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Townhall: Mass Protests Against Massive Failure

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Post date June 23, 2013
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Millions of people, around the world, are taking to the streets, to protest . . . what?

Could they possibly have legitimate gripes? Yes. Do they? Mostly. Will the protests do any good? Open question.

All this and violence, too, at Townhall.com. March on over, then rush back here for more reading.

“Brazil Protests Continue,” NPR
“Brazil’s protests raise fears for World Cup as a million take to the streets,” The Guardian
“Brazil’s president pledges to hold dialogue with protesters,” Reuters
“No a la Reelección” and “What the Argentines Protest,” Common Sense by Paul Jacob

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Townhall: 33 Billion Balloons in a Strange Land

Post author By Redactor
Post date April 28, 2013
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So, what country are we living in, today? Well, it’s explicable, if absurd — explicable in terms of the old “Cui bono” idea, of incentives and disincentives; absurd because of . . . well, click on over to Townhall.com, read this weekend’s Common Sense column, and see. Then come back here for further limning of the absurdist status quo.:

CNN: “Former Atlanta schools superintendent reports to jail in cheating scandal”
Washington Post: “The danger of how we grade teachers and schools,” by Jena McGregor
Huffington Post: “The 5 Causes of Test Cheating Scandals,” by Dr. Christopher Emdin
Washington Post: “Atlanta’s former schools chief charged under law used against Mafia,” by Valerie Strauss
The Daily Caller: “Ballot-fraud convictions shed light on Obama’s ’08 campaign”
Washington Post: “Ending retirement abuses in Montgomery County”
Washington Examiner: “Unions face off with Montgomery County Council, residents over raises,” by Kate Jacobson
Washington Post: “Congress finds it hard to let Federal Helium Program run out of gas,” by David A. Fahrenthold
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: “Public Choice,” by William F. Shughart II

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Townhall: It’s not about drones

Post author By Redactor
Post date March 10, 2013
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The key issue of last week’s great Rand Paul filibuster was not drone technology, as such, but whether those who run the government will accept the rules of the Constitution. That’s the message from Yours Truly this week on Townhall. Read the column, then come back here for some more links to further facts and opinion.

First Hour of Filibuster Video (all 13 hours available on YouTube)
“Drone Policy Must Include Checks and Balances,” by Benjamin H. Friedman, Cato Institute
“President Obama, did or did you not kill Anwar al-Awlaki?“, by David Cole, Washington Post
“John McCain and Lindsey Graham Declare War on Rand Paul,” by Brian Dougherty, Reason (Hit and Run)
Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart on Rand Paul
“Rand Paul fires back – McCain, Graham think ‘whole world is a battlefield,’” Fox News
“Military robots and the future of war,” by P.W. Singer, TED talk (see Saturday’s post)
“An off-target drone,” The Economist

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Townhall: Barack Obama and the Teachable Wage

Post author By Redactor
Post date February 17, 2013
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This weekend’s Townhall contribution from Yours Truly expands on a point made here on Friday: Raising the minimum wage does not help the poor … so why not press the point?

For your further consideration, including extensive work on the racial effects and racist origins of minimum wage laws:

“Sense and Nonsense on the Minimum Wage,” by Donald Deere, Kevin M. Murphy, and Finis Welch, Regulation 1995 No. 1
“Herman Cain on Obama’s call for higher minimum wage,” Herman Cain interviewed by Neil Cavuto, Fox Business
“The Economics of the Colour Bar,” by W.H. Hutt
“Minimum Wage Escalation,” by Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution pamphlet, undated
“Eugenics: Progressivism’s Ultimate Social Engineering,” by Steve Horwitz and Art Carden, Freeman
“Krugman and a Critic on the Minimum Wage,” by David Henderson, EconLog, February 16, 2013

There is of course a long history and bibliography on the economics of price floors like the minimum wage.

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Townhall: The Next Thing in Money

Post author By Redactor
Post date May 20, 2012
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More about Ziggy?

This weekend’s Townhall column takes off on a subject broached here at This Is Common Sense last week. But there’s a lot more to it, so check it out. And come back here if you want a complete, easy-to-access full list of the column’s links: