by Carrie Sheffield. Fast food workers are hitting the streets
in cities across the country, walking out from their jobs, demanding
higher wages. Many of these protesters want $15 an hour. President Obama
and other Democrats decreed $10.10 is the correct minimum wage for now,
up from the current federal standard of $7.25. That would be a ... MORE
Uruguay Becomes 1st Country To Legalize Marijuana Trade
By Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias, Reuters. Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization. A government-sponsored bill approved by 16-13 votes in the Senate provides ... MORE
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Andrew Napolitano: A Conspiracy So Vast
Preparing the ground for tyranny. Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a right guaranteed by ... MORE
WSJ Opinion: Juking The ObamaCare Stats
Obama administration hides inconvenient truth. Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion? On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department ... MORE
Raising Minimum Wage A Disaster For Minorities
by Mark J. Perry. Probably the most vulnerable, at-risk group in the labor market would have to be black male teenagers, judging by the 44.3% jobless rate for that group in November. In contrast, the jobless rate for white male teens in November was less than half the rate of their black counterparts (19.8%); for male Hispanic teens the jobless ... MORE
Jess Remington: Ex-DEA Agent Joins Marijuana Industry
Coming over from the dark side. Patrick Moen, a 36-year-old from Portland, Oregon, recently made a dramatic career shift. Tired of leading a team of Portland-based DEA agents in arresting drug traffickers, he has joined a firm in Seattle, Washington that invests in budding marijuana businesses. "The potential social and financial ... MORE
Barry Farber: The Panic Of Up-For-Reelection Democrates
High anxiety for left-wing politicos. All Democrats who have to run for re-election next year will know this feeling. I was a passenger on a military flight refueling in Goose Bay, Labrador. The other passengers were mostly military officers, who were either reading or sleeping. I got increasingly interested in the refueling process. As I watched, ... MORE
Political Correctness Is Destroying Corporate America
by Steve Tobak. “Why Christmas is Destroying Corporate America.”
That’s right. A well-known blogger really tried to make that argument
on a very popular website three years ago. Unfortunately, my blog was
also on that site at the time. I remember thinking: Crap, there goes the
neighborhood … and my credibility. Then again, the woman ... MORE
John Stossel: Celebrity Hypocrites
Do as I say, not as I do. I'm annoyed that so many Hollywood celebrities hate the system that made them rich. Actor/comedian Russell Brand told the BBC he wants "a socialist, egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth." Director George Lucas got rich not just from movies but also by selling Star Wars merchandise. Yet he ... MORE
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Eric Schulzke: Robots Vs. Minimum Wage
Low-skill workers can be easily replaced. Even as pressure builds to hike the minimum wage, evidence grows that
low-wage/low-skill workers may be dispensable in a world where
automation of simple tasks is inevitable, syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg said Monday. Goldberg cited the irony that just one day before the president delivered ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: More Contraception, Less Conscription
Birth control should be over-the-counter. In a rational world, women in the U.S. would be able to buy birth control over the counter — something that is perfectly safe to do, and that women in other countries do as a matter of routine. But because American women cannot, the country is now embroiled in an unnecessary debate — one that, ... MORE
Ever Vigilant, TSA Confiscates Sock Monkey's Toy Pistol
You can't make this stuff up. "Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday. May has a small business selling unique sock ... MORE
No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare
by Scott Gottlieb. The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue ... MORE
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John R. Quain: On Alert For Red-Light Cameras
Strike back against intrusive revenue generators. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not ... MORE
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NSA Spying Scandal Could Cost U.S. Tech Giants Billions
Privacy invasion bad for business. The National Security Agency spying scandal could cost the top U.S.
