Taylor Swift Democrat rally at Woodfield Mall goes horribly wrong

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Heard on the intertubes in Canada: "But where are his other 68 virgins?"

That's right, these kids aren't qualified to say anything about climate change until they've been bartenders like AOC

On this date 10 years ago America had already celebrated its 94th bank failure for the year

Wut.

The US debt market is over 3x the size of the closest competitor, and 1.4x the size of its own stock market

Bill de Blasio will now have to find some other excuse for not fixing New York's problems

When you're lonely, take Ben Shapiro's advice, pick up the phone and talk to the bot

Now do the bond markets

"Washington Watcher II" distills the David French-Sohrab Ahmari kerfuffle: Immigration patriots really don’t have a dog in this fight

Because your choices are limited to Drag Queen Story Hour Conservatism or a new Catholic imperium in the Americas, which come to think of it are pretty much the same thing.
  

This French-Sohrab Ahmari “Debate” Won’t Grasp The Nettle: For The Historic American, Demography Is Destiny

You can say what you want about my congressman Justin Amash, and his record of libertarian consistency

But at least he didn't marry his sister.

C'mon, AOC misspoke, she meant Senator Markey, age 73, is the gerontological change we've been waiting for

Because he's Sinbad the Sailor, you idiots

I quit drinking

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Canada is colder, whiter, and browner

Democrat Senator Manchin to has-been House Democrat: You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers

The Fed fiddles with the red line while the blue line burns

Canada's PM Justin Trudeau comes out as a Democrat

Trump shill Andy Puzder complains of non-existent labor shortage, suggests more legal immigration while 3 million teenagers sit idle

Labor Shortage May Imperil Growth:

[T]he tight labor market is the elephant in the room. ... In July, the most recent month for which we have data, job openings stood at 7.2 million—nearly 1.2 million more than the number of unemployed. ... [A]t some point the economy will need more workers to meet that demand.

That means job training is increasingly important, particularly for discouraged workers who want to re-enter the labor force. ... Higher levels of merit-based legal immigration—as opposed to immigration based on distant family connections—could also relieve some of the pressure.

Both business owners and jobs data tell us the same thing: To sustain the recovery, the U.S. needs more workers.

The real elephant in the room is idle teenagers.

In 1978, 8.1 million American teenagers aged 16-19 had jobs, on average. That was 48.5% of their population of 16.7 million teens at the time.

In 2018 just 5.1 million teenagers worked on average, out of an equally matched population of 16.8 million aged 16-19. That's just 30.4% working.

Apply the 48.5% rate to today's average teen population and presto! 3 million more instantly working than are.

We don't need more immigrants. We need parents to kick their kids' butts, kids who increasingly fail to launch because they are in desperate need of job experience to help them grow up, become responsible and fly straight.

And it would also help to eliminate the minimum wage. What grocery store wants to pay some kid $7.25 an hour to corral shopping carts, restock returns and take out the trash? And adjusted for inflation from 1938, the minimum wage in 2018 should be closer to $4.45 an hour anyway, nearly 39% less than it is.

The higher than it should be minimum wage is a tax on teenage employment. And as with all taxes, the more you tax something the less of that something you get. That's one reason high levels of illegal immigration remain so persistent. It's a natural response to an unnatural situation created by hypocritical politicians who claim to believe in the free market but don't really.

And it's nothing new. We just hoped Trump & Co. would be different. 

       

Gasoline price gouging in the wake of the attack on the Saudis: As if the pump nozzle here is directly connected to the tank there

Joe Biden has one hell of a serious plan for every lonely man out there