Category: feel-good politics
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Next Time Someone Tells You CEO Pay Should go to Employees
We repeatedly see complaints about how much CEOs are paid when the question of minimum wage hikes comes up, with the implication (or outright claim) that if the CEO and executives were paid less, the minimum wage hike wouldn’t be a problem. After running across one of these, I decided to do a little research.…
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Wal-Mart’s response
Here is the response I got to the letter I sent to Wal-Mart Dear Peter, Wal-Mart understands its role as a leading, responsible retailer in the U.S. and is making strides to strengthen its already existing security processes to help combat illegal gun activity in the communities we serve. Wal-Mart has a long and proud…
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Letter to Wal-Mart
If you haven’t heard, Wal-Mart has entered into an agreement with Mayor Bloomberg’s “Mayors against all Illegal Guns.” As you can imagine, this agreement is going to cause more problems for gun owners than criminals. Borrowing a little from Sebastian’s letter, I wrote the following: To whom it may concern, It was with great regret…
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Never Mind…
I said a couple weeks ago that McCain got it right on the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Well, according to the New York Times, he used the wiggle room I referenced in the last post. Senator John McCain, who drew criticism last month after he warned against broad government action to solve the deepening mortgage…
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It looks like murder isn’t illegal ENOUGH in LA
In one of the ultimate instances of gesture politics, the L.A. City Council considered a 40 hour ban on murder. Why not call a permanent ban? Oh wait, WE ALREADY HAVE ONE!And these people are drawing a salary with tax dollars? We can only hope it was a none-to-funny April Fools joke. Thanks to The Volokh Conspiracy for the link
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Michelle Malkin turns the lights out
Michelle Malkin turned out the lights in “honor” of Earth Hour. hmmm… on April 1st…
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I hope you feel better…
Well, If you turned off your lights for “Earth Hour,” you can rest easy knowing you did your part by reducing your electricity consumption by 1/8760th for the year. Unless you left your refrigerator running, at which point it isn’t quite that much… but you turned off your computer, right? You know, your cell phone and iPod…