REPUBLIC REBORN

Euthanasia.

They’d rather vote for Hillary.  Not surprising, she’s a Neocon as well.

Time to admit it, says Emma Ashford.

Says it’s ridiculous that cannabis is categorized right next to heroin.  Talk, however, is cheap.  He won’t do anything about legalization now, or probably ever.

From The Hill.  The only solution to Obamacare is to repeal it and replace it with nothing, which means allowing the market to solve everyone’s healthcare needs in the same manner it solves everyone’s hunger, clothing, entertainment, technology, etc., needs.

In photos, from Haaretz.  If Iran is so hellbent on killing Jews, why not start with their sizable population of them?  Because they don’t want to murder Jews, it’s another Warfare State lie.

Hist latest at Antiwar.com.  

Economics, stripped of all the fancy language and byzantine formulations, is fairly intuitive.  If the price of a product is subject to a 107% increase, will people buy more or less?  An economist would say that it depends on price elasticity.  Kidney dialysis would be considered price inelastic; a sharp increase in price wouldn’t affect demand much at all.  Unskilled labor, on the other hand, is probably the quintessential price elastic “product”.  An increase in price would lead to a drop in the demand for unskilled labor.  This is the reason why the minimum wage is such a nefarious policy: it harms the very people it is intended to help.

Another very harmful effect of the minimum wage is the power it confers to employers.  If they’re forced to pay a $15 wage, they’re going to be able to discriminate much more easily as to who they hire.  A minimum wage effectively blocks the truly impoverished, less well-off, from ever gaining employment.  A minimum wage is a form of protectionism, it’s a policy that protects all employment positions from those that desperately need employment.  It’s evil, insidiously so.  Many public policies seem compassionate, or morally right, at first glance, but appear wicked upon closer examination.

More on this evil from GMU Econ professor Don Boudreaux, in a letter to the New York Times.

…says Apple’s lawyer.  Sorry, but the Police State’s already here, which is why they will, sadly, lose.  Thumbs were twiddled as the Police State was constructed, as the War-on-Terror State was set up during the past 15 years.  A police state must be stopped in utero, after that it becomes nigh impossible.  The anti-terrorism industry is a jobs-creating machine, as is the Drug War, it will take a level of stamina that Apple does not possess.

Says Kofi Annan, of all people.