In his letter published in the August 2nd, 2010 edition Mr. Ken Jansen states that there is a “public accommodations principle” that requires Somali taxi drivers to pick up passengers who they find to be objectionable and that “we rightfully forbid many forms of discrimination”.
In a rhetorical sleight of hand
The nineteenth century French economist, Frederick Bastiat, was renowned for his ability to express complex economic principles in a way that could be understood by the man in street. In one of his parables he tells of a mischievous boy wandering idly down a street on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
Increasing the minimum wage was meant to raise the living standards of millions of Americans holding unskilled, entry level positions. But it may have led to the elimination of 550,000 jobs opening the possibility that such wage levels should be revised, suggests a new study from Ball State University.
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“Green” energy has great emotional and political appeal. However, before we wrap all our hopes and subsidies in it, let us take a hard look at some common misconceptions about what “green” mean, says Robert Bryce, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute.
Solar and wind power are the
In his 2004 book, “The Empty Cradle,” Phillip Longman exploded one of the planet’s most enduring modern myths. He demonstrated that population growth is not the threat that it has been made out to be and that population decline is the real challenge ahead of us, says the Wall Street
In May 2003, the shareholders of the Russian Joint-Stock Company “Unified Energy Systems of Russia” (UES) agreed to a plan to break up the company and privatise most of its subsidiaries.
UES, the world’s largest utility, has been burdened by a decaying infrastructure, bureaucratic waste and ruinous state subsidies ever since
