Archive for July, 2010
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Common sense: Depressed wages follow free labor: Sure, they still require labor, but the workers would be fewer, and more productive, and thus better paid, turning what is now a primitive, atavistic work environment featuring exploitation and injury into something a little more civilized. No one dreams of a career collecting trash, either, but with [...]
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Andy McCarthy schooling the children in the White House: Well whaddya know? It turns out that Rhode Island has long been carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and [...]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Now: As he waited for Biden to arrive, Jindal — in an exclusive on-camera interview with NBC News this morning — said his message to the vice president is that the federal government “needs a greater sense of urgency” and that it needs to treat the disaster “like a war and either lead or get [...]
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
Democrats are shameless spendthrifts: Never before — since the creation of the Congressional budget process — has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer [...]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Calvin Coolidge address at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1926: No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation [...]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
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