Last Thursday Baltimore County police shot and killed one man and arrested two others shortly after midnight as they were leaving their Pikesville, MD, hotel room. The three men had been under police surveillance for some time, and the two who were arrested were charged with — get this — counterfeiting currency, a federal crime. … Read more Getting real about the Arizona law
Back in the mid-1990s I interviewed for an information technology position with one of the nation’s largest home builders. In the course of the interviews, one of the company’s executives told me — almost as a boast — that the company didn’t own so much as a single hammer. The company had positioned itself as … Read more Illegal immigration’s dirty little secret
The always provocative Paul Craig Roberts recently penned a column in which he asks which is worse, regulation or deregulation. For a libertarian — which, incidentally, is what Roberts is — this would seem like a no-brainer. Regulation is worse. How could a libertarian even think otherwise? But, is regulation always worse? Consider a monopoly … Read more Deregulation’s downside
“Are you cashing in on this?” So asked the subject line of an email my brother sent me in early 2003. “This” was what was described in an attached news story from a trade journal — I forget which one — as a “huge” and “desperate” shortage of information technology professionals, particularly software developers. That … Read more It’s not just Ron Paul