DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Newsbusters.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent praise of Fidel Castro.

When trying to come up with a reason why Nixon was able to defeat liberal hero from Trump 1.0, Alexander Vindman, Capehart claimed, “But Democrats are also talking about someone who will fight for them, someone who’s going to give expression to their anger about what’s happening, whether it’s the war or high prices, high gas prices, inflation, or just the wrecking ball the administration’s taking to just democracy.”

Ironically, Capehart’s denunciations of those who seek to associate Nixon with the DSA began when he himself admitted Nixon is a member of the DSA, “And Angie Nixon, state legislator who has been in the trenches there in Florida, working really hard, talking to people, she went out and asked for people’s votes, and they gave it to her. I mean, one thing to keep in mind, she joined the Democratic Socialists of America just a few months ago.”

Tell the truth about Democrats, and the Narrative Media invariably describes it as a ‘smear’.

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The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic message that “Allah is the Greatest! There is no god but Allah!”

The so-called “adhan” is just one sign of how Islam is transforming pockets of the nation. As more Muslims participate in the country’s political life, running for office, influencing, and in some cases, even controlling local governments, they are putting their own stamps on their communities: renaming city streets after Arab homelands and mandating Islamic holidays and halal-only lunches in public schools, while even changing noise ordinances to the consternation of many non-Muslim neighbors.

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Turkey has escalated its anti-Israel actions, after months of denunciations connected to its Gaza, Syria, and Iran policies – and is once again taking things to new levels.

The Erdogan government has just issued an international arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into Israel’s interception of an aid flotilla for Gaza, which happened in mid-May and involved over 50 vessels and nearly 500 international activists.

Activist: Someone who isn’t happy unless pissing in someone else’s soup.

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Dozens of military-age men leapt from boats onto packed tourist beaches in mainland Spain this week, sending holidaymakers scrambling for their belongings as the fallout from the Ceuta mass crossing continues to escalate.

The Other McCain.

For many years I have said that, if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. The only “principle” they have is a lust for power.

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As Mike Benz points out, with Democrats, every accusation is a confession — they habitually accuse Republicans of wrongdoing that Democrats themselves are guilty of, in this case, foreign interference in American elections. ActBlue was perfectly OK with their system being used to launder foreign contributions into Democratic campaign coffers, with the big-money foreign donors using the stolen identities of Americans to disguise these illegal contributions.

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Can an intellectual tradition dissociate itself from the very ideas it has helped to develop? That is the question running through “Left Is Not Woke,” one of the most widely discussed political essays of recent years. In it, Susan Neiman argues that the woke phenomenon does not represent the culmination of the Left, but rather its negation. The thesis is undeniably attractive. It allows the moral legacy of the Enlightenment Left to be preserved while attributing the excesses of identity politics to a deviation foreign to its own tradition. The question, however, is whether this historical reconstruction withstands scrutiny when examined in light of the history of ideas.

Waiting for the name change to Michistan.

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This week marks the 55th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s 90-day wage and price order of August 15, 1971. With extensions, maximum prices caused oil shortages beginning in 1972. More shortages with the Arab Embargo of October 1973 ensured passage of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, which continued federal price and allocation controls until President Reagan’s decontrol order in early 1981. This post adds to the historical record of one of the greatest peacetime energy policy failures in U.S. history.

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The first is fiat-currency inflation. Intervention in 1912-1913,  creation of the Federal Reserve and the 16th Amendment enabling Congressional unlimited spending.

The second is the socialization of old-age support. Intervention in 1936 creating the Social Security Program.

The third is medical monopoly. Intervention in 1965 creating Medicare.

The fourth is the nationalization of education. Intervention in 1979 creating the Department of Education.

The fifth is the stripping of housing sovereignty. Intervention into housing policy and finance spread over most of the 20th century.

The sixth is administrative relief. Government takes over management and control of permanent poverty.

Full article: The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family’s Will To Reproduce

House Dems Plan Trump Probes If They Retake Control

House Democrat leaders have prepared a lengthy list of investigations they plan to launch against President Donald Trump, his family, and his administration if they regain control of the House in November, Politico reported Friday.

