The International House of Bacon

There might be enough for two today, we’ll see…

* Reason provides a link dump of sorts regarding the minimum wage hike and its effects on things like summer jobs. It’s not entirely surprising, really.

* John Tierney at the New York Times discusses alternative options after the Republicans in Congress finally grew a backbone and stopped the cap-and-trade lunacy from becoming law. I’m not sure how palatable this can be to a wide range of points of view, but it’s worth noting if only to credit the outside-the-boxness of it all.

* Happy anniversary, proposition 13. I’m actually curious about what a lot of readers think of this sort of thing.

* Willisms on economic growth in “right to work” versus union states. Interesting, if not entirely predictable, results. As an aside, as much as I’m against forced unionization and such, “right to work” isn’t a term that really works well with me, and I only use it because I can’t figure out a better description.

* The sun rises, and the population doesn’t see the media as objective. Naw, really? Lots of interesting perception topics there.

* All over the place yesterday was Fred Hiatt’s piece on the investigation of statements made by the Bush administration in the run-up to Iraq. As most of us knew, “Bush lied” was nothing more than unsubstantiated hyperbole at best, and this essentially confirms it. I can’t wait to read the whole report.

* Kudos to both Obama and McCain for wanting to reach the most people possible with their eventual debates.

* An interesting piece on the rise of charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans.

* Also at reason, a libertarian roundtable on global warming and what to do. I have a largish global warming post in my head that I’ll get out at some point in life.

* A very valid parallel between 2000 and 2008.

* This person wants to replace Sununu. And now you know why I want to volunteer for him.

That’s all for now. Depending on what comes around overnight, maybe another one in the afternoon will swing around.