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The President’s Debunked Wage Gap Claim
Commentators recently debunked the president’s wage gap claim in his State of the Union address, noting that labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth default_blog.jpgread more
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A Trillion Dollars and Two Million Jobs Lost: Obamacare Increases the Deficit...
"The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.3 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional...
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More 'Equality' in U.S. Than Europe: Minimum Wage Buys More Here
France and England may have higher minimum wages than most of the U.S. does, but things cost so much there that minimum-wage workers can afford less stuff than a U.S. minimum wage worker can (due...
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Right to Free Speech Includes Offensive Speech
"The Wandering Dago food truck wants to park and sell food at various events on New York State property. The state says no, because the name is offensive. Does that violate the First Amendment?" The...
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Increasing Minimum Wage and Regulation Means Fewer Jobs
"Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing" would "cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said...
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IRS Proposed Rules Would Illegally Restrict Speech
CEI has filed comments against the IRS's proposed rules restricting speech by 501(c)(4) groups (which the IRS has suggested could be expanded in the future to default_blog.jpgread more
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NJ Court Allows Parents to Be Sued for Children's Facebook Posts
Earlier, we wrote about a Wisconsin town whose ordinance holds parents liable for bullying by their children, including certain speech. default_blog.jpgread more
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Supreme Court Correctly Rules for Religious Businesses in Hobby Lobby Decision
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled Monday that it violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to require...
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Obama Drives Up College Tuition Through Perverse 'Pay As You Earn' Program
Wastefully-run colleges can now increase tuition even faster, at taxpayer expense, as a result of the Obama administration's recent expansions of the Pay As You Earn program. For example, a recent...
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Executive Order 13673 Pressures Employers to Capitulate to Baseless Demands...
A July 31 executive order from President Obama will make it very costly for employers to challenge dubious allegations of wrongdoing against them, if they are government contractors (which employ a...
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Troubling Provision In Campus Accountability and Safety Act
It is a conflict of interest — and sometimes a violation of the Constitution — for a fine to go to the very unit of government that employs the judge or official who imposed the fine. That gives the...
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Duplicative New Affirmative-Action Rule Drives Up Taxpayer Costs and...
Does it make sense to require a park campground operator that has a few hundred employees at 120 different locations to come up with 120 separate affirmative-action plans, one for each...
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‘Rape Culture’ Panic Harms Small Businesses and Consumers
Scheming politicians, opportunists, and grifters have latched on to the recent panic over a supposed campus “rape culture” to clamp down on activities<default_blog.jpgread more
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Obama's Executive Order Will Wipe Out California Jobs
Earlier, we discussed President Obama’s recent Executive Order 13,673, which “will allow trial lawyers to extort larger settlements from companies, and enable bureaucratic agencies to extract...
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Taxpayers to Subsidize "Truthy" Tracker: Will Track "Misleading Ideas"&"Hate...
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Private Employers Handed Death Sentence While Fed Flouts Laws
Government contractors could face a financial death sentence over labor law, civil-rights law, or wage-and-hour law violations under a recent Obama executive order I discussed earlier, EO...
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UNC Meddles in Students’ Romantic Lives While Misstating What 'Consent' Is
Rigid “consent” requirements are for legally-binding contracts, not casual interaction among intimates. When my wife and daughter hug me, they don’t ask for my permission first.default_blog.jpgread more
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Federal Government Does About-Face, Won't Admit to Tax Credit Snafu
The Obama administration has claimed that despite recurring language in the Obamacare law limiting tax credits to people who buy insurance on an “default_blog.jpgread more
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College Students Must Agree 'Why' They Had Sex to Avoid Sexual Assault Charges
At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of “sexual assault” or “sexual violence,” you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It’s not...
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