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A glimmer of hope: Backlash against Chicago’s $10 minimum wage – Thomas Sowell While the $10 an hour minimum wage was politics as usual, the unusual backlash against it provides at least a glimmer of hope that more people are beginning to consider the economic consequences of such feel-good legislation. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/08/a_glimmer_of_hope

The minimum wage vision – Walter Williams Congress can easily mandate higher wages, but they cannot mandate higher worker productivity or that employers hire a particular worker in the first place. Those of us who truly care about the welfare of low-skilled workers should focus our energies on helping them to become more productive, and a good start would be to do something about the rotten education that many receive. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/08/09/the_minimum_wage_vision

Studies Prove – Thomas Sowell Climate expert Richard S. Lindzen of M.I.T. has indicated that the vast amount of government research money available for studies of "global warming" can discourage skeptics from being vocal about their skepticism.  This is not peculiar to studies of "global warming." Many people who complain about the corrupting influence of money never seem to apply that to government money. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/09/studies_prove  and part 2 [W]hat is a mere meteorologist at M.I.T. compared to Al Gore and his movie?http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/10/studies_prove:_part_ii

Wanted:  A petition to support Muslim democrats What many do not realize is that Muslims differ greatly among themselves on the rationales they give for moderation or violence in Islamic politics. These rationales depend on their very different interpretive, or hermeneutical, methodologies in interpreting the Koran, which they then use to justify, or merely excuse, their chosen course of political action. http://gcc.savvior.com/WANTED_%20A_Petition_to_Support_Muslim_Democrats.php

Kentucky Supreme Court races http://bluegrassredstate.blogspot.com/2006/06/rich-liberals-attempt-supreme-coup-in.html

The real third rail in politics – fertility rates http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=the_real_third_rail_in_politics&ns=JenniferRobackMorse&dt=08/07/2006&page=1

Why has the shooting and murder of Jews elicited less angst from the Left than the anti-Semitic statements made by Mel Gibson when drunk?  - Dennis Prager http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2006/08/08/jews_shot_in_seattle,_left_angry_at_mel_gibson

The right to an education http://www.getliberty.org/commonsense/cs1616.php

Does birth order predict sexual orientation? http://gcc.savvior.com/Does_Birth_Order_Predict_Sexual_Orientation_.php

Will cease fires never cease?  -- Thomas Sowell No one in his right mind believes that either the Lebanese army or the U.N. "peacekeepers" will disarm Hezbollah. The track record of both is virtually a guarantee that Hezbollah will be able to resume war against Israel at whatever time and place it chooses. Most people have no idea how small Israel is -- and therefore how vulnerable every part of it is to its surrounding enemies. …  It was the Arabs, rather than the Israelis, who created a massive Palestinian refugee problem. While Jewish refugees were absorbed into the general population of Israel, Palestinians in Arab countries were kept in refugee camps for generations -- promised a right to return after Israel was conquered and the Jews displaced. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/16/will_cease-fires_never_cease

Does government stupidity know any bounds?  John Stossel http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2006/08/16/does_government_stupidity_know_any_bounds

Are academic elites communists? – Walter Williams The very attempt to achieve the utopian goals of communism requires the ruthless suppression of the individual and an attack on any institution that might compromise the loyalty of the individual to the state. That's why one of the first orders of business for communism, and those who support its ideas, is the attack on religion and the family. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/08/16/are_academic_elites_communists

Why Israel lost – Ben Shapiro Israel certainly knew that the Muslim Lebanese would never welcome them as liberators; a thousand years of Muslim anti-Semitism precludes that. But attacking Hezbollah's civilian support sites would have turned Israel's "war on terror" into a "war on Islamo-fascism" -- a war Israel does not want to fight. Israel had to eliminate Hezbollah's civilian support network in southern Lebanon -- but that was precisely what Israel was unwilling to do. Israel lost because Israel blinded itself to the necessities of war. America must learn from Israel's failure. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2006/08/16/why_israel_lost

How corporations avoid scrutiny by taking on liberal causes http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TomBorelli/2006/08/19/club_csr

Home schooling – can I do it? – Joel Turtel You can keep your child in public school while you start homeschooling. Try a few learn-to-read, math, or science books and computer software programs with your kids. Get your child involved. Your confidence will grow as you and your child work together and see that you do have the ability to teach your kids, and your kids see that learning at home can be fun. Then, when you and your child feel comfortable with homeschooling, you can take your child out of public school permanently and do homeschooling full time. http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel24.htm

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