links for 2008-09-13
Posted on 14. Sep, 2008 by dwight in Links
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"There is no reason to think McCain, Obama, Palin, and Biden are not smart enough to do the job. Unless they plan dispensing with a cabinet or have shown they will not listen to their aides, they will get the knowledge they need to govern. For some reason in our republic, however, we like the impression that our candidates are all knowing."
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"Though Acorn touts living-wage laws as a way to lift the working poor into the middle class, the vast body of academic work on wage laws shows that they end up hurting the poor by forcing businesses to eliminate some low-wage jobs. Acorn's own leadership understands this principle perfectly. When California regulators sued Acorn for not paying its own workers the minimum wage, Acorn argued that this would endanger its mission—because it would have to hire fewer workers."
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Obama seems to be stuck trying to appease both education reformers and teachers unions.
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Apparently if you say it often enough, it does become true (enough).
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