“A British doctor has proposed that the ‘grossly’ overweight be
involuntarily committed to ‘enclosed hospitals’ to shed their
excess pounds. He justifies this on the grounds that obesity costs
British socialized medicine ‘hundreds of millions of
dollars.’”
—Bill Birmingham, “Brickbats”
“By August 1977 the unemployment rate for black teenagers had
reached 41 percent, compared with 14 percent for white teenagers
(and about 3.5 percent for white males).…Small wonder that Milton
Friedman refers to the minimum wage law as ‘the most anti-Negro law
on our statute books.’ ”
—Robert Poole Jr., “Legislating Unemployment”
“Jimmy Carter and his merry band of flacks at the State
Department seemed ebullient with their sudden revelation in
February 1977 that there was no travel ban to Communist Cuba. This
initially struck me as strange, because just over 10 years before,
the Supreme Court had affirmed a Federal District Court judgment
stating the same thing.”
—Phillip Abbott Luce, “Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Jimmy?”
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