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on January 25, 2017 in World News

Firearms Freedom Advocate Sentenced to Jail for Claiming Islam ‘At War’ with the West

by Chris Tomlinson Austrian firearm legislation liberalisation campaigner Dr. Georg Zakrajsek has been sentenced to five months in prison for claiming that Islam had declared war on the Western world. The Vienna court ruled Mr. Zakrajsek, secretary general of the pro-gun Society for Liberal Gun Laws in Austria (IWÖ), was guilty of incitement and hate speech. In December 2015, he posted to his website that “the Muslims have declared war on us all”, and added “our traitorous politicians determined to be on their side. They promote and facilitate terrorism. But we will fight,” Kurier reports. Weeks before, the 77-year-old had written a post in… View Article

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on January 25, 2017 in World News

Surprise: Bay Area Restaurants Disappear After Minimum Wage Hike

by Joel B. Pollak Restaurants are rapidly going out of business in the Bay Area, after San Francisco passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014 and the State of California followed suit in 2016. Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures. The East Bay Times, for example, asked Tuesday: “What’s behind the spate of recent Bay Area restaurant closures?” It barely mentioned new minimum wage laws, brushing them aside as if they were largely insignificant. It is true, of course, that merely because one thing follows another does not prove that the… View Article

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