by Doug Altner. President Obama has renewed his call for Congress to raise the minimum wage to at least $9 per hour. Advocates claim that raising the minimum wage helps low-wage workers. Opponents point out that if Congress makes it illegal to hire an employee for less than $9 per hour, there will be fewer job opportunities for those who lack ... MOREThe Forgotten Man Of The Minimum Wage Debate
by Doug Altner. President Obama has renewed his call for Congress to raise the minimum wage to at least $9 per hour. Advocates claim that raising the minimum wage helps low-wage workers. Opponents point out that if Congress makes it illegal to hire an employee for less than $9 per hour, there will be fewer job opportunities for those who lack ... MOREProhibition Lite Is Making RYO Cigarettes All The Rage
by Jeffrey A. Tucker. A month ago, I was sitting with some college students for lunch. After we ate, two of them took out loose-leaf tobacco and rolling papers, with filters and all. They started rolling cigarettes at the table. In some way, it looked more like poverty than a charming anachronism. Puzzled, I asked why they were doing this. The ... MOREWhere's Fidelity To The Constitution When You Need It?
by Andrew Napolitano. When former spy Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the federal government is spying on most Americans, most Americans were surprised and unhappy. But half of official Washington yawned before it roared. Somehow the people in the government had a pretty good idea of what government spies ... MOREJerry Brito: How Leaks Advance Liberty And Resist Tyranny
Using technology to keep the government in check. We now know what we have long suspected: that the National
Security Agency is collecting the phone call records of all
Americans. And we are now justified in suspecting what we have long
feared: that it is also keeping a permanent backup copy of
everything that happens on the ... MOREJohn Stossel: The War On Drugs Is Worse Than NSA Spying
Politicians cause more problems than they solve. In their arrogance, they assume that only they solve social problems. They will solve them by banning this and that, subsidizing groups they deem worthy and setting up massive bureaucracies with a mandate to cure, treat and rescue wayward souls. Their programs fail, and so they pass new ... MOREDan Mangan: Poll Finds ObamaCare Is Already Hurting Jobs
No surprise here. Small business owners' fear of the effect of the new health-care reform law on their bottom line is prompting many to hold off on hiring and even to shed jobs in some cases, a recent poll found. "We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it ... MOREJack Lakey: Speed Traps Are About Revenue, Not Safety
Policing for profit: dragnets and fishing expeditions. If radar enforcement is all about safety, as police say, why are they fishing for speeders on Allen Rd. in the middle of the night? Paula Morese describes the cop who pulled her over at 2 a.m. as an “entrapment officer,” one of three who were ambushing drivers where the speed limit drops ... MORE
State Legislatures Strengthen Constitution Via Nullification
Keeping limits on an otherwise unlimited government. On May 4, politicususa.com published “Republicans Shred the Constitution By Passing Unconstitutional Nullification Laws” by Rmuse. This article is nothing more than worship at the altar of the
All-Powerful National Regime. The author’s supposition is that
Republicans despise ... MOREDexter Wright: Impeach Eric Holder
Why isn't this a no-brainer? As the Washington media continues to trip over the stumbling blocks of administration scandals and echoes of Watergate bounce off the buildings across the Potomac River, the question comes to mind: Will there be impeachment hearings this summer as there were in the Summer of '73? There may indeed ... MOREScott Locklin: They Say They Want A Revolution
People are obviously upset about something. According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey,
29% of US citizens polled say they believe that “In the next few years,
an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our
liberties.” Of the five potential responses to this question—“agree,
disagree, neither, unsure, ... MORECitizens & The State: A Bigger Problem Than You Think
by A. Barton Hinkle. “This abuse of state power,” writes Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei about the U.S. government’s surveillance of U.S. citizens, “goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be a civilized society.” Weiwei has a better understanding of important things than Americans who find nothing wrong with the NSA’s ... MORE
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