What should the minimum wage be? What should the lowest acceptable amount per hour of labor come to? To whatever someone desperate enough will agree to, set by whatever the marketplace will bear? Pure laissez-faire supply and demand? That’s the way it was until FDR implemented another Democratic legacy of fairness. Before that, a minimum […]
February 2015
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Controversy shows why we need markets, not mandates
If I were still a practicing ob-gyn and one of my patients said she was not going to vaccinate her child, I might try to persuade her to change her mind. But, if I were unsuccessful, I would respect her decision. I certainly would not lobby the government to pass a law mandating that children […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Mason,” and I have been married for 10 years. We have a beautiful 7-yearold daughter and have just found out we are having another girl. The day we learned her gender, Mason dropped a bomb on me. He said he’s not in love with me anymore, and it has been eating […]
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2015. There are 322 days left in the year. On February 12, 1870, the Utah Territory granted women the right to vote.