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2009-10-26T05:15:30-04:00

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From minimum wage to maximum wage

Last updated on: October 26, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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The government is now asserting control over how much businesses can pay their executives by targeting not just companies that taxpayers have bailed out, but also companies that are merely regulated by the government. (And what companies aren’t?) From The Washington Post: The Federal Reserve joined the Treasury Department on Thursday in imposing new limits on executive pay, extending the government’s control over compensation at taxpayer-owned companies to institutions that are merely government regulated. The restrictions were the latest in... Read more

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2009-10-26T05:00:30-04:00

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Delegitimizing dissent

Last updated on: October 26, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Charles Krauthammer on how the White House is trying to “delegitimize dissent”: The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a news station.” And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to “be led [by] and following Fox.” Meaning? If Fox runs... Read more

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2009-10-23T06:00:19-04:00

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What are you listening to?

Last updated on: October 23, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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As I drive to and from work, I’ve been listening to Sittin’ On 80: 80 Aussie Truckin’ Classics by the late and very great Australian folk and country music bard Slim Dusty. It’s a 4-disc boxed set of songs about truck driving. There are, of course, a lot of good American songs on this subject, but these CDs are ridiculously enjoyable. I realize that this music may be on the obscure side, but it made me think it might be... Read more

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2009-10-23T05:30:13-04:00

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Posthumous sequels

Last updated on: October 23, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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New authors produce sequels to famous books written by others: In bookstores this week, Arthur Dent is hitchhiking through the galaxy again. Dracula glides through the London fog once more, still in need of overwrought young women with plunging necklines and exposed veins. Winnie the Pooh is back to toddling around the Hundred Acre Wood. This would not be remarkable were it not for the fact that the authors who created these literary icons — Douglas Adams, Bram Stoker, A.A.... Read more

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2009-10-23T05:15:25-04:00

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Cost of Living Adjustment

Last updated on: October 23, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Built into the Social Security system are automatic cost of living adjustments (COLA), which increase retirement benefits according to the inflation rate. But this year the cost of living has actually gone down 4%. Nevertheless, President Obama wants to give senior citizens a check for $250 to make up for their not getting a COLA. George Will sees such generosity as “the entitlement that proves that the entitlement system, like the universe, will expand until, perhaps like the universe, it... Read more

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2009-10-23T05:00:03-04:00

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Coptic Christians and their tattoos

Last updated on: October 23, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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I never understood tattoos. For Coptic Christians in Egypt, though, a tattoo is an indelible mark of their faith and a visible testimony that they are not Muslims. From GlobalPost: Regardless the age of his human canvas [the article is describing young children lined up to get their tattoos], Girgis went to work — inscribing not fire-breathing dragons, fierce skulls or the gestures of star-crossed lovers, but rather simple blue-green crosses on the inside of his subjects’ wrists. The crosses... Read more

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2009-10-22T06:00:39-04:00

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Moses and America

Last updated on: October 22, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Bruce Feiler points out that Moses is depicted all over the place in our nation’s capital–at the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, the Library of Congress, the National Archives–virtually every president has invoked him, and his story has been drawn upon in America at nearly every point in its history: Moses is the patron saint of Washington — and a potent spiritual force in nearly every great transformation in American history, from the nation’s founding to the Civil War... Read more

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2009-10-22T05:45:42-04:00

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Medicare for everyone

Last updated on: October 22, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Democrats in the House of Representatives are reviving the public option–that is, a government-run insurance company–and calling it by the tried, true, and popular brand name Medicare. Others would go further, expanding the current Medicare to cover uninsured people, or even everyone. Read more

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2009-10-22T05:15:40-04:00

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The pedigree of research into ideological bias

Last updated on: October 22, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Some people, including scholars, are dismissing research that shows that universities or newsrooms or people in other professions are biased in favor of leftwing ideology. But Mark Bauerlein of the Chronicle of Higher Education, no less, points out that the research that shows liberal bias if of exactly the same kind, uses the same methods, and holds the same assumptions as the research done by liberals that has shown racial and gender bias: Along with the empirical research, the contributors... Read more

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2009-10-22T05:00:21-04:00

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Catholic institutions must pay for contraceptives

Last updated on: October 22, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Patrick J. Reilly reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that Catholic institutions must pay for birth control in their health insurance plans, even though it violates their religion. Otherwise, they are guilty of discrimination: Last week, thanks to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal government took a giant leap toward encroaching on the religious liberty of Catholics. Reuben Daniels Jr., director of the EEOC District Office in Charlotte, N.C, ruled that a small Catholic college discriminated... Read more

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