SLOWLY BUT SURELY AMERICA IS RE-LEARNING THE LESSON I THOUGHT IT HAD FIGURED OUT DECADES AGO: RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE CAN HURT THOSE WITH THE LOWEST SKILLS. Here are several recent articles on the subject.

Mostly it’s the young who get hurt. If you can’t get your foot on the first rung of the employment ladder, it’s really hard to get to the second.

Another problem for the young (especially college students) may be well-meaning laws that make it harder for employers to select the employees they want and to dismiss employees who aren’t working out. Too much protection can be worse than too little for job applicants with no track record. Hiring them can be high risk for employers. As a result, they don’t get hired. The rise of unpaid internships is likely in part a market response to this problem.

TOXIC FEMININITY: A bad marriage is bad for your health, especially if you’re a man.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: CONLAWPROF: A Post on Nativists and White Supremacists. For those who don’t know, CONLAWPROF is an email list for constitutional law professors. I haven’t been on it for quite a while, but it leans left.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: The Coming War Over The Constitution:

To Brett Kavanaugh’s foes, the Constitution stands in the way of grand designs they have for the federal government and your lives.

They want to control things in your lives – your healthcare, your lightbulbs, your land, your neighborhood, your dishwasher, your electric bill, your employer. That’s why a wartime coalition of leftist interest groups have mobilized to battle over the future of the Constitution.

Kavanaugh’s foes want the Constitution to mean whatever suits their transformative agenda. Kavanaugh believes the Constitution means what it said when it was written. That it was written in 1787 doesn’t trouble him at all. . . .

The Cons believe the President is in charge of the executive branch, not unelected bureaucrats.

The Progs also believe in federal control over state elections. They don’t care that the Constitution of 1787 recognized that decentralized control over elections helps preserve individual liberty. When no single entity is in control of elections, no despot or malevolent faction can tamper with the system. The Progs hate election integrity rules like citizenship verification of voters or voter ID. They want federal bureaucrats to have the power to invalidate those state laws.

Read the whole thing.

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DEMS GET IMMUNITY, REPUBLICANS GET PROSECUTED: Robert Mueller offers Tony Podesta immunity to testify against Paul Manafort: Report.

OPEN THREAD: Sorry it’s late, I thought I’d scheduled it!

MARK PULLIAM: An Open Letter to the University of Texas Board of Regents. “I am concerned about recent developments at UT because of my high regard for the institution, which is being seriously damaged. The current climate of political correctness at UT is doing a grave disservice to the students.”

IT’S A FLASHLIGHT! IT’S A UTILITY KNIFE! IT’S A USB CHARGER! It’s All Three! Just bought one of these for my car, because I couldn’t really resist.

JOHN HINDERAKER: “I am by nature an optimist, but it is hard to maintain a positive attitude in the face of the rampant insanity that has seized control over our national life.” It’s insanity, but it’s not actually as rampant as it seems when you follow the news on the Internet.

OH, I HOPE SO: Can Unions Be Sued For Janus Claims? Surprising fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision on agency fees.

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

JAWBONING, CONT’D: Bowing to Trump, Novartis Joins Pfizer in Freezing Drug Prices.

SEEING DOUBLE: Pair of observatories confirm rare double asteroid. “The near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5 is actually two asteroids. Observations by two powerful telescopes helped astronomers confirm the asteroid’s binary nature. The asteroid was first spotted by the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey in December of 2017. Followup observations during the summer of 2018 by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar suggested the space rock might actually be two objects.”

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: Poop is beginning to be a big problem at Burning Man, authorities say.

In a recent report, the Bureau of Land Management described the proliferation of attendees who have apparently forgotten — or cannot make it to — the festival’s restrooms. This is especially a problem in the deep playa, an area far away from the center of the festival and from portable toilets, the Reno Gazette Journal first reported.

The government’s proposal? Poop bags and pee bottles, either to be brought by participants or for staff members to hand out.

To be fair, wealthy San Francisco elitists should feel even more at home there this year.

(Classical reference in headline.)

KNOXVILLE JOURNALIST MIKE GIBSON HAS DIED. Here’s one of his favorite pieces, on Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville.

#FIREALLEGRABUDENMAYER! Iowahawk sics the Twitter mob on certified she-demon Allegra Budenmayer.

To paraphrase Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo, she’s not real, but you can’t have everything: “I bet I can start a hashtag to incite a twitter mob against a non-existent person.”

…And voila! #FireAllegraBudenmayer is currently trending on Twitter.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Brady Bunch house selling for nearly $1.9 million amid concerns buyers will want to tear it down.

I hope it can be preserved. Say what you will about Wright, Mies, and Corbusier, but when it comes to top 20th century modernist architects, Mike Brady was no slouch.

SO RYAN BOUNDS WITHDREW HIS NOMINATION TO THE 9TH CIRCUIT THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOME COLLEGE WRITINGS:

In one writing, Bounds questioned the strategies used by “more strident racial factions of the student body.”

“I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggrivating intolerance and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning,” he wrote.

In another article he compared diversity training to a ” pestilence.”

Bounds apologized for the writings during his confirmation hearing earlier this year, saying he used “overheated” language.

“I share the concerns of many that the rhetoric I used in debating campus politics back in the early ’90s on Stanford’s campus was often overheated, overbroad,” he said during his hearing in May.

To be honest, this is pretty weak tea and most voters — certainly the vast majority of Trump voters — would probably agree. But Sen. Tim Scott objected, and he’s a level-headed guy, so perhaps it’s worse than this sounds.

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HOW ABOUT THAT? Weird. Mueller released an evidence list for the upcoming Manafort trial and Bernie Sanders’ chief strategist, Tad Devine, is all over it.

OOPS: Egypt’s ‘Hippocratic Oath’ Could Force Christian Doctors To Unintentionally Become Muslim.

ANDREW KLAVAN: Trump — Mistaken; Democrats — Nuts. 

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MAXINE WATERS HAS A SAD: Woman who wanted Republicans hounded moans over being hounded.