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Kevin Williamson of National Review Online pokes holes in the “magical thinking” surrounding the political push for a higher government-mandated minimum wage. Thanks to a new study from economists at…
Anybody reading the Wall Street Journal this morning may have had to check the calendar. It felt like a cross between April Fools’ and Halloween. The article in question exists…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains why the numbers look so bad for Greece. It is as though the Muses came to an agreement: In the here and now,…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s explains why recent positive changes from the Greek government do not solve its lingering problems. Despite appearances, Greece is not having a fiscal crisis. The Greek…
These days, it involves a lot more than having a big stadium. From the (Minnesota) Star Tribune: The National Football League had a long and expensive list of confidential requests…
The effort to cap local privilege license taxes at $100 cleared the House on Wednesday and now heads to the Senate. Representatives did clarify that ATM machines were not to…
The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office is asking citizens to look out for skimming devices on credit card readers. One way to do this, I suppose, is to investigate how difficult…
From the New York Post comes the facts about yet another Big Government debacle. A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained…
George Will surveys the current scene of the presidential campaign and summarizes his findings in his latest incomparable column. Energetic in body but indolent in mind, Barack Obama in his…
For starters, my rule on panhandlers — If I’ve got a buck, I give a buck. If not, I don’t —– it varies in the Obama economy. Another rule—- no…
Update: July 2, 2012 This morning I was pleased to receive another interview regarding immigration, this time with Butler on Business. The hosts, Alan Butler and Jason Riddle, were curious…
In a Forbes op-ed, Kyle Smith, who is a film critic and current-affairs columnist for The New York Post, imagines what a Krugman/Obama business venture would look like. Smith writes,…