Friday, February 3, 2012
In the News Today
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FACEBOOK VS. THE REGULATORS - JOHN BERLAU
Openmarket.org:Facebook Filing Blasts Obama-Bush Overregulation of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank
In his letter to prospective shareholders in the middle of the 201-page “Form S-1” that Facebook filed yesterday afternoon to launch its much-anticipated initial public offering, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that one mission of Facebook is to “bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around government.”
In one important way, another section of the IPO already does so in communicating the incredible burdens on companies attempting to go public — burdens that create difficulties even for companies as big as Facebook and almost insurmountable for smaller firms. > Read the full commentary on Openmarket.org
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CHEVY VOLT FIRE DEBACLE - MARLO LEWIS
Globalwarming.org:Update on Chevy Volt Hearing
Marlo Lewis provides detailed analysis of the contentious House investigation and hearing concerning the Chevy Volt debacle:
As noted here last week, the sparks flew at a Jan. 25 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing titled “The Volt Fire: What Did NHTSA Know and When Did They Know It?“ Three witnesses testified: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator David Strickland, General Motors (GM) CEO Daniel Akerson, and John German of the International Council on Clean Transportation. My earlier post was based on newspaper accounts of the hearing. Over the weekend, I watched the archived video of the proceeding and read the testimonies and Committee Staff Report. Here are the key facts and conclusions as I see them:> Globalwarming.org: Update on Chevy Volt Hearing
> Read more on energy policy at Globalwarming.org
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CEI Podcast for February 2, 2012: The FDA’s Latest Power Grab
Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton breaks down the FDA’s behind-the-scenes push to regulate dietary supplements nearly as strictly as prescription drugs. >Listen at Libertyweek.org
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CEI AT CPAC!
CEI is a co-sponsor of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Thursday, February 9 to Saturday, February 11 in Washington, D.C.
CEI will have a table in the exhibit hall of the hotel, the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Please stop by booth 1509 and say hello if you are attending CPAC.
Visit Conservative.org/cpac for the full conference agenda.
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Ten Thousand Commandments
By Wayne Crews
Welcome to The Other National Debt -- The Cost of Regulation
-> Read Today's Decrees
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Friday, February 3, 2012 at 07:47AM 