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Townhall: The Free State Speaks

Over at Townhall​.com, find a longer report on the Maryland referendum hearing, briefly addressed here on Friday. And then come back here to check out these links:

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Townhall: Barack Obama and the Teachable Wage

This weekend’s Townhall contribution from Yours Truly expands on a point made here on Friday: Raising the minimum wage does not help the poor … so why not press the point?

For your further consideration, including extensive work on the racial effects and racist origins of minimum wage laws:

There is of course a long history and bibliography on the economics of price floors like the minimum wage.

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Townhall: The first-​rate idiots behind the new second-​rate power

Ah, the great sequestration debate! It rages. But it is high time to insert a little sense into it. Cut to Townhall​.com, and come back here for more thoughts, references, and citations.

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Townhall: Newtown Chooses Good Guys With Guns

This weekend at Townhall, another foray into the big issue of the day, what to do about preventing gun massacres. Click on over to Townhall​.com — actually, here precisely — then come back here to consider the sources, and a few more notions:

And this:

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Townhall: The Debt Star We’re Building

This weekend, at Townhall​.com, Yours Truly notes the flair with which Washington insiders chuckle as they send the nation further into a sovereign debt crisis. Click on over, then click back here for further reading:

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Townhall: The Politic Path of Least Resistance

The looming debt load will some day come a‑crashing. But politicians are doing nothing — or nest to nothing — to stop the growth of the debt, and thus keep on piling on the extent and severity of debt.

So click on over to Townhall​.com, to read this weekend’s column by Yours Truly, the purveyor of Common Sense, and then come back here for further reading.