'One size fits all' minimum wage proposal is 'catastrophic,' restaurant owner says

      Restaurant owners are calling Gov. Kate Brown's minimum wage hike proposal a one size fits all plan, and one that could actually hurt Oregon's local businesses as well as its employees.
      "We wanted to make sure that families, working families, single parents that are making minimum wage, could meet their housing and food costs in the Portland-metro area," Brown said.
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Cost-effective ways to address climate change

WASHINGTON POST, 11/17/2010 by Bjorn Lomborg (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - One of the scarier predictions about global warming is the suggestion that melting glaciers and ice caps could cause sea levels to rise as much as 15 to 20 feet over the next century. Set aside the fact that the best research we have - from the United Nations climate panel - says that global sea levels are not likely to rise more than about 20 inches by 2100. Rather, let's imagine that over the next 80 or 90 years, a giant port city - say, Tokyo - found itself engulfed by a sea-level rise of about 15 feet. Millions of inhabitants would be imperiled, along with trillions of dollars' worth of infrastructure. Without a vast global effort, could we cope with such a terrifying catastrophe?

Well, we already have. In fact, we're doing it right now. Read more at the Washington Post... Read More......

Crisis, Catastrophe: Are These Words of Hope?

Town Hall, February 5, 2009
By Charles Krauthammer
So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. Read full article at townhall.com... Read More......