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"Smart-Growth Plans Are a Failure in Portland," by Randal O'Toole, Houston Chronicle, November 14, 2009

"NYC: The City That Never Smokes," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), October 26, 2009

"There's No Way to Enforce a Texting While Driving Ban," by Radley Balko, U.S. News & World Report (Online), October 13, 2009

"The Sensational Giles and O'Keefe," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, September 16, 2009

"Break Local Monopolies by Letting Insurers Compete across State Lines," by Michael F. Cannon, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2009

"Setting Boundaries for Property Rights," by Timothy Sandefur, National Law Journal, August 31, 2009

"Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times," by Michael F. Cannon, Detroit News, August 27, 2009

"Gov't Care: A Victory For Special Interests," by Shirley Svorny, Investor's Business Daily, August 6, 2009

"U.S., State Officials Need to Stop Micromanaging Care," by Shirley Svorny, Daily News of Los Angeles, July 11, 2009

"Eliminating California State Licensing Boards Would Save Funds, Aid Consumers," by Shirley Svorny, Daily News of Los Angeles, June 20, 2009

"How Not to Reform Health Care," by Michael D. Tanner, National Review (Online), June 9, 2009

"The Best Solution Is to Do Nothing," by Thomas A. Firey, Baltimore Sun, May 15, 2009

"Obama's Tax Policies to Suck the Life out of the Valley," by Jim Powell, San Jose Mercury News, March 10, 2009

"Light Rail Isn't the Track to the Future," by Randal O'Toole, San Antonio Express-News, February 9, 2009

"Free Plaxico Burress," by David Kopel, The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2008

"TABOR Is Under Threat — Again!," by Michael New, National Review (Online), November 3, 2008

"McCain's Plan Is Sound," by Michael F. Cannon, New York Post, October 9, 2008

"Big Burdens from Growth Management," by Randal O'Toole, USA Today, September 30, 2008

"Bottoms Up!," by Will Wilkinson, Forbes, September 17, 2008

"Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise," by Randal O'Toole, Cato.org, September 16, 2008

"Cancel FasTracks," by Randal O'Toole, Rocky Mountain News, September 8, 2008

"Is it Really 'Public' Education If Voters Get No Say?," by Andrew J. Coulson, Orlando Sentinel, September 2, 2008

"What Next for D.C.'s Gun Laws," by Robert A. Levy and David Kopel, The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008

"Up in Smoke," by Patrick Basham, Balitmore Sun (Online), July 28, 2008

"Blame Taxes for Baltimore's Rot," by Stephen Walters and Steve H. Hanke, The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2008

"Second Amendment - No Longer Embarrassing," by Robert A. Levy, McClatchy News Service, July 2, 2008

"Still Limits on Second Amendment," by Michael F. Cannon, Orange County Register, July 1, 2008

"Commission Does Little About Climate Change," by Patrick J. Michaels, Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 19, 2008

"Raw Milk Rebellion," by Jacob Grier, Reason (Online), May 16, 2008

"Beacon Hill's Gift to the Black Market," by Patrick Fleenor, Cato.org, April 26, 2008

"Phantom Plastic Peril," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, American Spectator (Online), April 23, 2008

"Employers Must Pull the Trigger," by Robert A. Levy, Tampa Tribune, April 22, 2008

"A Mandate for Health-Care Disaster in D.C.," by Michael D. Tanner, Washington Post, April 20, 2008

"No Child Left Ahead," by Neal McCluskey, American Spectator (Online), March 13, 2008

"More Pain at the Pump," by Thomas A. Firey, Baltimore Sun, March 13, 2008

"Costs Will Outweigh Benefits," by Randal O'Toole, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 8, 2008

"Rejecting National ID," by Jim Harper, American Spectator, February 7, 2008

"Californians Can Get a Better Casino Deal," by Jeff Hooke and Thomas A. Firey, Cato.org, January 30, 2008

"Please Do Smoke, If You Like," by Thomas A. Firey and Jacob Grier, Cato.org, January 20, 2008

"The Votes Are In," by Jeffrey Milyo, Columbia Daily Tribune, January 20, 2008

"Bottled Water Blues," by Nicole Kurokawa, American Spectator, December 31, 2007

"When Government Plans, It Usually Fails," by Randal O'Toole, The Baltimore Sun, December 27, 2007

"Paying the Planning Tax," by Randal O'Toole, American Spectator (Online), December 6, 2007

