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Posted by Rusty Weiss on March 28, 2014 16 Comments
Citing Obamacare and an increase in the state’s minimum wage, the owner of Waterford-based Yankee One Dollar is closing down shop on all 23 remaining locations. Via the Times Union: Waterford-based Yankee One Dollar stores will be gone within the next five months, its owner...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 29, 2013 61 Comments
Fast food workers in dozens of cities will strike today in support of higher wages.  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been providing financial support and training to those organizing the activities. One of those target cities is here in San Diego. From UT...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 24, 2013 4 Comments
Yesterday, McClatchy reported on Pelosi’s newest divisive endeavor: an economic agenda for women.  After all, we all know that women are not part of the economic fabric of this nation, that we all secretly aspire to be government-dependent Julias whose “health care” needs are those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 23 Comments
There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren’s made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee. Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing “too big to fail” and “too big to prosecute,” but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 10 Comments
President Obama spoke to students at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago this afternoon, using the occasion to address a basket of issues, including gun control, raising the minimum wage, education spending, and the overall state of our communities. During the 26-minute speech, Obama said that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2012 1 Comment
It’s the end of College Insurrection’s first year.  Not literally a full year, as we turned on the lights on August 22, 2012. This last week of the first year had much of interest, The usual malarkey: Finally, a college major for which 99.99% of...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 29, 2012 32 Comments
In Slate, the usually foolish Matt Yglesias holds true to form by demonstrating why we shouldn’t allow liberals to make public policy based on what they consider fairness.  He points to the “mega-yacht” that Steve Jobs commissioned long before his death as “a valuable reminder...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 11, 2012 48 Comments
Getting rid of the penny is like converting to the metric system: people argue for years that it is inevitable, but it never really comes to fruition. Instead it remains a staple of elementary civics discussions I always wondered who would really lobby for the penny as...

Posted by Michael Alan on February 20, 2012 23 Comments
It’s been a few days since I returned to Ithaca from my now-annual trip to CPAC with the Cornell College Republicans and, while I can’t help but think I wasn’t at the same conference as Erick Erickson, it was a great opportunity to meet other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 38 Comments
Today there are caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-delegate/non-binding election in Missouri in which Newt is not on the ballot. Can we all agree that caucuses stink and should be done away with? I’ll post some links as the day goes on, and...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 07, 2011 20 Comments
From babysitters, that is. From the WSJ: [A proposed bill in California] would require parents to pay caregivers over the age of 18 minimum wage plus overtime, allow a 10-minute rest every four hours and a half-hour meal break after five hours, reports ABC News. The...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 24, 2011 5 Comments
Kathleen Commencement season is upon us, which means that insipid celebrities of all flavors will bestow their opinions upon a new generation of bright-eyed college grads. Notable was former President Bill Clinton. His prose at the NYU graduation read like so: “today’s business schools are...
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