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Wed, May 16 Research Fellow Winslow T. Wheeler in TIME article “F-22 In A Dogfight as Panetta Crimps Its Flight Envelope”
Tue, May 15 ALERT: Research Fellow Gabriel Roth, along with CEI and Reason Foundation, will be holding a Capitol Hill briefing TODAY at noon ET titled, “Reforming Federal Surface Transportation Policy: Problems, Solutions, And A New Path Forward.”
Sun, May 13 Research Director Alex Tabarrok cited in Times Union article discussing Schenectady County’s gun buy-back program
Thu, May 10 Research Editor Anthony Gregory in Huffington Post commentary “Let Them All Stay--Amnesty, Now”
Mon, May 7 ALERT: Research Fellow James R. Otteson to be on Glenn Beck TV TONIGHT at 5 p.m. ET
Mon, May 7 Senior Fellow Robert Nelson in The Arizona Republic op-ed “Wasteful U.S. public-land policy must change”
Sat, May 5 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland’s book No War For Oil receives a positive review in Barron’s (Seen on page 2)
Fri, May 4 Senior Fellow Richard Vedder cited in Wall Street Journal article “Investing in College? It Pays to Think Like an Investor”
Fri, May 4 Research Director Alex Tabbarok cited in New York Times article “Vocation or Exploration? Pondering the Purpose of College”
Wed, May 2 Research Editor Anthony Gregory in Huffington Post piece “Is Iran Really a Threat?”
Wed, May 2 New commentary from Senior Fellow Ivan Eland “American Foreign Policy: Have Gun, Will Travel”
Tue, May 1 Research Fellow John Goodman in The Daily Caller op-ed: “Power to the patient”
Tue, May 1 Research Fellow Winslow T. Wheeler in TIME article “The Pentagon’s Million-Dollar Aviation Plan”
Mon, Apr 30 Senior Fellow Richard Vedder cited in Los Angeles Times article “Republicans applying ‘supply side’ theory to benefits”
Sat, Apr 28 Research Fellow John Goodman article “Is Obama Cooking the Medicare Books?” in Townhall
Thu, Apr 26 Research Editor Anthony Gregory discusses the “Only One Way to End the Indecencies of War” in the Huffington Post
Wed, Apr 25 Research Fellow John C. Goodman op-ed in Politico “Social Security trustees: We’re going broke”
Wed, Apr 25 Research Fellow Gabriel Roth cited in National Journal article “Maybe the System Really Is Working”
Sat, Apr 21 Research Fellow Art Carden in Washington Examiner article “Entrepreneurs serve the public better than politicians”
Thu, Apr 19 Research Director Alex Tabarrok cited on Wall Street Daily article “Can Twitter Take Down the Patent Giants?”
Wed, Apr 18 New commentary from Ivan Eland “Save Money by Ending Costly Alliances”
Wed, Apr 18 Senior Fellow Richard Vedder cited in New York Times article “Do Wealthy Colleges Deserve Their Tax Breaks?”
Wed, Apr 18 Research Editor Anthony Gregory in the Huffington Post article “Every First Family Is in the Top 1%”
Wed, Apr 18 Senior Fellow Richard Vedder cited in International Business Times article “Rising Student Loans: The Next Debt Time Bomb set to Explode”
Wed, Apr 18 Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson in News Observer op-ed “Earth Day’s environmental ‘religion’”
Tue, Apr 17 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs cited in American Spectator: “Marching Toward Taxmageddon”, by Doug Bandow
Mon, Apr 16 Research Fellow John Goodman discusses in Roll Call “How Conservatives Can Erase the Gender Gap”
Sun, Apr 15 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs cited in Forbes: “What Do the Titanic and Your Smartphone Have In Common?”, by Adam Thierer
Thu, Apr 12 Research Fellow and Author of Financing Failure Vern McKinley in Washington Times op-ed “Bernanke’s fairy tale recession story for kids”
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Wed, Apr 11 Research Fellow Fred Singer in American Thinker: “Cheap Natural Gas Heralds an Energy Revolution”
Wed, Apr 11 Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell in Daily Caller article “Time to end our unwinnable drug war”
Wed, Apr 11 Research Fellow John Goodman cited in Washington Examiner: “Our government caused drug shortage”
Wed, Apr 11 Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa in Investor’s Business Daily op-ed “Brazilian Economy Threatened By Bloated Government”
Tue, Apr 10 Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses how “Realtors ‘clean house’ by stifling the competition” in The Herald News
Mon, Apr 9 Research Fellow Winslow T. Wheeler in Time article “Lies, Damned Lies and The Pentagon’s Latest Budget Numbers”
Mon, Apr 9 Research Director Alex Tabarrok cited in The Economist article “Place-dependent output”
Fri, Apr 6 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs cited at The Freeman in “Is Serfdom an Executive Order Away? National Defense Resources Preparedness”
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Is Iran Really a Threat? (5/1/2012)
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The Pentagon’s Million-Dollar Aviation Plan (5/1/2012)
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Power to the Patient (5/1/2012)
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