Links for 7-29-24
morality and the minimum wage
The moral high ground and the minimum wage. From: James V Shuls/Show-Me Institute. Raising the minimum wage prices the most vulnerable workers out of a job. It can lead to reduced hours, less full-time work, layoffs, and increased prices for consumers.
⭐️ Can Trump beat Harris with ‘common sense’? From: Barton Swaim/Wall Street Journal. The former president’s fandom intensifies as the left gets crazier. His opponent is now a West Coast progressive.
Whatever happened to ‘women’s liberation’? From: Elroy Rosenberg/Spiked. The free-thinking brilliance of the early women's movement has given way to timid conformism.
😮 She underpaid a property tax bill. so the government seized her home, sold it — and kept the $102,636 profit. From: Billy Binion/Reason. Chelsea Koetter is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to render the state's debt collection scheme unconstitutional.
Deregulating our way back to prepandemic prosperity. From: Tiana Lowe Doescher/Washington Examiner. Deconstructing such a bureaucracy does not require a single vote by Congress.
👉 Girling the Boy Scouts. From: Heather MacDonald/City-Journal. Progressives notch another victory in their war on American institutions.
Democracy in name only: How Kamala Harris became Democratic nominee. From: Roger Kimball/American Greatness. The fact that the Democrats have settled on someone as preposterous as Kamala Harris as their candidate is a sign of their contempt for the American people.
🚩 Lithium battery fire sparks traffic mayhem across California desert. From: Zero Hedge. “A different sort of energy crisis, also caused by alternative energy (a lithium battery fire)."
The puzzle of generational politics. From: Joel Kotkin/Quillette. Disenchantment is leading younger generations to embrace a politics marked by anger and alienation.
🤐 German publisher stops all printing of JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy. From: Jonathan Turley. JD Vance is a marked man. After accepting the nomination for vice president, Vance has been the subject of endless media attacks.