Time to Ax Federal Jobs Programs | Chris Edwards and Daniel Murphy | Cato Institute: Commentary

Time to Ax Federal Jobs Programs | Chris Edwards and Daniel Murphy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Federal programs for unemployed and disadvantaged workers now cost $18 billion a year, yet the Government Accountability Office recently concluded that 'little is known about the effectiveness of employment and training programs we identified.' Indeed, many studies over the decades have found that these programs — though well intentioned — don't help the economy much, if at all."

For U.S. Interventionists, "Isolationism" Is Just a Dirty Word | Justin Logan and Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary

For U.S. Interventionists, "Isolationism" Is Just a Dirty Word | Justin Logan and Christopher Preble | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The term 'isolationist' is little more than a slur. It essentially means someone who thinks the U.S. should engage in fewer foreign wars than the speaker does."

Reining in Frivolous Class-action Lawsuits | Walter Olson | Cato Institute: Commentary

Reining in Frivolous Class-action Lawsuits | Walter Olson | Cato Institute: Commentary: "one of the plaintiffs' complaints against Wal-Mart was that its personnel practices were too decentralized, giving too much discretion to store managers, not all of whom could be trusted to use it fairly. The more you accept that contention, the less a pattern of bias at Store No. 423 says anything about Store No. 187, a thousand miles away."

Walmart and the Right to Discriminate - Rod Rojas - Mises Daily

Walmart and the Right to Discriminate - Rod Rojas - Mises Daily: "Just to give you an example, young male doctors make considerably more than young female doctors. This is the type of statistic that gets very easily manipulated and publicized. However, if you look deeper, you will see that young male doctors work about 500 hours a year more than their female counterparts. Nine additional hours per week is no small difference!"

"In answer to that, the claimants say that, even though only profits matter, when it comes to hiring, male managers only want to hire other males. For some reason the company deliberately tosses aside all economic matters and takes a 25 percent loss just so that the guys can be with their buddies.

This claim is — of course — preposterous. If women could be hired to do the same work for 75 cents on the dollar, the business world would not ignore this difference.

Good businesses cannot afford this type of discrimination in the long run, because other businesses that realize the profit potential will thrive and replace those who ignore economic reality."

Post-Racial Society? Not Even Close | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

Post-Racial Society? Not Even Close | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "According to (a) NYCLU lawsuit, 'Even though nearly 90 percent of people stopped have done absolutely nothing unlawful — as evidenced by the fact that they are neither arrested or given a summons — the NYPD is entering the personal information of every person stopped into a Department database.'"