Especially in this time of terrorists threat, you might expect U.S. border agents to have a problem with someone who shows up on the nation’s doorstep heavily armed. In fact, agents at the Calais, Maine, entry point reportedly took Gregory Despres aside for two hours of intense questioning after noticing his homemade sword, hatchet, brass [...]
Posts on ‘June 8th, 2005’
Suddenly, Mehlman doesn’t like name calling
“We gotta get ourselves beyond this point where when we disagree about politics, we call the other guy names.” —Ken Mehlman, Republican National Committee chairman, on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” June 7, 2005 Do as I say now: Mehlman seems to have undergone a dramatic change of heart. Last year, as head of the [...]
Today’s amazing economic fact — that’s not
The Employment Policies Institute wants the world to know raising the minimum wage is more fraught with harmful consequences than using a beehive for a volleyball. EPI’s news release of sky-is-sure-to-fall warnings mentions a number of academic studies without offering specific citations to any of them. But our favorite supposed factoid exhibits just the logic [...]
