The Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report this morning reminded me of my reaction when the credits (finally) rolled on Clash of the Titans: “Really? That’s it? What a let down. Boring.”
Unemployment was virtually unchanged, with the U-2 rate up from …
Nathan Glazer: “By the early 2000s, more than a third of all young black non-college men were incarcerated. More than 60 percent of black high school dropouts born since the mid-1960s go to prison.”
William Julius Wilson: “In 2003-2004, for every 100 bachelor’s degrees conferred on black men, 200 were conferred on black women.”
Educational Testing Service: [...]
The leaks are sprouting in advance of the formal release of the Governor’s plan to privatize the state’s ABC stores. From the look of things, it looks like a bevy of new taxes and fees will be on tap:…the plan proposed two sources of revenue — an excise tax of $12.50 and a "buyout fee" of $2.25 a gallon — to produce most of the annual revenue, about $160 million. However, that number could
Byron York's latest article for the Washington Examiner dissects the U.S. Justice Department's efforts to challenge immigration enforcement in…
As the California state legislative session drew to a close, the state enatced some good reforms to the policies that allowed pay and pension abuses that we saw in Bell, CA
With a three-minute meeting at Baptist Medical Center so Commissioner Beaufort Bailey could vote ‘yes.’
I wish Commissioner Bailey well, but you really have to wonder what is so urgent about a library bond given the state of a mortgaged-to…
David John, pension expert at the Heritage Foundation, tells why a state pension bailout by Congress is a bad idea
You’ll never believe the city of Charlotte’s defense in the civil suit brought by two of Marcus Jackson’s alleged sexual assault victims.
“If Mr. Jackson had not been hired, he may very well have assaulted these individuals,” claimed senior assistant city attorney R. Harcourt Fulton in Mecklenburg County Superior Court, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Planet [...]
By Dave Lister
In response to the escalation in gang-related shootings in Portland, Mayor Sam Adams is proposing actions that are typical of those with liberal leanings. Rather than blaming the criminals, he’s blaming the guns, and he’s proposin…