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Abigail R. Hall Blanco | Thursday July 2, 2015 at 4:51 AM PDT
It seems like every time I log on to one of my social media accounts, someone is announcing a pregnancy or birth. Perhaps this is why I’ve recently written on the supposed “gender-wage gap” and mandated paid maternity leave. One thing that keeps popping up among my pregnant friends is the question of whether...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Wednesday June 10, 2015 at 12:53 PM PDT
Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has been charged with lying to the FBI about the reason he was withdrawing money from bank accounts. Should what Hastert did be illegal, or any of the government’s business? Let’s look at the facts. From the charges, it appears that Hastert (1) withdrew...
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Abigail R. Hall Blanco | Thursday May 28, 2015 at 6:27 AM PDT
When I was a young teenager, Abercrombie & Fitch was one of the “it” brands. Everyone in school wanted to wear it, and it was absolutely used to signal that one was up-to-date on recent trends. As the child of two schoolteachers, I learned very early in my life that paying $50 for a t-shirt I’d grow...
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Abigail R. Hall Blanco | Wednesday April 22, 2015 at 5:06 AM PDT
“Behave, or I’ll sell you.” This “threat” was one I heard with some regularity as a child. It was my mother’s way of letting me know that I was driving her up a wall. It was usually followed by something like, “then they’ll pay me to take you back.” (In retrospect, if this was true,...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Wednesday April 15, 2015 at 4:26 PM PDT
In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Pension Reform Doesn’t Mean Higher Taxes,” Andrew Biggs correctly pointed out that new Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) rules require state and local governments across America to be more transparent about the financial health of their public-pension plans. But, as he noted, the rules...
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Mary L. G. Theroux | Friday March 27, 2015 at 5:58 PM PDT
Oakland’s voters who approved the March 1 increase of the minimum wage to $12.25 apparently drank the Kool-aid that it would “help the poor.” Tell that to the working poor parents who will now be scrambling to find good, affordable child care: Workers who benefit from Oakland’s minimum wage hike might soon lose a...
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Robert Higgs | Sunday February 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM PST
Grave threats over there President’s words will save us He says, bombs away! *** Copies of Kuran Body parts of boys and girls Blood of one and all *** Do unto others . . . But this is a special case Shoot first, sleep soundly
Abigail R. Hall Blanco | Wednesday February 4, 2015 at 7:48 AM PST
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Many of us will recognize these words as the “Pledge of Allegiance.” As a child in elementary and middle school, I remember saying...
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Aaron Tao | Wednesday December 17, 2014 at 4:43 PM PST
“Historically, the common form of revolution has been a not-too-efficient despotism which is overthrown by another not-too-efficient despotism with little or no effect on the public good. Indeed, except for the change in the names of the ruling circles, it would be hard to distinguish one from the other.” —Gordon Tullock For the past...
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