Archive for April, 2007
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Monday, April 30th, 2007Minimum wage is a common term in the world today. In fact, many people believe that the American economy cannot exist with it. Defined as a wage established by contract or by law as the lowest that may be paid to employees doing a specified type of work, (Webster’s) the minimum wage has long been [...]
The Fate of Democracy
Monday, April 30th, 2007In the United States, democracy is hailed as the be-all end-all form of government, to which all others are must bow and scrape. In fact, to hear some, such as our current president, speak, one would think that democracy is the only acceptable form of government on the planet. Strange thing, for our Founding Fathers [...]
Who Am I?
Monday, April 30th, 2007“Stupor mundi!”
That was my nickname. You’ll have a pretty tough time topping it, but there’s no denying that abundant reason for it existed.
For I was a skilled legislator and a discerning patron of the arts. I kept a menagerie of wild beasts, as well as a zoological garden, and I wrote a treatise on [...]
When Abortion Isn’t Pro-Choice
Monday, April 30th, 2007While pro-lifers were rejoicing that the Supreme Court upheld the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act last month, Liang Yage and his wife Wei Linrong were mourning the forced abortion of their child…their second child.
Right after China introduced their one-child policy in 1980, forced abortions were not unusual, but Chinese leaders claim they have relaxed [...]
Freakonomics: A Book Review
Monday, April 30th, 2007Traditional economists beware – Steven Levitt is transforming the dismal science with his “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything.” Most economists apply economic theories of, say, incentives and information disparity to such mundane and boring topics as the national debt, trade deficits, and individual budgets. While these topics are often important, [...]
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