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Minimum Wage Equals Maximum Confusion
3/8/2013
President Obama made headlines in January when he called for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 and tying future increases to inflation. Politically, calling for a higher minimum wage ...

Where Rand's Stand Stands
3/8/2013
Rand Paul's 12-hour, 56-minute filibuster captured a news cycle and prompted a bit of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington nostalgia, but what else can we take away from it? Here are five things, to start. ...

Rotten to the Core: The Feds' Invasive Student Tracking Database
3/8/2013
While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and ...

This Jobs Report Not Actual Size
3/8/2013
The American economic juggernaut keeps churning out good news folks. According to government economists 236,000 jobs were created in February, plus or minus a margin of error of 100,000 jobs. ...

What Obama Is Doing to the Job Market
3/8/2013
Firms are awash with cash, but they're not hiring. What's going on? One place to look for an explanation is the policies of the Obama administration. President Obama's proposal to increase the ...

Goldilocks and the Bear Jobs Report
3/8/2013
As is typical, Wall Street and the media are celebrating a jobs report that is not nearly as positive as the headlines suggest. The continuing decline in the labor force participation rate was at ...

Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
3/8/2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from ...

Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit
3/8/2013
The political world changed its orbit Wednesday as Rand Paul seized the spotlight in his March 6 filibuster. Rand Paul -- not this author's favorite before -- is probably now the 2016 front-runner for ...