March 09, 2005

Orwellian State At The UN Women's Conference
By Carey Roberts

For sheer propaganda value, it doesn't get any better than the United Nations women's conference, which wraps up later this week in New York City.

No doubt you are wondering why your local newspaper didn't cover this historic event. The reason is, the sessions were so mired in fem-speak and harsh rhetoric that the ultra-liberal New York Times decided to take a pass. Ditto for the Washington Post and Boston Globe.

Ten years ago in Beijing, the Commission on the Status of Women conference gave its speakers free rein. But then Madame Hillary let loose with her keynote rant, making nonsense claims such as "Women are 70% of the world's poor". (Read the rest here)

Trust Diablo And Send Money
By Ed Henry

Two things, plus some broader issues: First, the national debt went up $86 billion in February. That’s more than $3 billion a day, weekends and holidays included. Second, Bush lies when he promises “not to raise payroll taxes.” He’s raised them every year that he’s been in office, all five years including 2005.

NATIONAL DEBT

Since his inauguration Bush has increased the national debt $2 trillion. Of the $86 billion increase last month, almost $80 billion was borrowed from foreign nations. Several of these same nations are warning us to get our act together and threatening to come off the dollar that’s falling in value. They could cash-in their treasuries anytime. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Well, a few items of importance to cover today - at least that is my opinion (not necessarily TPoL's, RRND's, or anyone else's). Too much going on today, and the important stuff can get drowned under the day to day worries and problems. Even so, I'll start out with some good news items.

Senate defeats minimum wage increase
Cincinnati Enquirer
"The Senate defeated dueling proposals Monday to raise the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage -- one backed by organized labor, the other salted with pro-business provisions -- in a day of skirmishing that reflected Republican gains in last fall's elections. Both plans fell well short of the 60 votes needed to advance, and signaled that prospects for raising the federal wage floor, unchanged since 1996, are remote during the current two-year Congress." (03/07/05)

Basic economics (a subject apparently very few if any in the Senate have ever studied) shows the problem with the basic wage, and what raising it would do - fortunately for us today, other factors defeated it. (Read the rest of the Commentary here)

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