No doubt they have.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal appeals court handed conservative activist James O’Keefe a significant legal victory Friday, tossing out a $130,000 judgment a Democratic consultant won against him over an undercover video sting tied to the 2016 presidential election.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said that award, which followed a 2022 jury trial, violated the First Amendment by muddling together the consequences of legal activity by O’Keefe and his group, Project Veritas, with unlawful aspects of its infiltration of the consulting firm, Democracy Partners.

The Foundry.

Republican voters who see ads attacking South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Ralph Norman as insufficiently MAGA might be surprised to learn about the major donor behind those messages.

“Ralph Norman: MAGA Traitor,” reads one ad from the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC. “Ralph Norman betrayed President [Donald] Trump by endorsing against him in 2024. … Ralph Norman is a MAGA traitor.”

So, what is the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC?

According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, the PAC received more than 88% of its funding—$6 million out of $6.78 million—from one man, Chris Larsen.

So, is Larsen a Trump donor? Far from it. He contributed $1 million worth of cryptocurrency to Future Forward, a PAC supporting then-Vice President Kamala Harris, in 2024. In May, he told Politico he was “a big believer in Gavin” Newsom for the 2028 Democrat presidential primary, and he plans to boost California’s Democrat governor “any way we can.”

Larsen in May called the PAC’s advocacy “political warfare,” according to Politico. “The worst that you want in a political fight is for your opponents to think you’re weak,” he said.

He is not the only green energy advocate backing the PAC. Mark McCall, who led the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office under President Barack Obama, contributed $200,000. Jigar Shah, who directed the same office under President Joe Biden, contributed $50,000. Michael Brune, former executive director of the Sierra Club, co-founded the PAC.

Task & Purpose.

The United States military hasn’t operated a seaplane, or amphibious flying boat, since the Coast Guard retired the HU-16 Albatross in 1983. For 73 years, this kind of aircraft had been essential for everything from search and rescue to resupply. With the vast expanses of the Pacific theater in mind, an argument can be made that the versatile seaplanes of yesteryear should return to their former glory.

United States Pacific Command is made up of over one hundred million square miles of territory, which is over half the Earth. The majority of that is water. This puts a premium on land, especially airfields. Despite technological leaps that make crossing thousands of miles faster, and arguably easier, aviators still face some of the same hurdles today as they did back in World War II.

As leaders plan for a potential fight in the region, new doctrine like the Marines’ Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and the Army’s Multi-Domain Operations all consider the challenge of maintaining logistics for small and dispersed teams in austere conditions, with little infrastructure for traditional cargo aircraft or watercraft.

The situation looks even more dire when you consider that existing airfields and ports would be high-value targets in the opening moments of a conflict, further complicating logistics.

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That’s about the same number of people as were killed in road accidents in Los Angeles County in 2025.

ATQUE: Pentagon says more than 750 US service members wounded in Iran war (Filip Timotija/The Hill)  Oh, the humanity! It’s another Ukraine quagmire!

The advantages are obvious, the reactor has less than a six-month lead time, it is transportable by rail, ship, conventional trucks, and normal logistics. It fits on an ordinary slab or other small structure and can be easily installed with off-the-shelf plumbing and wiring. It is cooled with either helium or water, or the excess heat can be used for additional power generation. It has inherent safety and security and does not require full-time monitoring; it is walk-away safe. The fuel is standard 4.95% enriched uranium oxide; that must be replaced every five years at a current cost of $1.3 million. The fuel is well below weapons grade and is readily available.

Wait until Jeff Bezos puts one on a yacht….

The New Neo.

Well, given the nature of his district, it ought to come as no surprise..Aisha Wahab will be replacing Swalwell until the November election, due to the results of a special election to determine the disgraced Swalwell’s successor. As you can probably tell from the name, Wahab is the US-born child of Muslim immigrants (in her case, her parents are from Afghanistan) and a DSA-supported candidate.

Hey, as long as Democrats will be stupid enough to support Muslims, Muslims will be clever enough to accept that support.

