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Townhall: A Tree Fell on Campaign Trail 2015

Will anyone notice the huge event that marked the Bernie Sanders’s campaign? Will it matter to those on the left, who seem most enamored of the man? Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for a bit more background.

First, read this story in The Seattle Times: “Black Lives Matter Activists protesters shut down Bernie Sanders; later rally draws 15,000.”

When I wrote about this last week, I linked to a video . . . that has been since taken down. But you can watch more than enough on this interesting video by young African-American YouTuber:

Donald Trump’s reaction:

https://youtu.be/2UhUio29PP4

And finally, a strange moment in Secretary of State John Kerry’s public history:

This column will be archived on this site on Tuesday.

 

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Townhall: Gold Medal Democracy

Bostonians win big in the Olympics. How? By not hosting them. Click on over to Townhall.com, then come back here for a few more events. Don’t worry — low hurdles. Just a little reading:

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Townhall: Scandal-Less

The results are in. There’s an easy way to constrain political corruption. Click on over to Townhall to find out more. Then come back here for some more reading:

States of Corruption

Illinois

Massachusetts

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

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Townhall: A Perfect Storm of Wrongs, Righted

New development in Wisconsin’s John Doe probes. Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for background:

 

 

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Townhall: The Cynics and the Minimum Wage

This weekend at Townhall, a recurring subject, but with a British twist: why support a minimum wage if it doesn’t do the good claimed for it? Maybe the backers don’t uniformly want the good. Could they want the bad?

Which brings up the question of cynicism. We who aim to help the poor, as opposed to those who advocate policy just make themselves feel good, should be immune from the charge of “cynicism.”

Even if we are often very skeptical of the politics and rhetoric surrounding “the minimum wage.”

Click on over, then back here for more reading:

  • Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage, by Jim Cox
  • “Reich is Wrong on the Minimum Wage,” by Donald Boudreaux
  • “A Simple Question for Minimum Wage Advocates,” by Donald Boudreaux
  • Last week’s Common Sense, “A British Puzzle,” that gave the short version of this weekend’s Townhall lesson.
  • For an overview of the main economic theories of wage-rate determination over the last 300 years, an economicconcepts.com article goes into some detail. It is better than Britannica’s account, for example, in that it does not give any credence to “the bargaining theory,” which, too often, assumes that prices do not really matter, are infinitely malleable by powerful negotiators. That just cannot be true. Prices have consequences. Wage rates do, too. They should reflect real supplies and real demands, so we can adapt ourselves to real human needs and not phantom wishes and hopes and dreams that can come to nothing.
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Townhall: American Dreamland

Is the American Dream . . . dead?

This weekend’s excursion onto Townhall.com repeats, for the most part, the message of Friday’s Common Sense, “Not the Impossible Dream.” Regular readers here might be tempted to give it a pass. Thank you!
But remember the message of Friday’s foray? You can help. One way to help is donate, and though we risk stressing this too much, surely we have not stressed this enough, yet. But another way to help is promote the site. So we encourage readers to forward links and URLs to the column, or grab the whole thing, and send it to friends and family.

So click on over to Townhall, and do what you feel needs doing. And come back here for a bit more reading: