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.'"

View From The Porch: I blame TV.

View From The Porch: I blame TV.: "The very mechanisms that keep some hypothetical jackbooted thug from wandering through your front door and rifling through your unmentionables drawer whenever they get the urge are the same ones that mean occasionally somebody who is guilty as sin is going to walk. Like some game of Constitutional Jenga, every prop you knock out of the structure to make it easier to catch the guilty makes it that much more likely that the whole edifice will collapse right on top of you"

The Cruel Wreckage of Socialism - Frederic Bastiat - Mises Daily

The Cruel Wreckage of Socialism - Frederic Bastiat - Mises Daily: "every time we object to a thing being done by government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the state — then we are against education altogether. We object to a state religion — then we would have no religion at all. We object to an equality which is brought about by the state then we are against equality, etc., etc. They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of corn by the state."

Michigan Resident Faces 93 Days in Jail For Vegetable Garden - FoxNews.com

Michigan Resident Faces 93 Days in Jail For Vegetable Garden - FoxNews.com: "The city is claiming that the garden violates a city code which states that front yards must consist of suitable, live plant material to which Bass responds, 'We think it's suitable.'"

Red-Light Camera Feud Reveals Ulterior Motives by Fergus Hodgson

Red-Light Camera Feud Reveals Ulterior Motives by Fergus Hodgson: "The National Motorists Association notes that there are many ways to increase traffic-light safety without prosecution of drivers. For example, research from the Texas Transportation Institute suggests that increasing the amber light by one second reduces collisions by 40 percent. In fact, they found that the average run-in occurs when the light has been red for half a second or less, while almost every right-angle crash occurs after more than five seconds."

The Costs of Compulsory Education - Aaron Smith - Mises Daily

The Costs of Compulsory Education - Aaron Smith - Mises Daily: "The perils of state standards imposed on schools are akin to the shortcomings of centrally planned prices: no amount of research or expertise could possibly account for the infinite variables that define the wants and needs of unique consumers. The opportunity costs of failing to pursue areas of aptitude and interest are simply incalculable, and result in nothing but boredom and frustration for students"

"Compulsory-education laws invite further intrusions into our personal lives. Still, the left-liberal who supports marijuana decriminalization and the conservative who advocates for gun rights often fail to see this obvious relationship. Simply stated, à la carte liberty is veiled tyranny — it is impossible to sacrifice one right without putting others in danger."