tech companies billions of dollars over the next several years,
according to industry experts. In addition to consumer Internet
companies, hardware and cloud-storage giants like IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
and Oracle could suffer ... MORE
NYPD Beat Family And Kill Parakeet In Unwarranted Assault
by Nicolas Rizzi. A Staten Island woman has sued the city claiming
police entered her St. George home without a warrant, beat her family
and killed her beloved pet parakeet, according to court documents. Last year, Evelyn Lugo's bird, Tito, was thrown
from his cage after it was knocked off a dresser as cops came into her
Corson Avenue ... MORE
Climate Bullies, The Surrealists Of Science
Science geeks stand up against global bullies. Popular perceptions about climate appear surrealistic to me. I'm a seasoned science geek who has been involved in big-time climate modeling, serious mathematics, theory, and more. Popular discussions of this subject have come to look like a Salvador Dali painting, as once noted by ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Christmas Books - The Gift Of Clarity
Great winter reads. As Christmas approaches, the shopping mall can become a shopping maul. One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. However, for many kinds of gifts, you want to be able to see it directly, and perhaps handle it, before you part with your ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: Crime And Punishment In A Free Society
Would a free society be a crime-free society? I don’t foresee a future of new human beings who consistently respect the rights of others. Rather, I’m drawing attention to the distinction between crime and tort — between offenses against the state (or society) and offenses against individual persons or their justly held property. We’re so ... MORE
Stupid Laws Cause Dangerous Hospital Shortages
by John K. Ross. This week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit alleging mistreatment of a woman in the days leading up to her miscarriage at a Catholic hospital in Muskegon, Michigan. The ACLU accuses Mercy Health Partners of negligence for, among other things, failing to direct Tamesha Means to a ... MORE
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John W. Whitehead: The End Of Private Property
In the era of the American police state. If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. If government officials can fine and arrest you for growing ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Our Fragile Planet
And our even more fragile capitalistic system. Let's examine a few statements reflecting a vision thought to be beyond question. "The world that we live in is beautiful but fragile." "The 3rd rock from the sun is a fragile oasis." Here are a couple of Earth Day quotes: "Remember that Earth needs to be saved every single day." "Remember the ... MORE
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science
VIDEO: Greenpeace Santa Threatens Empty Stocking
Tis the season to exploit the image of St. Nick.
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Only The Private Sector Stimulates Job Growth
by Chriss Street. The mainstream media were shocked today when U.S. job growth continued at a very strong pace in November, despite the October government shutdown that ended on October 17th. Employers added 203,000 jobs and the reported unemployment rate fell from 7.3% to 7%, its lowest level since November 2008. Economists had ... MORE
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jobs,
politics,
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Mike Elgan: Are Your Smartphone Apps Selling You Out
Of course they are. The president of the United States says he's not
"allowed" to own an iPhone, which is why he's sticking with his
BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a politically sensitive subject because the iPhone is the big American brand, and the president is a self-proclaimed fan of the late Apple
founder and CEO Steve ... MORE
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IRS Using Google Maps To Spy On Taxpayers
by Josh Peterson. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps
as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The
Daily Caller has learned. A redacted
IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the
IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps,
as ... MORE
TSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search
Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport. Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have ... MORE
California Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor
by Steven Greenhut. One longtime critic of federal
transportation spending once concluded that it would be less
expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a
Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems.
Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the
idea of buying people new cars ... MORE
Humberto Fontova: Caveat On Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela's commitment to liberty. A Martian visiting earth this week, coasting TV channels and perusing papers, would have to conclude that among the items that most interest this planet’s news bureaus is the plight of former political prisoners, especially black ones. Well, many Cubans (many of them black) suffered longer and ... MORE
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Environmentalist Wackos 1 Animal Rights Activists 0
Steven Dinan on govt-permitted eagle chopping. The Interior Department says it will change the rules and issue permits that would let wind farms kill eagles for up to 30 years, or six times longer than the current permits allow. Wind farms — the fields of windmill turbines that dot the landscape — kill about 440,000 birds of all species every ... MORE
Jim Epstein: What We Saw At NYC's Fast Food Strike
More much ado about nothing. Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell and I attended a demonstration
demanding that fast-food restaurants boost their minimum wage to
$15 per hour, or a little more than double the current federal
minimum wage. The strike, which was led by a group called Fast Food Forward that’s
affiliated with the Service ... MORE
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