In the new movie “Julie & Julia,” Meryl Streep does well portraying the late Julia Child, but one can say Streep also benefits from her subject. The much-loved food author and pioneering television chef had a vibrant personality and passion about preparing food that made millions of Americans welcome her into their kitchens. It’s likely that no matter who played Julia in a biopic, her legions of fans would have flocked to the theaters.
So it is strange that Streep acts so…
Our good friend and CEI alumna Kendra Okonski is looking for writers and journalists to enter the distinguished and lucrative Bastiat Prize Competition, presented by the International Policy Network. The competition is designed for writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society. This year, the Prize has been expanded and includes a new category for online journalism (including blogs and self-published articles). The first place winner will take home $10,000 and a lovely crystal candlestick.
Past winner have…
Hundreds of people turned out in the pouring rain for Washington, DC’s Tea Party - one of many tax protest events taking place around the U.S. today. A sea of multi-colored umbrellas filled Lafayette Park, which is situated near the White House. Many protesters made a family day of the outing, carrying homemade signs expressing outrage at the unprecedented government bailouts of the banking and auto industries over the past year, along with the high level of government spending to…
The freedom movement lost a valuable ally way too soon a couple weeks ago. James J. Boulet, Jr., executive director of English First and creator of watchdog web sites such as EEOCWatch.com and KeepRushOnTheAir.com, died of cancer on Jan. 16 at the age of 50.
Jim’s main focus at English First was stopping bilingualism in public policy. The group didn’t take positions on immigration issues, instead focusing on the dangers of a balkanized society that multilingual policies would lead to. His efforts were…
Today at noon Eastern time, I will enter the lion’s den.
I will be live in the New York City studios of liberal network Air America having a friendly discussion about deregulation on The Thom Hartmann Program. Hartmann, author of books such as “”Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class,” usually broadcasts form Oregon, and when I’m guest I have joined him by phone. But today, he’s broadcasting form the home office and I will be joining him live and…
Today’s DC Examiner features a (very) brief interview with Bureaucrash Crasher-in-Chief Pete Eyre, in which he explains how the new Bureaucrash Social network helps libertarian activists around the world get, and stay, in touch, and share ideas.
Peter Eyre first came to the Washington area as an intern for the Cato Institute, and he’s now the “crasher-in-chief” of Bureaucrash, a Libertarian-minded organization that spreads its political leanings by interrupting protests that favor what the group sees as big government action. Bureaucrash, which is…
Seen on the street today:
If it is any consolation, there is at least one world in which he is still the President.
In today’s fluff news, CEI Warren Brookes journalism fellow Lene Johansen got a nice mention in the Washington Post (Amy Argetsinger’s Reliable Source) and DC Examiner (Patrick Gavin’s Yeas and Nays). The dynamic writer from Norway met the chief Sopranos mobster at Washington’s famous Hay-Adams Hotel on Wednesday night, when a small group of free market warriors gathered to imbibe a few posh cocktails. Anyhow, check out the write up + picture of Lene that appears in both papers.
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I’ve just got back from delivering a speech at the Heritage Foundation on the subject of my book. I think it went well and the audience certainly seemed enthusiastic about it. You’ll be able to watch it here when the webcast gets properly archived within a day or so. Thanks to ever-excellent John Hilboldt and his team for putting it on and to Ben Lieberman for hosting it.
Today is the last day to vote for the free market and against overregulation in a debate I am participating at the web site of the magazine The Economist. If Open Market readers aren’t enthused about any of the candidates in this year’s presidential election, here is a venue where their vote could make a difference and the principles of freedom are definitely at stake. If CEI and I and the free-market side win this debate, it could have a…
Cord’s recent C-SPAN appearance, debating the issues surrounding the proposed Microsoft / Yahoo deal (and by extension any big tech buyout or merger) is now available for convenient YouTube viewing. No longer are we enslaved by the shackles of Real Media.
I can’t remember a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that received more media coverage and broke more news events. As fate would have it, political speeches probably scheduled months in advance were affected by the results of the primaries, and particularly the Super Tuesday primaries just two days before the conference began.
Mitt Romney chose his CPAC speech on Thursday to announce that he was suspending his campaign. That made McCain’s speech later that afternoon one of rallying conservative support for the…
California Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos passed away this morning. A Holocaust survivor and fervent anti-communist, the Hungarian-born Lantos’s thick accent and propensity for hyperbole made him one of Congress’s more colorful characters.
While I didn’t agree with him on much beside the evil of communism, I did have the pleasure of witnessing one of his last controversial episodes, during his speech at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. in June 2007, where he caused a small row…
Eli, I agree with Michelle on this one. There is no justification for regulating the fares of either taxis or pick-up limousine services.
What’s overlooked, I believe, in cases like this with customers supposedly “captive” to service providers, is the power of branding. Were there no fare regulation, a customer wouldn’t necessarily be at the mercy of every unknown cab driver.
Rather, companies would spring up with visible slogans they would emblazon on their cab. Consumers would know — from sources…
The multi-dimensional debate over political correctness at The Smithsonian (everything from exactly how many children Thomas Jefferson fathered to the proper display of the Enola Gay) has another entry: climate science at the Museum of Natural History. From today’s Inside the Beltway:
Suffice it to say, the Smithsonian Institution is not buying into the “global warming” hysteria being spread by Al Gore.
While in the District in recent days, professor Jeff Bennett of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at Australian National University…
Thanks to Google, I am now addicted to the game Rock Band. I don’t own the game, but I do alternate between playing the demo at BestBuy in Pentagon City and playing the demo at the Gamestop across the street in the mall.
How can I prove that Google caused this addiction? Here I am playing Rock Band with Jillian Bandes of Roll Call in Google’s game room.
Jill’s fake drum performance far exceeded my abilities at the fake guitar. Soon after…
Just in time for the multi-holiday shopping season, Bureaucrash is here to solve all of your gift-giving needs. Tell that special someone how much you love them (and liberty) with a stylish Bureaucrash t-shirt or hoodie. Shirts are patriotically priced at a mere $17.76. Buy now! Click the video below to see spokesmodels Michelle and Alex demonstrate the product.
Raise a glass to 21st Amendment!
Nearly everyone has an opinion about Sen. Trent Lott (who, the Associated Press reports, plans to resign from the Senate today.) My off-the-cuff judgment is that he was and is a skilled political operative with a flexible ideology.
Whatever one thinks of his policies, there’s no doubt that he was a great player at the game of politics. A fair amount of his success, however, may have to do with his amazing facility (best I’ve ever witnessed) for remembering names. I…
Almost as if to celebrate the grand opening of the new store at Union Station of Fantom Comics — owned by our friend Matt Klokel — this weekend’s new episode of “The Simpsons” features the opening…of a new comic book shop to compete with the awful, consumer-hostile “Android’s Dungeon.” Guest stars include comic writers Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Dan Clowes. Coincidence it may be, but no matter. Congratulations, Matt!
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