Not a link, but an observation: Paris had riots in November 2005, and they have had problems with Muslim immigrants for that long. This suggests that the solution is not forthcoming and the situation is not improving.

Radwaste, a lot of that is France's fault. They brought in people from their former north African colonies in the 1960s and 1970s, then did nothing to assimilate them into French culture. Add in a lack of jobs - as I recall they have an unemployment rate of ~35% give or take - and just add in a dash of religious fervor and *poof* you have on-going riots.

A man who is busy providing for a family hasn't got time to set cars on fire. A man who hasn't got a family because he can't get a job and provide for them will just get more and more angry until he lashes out.

It's a dicey situation, and I don't see a path for France to get out from under.

Meanwhile, in Alabama.

Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Bay Minette) filed Senate Bill 20 (SB20) earlier this month. The legislation would abolish all requirements to obtain a marriage license in Alabama. Instead, probate judges would simply record civil contracts of marriage between two individuals based on signed affidavits.

http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2017/02/alabama-committee-passes-bill-to-eliminate-marriage-licenses-nullify-federal-control-in-practice/

Ah, silence, blessed silence.

1. Women take the day off work — whether you are paid or unpaid.

2. Refrain from shopping for the day — or if you must shop, choose small, women- and minority-owned businesses.

3. Wear red in solidarity with those participating in and supporting the strike.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/27/anti-trump-feminists-plan-day-without-a-woman-strike/

The looming pension crisis creeps closer.

Chmil is one of roughly 4,000 retired Teamsters across New York State suffering a fate that could soon hit millions of working-class Americans — the loss of their union pensions.

Teamsters Local 707’s pension fund is the first to officially bottom out financially — which happened this month.

“I had a union job for 30 years,” Chmil said. “We had collectively bargained contracts that promised us a pension. I paid into it with every paycheck. Everyone told us, ‘Don’t worry, you have a union job, your pension is guaranteed.’ Well, so much for that.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/n-y-retirees-struggle-survive-pension-fund-bottoms-article-1.2982399

Question asked.

I have a question for the Brookings Institution that never seems to occur to nonoriginalists on the Left:

Why would you possibly want a nonoriginalist “living constitutionalist” conservative judge or justice who can bend the meaning of the text to make it evolve to conform to conservative political principles and ends? However much you disagree with it, wouldn’t you rather a conservative justice consider himself constrained by the text of the Constitution like, say, the Emoluments Clause?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/02/25/out-of-touch-law-professor-criticizes-judge-gorsuch-and-originalism/?utm_term=.bc9f184e98fc

Not everyone is a fan of illegal immigrants. Question: how are they able to get employment?

Coleman and Sanders are day laborers who see the effects of U.S. immigration policy first hand as they compete for low-wage temporary jobs. From where they stood outside Plano’s day labor center on an early morning last week, help from Washington can’t come soon enough. Since joining the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has called for a stricter stance of immigration enforcement and deportations.

“They still outnumber us three to one,” says Coleman, 55, of the Hispanic men who gather at the center, many of them, he assumed, in the United States illegally.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/from-immigrants-and-american-day-laborers-two-views-of-trump-s-stance-on-deportation-9223082

In regard to student loans, all is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Regarding Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".

To avoid being, if you will, triggered, this society chose to become its own safe space, where critical thought and challenging ideas are outlawed simply because they make people uncomfortable. As a result, this is a society of shallow, miserable people always on the verge of a tantrum at the slightest intellectual provocation. Abortion, divorce and suicide are facts of daily life.

And when it comes to avoiding these triggers and protecting this safe space, they are also capable of horrific violence.

Does any of this sound familiar?

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13852/fahrenheit-451-perfectly-predicted-left-morphing-john-nolte

Some protectionism is under review.

Last week, we noted how Apple was one of several companies lobbying against a right to repair bill in Nebraska. The bill would make it easier for consumers to repair their own products and find replacement parts and tools, which is generally considered to be a good thing -- especially if the only Apple store is eighty miles away from your current location. But Apple tried to argue that Nebraska's bill would not only make the public less safe (self-immolation everywhere!), but it would also result in Nebraska becoming some kind of "mecca" for nefarious hoodie-wearing ne'er-do-well hackers.

Of course Apple, like most companies, just enjoys a repair-monopoly, which not only allows it to charge an arm and a leg for what very well may be superficial repairs, but helps prop up closed, proprietary ecosystems, hurting customers in a myriad of other ways as well.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170227/08013336795/sony-microsoft-lobby-against-right-to-repair-bills-yet-refuse-to-talk-about-it.shtml

Ordering kiosks coming to Wendy's.

I wouldn't have thought they'd pay for themselves in such a short time frame. I would remind the $15/hour crowd that the effective minimum wage is $0, if you can't find a job.

A typical location would get three kiosks for about $15,000, The Columbus Dispatch reported. David Trimm, Wendy’s chief information officer, estimates that payback on those machines would come in less than two years thanks to labor savings and increased sales.

The kiosks have two purposes according to Trimm: appeasing younger customers by given them an ordering experience they prefer and reducing labor costs.

http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2017/02/27/ordering-kiosks-coming-1000-wendys/98496644/

Bastard!

Though Dr. Neal Barnard, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences has been pro-plant based diets for years, with his latest book, he’s officially declaring war on cheese.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/02/28/gw-doctor-neal-bernard-stop-eating-cheese-trap/