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The latest liberal crusade against Wal-Mart – by Thomas Sowell http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050512.shtml

Rich ideas – Thomas Sowell http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050510.shtml

How not to be poor – Walter Williams   Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior…. Is it racial discrimination that stops black students from studying and completing high school? Is it racial discrimination that's responsible for the 68 percent illegitimacy rate among blacks?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050511.shtml

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership oppose National ID and explain why http://www.jpfo.net/alert20050511.htm

Market Economy and Ethics – by the new Pope Benedict XVI (written in 1985) “market rules function only when a moral consensus exists and sustains them.”… The question about market and ethics has long ceased to be merely a theoretical problem. Since the inherent inequality of various individual economic zones endangers the free play of the market, attempts at restoring the balance have been made since the 1950s by means of development projects. It can no longer be overlooked that these attempts have failed and have even intensified the existing inequality. The result is that broad sectors of the Third World, which at first looked forward to development aid with great hopes, now identify the ground of their misery in the market economy, which they see as a system of exploitations, as institutionalised sin and injustice. … It is becoming an increasingly obvious fact of economic history that the development of economic systems which concentrate on the common good depends on a determinate ethical system, which in turn can be born and sustained only by strong religious convictions. … A morality that believes itself able to dispense with the technical knowledge of economic laws is not morality but moralism. As such it is the antithesis of morality. A scientific approach that believes itself capable of managing without an ethos misunderstands the reality of man. Therefore it is not scientific. Today we need a maximum of specialized economic understanding, but also a maximum of ethos so that specialized economic understanding may enter the service of the right goals. Only in this way will its knowledge be both politically practicable and socially tolerable.  http://www.acton.org/publicat/occasionalpapers/ratzinger.html

Preservation rules draw fire in Pewee Valley KY - "If this went through, I'd be a caretaker rather than owner of the house," he said….While 80 percent of residents surveyed last year said they favor protecting historic properties, resident Sally Tanselle said the survey was "loosely worded" and shouldn't be used to support the ordinance because it did not hint at the level of government it would allow.  "If enacted, it can be amended at a later date on how you can use your private property," Tanselle told the crowd. She also read a letter from resident Tom Clark, who couldn't come to the hearing. In it he said he was "appalled at the depth of regulation" that the proposal would require.   http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050511/NEWS0102/505110330/1027

Property rights group expands http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050510/NEWS0103/505100358/1059/NEWS01&template=printpicart

Man arrested for giving a manicure without a license http://www.citizen.com/May2005/05.10.05/news/concord_051005a.asp

U.S. anti-drug policy fails in Colombia http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=6676&Section=Opinion

Corruption in the Public Schools: The Market Is the Answer
Policy Analysis no. 542
by Neal McCluskey

In a new Cato Policy Analysis, education policy analyst Neal McCluskey demonstrates how the federal bureaucracy contributes to inefficiency and abuse in America's schools. Public accountability has not only failed to defend against corruption, it has rendered many districts impervious to change
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The Affirmative Action Myth
Policy Analysis no. 540
by Marie Gryphon

In a new Cato Policy Analysis, Education Policy Analyst Marie Gryphon argues that better high school preparation, not university admissions preferences, will reduce overall racial disparities in American colleges. "Policymakers should end the harmful practice of racial preferences in college admissions," Gryphon writes, "and work to close the critical skills gap by implementing school choice reforms and setting higher academic expectations for students of all backgrounds."
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies: Defending against the Threat of Shoulder-Fired Missiles
Policy Analysis no. 541
by Charles V. Peqa

In a new Policy Analysis, Cato's director of defense policy studies Charles Peqa argues that U.S. commercial aircraft should be outfitted with countermeasures to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Such missiles, easily bought on the black market, have already been used in 29 terrorist attacks against civil aircraft overseas.
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Follow-up on light rail death in Houston http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/metropolitan/3178528

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