December 14, 2015 – 7:39 am
He thinks that this non-binding, voluntary agreement which has no force of law, which will never be submitted by Mr. Obama to the US Congress, and will be ignored by nations like China and India, among others, will Do Something magical (USA Today) Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the historic Paris accord aimed […]
August 17, 2015 – 6:50 am
The vastly Right Wing, worker hating Washington Post provides a glimpse of the future Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s back in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as […]
July 17, 2015 – 6:57 am
Another bit of populist pandering to low wage workers from people who have rarely ever worked a real job (Daily Caller) In the name of fairness, congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would put significant restrictions on how employers schedule their employees. “This bill is about basic fairness,†Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a […]
July 6, 2015 – 4:28 pm
Let’s dip back to this Think Progress article from February 2015 In October, Starbucks announced that it would raise its employees wages in January of this year. It promised to increase starting wages for new employees but also to give “all baristas and shift supervisors…a pay increase.†While the announcement attracted press attention, it didn’t […]
June 3, 2015 – 10:23 am
Those who are taking long fossil fueled flights from the U.S. to Paris for this years Conference on the Parties hardest hit (NY Times) The Obama administration is set to announce that it will require new rules to cut emissions from airplanes, expanding a quest to tackle climate change that has included a string of […]
June 3, 2015 – 7:46 am
In a thinly veiled opinion piece, which appears in the business section, not the science section, writer Eduardo Porter is all about using a big stick on countries, especially the United States, which refuse to implement massive CO2 restrictions Climate Deal Badly Needs a Big Stick ….. Perhaps the word failure fits, however. More than […]
May 23, 2015 – 7:09 am
It’s long been noted that the “climate change” movement is really all about far Left Progressivism (nice fascism), not science, with one of the goals being to completely change the economic system away from capitalism. Al Gore provides more proof of this Sustainable Capitalism is key to a prosperous future, we must embrace its tenets […]
April 22, 2015 – 10:13 am
Sadly, Earth Day has shifted from caring about real environmental issues…clean air, clean land, clean waters…to the idiocy of “climate change”. Cult of Climastrology member John Kerry (who owns multiple fossil fueled vehicles, several McMansions, and takes lots of fossil fueled flights) links the two in an opinion piece at USA Today. But, not all […]
April 21, 2015 – 11:19 am
I love when hardcore Progressives start yammering about market economics, because it’s easy to see that they often do not understand free markets, and are interested in free markets. Here’s Kyle E. Thomas at Syracuse.com, who is the group leader for the Syracuse chapter of the (astroturfed) Citizens’ Climate Lobby This Earth Day, let’s take […]
April 3, 2015 – 6:42 am
Who could have seen this coming? (Fox News) Eating meals out in Seattle just got more expensive as tens of thousands of low wage workers got a raise this week to $11 an hour. It was the first scheduled pay increase on the way to $15 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the country. […]