Newsbusters.

While guest hosting All In on Thursday, MS NOW’s Ali Velshi welcomed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico to another one of his strategy planning sessions disguised as an interview. At one point, Velshi seemed befuddled by the idea that “Most people are not losing sleep over transgender kids in sports, but they [Republicans] seem to just be stuck on this one with you.”

Velshi began by suggesting that Republicans are talking about gender stuff because they cannot talk about the economy or foreign policy, “I’ve been having conversations with people like you: Democrats who have a good chance of winning in states that have traditionally been Republican or in recent years at least have voted for Donald Trump. And I’ve had this conversation with Roy Cooper, and last night I had it with David Jolly. And there is some indication that when things are going badly for Republicans, particularly as they are now, because of the cost of living and this war that we were told we weren’t going to get involved in wars like this. Democrats have a few go-tos and they’re enjoying one of them with you. They talk a lot about transgender stuff, and they lean into that.”

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ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis sat before the Committee on House Administration, the House Oversight Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday and declined to answer a single substantive question during a closed-door deposition that reportedly lasted less than half an hour. DeBergalis invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and left. DeBergalis joins a growing list of ActBlue executives who have chosen silence over testimony as Republicans dig into whether the Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform let foreign money slip into American campaigns.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Why don’t they solve the problem the way they solved COVID? Lock everybody down.

EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies (Scott MacFarlane Reports)

A scathing new investigation by Democrats …

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British men who protested outside an Essex asylum hotel have been locked up for far longer than the migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered the demonstrations.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

The Other McCain.

… and the weird thing — the creepy, scary thing — is that there are women taking the killer’s side of the case. Women are actually rallying outside the courtroom in support of this murderer. And, of course, blaming her husband for it.

The facts of the case are irrelevant to this; Lindsay’s supporters aren’t about facts, they’re about emotion. The core premise of their argument is very simple: No woman is ever responsible for anything.

ATQUE: Pink-Clad Feminist Mob Rallies In Support Of Confessed Child Murderer

The American Mind.

Consider a simple question. The Biden Administration imported somewhere between six and ten million immigrants into the United States illegally. Do you think President AOC or President Newsom, if given the chance starting in January 2029, would let in fewer than Biden or more?

The American people don’t need a detailed policy briefing to answer that question. Amnesty and mass immigration are key features of expanding the Democratic Party coalition. Its ideology and electoral math, along with a vast government-contractor apparatus that supports the party, entrench a quasi-legal parallel rights regime.

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Professional associations are nothing more than labor unions/lobbying groups for Highly Educated People, the functional equivalent of medieval guilds (and the actual equivalent of medieval guilds when they succeed, as they so often do, in pushing their protective restrictions into law).

Such associations are among the first (along with the universities and the Narrative Media) to be corrupted by the Long March Through the Institutions that enshrined crypto-socialism in today’s Crust.

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Theodore Roosevelt could be turning over in his grave. And maybe Woodrow Wilson is spinning right along with him. Why? Well, the progressive vision of government-by-expert has taken a major hit in recent days. Someone like Anthony Fauci wasn’t exactly what either of them had had in mind. Or was it?

And just what was it that those presidents claimed to have had in mind? Disinterested expertise. That would be disinterested as in neutral, rather than disinterested as in uninterested. Agencies as advice-givers and agencies as umpires was the idea. And that was that, as far as they were concerned. Or was it?

The Constitution of 1787 might have been a great starting point—at least for TR. Maybe not so for Wilson. Possible differences aside, both of them thought that life in the early twentieth century had already grown too complicated for mere elected officials to handle. Divided government might not yet be a thing of the past, but a modern American government surely needed help when it came to steering the country in a progressive direction. Why not then turn to experts? Congressmen and presidents couldn’t–and shouldn’t–managing things alone. After all, the drafting, debating, passing and signing of legislation somehow ought to be beyond the grubby business of politics.

Therefore, they thought it was high time that the original Constitution of the late eighteenth century give way to a “living constitution” for the twentieth century and beyond. That certainly was Wilson’s preferred term. Of course, it wouldn’t be necessary to bother with a series of constitutional amendments to achieve this. Such would be a lengthy process at best. Besides, that very clumsy process was little more than an eighteenth-century relic.