"Legacy of Prohibition Lives on in Maryland," by Brandon Arnold, Examiner.com, December 5, 2007

"Donor Disclosure Won't Help Think Tanks," by John Samples, Roll Call, September 27, 2007

"Short-Circuited," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2007

"Great Moments in Local Government," by Daniel J. Mitchell, Cato@Liberty, July 19, 2007

"Wrong Way to Make a Region Livable," by Randal O'Toole, Vancouver Sun, June 12, 2007

"Bill of Wrongs," by Stephen Slivinski, American.com, March 21, 2007

"First, Let's Inoculate With the Facts," by Sigrid Fry-Revere, Houston Chronicle, March 17, 2007

"Can FEMA Be Fixed?," by Russell S. Sobel and Peter T. Leeson, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 2006

"How About Some Healthy Competition?," by Michael F. Cannon, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2006

"The Energy Bill: It Could Have Been Worse," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2005

"Unocal Shareholder Rights," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, July 17, 2005

"The Sarbanes-Oxley Tax," by Alan Reynolds, Investor's Business Daily, March 14, 2005

"Don't Blame SpongeBob for Child Obesity," by Radley Balko, Fox News (Online), February 21, 2005

"Not Spitzer's Job," by Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2004

"Full Serve, No Choice," by Thomas A. Firey and Bart J. Wilson, The New York Times, October 3, 2004

"Still Groping in the Dark?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2004

"What's Really Under Indictment?," by Jerry Taylor, The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2004

"CEO Pay Parade," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, April 11, 2004

"The States of Employment," by Radley Balko, National Review (Online), March 9, 2004

"Energy Bill Debate Confirms a Lawyer-Democrat Alliance," by Doug Bandow, Investor's Business Daily, February 3, 2004

"A Passion That Leaves Us Powerless," by Patrick J. Michaels, Cato.org, October 1, 2003

"Congressional Review of Blackout," by Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, September 8, 2003

"The Right Way to Fix the Grid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, New York Post, August 19, 2003

"Outside the Grid," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2003

"Energy Tax Blacks Out Many Lives in Europe," by Patrick J. Michaels, Boston Herald, August 17, 2003

"All that Hot Air Is a Killer; Energy Tax Blacks Out Many Lives in Europe," by Patrick J. Michaels, Cato.org, August 17, 2003

"Washington's Ten Thousand Commandments -- and What to Do About Them," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Investor's Business Daily, July 8, 2003

"Removing Two Roadblocks for an Intercounty Connector," by Thomas A. Firey, Washington Post, April 30, 2003

"Political Profiteers," by Thomas A. Firey, The Baltimore Sun, August 22, 2005

"Regulatory Spending Escalation," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Washington Times, September 3, 2002

"Expect the Unexpected," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, August 18, 2002

"FCC Hiking the Cost of Your Next TV," by Stephen Moore, Washington Times, August 14, 2002

"How to fix AOL," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, August 5, 2002

"Overstocked Assumptions," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, July 28, 2002

"Deregulator in Chief," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Cato.org, March 21, 2002

"Let the Accounting Industry Impose its Own Stricter Standards," by Peter Van Doren, USA Today, March 7, 2002

"Where Did the Energy Crisis Go?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), September 4, 2001

"The Suits Tell the Tale," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), July 27, 2001

"Power Economics," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), March 28, 2001

"Paul Krugman Short Circuits," by Jerry Taylor, National Review (Online), February 21, 2001

"Market more effective at regulating prices than politicians," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 8, 2001

"Where Are California's Enviros?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, February 8, 2001

"California's Electricity Plan Falls Short," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 7, 2001

"Wrong Way Out of the Dark?," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Washington Times, October 27, 2003

"Prediction: California Power Deregulation Will be a Fiasco," by Jerry Taylor, National Post, January 19, 2001

"California's Troubles Not Caused by Deregulation," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Houston Chronicle, January 15, 2001

"Strangulation by Regulation," by Peter Van Doren, National Review, May 1, 2000

"Lights Out on Electric Restructuring?," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 1998

"High-Voltage Swindle: Why Electricty Restructuring Could Electrocute Ratepayers," by Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, February 6, 1997

"A Freer Market for Electricity Would Lower Energy Costs, Half Measures Fall Short," by Jerry Taylor, Cato.org, February 2, 1997



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