In a recent NBC interview, President Obama blamed ATMs for taking away bank tellers’ jobs, and computerized airline check-in kiosks for eliminating aviation jobs. Communications Coordinator Lee Doren points out that innovation doesn’t affect the number of jobs so much as the types of jobs. Accomplishing more while using less labor is actually the key to prosperity. People looking for an explanation for today’s high unemployment need to look elsewhere.
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In this new CEI video, my colleague Lee Doren and I talk about the budget debate.
Did the Citizens United decision place corporations ahead of democracy? Activist Annie Leonard thinks so. CEI’s Communications Director Lee Doren disagrees. Leonard views a strong government as an opposing force to corporate power. Doren points out in a new video that the more government does, and the more it spends, the more companies will flock to Washington to get a piece of the action. If you want to keep money out of politics, then keep politics out of our money.
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My colleague Lee Doren made a short video on the Pentagon’s 26-page brownie recipe. Have a look:
NPR’s All Things Considered also ran a segment on the recipe over the weekend. They had a local chef prepare brownies according to the directions, and dug up a streamlined version of the recipe that is — wait for it — 31 pages long. Have a listen here.
The humor site Fark picked up on Reason‘s write-up.
So did food sites like Chow and Slashfood.
The Chicago Tribune has a blurb on it, St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an editorial, and the tabloid Weekly World News has its own article. The Huffington Post covered the story, along with their friends across the aisle at National Review.
CBS News picked up on it, along with Canada’s The Globe and Mail.
Lots of bloggers are having at it as well, including Instapundit.
Good to see so many people from across the political spectrum coming together for a good laugh!
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Inertia Wins! 