Bizzy’s AM Coffee Biz-Econ Links (032006)

Free Links:

• On Friday, Michelle Malkin noted that The New York Times Company might be in a for a downgrading of its bonds from Moody’s. NYT Stock fell to a 7-1/2 year low.
• Frist Wants to Go After Bosses on Immigration. They’ll have to verify the validity of an applicant’s Social Security number instead of accepting it on faith if the person’s card looks authentic and it has nine numbers. This is dreadfully obvious, incredibly easy, and long overdue. Sorry, Wall Street Journal.
• French Demonstrations Get Violent — Keep in mind that all of this is over pretty minor but necessary tweaks in the employment system designed to reduce unemployment and increase employer flexibility in an otherwise virtually jobs-for-life environment. It shows just how difficult it is to move to common sense once a socialist entitlement mindset gets so ingrained into a country’s throught process.
• The Pork Outrage of the Day Is The Rock n Roll Sell Out — Mark Steyn casually mentioned this near the end of a Hugh Hewitt interview last week that the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland gets federal government money. And indeed it does (about 1/3 of the way through the linked article).
• Google Is Being Sued over search engine placement — This would seem to be a tough argument to make unless you wanted the world to consider Google to be some kind of public utility. I haven’t a had a lot of nice things to say about BizzyBlog Internet Wall of Shame member Google recently, but the path of the lawsuit’s logic seems pretty dangerous.
• An Indication That You Need to Get Out of Politics — Losing an election to a dead guy, by a margin of 3-1 (HT S.O.B. Alliance member Large Bill).