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The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire ignited a social media firestorm this week when it called for the legalization of child labor. Legalize child labor. Children will learn more on a job site than in public school, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party wrote on Twitter on Monday. At the very least, the minimum age to work is a states rights issue. Federal minimum work ages are unconstitutional. Child labor laws don t prevent 4-year-olds from working in the coal mines, they prevent 14-year-olds from working in flower shops, the post continued.
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This New York Times story is about a Russian local election, in which the incumbent Mayor of a small town wanted an easy re-election, but he also wanted the election to look genuine, so he recruited a janitor to run against him. To everyone’s shock, the janitor won.
The story says Russia is a “managed democracy”, where “elections take place on schedule, but the incumbent virtually never loses. To achieve this, the police squelch real political opposition, and election commissions bump promising candidates off the ballot with technicalities.”
When that happens in the United States, the Times in recent years has not expressed any complaint. This year, when miniscule technicalities kept Green Party presidential nominee Howie Hawkins off the ballot in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Times either ignored the story, or its news coverage was supportive of the candidate’s removal. In Wisconsin, Hawkins was kept off the ballot because his running mate moved dur