Voted for NAFTA, destroying lives of workers he now declares he wants to help. Obama’s vice president told union members on Labor Day he supports the middle class and a “level playing field” on wages and the standard of living. “You built the middle class,” said Joe Biden during the the annual Labor Day Parade… [Read More]
The Failed Moral Argument For A ‘Living Wage’
Ryan McMaken, With Labor Day upon us, newspapers across the US will be printing op-eds calling for a mandated “living wage” and higher wages in general. In many cases, advocates for a living wage argue for outright mandates on wages; that is, a minimum wage set as an arbitrary level determined by policymakers to be… [Read More]
Biden: “It’s time to take back America!” or Joe Biden becomes a Tea Party activist
Ed Morrissey, Even ABC’s Rick Klein felt the need to point out the obvious after the Vice President’s Labor Day speech called out for supporters to “take back America.” Take it back from whom? Vice President Joe Biden figures to be quite the draw for Democrats this fall, behind perhaps only a few people named Clinton,… [Read More]
More Swiss Banks Give Eric Holder One-Finger Salute
John Ransom More Swiss banks are dropping out of the U.S. banking program that the IRS supposedly uses to prevent American citizens from stashing cash overseas to avoid taxes. Known for 100 years as the original tax haven, free from the prying eyes of governments around the world, Swiss banks have provided banking services that… [Read More]
It�s Hard to Hate Rand Paul
By Frank Rich The junior senator from Kentucky would be an appalling right-wing president, and yet he is a valuable politician: a man of conviction, and a visitation from a post-Obama political future. In the Labor Day weekend scramble set off by President Obama’s zero-hour about-face on Syria, the only visible politician in Washington who… [Read More]
Obama’s Wing-it Diplomacy Undermines U.S. Credibility
Here’s how the Obama folks have been starting to spin Syria. The president made a credible threat to use military force in Syria. At the same time, he worked behind the scenes to get Russia’s Vladimir Putin to push Bashir al-Assad to give up chemical weapons. These two seemingly discordant initiatives, brilliantly coordinated, combined to… [Read More]
Back to School: Children experience more Freedom at School than they do at Home
Bill O’Reilly: It used to be that most kids hated early September: those back-to-school ads all over the place and the dreaded specter of another long year sitting in front of Ms. Crabtree or whomever. Most baby boomers like me equated Labor Day with a trip to the dentist. No longer. These days, many urchins… [Read More]
We’re going backward
They say the economy is moving in the right direction, that we should stay the course, that it takes time to pull out of the recession that began in late 2007. In fact, things are getting worse. The economy was creating 153,000 new jobs per month last year. That dropped during the first seven months… [Read More]
Narcissist in Chief Selfishly Shortens Soldiers’ Holiday
The Commander in Chief got a decidedly cool reception from the troops on a whistle stop at Fort Bliss in El Paso Friday. While this president already is not widely popular with our military, the attitude demonstrated by the shanghaied soldiers in that cavernous hangar was demonstrably cooler than at such past events. The conservative… [Read More]
Narcissist in Chief Selfishly Shortens Soldiers' Holiday
The Commander in Chief got a decidedly cool reception from the troops on a whistle stop at Fort Bliss in El Paso Friday. While this president already is not widely popular with our military, the attitude demonstrated by the shanghaied soldiers in that cavernous hangar was demonstrably cooler than at such past events. The conservative… [Read More]
Labor Day cancelled, Empty Chair Day goes viral
If you haven�t seen it yet, chances are you just haven�t checked your Facebook page or your Twitter account in the last five minutes or so. Labor Day has been cancelled and in its place Americans will be celebrating Empty Chair Day on Monday, September 3, 2012. Taking a cue from Clint Eastwood�s now… [Read More]
Bring Back Child Labor: A Special Labor Day Column
It was time for our beach trip, the one I take with my wife and daughter every summer. On a beautiful early morning a month ago, we packed the family car (okay, my wife packed it) and headed from our home in Oxford, Miss., to Florida�s Gulf Coast for a week of fun and… [Read More]