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International Policy Overview

  • By: J. Bishop Grewell
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Increased interactions among nations, especially in the areas of trade and…

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An Issue of Science and Economics

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Abundant and affordable energy is one of the great boons of…

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Accessing Energy Resources on Public Lands

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Federal land ownership affects the ability of energy developers to…

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Automobile Fuel Economy Standards

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The federal government’s fuel economy standards for new cars are…

Automobiles and Roads

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Mercury Pollution and Regulation

  • By: Gregory Conko, Morgan Wildermuth
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Health issues related to methylmercury in fish—which are discussed…

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The Clean Air Act and High Gasoline Prices

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The high price of gasoline has emerged as a major…

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Clean Air Act Overview

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Enacted in 1970, the Clean Air Act (CAA) is the…

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Methylmercury Science

  • By: Gregory Conko, Morgan Wildermuth
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF During the past few years, environmental activists, public health…

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Endocrine Disrupters

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Having largely…

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The True Causes of Cancer

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Environmental activists have long claimed that man-made chemicals are…

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Cancer Trends

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…

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Chemical Risk Overview

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Worldwide, the average human life span has increased from about…

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Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF For conventionally bred plants, regulators rely on plant breeders to…

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Agricultural Biotechnology Overview

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Every year, millions of people worldwide die from starvation and…

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Environmental Trends

  • By: Angela Logomasini, Jennifer Zambone
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF For the past 30 years, prognosticators have predicted an imminent environmental…

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A Vision for Environmental Policy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF As…

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Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/04/2010

Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…

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The 2010 Union Pension Bailout Bills

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 11/04/2010

Get ready to give some of your hard-earned cash – again – to the cronies of Congress who are pushing for yet another bailout. Two…

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Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither

  • By: Amy Oliver Cooke, William Yeatman
  • 10/27/2010

Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…

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Is Wind the Next Ethanol?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/25/2010

One “Renewable” Energy Source Follows another’s History of Failure…

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H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh
  • 10/21/2010

To bring workers they need into the United States, American companies sponsor their H1-B work visas. The rapid pace of technological and scientific development is…

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Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry

  • By: D. Joseph Olson, Gary Wolfram
  • 10/21/2010

Michigan auto insurance premiums are among the highest in the nation. Rather than attempting to regulate insurance company and individual behavior, Michigan legislators would much…

Insurance

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Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/19/2010

Business and Government

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Persuasion and Issue-Framing

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/29/2010

Fred Smith's chapter in "Creating Your Path to a Policy Career."  Free-market advocates often seek to convert others to our way of thinking with…

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Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not ‘‘Pro-Business’’

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/29/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Chief Justice John Roberts has often been depicted as an advocate of narrow rulings and a judicial philosophy…

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Are Corporations Suicidal?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/27/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

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Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 09/24/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…

Climate

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Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/22/2010

Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…

Climate

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BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: The First Amendment Takes a Hit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

Consumer Freedom

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Colorado’s Great Green Deception

  • By: Amy Oliver Cooke, William Yeatman
  • 09/10/2010

If HB 1001Seems too Good to Be True, It’s Because It Is…

Energy

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Who Should Pay for the Gulf Oil Spill?

  • By: James Plummer
  • 07/29/2010

Liability and Incentive Issues Raised by the Deepwater Horizon Incident…

Energy

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The Nation’s Worst State Attorneys General

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/21/2010

Like other government offices, state attorney general offices were designed to have limited powers, set forth by their respective state constitutions and statutes. Unfortunately, many…

Law and Litigation

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Union Pensions in Crisis

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 07/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Union pensions are in trouble, and financial watchdogs such as Moody’s…

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Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement District

  • By: Arin Greenwood
  • 07/12/2010

Could private government help fix Florida's property insurance system?…

Insurance

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A Drought of Reason and Investigation

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh
  • 06/16/2010

An Examination and Critique of the Center for Immigration Studies’ “A Drought of Summer Jobs”…

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Extreme Refreshment Crackdown

  • By: Baylen J. Linnekin
  • 05/27/2010

The FDA’s Misguided Campaign Against Alcohol Energy Drinks…

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Overturning EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is a Constitutional Imperative

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/19/2010

By Marlo Lewis and Former Gov. George Allen…

Business and Government

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The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/20/2010

 Full Document Available in PDF   The Pentagon is perhaps the most influential…

Health and Safety

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2010

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF President Barack Obama’s federal budget for fiscal year (FY) 2011 proposes $3.83 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and…

Business and Government

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Truth or Consequences

  • By: Gregory Conko, Jerome Arnett
  • 04/12/2010

The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…

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Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/06/2010

Horner's new book coming out Monday, April 19, from Regnery Publishing.

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This Land Ain’t your Land; this Land Is my Land

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/03/2010

A Primer on Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Entrepreneurship…

Business and Government

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Copenhagen Climate Conference

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 03/01/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Green activists are appalled that last December’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not produce…

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Shackling Innovation

  • By: Sigrid Fry-Revere
  • 02/03/2010

The Regulation of Industry-Supported Clinical Trials…

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Celling Fear: The Cell Phone Scare that Refuses to Die

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 01/22/2010

Soon would-be cell phone buyers in Maine might be checking out the latest models, only to find a jarring red box on each unit…

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The Ultimate Payoff

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 01/04/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The December issue of Labor Watch looked at the growing influence of the 2.1-million…

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Congressional Misdiagnosis

  • By: Gregory Conko, Kevin Hilferty
  • 12/08/2009

Why Repealing McCarran-Ferguson Will Harm Competition in Health Insurance Markets…

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Payment Card Networks Under Assault

  • By: John Berlau, Ryan Radia
  • 12/03/2009

How Capping Interchange Fees Will Hurt Consumers, Charities, Community Banks, and Credit Unions…

Banking and Finance

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Organization Man

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 12/01/2009

How Andrew Stern Plans to Transform the Union Movement…

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A Cure Worse than the Disease

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 10/22/2009

Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality…

Health and Safety

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