Wages and Discrimination
I have never done this before, but this post is just a link to a FANTASTIC article by Walter Williams on minimum/prevailing wage laws and their true effect. Educators should photocopy this and use in in their economic and political science curriculum. READ IT NOW.
I have been fortunate to travel some in my life and recently was fortunate to get to see one of the great natural wonders of the world, The Grand Canyon. I have also seen Niagara Falls a few times, the red rocks in Colorado, and the desert in Arizona. We also visited Las Vegas, not a natural wonder, but were able to visit Mount Zion National Park, Valley of Fire State Park, and Hover Dam. While we were there they were constructing another engineering marvel, The Hoover Dam Bridge.
There was a local article recounting an
I worry sometimes that perhaps it’s me. Things that seem so clear to me are often obfuscated by those on the left as they make their arguments. Think of Obama’s chief propagandist, Jay Carney, and the stuff (I really mean another word, four letters, rhymes with spit) he has to spew in defense of Obama policies. It really is a dirty job.
You decide on whether the news is slanted against the Second Amendment. This article was front page of Pittsburgh’s “conservative” newspaper. Though it is an Adulterated Press (AP) story it ran in our paper without any attempt to get the facts straight. The use of the contrasting photographs should be enough to let you know which side the AP is on. It would be very easy to take this bait. I’d be willing to wager that AP offices have armed guards though they’re probably not armed with assault rifles. BTW Ms. Giffords was not shot with an assault rifle and there is a growing belief that assault rifles were not used in the Newtown school shooting as
A few days ago
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”