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How’s that higher minimum wage working out for jobs in DC?

The nation’s capital has been leading the way on the minimum wage front and the Fight for 15 crowd couldn’t be happier. Still, those not invested in the future of the unions and the Social Justice Warrior movement have questions which deserve answers. Just this week we looked at the effects of a $15 minimum wage on one small business owner in Ohio, but how about from the perspective of the workers? In DC there are a lot of food industry employers who hire plenty of lower wage workers, so that should prove to be a leading indicator when addressing the question. The District has already raised their minimum wage once recently and there’s more of the same on the way.

The American Enterprise Institute has run the numbers for us, and the initial results are not promising at all.

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“Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date,” said Cruz’s former Senate communications director, Amanda Carpenter. “We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration. Don’t say we didn’t warn them.”
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“It vindicates the speech, it vindicates what Ted Cruz warned would happen during the course of the campaign,” said Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics and digital strategy on Cruz’s campaign and a top Cruz adviser who has always argued that the RNC speech would be remembered favorably. He went on to add, “I do think, yes, the immigration point is another data point that he was right, it’s another data point that leads people to understand Ted Cruz knew what he was talking about, he was making the right decision.”

While I am not a Trump supporter per se, I have stood up and clapped on a couple of items.  One was excoriating the Media for being biased to the point of being bigoted against Republican. They have decided that they cannot allow Trump to gain the office and it shows – they no longer report the news objectively but have become full-fledged members of the Democrat Party and acting like campaigners-with-bylines.

We on the Right have known this tendency for years but with this campaign, both the mask and any pretense to the contrary have been dropped.  And they wonder why their circulation rates and stock prices are plummeting still?

The other

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The Concord Monitor had this little piece on the rise of gonorrhea in NH.  Now, this was posted by their resident “geek”, David Brooks, and he had a bit of narrative along with his conclusion.

And he’s wrong. No, not about the chart – I’ll take that as a given – but his reasoning doesn’t stand up (reformatted, emphasis mine).

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Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.  Germany is currently on high alert after two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally unstable teenager last month. Berlin announced measures earlier this month to spend considerably more on its police and security forces and to create a special unit to counter cyber crime and terrorism.

“The population will be obliged to hold an individual supply of food for ten days,” the newspaper quoted the government’s “Concept for Civil Defence” – which has been prepared by the Interior Ministry – as saying.

Another report states “People will be required to stockpile enough drinking water to last for five days, according to the plan, the paper said.”

I think that “man-made disaster” certainly fits Germany right now – or would that be “Prime Minister-made disaster” be better put seeing that Angela Merkel in deciding to go all open borders to mostly economic, mostly Muslim, mostly ill-educated, and mostly military-aged men.  But for 10 days, that’s a long time to shelter in place for an Islamic attack – or are they thinking of a much bigger attack coordinated in lots of locations around the country that would necessitate martial law?

Frankly folks, the old Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared” (I have no idea what it is now since Progressives / Leftists have now infiltrated and taken over that “societal institution” as the Frankfurt School started back in the 1920s) still holds water because you don’t know when, where, or how this “insurance” might be needed….

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As far as I’m concerned, good!  I just happened across this and once again, there seems to be no stone unturned that can’t cause some outrage amongst the the continuously outraged and offended victimologists (re: part of the Democrat identity group coalition that are eternally oppressed by…well….sometimes themselves.  But they complain even then).

Why Do Women’s Sports Even Exist?

My, my, there those feminists go, complaining again. This time the whining concerns supposedly “sexist” Olympics coverage. Their problem? Many journalists are, we’re told, using different language when talking about female athletes than when speaking of male ones. Oh, the humanity! There’s the guy who credited a female swimmer’s husband/coach for her success, the talk about a six-foot-three-inch South Korean woman volley ball player’s difficulty finding a boyfriend, and a reporter who called an equestrian rider “blondie.”

I’ll let that go for now.  What I hadn’t heard before were a couple of examples that point out that men ARE superior to women in sports (well, if you paid any attention to sports, especially during the Olympics that just ended, you’d already now that men are faster, stronger, quicker, jump higher and longer….it’s simple biology and I guess the feminazis want us all to make these results be like “these are not the droids you are looking for”.

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THE HILL: A tale of two Louisiana disasters and media bias. “A very simple question, if George W. Bush was president right now and playing golf with celebrities in one of the richest zip codes in the country, would the headlines again be everywhere that portray him as insensitive, out-of-touch, even a racist president be the same now as they were 2005? Of course they would. Instead, President Obama continues his vacation that includes fundraising events for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the relative silence is deafening.”

But then again, if Obama was a Republican, would he would be getting the “Media BDS” (Bush Derangement Syndrome”)?

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