McDonald’s Response To $15 An Hour Minimum Wage
by Farley Elliott. It seems that most of the online restaurant platforms looking to deliver us into the future are primarily aimed at just getting the world to interact less and less in person. Food delivery and personal meal apps are all the rage — and allow anyone to just sit at home in soiled sweatpants forever — as are reservation systems and payment ... MOREThomas Sowell: Micro-totalitarianism
Small people have small ways. The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression." Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be an act of "micro-aggression" against minorities ... MORETeenagers Are Losing Confidence In The American Dream
by Joe Pinsker. As government grows, the private economy shrinks. In 1996, when asked a series of questions about the brightness of her future, one high-school senior in an unnamed Midwestern state said, “There’s been extraordinary examples of people that have been poor and stuff that have risen to the top just from their personal hard work … not ... MORESusan Stamper Brown: Let's Ditch Political Correctness
It is just tyranny with happy face. Political correctness is a contradiction of reality and distortion of morality that necessitates relentless government intervention devised by those who seek to control our lives. These self-appointed Speech Sheriffs warn us that words spoken outside the imaginary perimeters they've set are judgmental, ... MOREWhy Buying Drugs Online Is Safer Than On The Street
by Christopher Ingraham. If only reason were a consideration. "There's no way Silk Road could be reasonably expected to reduce
violence," Federal District Court Judge Katherine Forrest said at the
recent sentencing hearing for Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of
the Silk Road online drug market. Going into sentencing, Ulbricht's ... MORE7 Bad Laws Undone By Good Jurors
A proud tradition of doing right when the law is wrong. What is Jury Nullification? You won’t find it defined in your dictionary or described in your encyclopedia. You weren’t taught about it in school, and indeed it is even considered a crime to tell other people about it in some circumstances. Imagine that for a moment – it is a crime to ... MORENo One Owes You Anything
Harry Browne's christmas gift to his 9-year-old. Every once in a while you come across something that really sticks with you. You read the article, and it wrenches your mind in a direction that you are unfamiliar with. It leads to an “ah-ha!” moment. A few weeks ago, I came across one of these. Harry Browne, former Libertarian Party ... MOREWalter E Williams: Culture and Social Pathology
"Greatest generation" failed to transmit moral values. A civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions, rules of etiquette and moral values. These behavioral norms — mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings — represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages ... MORESteve Chapman: San Francisco Vs Soft Drinks
Politicians want to be your conservators. Its for your own good of course. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has something it wants to say: Fizzy sugar water can make you fat and rot your teeth. 'll pause while you pick yourself off the floor, where you landed in shock at this blinding revelation. Until now, you have probably been pouring ... MOREPope Reveals God Cannot Stop Climate Change By Himself
by Gregg Zoroya. Holy man declares moral imperative to reduce greenhouse gases. Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter, ... MOREThere’s No Evidence Of A ‘New Nationwide Crime Wave’
by Radley Balko. Last week in the Wall Street Journal,
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute posited that we are in
the throes of a “new nationwide crime wave.” She blamed the chorus of
police reform advocates and critics of police brutality since the
Ferguson protest last summer. She claimed the criticism and efforts to
hold police ... MORENew York Democrats Begin To Realize Minimum Wage Means Maximum Unemployment For Low-Skill Workers
by Novell Rose. It is not about politics, it is about math. It happened in Seattle — pay goes up, business goes down. As Western Journalism reported about the city’s $15-per-hour minimum wage law, an article in Seattle Magazine raised the red flag about the red ink a number of local restaurants would be facing because of the increasing labor ... MORE
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