Competitive Enterprise Institute

Throughout the past four years, climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They met to develop a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), which was intended to provide stronger weapons for prosecuting organized crime, against those who speak out against the Obama administration’s war on fossil fuels.

John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks in #40 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the John Locke Foundation, the Palmetto Promise Institute, and the Mercatus Center.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), joins host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the subpoena CEI were served by the Virgin Islands Attorney General in an attempt to intimidate CEI into silence on climate issues.

This collusion among activists, foundations and attorneys general seeks to silence, bankrupt and defund organizations that challenge their catechism of climate cataclysm. These conspirators want to deprive us of our constitutional rights to speak out on the exaggerated and fabricated science, the coordinated echo- chamber news stories, and the pressure group-driven policies that impair our livelihoods, living standards, health, welfare and environmental quality. We will not be intimidated or silenced.

Klein’s greatest strength is recognizing that nothing less than the abolition of capitalism will achieve the drastic reductions in emissions her side is calling for … and she’s willing to say it out loud. I love that about her. The leaders of the environmental movement, who pretend this isn’t about ideology and that “stopping” climate change would be costless, hate her for revealing this.

Earth Hour wants you to live like the people in the 17th century — dying young, starving, working yourself to death with manual labor, etc. Humans were not meant to live that way. Thank God humans learned how to not live that way. Let’s not go back.

Supporters of a vibrant and innovative digital economy dodged a bullet in the Verizon vs. FCC decision. But one gets the feeling it won’t be for long.

Every presidential administration issues rules and regulations, but President Obama and his administration head the pack.

Fisker is fizzling, and the words of Gore, DiCaprio, and Kleiner Perkins still hang in the air.