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Tuesday, March 1. 2016

Experiments with minimum wage

It's not experimenting. It's politics, not economics. In the New York greater metro area, very few work for minimum wage anyway although I am sure many, especially new immigrants, would be willing to. Still, as every working person knows, the true minimum wage is zero.

This Won’t Hurt a Bit - The New York Times sees no downside in performing uncontrolled experiments on the labor market.

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Tuesday morning links

Would The Beatles be Sex Offenders Today?

For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Stanford money

Time to Drop the Curtain on Radical Chic

Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignite Lawmaker Debate

Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper

What the End of Moore's Law Means

Leonardo DiCaprio Lectures Oscars About Global Warming After Using Private Jet 6 Times in 6 Months

Six is not often

When Vassar students demanded William F. Buckley Jr. be disinvited

Teaching Antisemitism at Vassar—and Beyond

The New California Crime Wave - A criminal-justice “reform” measure unleashes thousands of predators.

Gary Kasparov on the Cold War

Hotcoldwetdry Is Totally Wreaking Havoc On Our Mental Health Or Something

Italy: Al-Qaeda Imam Has Woman Dismembered For Wearing Bathing Suit…

We need to capitalise on America’s overly hostile business environment

Cash is the currency of freedom

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New FBI Site to Counter Extremism Fails to Mention Radical Islam

VDH: Obama: The Lamest Duck

Brace Yourself For the Greatest Prosecutorial Discretion Event in History

Hume on Hillary Emails: ‘Not a Huge Case,’ ‘You Don’t Have Any Criminal Intent’

Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?

Converted Trump Now Running for Pope

A new GOP is born - Pat Buchanan: Regardless of nominee, Trump surge marks 'death rattle' of establishment

The Death of Reagan’s Republican Party

On Rebranding "CONSERVATIVE" and "REPUBLICAN" with "AMERICAN"

Thunderdome: Gone Savage For Trump - The
Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out.

Why Rubio is the candidate of the past

Trump’s rise is only one among many signs that something has gone profoundly amiss in our popular culture.

That is a condescending piece

The Road to Internet Serfdom - China, Russia, and Orwell’s boot

The Right Solution for Puerto Rico

Right solution is independence for Puerto Rico

Merkel's Humanitarian Folly

Sweden's Migration Industry

North Korea's Nuclear Missile Threat: Very Bad News

In Libya, What Hath Hillary Wrought?

Moderation in Iran? Don't get your hopes up

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