Kent Lassman
@KentatCEI
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Expanding the boundaries of freedom as president @ceidotorg -- for limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty -- embraces the quirks in us all.
Imperial City — Washington, DC
Joined March 2016
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It’s all there: justice, equality, the liberty of natural rights.
Every Fourth of July is a reminder of the promise that built this country and the work still ahead to protect it. CEI’s @kentatcei shares why he reads the Declaration of Independence with his children every Fourth of July and how its message still drives CEI’s mission today.
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The race features 21 stages across four weeks. Starting in Lille on Saturday with Le Grand Départ and finishing in Paris on the 27th, it covers 2,062 miles and includes half a dozen mountain stages and five mountaintop finishes.
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The 2025 edition has no riders from Mexico, two from Canada, and five from the United States. Notwithstanding the @lancearmstrong era, the race is and has been dominated by Europeans.
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There are 184 riders from 23 teams planning to make the start line. In the modern era of racing, about one in five racers drop out and rarely more than a quarter of the starters.
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This morning, I wrote an email to the @ceidotorg staff. Our editors liked it, lopped off the last paragraph about internal administrative stuff, and posted to the Internet machine on CEI's blog, Open Market. Enjoy Independence Day --
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RT @DudespostingWs: This guy puts a high quality microphone to stuff in nature and it’s pretty interesting
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The economic analysis is spot-on. The political analysis reminds me of this passage from C.S. Lewis,. "Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.".
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As the kids used to say, read the whole thing. @CliffordAsness & @MichaelRStrain who argue that at either end of the horseshoe is a bunch of horseshit.
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TIL that processing time for permit requests at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality have fallen by 2/3.
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RT @schoolofwarpod: A good day to listen to a conversation about the hero of Little Round Top, Joshua L. Chamberlain. “Bayonets!” .Listen….
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That apparently effortless and frictionless gliding--more like swimming than any other motion, but really most like the discovery of a fifth element--that seemed to have solved the secret of life. Now one would begin to be happy. -- C.S. Lewis, Talking About Bicycles, Oct. 1946.
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Read tomorrow’s news today. Work by @wayne_crews featured in @WSJopinion piece by @FreemanWSJ. This is what winning looks like.
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RT @DominicJPino: If the federal government is going to spend $7 trillion a year, that should at least buy reliable official statistics. Y….
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Do you care about abundance, building stuff, energy, state level policy reforms?. This is the thread you want to read today. From @JamesBroughel on permitting -- what works and what doesn't.
🚨 NEW PAPER: My final report for @ceidotorg is out today. "Laboratories of Bureaucracy" surveys how states are modernizing environmental permitting and identifies 10 practical reforms to streamline the process. A thread🧵on some top reforms states are using:
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On this day in 1980, interstate trucking was deregulated. We can do big things in America again. I promise, deregulation is the key to getting the economy growing.
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Hosted by @jolingkent, it features @RBReich and @jasonrileywsj among others. Check it out to see the context in which I used the term "the politics of envy" and described the potential of DOGE as a catalyst for renewal.
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