Constitutions are only as effective as the men (and they are mostly men) who enforce them.

Don’t forget that both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were explicitly ‘progressive’, party affiliation notwithstanding. If I could go back in history and shoot three people as children, two of them would be TR and WW. (Actually, shooting TR would probably be enough, because his ego is the reason WW became a problem.)

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Tim Pool lays it out for us.

I find myself in substantial agreement with what he has to say.

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The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies are still circulating, but it is increasingly common for stores to round cost totals to avoid giving pennies in change.

Also, people seeing that the metal content of their pennies is worth more than the face value are deciding that it is better to store pennies in a jar than to spend them.

The same issues that caused the US government to give up on pennies may soon encourage it to make a major change in regard to nickels.

Newsbusters.

On August 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb.

The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find that story on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, or NPR.

What about print? The New York Times noted this bill when it passed the state House in July, and The Washington Post ran an AP dispatch when it passed the state Senate. But I found nothing on the bill-signing.

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In what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded its highest tally of flea-borne typhus cases in 2025, confirming 220 diagnoses, up from 187 the year before, according to the county’s Department of Public Health. Almost nine in ten of those patients ended up hospitalized. Fleas that feed on infected rats, opossums, and other small mammals carry the bacteria behind the disease to humans, and Los Angeles has watched the case count climb for years. The 2025 total marks the sharpest jump yet.

Newsbusters.

National or International, they’re still all Socialists.

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Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison is scouting Austin, Texas, as a potential landing spot for the studio should California Attorney General Rob Bonta refuse to settle the multistate antitrust suit blocking his roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a New York Post report.

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Ellison told his senior leadership team on Aug. 5 that the company would begin leaving California on Oct. 1 unless Bonta agrees to negotiate, Variety reported, with Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee under consideration and a five-year plan to shift most studio jobs out of state.

And another one bites the dust,
Another one bites the dust,
And another one’s gone, and another one’s gone,
Another one bites the dust….

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It’s been a long time since the Beatles convinced an entire generation of western youth in 1968 that “enlightenment” and personal peace could be found in the third world backwaters of India’s ashram retreats. As it turned out, the world famous band and the yogi scammers of that era would end up creating a trend that would sucker gullible liberals for decades to come.

The hippies were not smart, they were merely impressionable.

Today, the streets of India are likely the same in most places as they were back in the 1960s – Filled with trash and feces and not very safe. The country remains one of the most dangerous tourist markets on the planet for women – Around 90% of rapes go unreported due to law enforcement apathy and a culture of reprisal for women who come forward. Any travel outside of tourist enclaves is considered high risk.

British content creator Amy On The Move discovered this on her first trip to India, but she says she was willing to give the country a second chance. What she found was even more multicultural misery.

The problem with most white people is that when they find something likable or interesting they assume that everybody else will find it likable or interesting as well, with uniformly unpleasant results.

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Religion is the traditional source of sexual ethics, the rules meant to govern our sexual conduct. Its declining influence over our culture has left sexual ethics without a foundation, and yet the need for it clearly remains. Many people feel that an ethics based solely on consent cannot satisfy all the needs generated by our sexual nature. But is it possible to give secular reasons for sexual norms?

Roger Scruton thought so, and he made a compelling case for it in what is probably his best book, the unjustly neglected Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation (1986). Scruton’s views are worth revisiting in light of the sexual and romantic dysfunctions of our time. His perspective on sex may help people articulate their frustration and point us toward a better and more romantic ideal of what sex could be.

Even better is Dr. Davic M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between

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The PSYCA’s webpage asks: “With countless climate solutions, why are we in a crisis?” The pitch: “Join a community of 12,000 raising & expanding consciousness to discover pathways forward.”

New York Post.

What started as a regularly scheduled town hall in Dearborn, Michigan, erupted into a flashpoint over the influence of Muslim culture in American civic life Tuesday as the pastor of a local church accused the town of operating under Sharia law.

