Increased labor price means increase unemployment. The question over whether to raise the minimum wage has been brought back to national attention as California prepares to pass a measure setting the highest minimum wage rate in the country. By 2016, the state’s price floor will be $10 per hour. By comparison, the national minimum ... MOREBrenden Moore: California To Hike Minimum Wage
Increased labor price means increase unemployment. The question over whether to raise the minimum wage has been brought back to national attention as California prepares to pass a measure setting the highest minimum wage rate in the country. By 2016, the state’s price floor will be $10 per hour. By comparison, the national minimum ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Injustice Of Mandatory Drug Minimums
Rand Paul is right. Toward the end of a hearing
at which the Senate Judiciary Committee heard about the jaw-dropping
injustices caused by mandatory minimum sentences, John Cornyn sounded a
note of caution. “We have to be careful not to legislate by anecdote,”
said the Republican senator from Texas. Why start now? Congress ... MOREChris Hedges: The Origins Of The Police State
We should realize, their fate will soon become ours. JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass vials of crack cocaine—probably what ... MOREDr. Helen Smith: The War On Football
Putting risk in perspective. Sadly, I saw that a former Amazon CFO, Joy Covey, died in a bike crash on Wednesday: She died Wednesday after colliding with a minivan while
riding her bicycle downhill on Skyline Blvd. near Portola Valley,
Calif., according to Art Montiel, a public information officer at the
California Highway Patrol in Redwood ... MOREEd Krayewski: Four Washington Scandals That Still Matter
Despite the distractions. President Obama’s attempt to lead the United States into an intervention in Syria may have provided the White House a distraction from the summer of scandal, but they’re still there, festering. As the president waddles toward lame duck status, the various scandals will increasingly come to shape Obama’s second term. ... MORELarry Elder: Political Correctness In A Gun-Free Zone
A deadly combination. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., after another mass shooting, predictably wasted no time in demanding still more gun control legislation. This week, a killer with a valid ID entered the Washington Navy Yard in southeast D.C., a military facility where 16,000 people -- mostly civilians -- work. He killed 12 people ... MOREKen Braun: The Biggest Of Big Government Programs
The war on marijuana. Some conservative supporters of the War on Drugs like to believe this biggest of Big Government programs is mostly about harder drugs and that marijuana users are not targets. The evidence shows otherwise. Every hour last year, America’s police officers arrested 59 rapists, murderers or other violent criminals. During that ... MOREWho Should Make Medical Choices For You?
by Lawrence W. Reed. Almost a decade ago, I went to Canada to obtain a customized medical procedure on both of my eyes—a procedure not yet approved by federal authorities in the United States. It involved a new “wavefront” LASIK technology designed for patients with a combination of astigmatism and very thin corneas. For more ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying And Lying
You can trust the government to lie. When Edward Snowden first revealed the spying the NSA has been conducting on what was then thought to be only customers of Verizon, the government was embarrassed, but it reluctantly acknowledged that Snowden revealed a truth. He had, after all, displayed an accurate and faithful copy ... MORE
B Doherty, S Shackford & R Bailey: Be Very Afraid
Why innocent people have plenty to fear. In early June, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden jump-started a national debate on government spying when he leaked information about several top-secret mass surveillance programs in the U.S. and Britain. Snowden fled his home in Hawaii ahead of the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Make Trade, Not War
Cooperation can achieve what force cannot. What's up with so many Democrats wanting missile strikes on Syria, while Republicans balk? I'm told Republicans are the war party. Is this just hypocrisy? Politicians change their position on military intervention when their own party controls the White House? Historian Thaddeus Russell says ... MORE
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