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War Against Price Discrimination  - Walter Williams Suppose you saw a fat, old, ugly, cigar-smoking man married to a beautiful young lady, what prediction would you make about the man's income? If you're like most, you'd predict that this guy has a lot of money. In effect, that fat, old, ugly, cigar-smoking man is telling the woman, "I can't compete for your hand on the basis of a guy like Williams, so I'm going to offset my handicaps by offering you a higher price." In the name of fairness, should that kind of discrimination be banned -- namely beautiful women treating ugly old men differently from handsome young men? …Once Banzhaf ends up getting ladies' night outlawed in the other 40 states, do you think he'll be finished? …tyrants have an endless agenda http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3708

Talkers vs. Doers – by Thomas Sowell  Part 1 The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers….Those who have created nothing have maintained a constant barrage of criticism of those who created something, because that something was considered to be not good enough or the benefits turned out to have costs….Why can't the talkers leave the doers alone? Perhaps it is because that would leave the talkers on the sidelines, with their uselessness being painfully obvious to all, instead of being in the limelight and "making a difference" -- even if that difference is usually negative. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3576 Part 2 Talkers cultivate an aura of morally lofty goals, while depicting doers as mere selfish money-grubbers. But professional talkers are pretty good at collecting big bucks, some through legalized extortion and others by creating huge windfall gains as their building restrictions cause housing prices to skyrocket.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3734

Wal-Mart and Free Trade http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer76.html

Made in Mexico Uniforms chafe border patrol agents http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0611uniforms11.html

Buying Foreign Goods Saves American Jobs The best thing Americans can do to save American jobs is to be smart shoppers and purchase goods that offer the highest quality at the lowest price—wherever they are made. http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=5987

Wall Street Journal Presidential poll of battleground states http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-battleground04-frameset.html

The spread of education before compulsion – Britain and America in the 19^th century   the percentage of the net national income spent on day-schooling of children of all ages in England in 1833 was approximately 1 percent. By 1920, when schooling had become “free” and compulsory by special statute, the proportion had fallen to 0.7 percent.³   http://www.independent.org/tii/news/960700West.html

How the media would cover D-Day today http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/166160

Does Light Rail Improve Traffic Congestion and Pollution Problems? http://www.rppi.org/thegreatraildisaster.shtml

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