Arizona’s Minimum Wage Could Be $18 Per Hour Soon
Arizona’s minimum wage was $13.85 in 2023, up from $12.80 per hour in 2022. On January 1, 2024, minimum wage in State 48 will be raised another 50 cents to $14.35 per hour. This increase will happen despite the fact that Arizona’s inflation rate in 2023 was lower than the national average. That’s because Arizona is […]
A Tough Year For Economists, A Great Year For Investors
It has been said, that if you could place all the economists in the world end to end, that would be a good idea. In that position, they might have been more useful than they were in 2023. While it has been a wild ride, in 2023, in the end, it has been a good […]
A Happy Column
A friend and regular reader of my column came to me at our Hanukkah party and suggested that I should write more about positive things. Unbeknownst to him, I had already planned my next two columns regarding the Christmas season with a decidedly positive bent. In response to his request, this column attempts just that. […]
NYPD Says Protesters Had Weapons, Gas Masks And ‘Death to America!’ Pamphlets
A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with “Death to America!” written on them. Michael Kemper, a NYPD’s chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters. “For those romanticizing the protests occurring on college campuses, ‘Death […]
A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
The Environmental, Social, and Governance movement has wrapped itself in the garb of justice. It is just as much a moral crusade as it is an economic, social, or political one, with the unfortunate effect that those who criticize ESG can easily be sidelined and dismissed as reactionary, selfish, or worse. Be that as it […]
How Mass Mail-In Voting Changes Everything
When the emphasis in elections shifts from turning out conventional in-person voters to chasing mail-in ballots, we have entered a qualitatively different electoral world than the one we inhabited before. Since 2020, elections have been under assault by a complex of leftist lawyers, nonprofits, and election activists as they attempt to implement schemes and introduce […]
State Of Maine Tyrant Disenfranchises Hundreds Of Thousands Of Republican Voters
Shenna Bellows, Secretary of State of Maine, a Democrat, decided on her own that Republican voters in Maine should not have the right to vote for Donald Trump in the primary election leading up to the November 2024 general election. On the face of things, it’s a strange world where a Democrat can decide whom […]
Stop Funding ‘Rights for Migrants’ Legal Scam
As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big-time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, and even the right to […]
Review of Two Books by Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz began composing War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism on October 8, the day after Hamas’ horrific attack. He set aside all his other projects to produce this tome in 32 days. Alan is extraordinarily well qualified for this task. He personally knows and has conferred with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, […]
The TikTok Spiral
Trauma dumping on the “for you page” sucks young girls into a pit of self-loathing. The winning TikTok formula is videos produced by teens for their peers. In that sense, it is hugely kid-friendly. Yet in 2019, TikTok paid a settlement for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Then in 2021 TikTok users were […]