Pricing low-skill workers out of the game. The 2012 platform for the Democratic Party promised to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.50 per hour and to tie future changes to inflation. Just as with arguments for a "living wage," this sounds like a good and compassionate idea, but it has a false allure. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ... MOREJames P Gray: Minimum Wage Does More Harm Than Good
Pricing low-skill workers out of the game. The 2012 platform for the Democratic Party promised to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.50 per hour and to tie future changes to inflation. Just as with arguments for a "living wage," this sounds like a good and compassionate idea, but it has a false allure. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ... MOREA Lawsuit To Reclaim Property Rights From Prairie Dogs
by Michael Bastach. Attorneys representing property owners in Cedar City, Utah filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds by preventing residents from defending their property against a massive prairie dog infestation. “The federal government doesn’t have the authority to regulate a ... MOREJohn Fund: Government's Broke, Hooray
Washington has less money for bribes. Imagine what the media reaction would be if in the aftermath of yesterday’s Senate vote blocking new background checks, a leading official of the gun lobby had explained his side’s success by saying: “Bribery isn’t what it once was. The government has no money. Once upon a time you would throw ... MOREJeff Nesbit: Majority Now Backs Marijuana Legalization
Something to celebrate on "Weed Day." It's 4/20 time again this week. For those who aren't part of the Millennial generation, 4/20 is unofficial "Weed Day" in America —a counterculture phenomenon that has drawn up to 10,000 marijuana legalization activists at college campuses in the U.S. in some years. In years past, Weed Day counterculture ... MOREBarry Farber: Pitcher's Mound Needed In The White House
Why Obama deserves a 1-way trip to the showers. Do “Big-Guys” ever “approach the mound” in politics? You know, like in baseball when the pitcher’s doing a miserable job and is about to be replaced? It’s reliably reported that beheadings used to be the “sport” that filled the seats in the stadium in Afghanistan. You need not go that ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Taxation Is Theft
Government deploys the mafia model. With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers' taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself, and with a government that continues to extract more wealth from every taxpaying American every year, ... MOREWashington Times: A Good Day For The 2nd Amendment
Common sense prevails in Senate! The president raged. The mayor of New York frothed. Joe Biden cried. But at the end of the day, common sense prevailed. The Senate killed the effort to unreasonably expand background checks for buyers of guns. The measure is not quite graveyard dead; it can be brought up again, but prospects for ... MOREAlexander Bolton: Rand Paul Mulls Presidential Run In 2016
A "larger microphone" to influence nation. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a star among Tea Party voters, said Wednesday he is considering running for president in 2016 in part because a White House bid would give him a "larger microphone" for his ideas. The freshman senator said he would decide in 2014 if he'll mount a campaign for the Republican nomination. ... MORETime To Repeal The Renewable Fuel Standard
by Robert Bradley Jr. If Washington were a business, counterproductive rules and regulations would be either reformed or revoked. But we’re not living in that world. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is gearing up to expand a destructive program that is criticized at both ends of the ideological divide. The ... MOREThe Power Of The State Vs The Power Of Love
by Robert Higgs. For thousands of years, philosophers have argued that society must invest great power in the rulers because only great power can hold back the forces of evil—violence, plunder, and disorder. They have often conceded, of course, that this solution does have an unfortunate aspect, namely, that with great power, the rulers themselves ... MOREPamela Geller: The Epic Failure Of Our Intel Agencies
Losing our liberties in trade for what security? I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area. A $50,000 reward has been offered for ... MOREJacob Sullum: Checking The Logic Of Background Checks
Thwarting criminals at the gun shop. Urging Congress to expand background checks for gun buyers, President Obama claims the current system has "kept more than 2 million dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun" during the last two decades. If you understand why that claim is misleading, you will understand why background checks ... MOREPoverty Pros & The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them
by Bill Freeza. Yes, it looks like a wedding announcement out of The Onion, but when it comes to making a killing off the never-ending “War on Poverty,” the marriage of convenience between the financial services industry and federal bureaucrats is no laughing matter. The idea that government welfare programs could eliminate poverty, rather ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: 1984 + 29
The Obama revolution. Imagine if, during the campaign of 2008, someone had written the following: “If Barack Obama is elected president, then each year from now on the federal budget will be a trillion dollars in the red. He will pile up in two terms more debt than all previous presidents combined. Interest rates will stay at near zero; 7.6 percent ... MOREJohn Stossel: A Post-Post Office World
A system of cumbersome inefficiency. Even parts of government that look like a business never get run with
the efficiency of a business. Just look at the post office. They buy commercials and tout their services the way private businesses do. They offer a service that customers want. But a real business can't get away with losing ... MOREGarry Reed: Man Facing 81 Years Seeks Jury Nullification
Pot dealer punished for refusing to rat out friends. Today is Day One in Rich Paul's fight against legal prosecution for an act that the libertarians at CopBlock call "victimless actions." Paul, a political activist in New Hampshire, is charged with selling
marijuana and faces up to 81 years in jail on felony charges. Paul had a chance to get the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Fact-Free Crusades
Cracking down on law-abiding citizens. Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws ... MOREWarming Advocates Struggle To Explain ... No Warming
by Rick Moran. We've known since Climategate and the emails from the East Anglia climate center that warming advocates have been well aware of the lack of rising temperatures on the earth since at least 2000. Now, confronted with irrefutable evidence from one of global warming's biggest boosters - NASA - scientists who have based their careers and ... MORE
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