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How minimum wage harms the most vulnerable Economists Donald Deere, Kevin Murphy and Finis Welch found that minimum wage increases totaling 27% in 1990 and 1991 reduced employment for all teenagers by 7.3% and for black teenagers by 10%. A study of the 1996 and 1997 increases by economists Richard Burkhauser, Kenneth Couch and David Wittenburg also found a 2% to 6% decline in employment for each 10% increase in the minimum wage. …At the low end, he estimated at least 90,000 teenage jobs were lost in 1996 and another 63,000 in 1997. At the high end, job losses may have equaled 268,000 in 1996 and 189,000 in 1997.  …This is unfortunate, because low-wage jobs are the first rung on the economic ladder of success for workers entering the labor force. When we cut off the bottom rung by increasing the minimum wage, we keep youngsters from making the transition to work.  http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6581

Art Linkletter claims AARP is America’s largest liberal lobby http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6561

Associated Press and Global Warming – Never let the facts get in the way of a good story http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR020905.html

Filtering out the best – Thomas Sowell …many people with achievements and dignity will not agree to become nominees if that means being dragged through the mud by irresponsible politicians on national television… Whether in the corporate world or in the military, as politics and public relations become an increasing part of the job of people at the top, that filter can eliminate individuals whose only real talent is that they can get the job done right, even if they are not smooth on television or glib at conferences. … Filters matter. The Senate should not become a filter like schools of education that filter out good people. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4127

Bury The Chains – How The West Ended Slavery – Thomas Sowell The dozen men who formed the world's first anti-slavery movement saw their task as getting their fellow Englishmen to think about slavery -- about the brutal facts and about the moral implications of those facts…Their conviction that this would be enough to turn the British public, and ultimately the British Empire, against slavery might seem naive, except that this is precisely what happened. … Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4126

Bedroom Economics in Germany – Thomas Sowell A young waitress discovered one of these "solutions" recently when she turned down a job as a prostitute and was threatened with the loss of her unemployment benefits because prostitution -- "sex workers" is the politically correct term -- is a legal occupation in Germany, so a job offer from a brothel cannot be declined…. Job security laws do not secure jobs. Their net effect is to redistribute the insecurity…. When you make something artificially more expensive, do not be surprised if less of it is bought. When that something is labor, do not be surprised to see higher rates of unemployment. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4125

Not yours to give – Walter Williams Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time…What would some of our ancestors say about government "charity"? James Madison… “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."… Unlike President Bush, a few of our former presidents understood that charity is not a government function. … I'd like to ask President Bush and members of the 109th Congress whether they've discovered the constitutional authority for charitable expenditures undiscovered by James Madison, William Giles, Presidents Franklin Pierce and Grover Cleveland, and Davy Crockett. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4130

Rewarding the MVPs of business-  successful CEOs are as indispensable to their companies as Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks are to their teams. They earn their rewards .http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4123

Dumb and dumber – education gone wild http://www.newswithviews.com/Newby/john6.htm

Full steam ahead on social security reform – by Paul Weyrich http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/pweyrich/2005/pmw_02071.shtml

Liberty depends on self=government http://www.newswithviews.com/Meyer/bob23.htm

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