Extra attention to a few Centrist blogs.
Jon Swift makes a strong case to lower the miminum wage. Well… sorta. Kinda.
Andrew Sullivan is engaged in an interblog dialogue: a blogalogue. Go check it out.
Callimachus notices that the life expectancy of Hispanics who have to serve time in jail goes down, while that of African-Americans… goes up.
Read this article at Winds of Change. Whatever the case may be, Google scares me. It’s far too big, far too powerful and far too little concerned with that little something called ‘privacy’.
Lastly, also read PatHMV’s take on the National ID Bill. To say that he opposes it is… putting it mildly.
I think I mentioned this once already, but we have to be able to identify ourselves at any time. Whenever the police stops us… we have to show them our identity card. If one forgot it at home, one has a problem: a beautiful… fine.
To make matters even worse the new ID’s have a chip in them – if necessary the government can check your where-abouts.
Yes, that is how silly it has become in Europe. It is unbelievable that the Dutch are simply accepting this. Some lawyers opposed it, and went in against it, but lost the battle and, by now, the little controversy it caused, has disappeared.
It is ludacrisludicrous (not the rapper). The reason that I have not yet spent an entire post on it is that it angers me so much that the post will become even more incoherent and rambling than normally.
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