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employment \ free market \ immigration \ labor
Campus Media Response: Are American Workers Threatened by Immigrant Workers?
In a recent column for the Harvard Crimson commenting on the dubious legislation in Arizona that would make it easier for police to question people about their immigration status, Raúl Carrillo makes the following argument: Immigration reform, even during a recession, doesn’t have to put American’s citizen workforce and undocumented immigrants at odds. There’s more [...]
Danish cartoons \ free speech \ Islam \ Islamic totalitarianism \ religion \ Terrorism
Campus Media Response: Everybody Draw Muhammad On Campus
Writing in opposition to the recently publicized “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” a show of solidarity for Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, Saif Ansari of The Daily Bruin writes: There is no need to abuse or disrespect others in order to show that one cares about the right to free speech. And, [...]
Arizona \ immigration \ individual rights
Asking Permission to Live
Within the confusion surrounding the immigration issue is a crucial moral question Much has been said about the recent Arizona law that requires police to verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Critics argue the law is vague, unconstitutional, and will lead to racial profiling as police try [...]
ban \ fast food \ FDA \ freedom \ health \ nanny state \ paternalism \ prohibition \ regulation \ slippery slope
On The Road to Ever-More Government Control
A California county recently banned fast-food restaurants from including toys in their kids’ meals. The goal of this new ban is to reduce rampant obesity in today’s youth by breaking “the link between unhealthy food and prizes.” On the face of it, the effects of this ban seem trivial: so what if there are no [...]
ad hominem \ health care reform \ health insurance \ healthcare \ Ideas \ individual rights \ Obama \ ObamaCare \ paternalism \ tea party
The Great Health Care Squabble: A Battle of Ideas?
Are those who oppose health care reform simply racist? Or perhaps just trying to fill their unemployment-related free time? Two articles recently appearing in the New York Times offer just such accounts of what motivates the Tea Party protesters and other vocal opponents of the new health care legislation In “The Rage Is Not About [...]
Americans \ freedom \ immigration \ individual rights \ welfare state
Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman applauds a recent event honoring the finalists of Intel’s national science talent search, a contest that recognizes promising American high school science students. Friedman notes the high number of finalists of Chinese and Indian descent and reminds us that it’s our willingness to welcome immigrants that allows [...]
AT&T \ crony capitalism \ FCC \ Google \ internet \ Net Neutrality \ property rights \ public policy \ regulation
What Goes Around, Comes Around
In courting government power, Google faces its wrath Net neutrality advocates argue that the government should force large network service providers like AT&T and Comcast to charge all of their customers the same rate, regardless of the bandwidth they consume. While no one would defend forcing restaurants to offer only a fixed price, all-you-can eat [...]
What Obama Should Say to Iran
Thirty years after the hostage crisis, Iranians are bravely challenging their government. Despite the theocracy’s attempt to crush these protests, Iranians have once again taken to the streets. Imagine what might happen—the potential benefit to us and to Iran—if instead of declaring that we seek “a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon [...]
