
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Let a Thousand ISPs Bloom: A Hands-Off Approach to Global Tech Development
Simply uttering the phrase “Internet governance” is enough to make some people cringe with visions of Big Brother. But Internet governance is not—and shouldn’t be—some…
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Millennium Challenged? New Approach to Foreign Aid Threatens to Become More of the Same
Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…
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The CEI Planet – November – December 2005
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CEI Planet: September – October 2005
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Batman’s Lessons
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Challenge to the State Attorney General-Tobacco Cartel
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No Regulation Without Representation
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Testimony to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs of the House Government Reform Committee, July 27, 2005
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The Truth about Human Testing
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A Toast to the Supremes
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Markets, not Mandates, Can Best Protect Copyrights
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Mandated Recycling of Electronics: Creating a Mountain out of a Landfill
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One, Two, Many Broken Windows
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Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
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Environmentalism, RIP? Not So Fast
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A Case of Wine for the Supreme Court
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COP 10: The Green Litigation Tango
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COP-10: Green Gimmicks, Lawsuits, and “Climate Witnesses”
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Improving Capitalism: The Respective Roles of Business and Government
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The Drug Reimportation Controversy
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Q&A with Jarol Manheim
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Cybersecurity: Markets or Mandates?
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Freeing the Biotech Revolution
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Medicine Could Reach for Stars, FDA Willing
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Unbundling the Confusion over Declining Marginal Cost Pricing
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Food Fights: When Puffery Crosses the Line
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Science Loses Some Friends: Francis Crick, Thomas Gold, and Philip Abelson
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The Origins of “Biotechnology”
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Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation
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Confronting the Malaria Threat
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Ketchup: More than a Vegetable?
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Tech Regulation Done Right
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Why the United States Should Remove Its Signature from the Kyoto Protocol
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CEI Planet: September 2004
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Nanotech’s Choice: Pork or Innovation?
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Conflicting with Reality: Or, Scientists are Human, Too
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Q&A with Don D’Cruz
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Successful Philanthropy for Liberty
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Tort Law “to Make Law”
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CEI Planet: July 2004
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McCain-Lieberman: A Regulatory Pandora’s Box
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The Greening of the Balance Sheets
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Who’s Afraid of RFID?
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A More Creative and Productive World
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Q&A with Soso Whaley
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Ronald Reagan, Freedom’s Champion
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June Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
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Bright Bulbs, Dim Wits
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Q&A with Roger Bate and Richard Tren
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Sympathy for the Mosquito? Anti-Spraying Hysteria Reaches the Absurd
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The Day After Never
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The Skeptical Environmentalist Vindicated
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March Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
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October Edition of the Monthly Planet
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March Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
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January Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
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November/December 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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October 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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August/September 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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June/July 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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March 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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February 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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January 2002 Edition of CEI Update
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December 2001 Edition of CEI Update
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October 2001 Edition of CEI Update
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September 2001 Edition of CEI Update
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A Shot Of Growth In The Arm Of The Body Politic: An Interview With The Club For Growth’s Steve Moore
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Ken Smith (1957-2001): A Remembrance
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Cut the Red Tape Not the Electricity
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Life, Liberty, And Cell Phones
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