1. Dr. John Lott: Keeping Law School Profs from Talking about Black Students' Low Grades Helps No One
2. Wayne Winegarden: Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage
3. Karen Kataline: Americans Need Courage to Defy
Tyranny and Stand Up for Liberty
4. Antony Davies: The Right of Exit is What Keeps
Society Prosperous and Peaceful
5. Steve Turley: Border
Crisis and Cancel Culture Destroying Dems as Populism Surges Under Biden
6. Cheryl Chumley: Biden Could
Stop the Border Breach if He Wanted to
Keeping Law School Profs from Talking about Black Students' Low Grades Helps
No One
The left has only itself to blame for the harm that affirmative
action in academia does to black students. For decades, black law school
students' LSAT scores have regularly been much lower than those of whites or
Asians. At the University of Chicago Law School, I heard faculty say that over
several decades there was only one time when the highest black LSAT score was
above the lowest white score. The purpose of standardized tests is to predict
how well students will do in college and law school. So, guess what? Students
with much lower scores than other students don't do well. Some of the students
are so overwhelmed with the material that they get little out of their classes.
Others switch to softer majors that don't prepare them well for successful
careers after college. Still others drop out with such low grades that they
can’t get admitted to other schools that might be more at their level. [more...]
Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage
If the fight for $15 minimum wage is successful, it will impose
far more costs than benefits. Not only are minimum wage proponents distorting
the population impacted, but they also fail to understand the economic
trade-offs required. To understand the trade-offs, it is helpful to review the
financials of a typical retail business, which is the sector where the vast majority of
minimum wage workers are employed. Based on the average annual
revenue of a small retailer ($262,092), and the average cost
structure, a pro-forma financial statement of a small retailer looks
something like Table 1, which illustrates that based on the current costs of
running a retail store, the average small retailer earns about $43,000 in
profits annually. [more...]
Americans Need Courage to Defy Tyranny and Stand Up for Liberty
If individuals, business owners and others would act according
to their consciences, the growing number of self-appointed dictators around the
country would be stripped of their de facto power. When people stand up for
their own liberty, they are standing up for the liberty of their fellow
citizens as well. That's a collectivist principle that works. The need to appear in a good light is often what stops
people from acting on their aforementioned consciences. Reasonably
acceptable rhetoric? When does a situation reach a crisis proportion such
that we must dispense with petty judgements about "rhetoric" and
address the clear and growing subjugation of a country? The price will continue to grow steeper because
compliance to tyranny only brings greater tyranny. As that compliance
continues, a growing number of people will forget, and some will never know
what liberty was. [more...]
The Right of Exit is What Keeps Society Prosperous and Peaceful
By Antony Davies, Co-Author of COOPERATION AND COERCION
Those more trusting of government say that, despite government's
flaws, it's better to trust important activities to coercion than to the
vagaries of cooperation. And so, across the planet, we have governments
controlling – in full or in part – health care, education, power generation,
communication infrastructure, and all manner of other "essential"
activities. Yet there is something more essential than any of these that we
routinely leave to cooperation: language. The ability to exchange thoughts –
from the basic and immediate to the complex and far-reaching – is more
important than health, education, or anything else one might conceive. Because,
without the ability to exchange thoughts with each other, we cannot bring any
of these other things into being. [more...]
Border Crisis and Cancel Culture Destroying
Dems as Populism Surges Under Biden
By Steve Turley
What's happening at the border is horrific, and the American
people are increasingly horrified by it. According to Rasmussen, 73
percent, 3 in 4 likely voters, are concerned about the flood of migrants at the
U.S.-Mexico border, with 48 percent very concerned.
And 51 percent of likely voters oppose giving them amnesty. This is becoming
Biden's Iraq and Hurricane Katrina combined!
It's a non-stop political disaster of his own making, and he's been in office
for only 60 days. To make matters even worse, Fox News is reporting that
criminal organizations trafficking women, children, families, and single adults
over the border have earned as much as $14 million dollars a day. It turns out that human
trafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry. [more...]
Biden Could Stop the Border
Breach if He Wanted to
Biden is facing a crisis situation at the border, with a reported 13,000 - and growing - number of unaccompanied minors in federal custody right along the Rio Grande. And he could stop it. But he won't. He won't even agree that 13,000 unaccompanied children at the border is a crisis. During his campaign for the White House, Biden talked up how "we owe" illegals amnesty; how "building a wall will do little to deter criminals and cartels seeking to exploit our borders." ... Now Biden wants to tell them all to stay home? The only way Biden can stop the crisis is to first, treat it as a crisis - and quit putting his political hide as the priority. Second, drum up the law-and-order presence at the border. Third, make a few widely reported arrests of illegals already on U.S. soil. Fourth, talk up the benefits of a border wall, and build, build, build. And fifth, send those who arrive here illegally back to where they came from, back to where they belong. In other words: Act like Trump. [more...]
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