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Buzzfeed very kindly invited me to participate in their panel discussion (cosponsored with, yes, the Charles Koch Institute) last week.** You can watch the result here. A couple of follow-up points: 1)–Cato for Higher Welfare Spending: Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh (around 24 minutes in)  pooh-poohs the effect of low-skilled immigration on wages at the bottom by [...]

‘Maybe I’m missing something, but how does this squelch the scandal?’

Things to come: Isn’t it time for the inevitable Paul Krugman column endorsing the Schumer-Rubio amnesty plan? True, in the past, Krugman has expressed strong reservations (collected by John T. Bennett here) about the labor market effect of massive unskilled immigration. For example, “Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U.S. worker, they increase the supply of [...]

They agree on immigration, but when it comes to the debt limit? Not so much…

Some prominent conservative leaders are out with letter urging Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader McConnell to draft legislation compensating the victims of the IRS’s discrimination. According to the letter, “Many organizations incurred tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary legal and tax  preparation fees pursuing their not-for-profit tax exemption. Others simply gave up and folded [...]

Whether you believe it’s God’s plan, or simply natural selection, there are unintended consequences to fooling with mother nature.

Weiner enters hole in NYC mayoral race

Not All Muslims murder a man with machetes in the middle of a London street

If you hit somebody with your car, you should probably admit it on Twitter

On the bloodlust of Judeo-Christian troglodytes and the notable paucity of Labash imagery

I think we’re being too hard on tablets. They are just another symptom of the underlying disease

‘I’m taking this opportunity to bash the most overpraised singer of this generation’