from Carpe Diem, Don Boudreaux’s ongoing, excellent coverage of the minimum wage issue
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From The New York Post Kyle Smith writes Sorry, liberals, Scandinavian countries aren’t utopias excerpts: So: Why does no one seem particularly interested in visiting Denmark? (“Honey, on our European trip, I want to see Tuscany, Paris, Berlin and .
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from The New Yorker, a review on the book America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill. The review is by Malcolm Gladwell. excerpt: On May 2, 2009, Brill writes, the domestic-policy group at the White House blindsided the economic team with
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Between 2001 and 2011, the number of nonprofits increased 25 percent to over 1.5 million today. Their total employment has also soared and at 10.7 million in 2010 was larger than that of the construction and finance sectors combined, expanding
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Gentry liberalism effectively amounts to a sea change in what is now widely referred to as progressive politics. In the new formulation, the great raison d’ê tre for left- wing politics— advocating for the middle and working classes— has been
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The most profound level of inequality and bifurcated class structure is found in the densest and most influential urban environment in North America— Manhattan. In 1980, Manhattan ranked seventeenth among the nation’s more than 3,000 counties in income inequality; by
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University of Chicago economist John Cochrane has written one of the most unique and insightful perspectives on inequality in his blog, The Grumpy Economist. Read Why and how we care about inequality in its entirety. It is about 6 pages long. excerpts:
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From Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe, White racism has all but disappeared from US politics excerpt: Black turnout has been rising everywhere, even in states dominated by Republicans. Jason Riley, author of the new book Please Stop Helping Us, observes
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It gets to be a frustrating cycle when criticism of bad thinking is deemed to be anti thinking, when criticism of bad statistics is deemed to be anti-fact, when criticism of bad science is deemed to be anti science and
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“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the
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from John McCain’s Wacko “Ethnic Cleansing” of Tea Party in Investor’s Business Daily McCain apparently has forgotten that, two years after he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory when his “next in line” establishment candidacy sputtered into oblivion (like
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Erick Erickson is an influential Conservative personality who lives in Macon. He is also the reason I blog today. He spoke at my local Rotary meeting six years ago about his blogging career and I had no idea what a
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Victor Davis Hanson writes Lying for the Cause in The National Review. I was considering a piece on the recent accumulation of lies befalling the progressive movement, but there is nothing I could write than could touch Hanson’s piece. Excerpts:
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interesting how the modern Comedy Airplane was inspired by the long forgotten movie Zero Hour
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While I tend to avoid new year’s resolutions, I do like to think what I have learned in the last year and how it will affect the next 365 and ¼ days. We are more than our politics. Far more.
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