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Climate Scientist Judith Curry Files Legal Brief Supporting CEI's Free Speech Rights
January 25, 2017 5:40 PMClimate scientist Judith Curry today filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Court of Appeals supporting the petitions for full-court review of a three-judge panel’s...
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Senate Democrats Cite Bogus Jobs Figures on 'Infrastructure' Plan
January 25, 2017 2:15 PMYesterday, Senate Democrats unveiled a $1 trillion infrastructure blueprint, claiming the eventual legislation would create 15 million jobs over 10 years. The plan...
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Burns Night Cheers
January 25, 2017 8:00 AMToday, on his birthday, people everywhere will raise a dram to Scottish poet Robert Burns, who most famously penned “Auld Lang Syne.”
But liberty lovers the world over may know Burns best for the immortal lines from “The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer”:
Arouse, my boys! exert your mettle,
To get auld Scotland back her kettle...
Freedom an’ whisky gang thegither!
Written in protest of the Scottish Distillery Act of 1786, Burns’ rallying cry and his fellow Scots’ outrage at the whiskey tax was heard. In the updated footnotes of his “Prayer...
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Minimum Prices Have Consumer Benefits: Contact Lens Case Study
January 25, 2017 7:00 AMToday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute published a study that I co-authored with Tom Haynes, who chairs CEI’s board of directors, about price regulation...
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Trump Reverses Obama Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline
January 24, 2017 5:54 PMPresident Trump today signed two presidential memoranda aimed at reviving the Keystone XL Pipeline and rescuing the Dakota Access Pipeline from death by regulatory delay. Pipeline proponent Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) provided this summary of the orders:
One order directs all federal agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to expedite approval of the easement to complete construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Another order...
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Time to Shake up Salt-Only Approach to Hypertension
January 24, 2017 12:33 PMWhat you’ve heard about salt and hypertension may not be right.
Hypertension, or chronically elevated blood pressure, effects about 70 million Americans. The condition is associated with a significantly increased risk for several deadly diseases and...
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Pruitt Cool under Fire at Senate Confirmation Hearing
January 23, 2017 3:41 PMOn Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the...
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Trump Moves on Trade: TPP and NAFTA
January 23, 2017 3:06 PMThe President is expected today to sign executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (signed by the Obama...
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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
January 23, 2017 1:26 PMThe final pre-inauguration Federal Register was 1,464 pages long. A normal day’s edition is roughly 300 pages. According to The Hill’s Overnight Regulation column, “Miriam Kleiman, a spokesperson for the Federal Register, described it as ‘one of the largest ever’ editions of the government's rulebook.” Since there is a lag time of a few days for most documents, the midnight rush may well continue into next week. New rules from the last week range from organic poultry to pool pumps.
On to the data:
- Last week, 72 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register, after 82 the previous week.
- That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 20 minutes.
- Federal agencies have issued 206 final regulations in 2017. At that...
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Federal Officials Should Reopen Investigations of Union Activist 'Worker Centers'
January 23, 2017 12:35 PMThe Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) continues to distort the record of Andrew Puzder, nominee...
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