Barry Farber: When Strong Words Came With Strong Deeds
"Don't break your toothpick." Water power gets all the credit, but word power does the same kind of job. Water can unleash the forces of nature. Words can unleash the forces of human nature. Freedom-lovers from Minneapolis to Manila found energy and a stiffer backbone when, after the Japanese conquered the Philippine Islands, Gen. ... MORENY TIMES: Coalition Urges Nations To Decriminalize Drugs
by Somini Sengupta. A coalition of political figures from around the world, including Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and several former European and Latin American presidents,
is urging governments to decriminalize a variety of illegal drugs and
set up regulated drug markets within their own countries. The proposal ... MORE
John Stossel: Hold On, Mr. President
Not another prolonged engagement. "Do you have a strategy now, Mr. President?" asked the cover of the Daily News next to a photo of the second American journalist to be beheaded by the terrorist group ISIS. The impulse to "do something" to counter such evil is strong. But why do we assume that government doing something is always an ... MORESally Pipes: Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious
Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Mob Rule Economics
Maybe low-paying jobs are better than none at all. While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that some people's votes are to be overruled by other people's disruptions, harassment ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Favors And Loot For Sale
A political marketplace for cronies. At a July fundraising event in Chicago, Mrs. Michelle Obama remarked, "So, yeah, there's too much money in politics. There's (sic) special interests that have too much influence." Sen. John McCain has been complaining for years that "there is too much money washing around political campaigns today." ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Success Or Failure?
Obama is a failure? Not so fast. Those people who say that President Obama has no clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy. First the strategy — which is to get each crisis off ... MOREMichelle Obama's Stupid & Tyrannical Snack Rules For Kids
by Victor Skinner. School nutrition experts in Nebraska are struggling to comply with new federal snack regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. “I think we’ve gone too far, too fast,” Diane Zipay, director of nutritional services for the Westside School District told KIETV.com.
“And I don’t think it’s a real-world environment. ... MORE
Paramedics Rush To Child Who Waited in Car 5 Minutes
by Lenore Skenazy. Boy survives! Mother taken into custody. Playing out an elaborate charade of concern for a
child who was obviously in no danger, police arrested a mom who let
her son wait in the car while she ran into a Chicagoland Whole
Foods for less than five minutes. Then, for reasons known only to those who write and follow protocols ... MOREIBD: The Worst Job Stat Continues To Get Even Worse
by Jed Graham. Amid all the focus on boosting the minimum wage and legislating living wages, virtually no one seems to have noticed what is happening to the workweek in low-wage industries.
Since December 2012, private industries paying up to about $14.50 an hour have added, on net, 972,000 nonsupervisory jobs with an average workweek of a mere 17.7 hours, an IBD analysis finds.
That doesn't mean new employees are being hired for such few hours. Rather, it reflects a combination of reduced hours in existing jobs and ... MORE
When It’s Easier To Pay No Wages Rather Than A Minimum
by Tyler Durden. As of today there is no hotter subject following on the heels of Obama-Care than the current fight brewing in the minimum wage debate. Regardless of which side of the aisle (or counter) you’re on, the argument as to demand a government regulated hike of upwards of 50% or more in some places puts a question squarely on the ... MOREYoung, Bummed & In Debt: Why Aren't Millennials Angrier?
by Veronique de Rugy. Until recently, a bad job market was nearly always bad news for political incumbents. Unemployed and anxious voters have a habit of throwing the bums out. But headed into the 2016 election season, one large demographic group is still likely to vote Democratic: millennials. Which is weird, because when it comes to the labor ... MORECops Seize Family Home After $40 Drug Bust
by Zoe Szathmary. How Philadelphia uses cops to legally steal. A Philadelphia civil forfeiture law has reportedly allowed the government to take away citizens' homes - and much of it funds city prosecutors. CBS Philadelphia reported on the story, saying homeowners Christos Sourovelis, Norys Hernandez and Doris Welch have filed a lawsuit, ... MOREJacob Sullum: 40,000 Prisoners Of Pot Prohibition
Some will die in prison. Now that growing and selling marijuana are legitimate businesses in Colorado and Washington, the injustice of sending people to prison for engaging in those activities is starker than ever before. Last week at Reason.com, for example, Aaron Malin highlighted the case of Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man who ... MORE
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