For those of you that still doubt raising the minimum wage is a bad thing, especially for the poor, you need to check this blog by Warren Meyer over at Coyote Blog, it is a must read on the topic.
Cafe hayek has more. I have also blogged on the minimum wage before.
Update: The heritage […]
Archive for March, 2005
Mar31st2005
Mar31st2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Abortion, DeathPenalty and General. 7 Comments“I do not understand why people who want to save the whales (so do I) find campaigns to save humans so much less arresting. I do not understand their lack of passion. But the save-the-whales people are somehow rarely the stop-abortion-please people.
The PETA people, who say they are committed to ending cruelty to animals, seem […]
Mar30th2005
Nearly Half of Blacks, Latinos Drop Out, School Study Shows
Published by in Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 9 CommentsNow, for some depressing news. The LA Times reports:
Nearly half of the Latino and African American students who should have graduated from California high schools in 2002 failed to complete their education, according to a Harvard University report released Wednesday.
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the situation was even worse, with just 39% of […]
Mar30th2005
Is Sending Your Child To Pre-School A Good Thing? Probably Not
Published by in Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 7 CommentsAccording to an NBER report,
…early education does increase reading and mathematics skills at school entry, but it also boosts children’s classroom behavioral problems and reduces their self-control. Further, for most children the positive effects of pre-kindergarten on skills largely dissipate by the spring of first grade, although the negative behavioral effects continue. In the study, […]
Mar30th2005
“The more your markets need government, the less your government will be able to do for your markets. Or, equivalently, the more your government is able to do for your markets, the less it will need to do. Pithier still . . . Government: if you need it, it won’t be good, and if it’s […]
Mar29th2005
Apparently, Pat Sajak has a blog and a rather interesting one at that. His latest post deals with why he has stopped arguing with liberals. If you have spent any amount of time arguing with extreme liberals, especially those on the far left, you will immediately understand Sajak’s frustration.
He writes:
Every time I argue with a […]
Mar29th2005
“Our children have been reared in the age of abortion, and are coming of age in a time when seemingly respectable people are enthusiastic for euthanasia. It cannot be good for our children, and the world they will make, that they are given this new lesson that human life is not precious, not touched by […]
Mar28th2005
Higher Pay For Janitors?
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 0 CommentsSeveral students at Georgetown University staged a hunger strike that coincides with Lent, the Christian season of sacrifice, until the university paid higher wages to service workers - which consists largely of contract janitors, food service workers and security guards. The University eventually succumbed to the strikers wishes.
What are your thoughts on such a protest? […]
Mar28th2005
“The great achievement of capitalism has not been the accumulation of property, it has been the opportunities it has offered to men and women to extend and develop and improve their capacities.” — Milton Friedman in “Capitalism And Freedom”
Mar26th2005
“Liberals’ newfound respect for “federalism” is completely disingenuous. People who support a national policy on abortion are prohibited from ever using the word “federalism.”
I note that whenever liberals talk about “federalism” or “states’ rights,” they are never talking about a state referendum or a law passed by the duly elected members of a state legislature […]
Mar25th2005
One of the greatest economist of our time, Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism And Freedom wrote, “If one were to seek deliberately to devise a system of recruiting and paying teachers calculated to repel the imaginative and daring and self-confident and to attract the dull and mediocre and uninspiring, he could hardly do […]
Mar25th2005
“Now that the real Arab street has risen to claim rights that the West takes for granted, the left takes note. It is forced to acknowledge that those brutish Americans led by their simpleton cowboy might have been right. It has no choice. It is shamed. A Lebanese, amid a sea of a million other […]
Mar24th2005
Big Changes In Europe
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, Europe, General and Taxes. 7 CommentsWhile Democrats push us towards the European economic model, those in Europe are starting to abandon their model for a more conservative one. Here are two notable changes that have occured within the last couple of weeks.
French End 35 Hour Work Week
French lawmakers effectively abolished the country’s 35-hour workweek Tuesday by allowing employers to increase […]
Mar24th2005
Those Feminsts Against Summers
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia and General. 0 CommentsPhilosopher Christina Hoff Sommers, a specialist on feminism, gives us an overview of the feminists involved in the attacks on President of Harvard University Larry Summers.
She writes:
Angier and her sisters-in-arms, recognize only one explanation for why there are fewer women than men teaching math and physics at Harvard or MIT: sexist bias. That there are […]
