AFTERBURNER: BERNIE & THE POLITICS OF ENVY

TRIFECTA: THE GREEK DEFAULT FIASCO

TRIFECTA: LAND OF THE MOTHER HATERS!!! - PT. 1

AFTERBURNER: THE EAGLE & THE DRAGON

FIREWALL: WE'RE NUMBER TWO!

INSTAVISION: THE WISDOM OF ADAM SMITH

Russ Roberts, the author of How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, joins Glenn Reynolds to discuss the beauty of classical economics. Would you believe that Adam Smith is the greatest self-help writer ever? Hear why.

RED EYE - AUGUST 13, 2014 FULL EPISODE

Greg welcomes guests Jim Norton and Jason Nash.

Burger King: Enemy of the people

Comrades, there are wreckers in our midst. The industrialist reactionaries at Burger King have declared their intention to abandon the struggle and join the ranks of the enemy in rightist Canada.

That's right. The traitorous corporation Burger King plans to take advantage of the fact that America's English-speaking neighbor to the north maintains the second-lowest corporate tax rate of any G-7 nation. How dare they?

"The iconic American fast-food brand is in talks to buy coffee-and-donuts chain Tim Hortons and move its headquarters to Canada," Forbes reported. If concluded, this deal would create the world's third-largest restaurant company and allow Burger King to take advantage of a tax inversion deal and relocate their headquarters to Canada.

Earlier this summer, the Obama administration threatened to use the power of executive action to limit the ability of American companies to avoid paying America's corporate tax rate by, as the president said, "renouncing their citizenship." According to Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal, Burger King's move is a direct challenge to the White House...

Also read: Burger King Wants to Cut its Exposure to Hamburgers, Not Just Taxes

TRIFECTA: WELCOME TO THE SAD NEW NORMAL

INSTAVISION: RECOVERY? WHAT RECOVERY?

Employment is down and fewer people are working. Is this what a recovery looks like? Of course not. Hear why as Glenn Reynolds talks to Terry Jones and Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily about the Obama recovery. Also, are we in the midst of another housing bubble? Hear the answer.

AFTERBURNER: GULLIVER, UNBOUND

INSTAVISION: PUNISHING THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES

Glenn Reynolds examines President Obama's budget with Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute. While government spending fell for two consecutive years, Obama's latest budget increases spending and taxes. Why is this bad for jobs and the economy? Find out.

TRIFECTA: NEW NORMALS & THE JOBLESS RECOVERY

STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT THE "WAGE GAP"

"EQUAL-PAY" DAY DEBUNKED IN 3 MINUTES

Today is what feminist groups have dubbed “Equal-Pay Day,” their day to raise awareness of how women are regularly paid less than men for the same work. Women, they claim, have had to work this long into 2013 to make up for last year’s wage gap.

The problem for “Equal-Pay Day” fans is that the premise of this pseudo holiday is bogus.

Women actually aren’t paid 77 percent for doing the same job. Take three minutes to watch this video just released by the Independent Women’s Forum which explains the statistics behind the wage gap and tells women the good news that they aren’t doomed to be victims of the patriarchy: It’s the choices that we make that will primarily determine how much we earn.

Why is it important to highlight these falsehoods?  Because this myth has already resulted in legislation, namely the deliberately mislabeled Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.  This law, rammed through a Democrat-controlled Congress, was never really about equal pay for equal work.  Obama himself admitted it in the second presidential debate.  And Joe Biden admitted it as well a couple of days later.

Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that the law actually restricts female employment opportunities by discouraging companies from hiring women due to concerns about expensive and frivolous law suits.  Far from being a genuinely pro-woman piece of legislation, it is rather a gift to trial lawyers (always big donors for Democrats), intended to help them file lawsuits and collect their fees.

As a piece of social legislation designed to improve women's wages in comparison to men, the Lilly Ledbetter Act is more likely to result in fewer employed females because firms fear potential litigation, adverse publicity from such cases, and the amount of resources they would have to devote to defending themselves against such claims.

The fact of the matter is that Congress outlawed sex discrimination in wages nearly a half-century ago with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and then expanded those protections with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act.  The Lilly Lebetter Act hardly belongs in the same category with those historic advances for women.  Like so many of Obama's "accomplishments," this one is phony.

And speaking of Obama, the self-styled hero of women everywhere...

Obama's record on paying women White House aides not stellar

The White House Boys' Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem

Book: Women in Obama White House felt excluded and ignored

Why Does Obama's White House Pay Women Less?

You get the idea.  To further debunk the myth, I need to point out that women in tech make more money and land better jobs than men.  And here is a list of American cities where single women (between the ages of 22 and 30) without children earn more than their male counterparts.

Do you know what we do care about?  The economy and how it affects not only ourselves but our families.  Not surprisingly, Obama wants to talk about everything but the economy. Yes, Dear Leader got himself reelected, but the people are starting to wake up.  I just wish it had been sooner!