Here’s What $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean for This Frozen Yogurt Shop Owner

Plus: The World Goes on While America Sleeps

Feb 15, 2021   Happy Presidents Day from Washington, where the left hopes to win a $15-an-hour minimum wage. That could mean the end for a favorite local business of yours, Virginia Allen reports. Can legal gun possession make a difference in a bad situation? Check out the video a Daily Signal reader sent to Amy Swearer. Plus: a psychiatrist challenges the rush to "transition"; Reagan's appeal to young Americans; media madness for Maxine; and your letters on COVID-19 and schools. Sixty years ago today, all 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team perish when their plane crashes in Belgium, killing all 72 aboard, on the way to the world championships in Prague.     News Here's What $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean for This Frozen Yogurt Shop Owner By Virginia Allen If Stuart Hornsby had to pay all his employees $15 an hour, staff hours likely would have to be cut, some employees would be laid off, and his prices would have to increase significantly. More Commentary The World Goes on While America Sleeps By Victor Davis Hanson When professors must write "diversity statements" and hire, promote, and fire on the basis of race, the model is not the U.S. Constitution, but something out of contemporary China. More Commentary 'Transition' Treatment Harms Kids, Veteran Psychiatrist at UK Gender Clinic Says By Nicole Russell Children "have been very seriously damaged" in receiving treatment at the United Kingdom's premier gender identity facility, a former psychiatrist there says in a bombshell interview. More Commentary Remembering the Gipper: Why the Memory of Ronald Reagan Is Still Relevant to Young People Today By Neil Banerji As a president, but more importantly as a person, Reagan's sense of purpose illustrated an abiding, fundamental, and optimistic faith in the American dream. More Commentary Media's Treatment of Maxine Waters Shows Their Bias By Tim Graham You might remember how, on June 23, 2018, Waters encouraged gangs of leftists to assemble and shame Trump officials out of polite society. More Commentary Watch a Dramatic Use of a Gun in Self-Defense That Didn't Make News By Amy Swearer We have good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses never are reported to law enforcement, much less are picked up and publicized by a media outlet. More Commentary We Hear You: Rebuffing Teachers Unions and Reopening Schools By Ken McIntyre "The fact that the left refuses to open schools to in-person learning is the largest impediment to the next generation's progress and wealth building," writes Kathy Vanderford of Fountain Inn, S.C. More News ICYMI: 8 Takeaways as Senate Again Fails to Convict Trump, This Time With 7 GOP Votes By Fred Lucas Senate Minority Leader McConnell says the riot was a "foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole" from Trump after his election loss. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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