“America, we have lost this city. This is a city that is no longer up under American laws; we are up under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore,” Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor of 180 Church, said.

“Enough is enough.”

The outburst, which came amid a series of other anti-Islam protests in Dearborn, vocalizes fears that Muslim populations in Michigan are working to bring their communities more in line with their religious worldview, views Sewell believes are at odds with the vast majority of the country.

Babylon Bee.

Hey, its tough out there.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) is as totally baffled as the rest of us normal people.

If you don’t know what ‘forensic astrology’ means, you’re lucky.

The AWFLs are on the march.

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The Fourth Estate is constitutionally illiterate…

No, they are constitutionally ignorant. They could read the constitution if they wanted to but they just don’t want to.

On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, NBC News hack Kristen Welker pressed newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche to “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House.” The fake “journalist” performed this bit of moralizing theater with her “very serious” face, as if to suggest that the nation’s survival depended upon Blanche’s answer. Blanche calmly swatted Welker’s solicitation away, while pointing out that no competent, law-abiding attorney general should ever make such an absurd pledge.

As I recall pointing out recently on this very blog.

It was another ridiculous moment in “journalism” and reminded viewers that the biggest names in corporate news are stupid, partisan, and duplicitous. Why would Welker believe that she is entitled to demand some kind of public oath from the attorney general? Why does she think the United States should have an “independent” Department of Justice? Does she not understand that the DOJ is part of the Executive Branch? Is she not aware that AG Blanche serves in President Trump’s cabinet? Does she not realize that Trump is his boss? Does she not grasp that AG Blanche is now seventh in the presidential line of succession?

Oh, are we making a list?

Many idiot “reporters” ran to social media so that they could be seen collapsing on their digital fainting couches. “Pretty amazing confession here by the AG,” moron Chuck Todd whimpered before further whining, “Still can’t believe he was confirmed. I guess he gets points for being honest?” Yes, Chuck, it is stunning that the attorney general recognizes his constitutional obligation to serve the president of the United States. AG Blanche has “confessed” that he is not a rogue dictator empowered to run the Department of Justice by kingly prerogative. (Be careful kids: Mixing too much Kristen Welker and Chuck Todd in the same Kool-Aid punch bowl will kill millions of brain cells.)

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Not all Muslims are terrorists—but it’s amazing how many terrorists are Muslims.

Or maybe not….

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We have the technology.

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This is obviously God telling us not to eat Mexican food.

Plain as the nose on your face.]

Or the pain in your gut….

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I doubt that there are any Republicans in that group.

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Think of it as democracy in action.

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Neither is James Talarico.

Neither, I am prepared to argue, is any Democrat, professions and protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

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A temporary monument displaying the names of more than 41 million Americans who have served in the U.S. military will remain on the National Mall through Nov. 12 following an overwhelming response from visitors.

The National Military Monument, presented by the United Services Automobile Association, or USAA, opened July 28 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

USAA announced Tuesday that the National Park Service had approved a 10-week extension of the installation, which had been scheduled to close in early September.

Newsbusters.

As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.

For this study, NewsBusters analyzed all news programming from PBS, MS NOW, and CNN as well as the morning and evening newscasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC from August 1 through August 15.

The Foundry.

A new study estimates that Democrats’ proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $25/hour would cost the U.S. economy 5 million jobs and especially harm workers ages 16 to 24.

“Politicians on the Left are making empty promises that minimum wage hikes will magically fix the cost of living crisis without doing their research,” Rebekah Paxton, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, told the Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

“The vast majority of economists agree these mandates will kill jobs, leaving families without the paychecks they depend on,” she added. “Here’s the truth: Sky-high mandates will only make life more unaffordable for millions of Americans.”

The market price is the market price, Every attempt to manipulate prices politically (whether called ‘price controls’ or ‘minimum wages’) leads either to rationing or ‘black-marketeering’. The result of minimum wage laws is that low-skilled workers who aren’t worth that minimum to an employer get no jobs at all. Markets work as markets work, and they don’t care about your legislation or political fantasies.