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  “He wants to serve food and earn tips and why can’t he?” So argues Martin A. Shellist, attorney for Nikolai Grushevski, a citizen of Corpus Christi, Texas, who filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit after Hooters denied him a job as a server at the chain restaurant. A similar case in 1997 resulted in Hooters paying out a $3.75 million settlement

Texas ranchers are doing more for animal conservation than animal-rights groups, because they allow animals to be hunted and killed on private ranches. Charly Seale, executive director of the Exotic Wildlife Association, makes this bold — and likely controversial — point on a recent CBS 60 Minutes report . Although this seems counterintuitive, a

Alabama Attorney General Troy King was recently on Fox News boasting about how he would go after those gas stations that “profiteered” after Hurricane Katrina. He noted that many economists have criticized anti-gouging laws that interfere with the function of the free market, but his response was that it was Hurricane Katrina that interfered with

Here we go again with real competition being portrayed as anticompetitive. The front page of the San Jose Mercury News reads, “FTC declines to probe Intel” because the head of the FTC is not moving forward with requests by Intel competitor AMD and lawmakers to look into illegal practices by Intel. In addition, South Korea and the European

Listen to  the  Audio Mises Wire  version  of this article. The attorneys for Betsy Fresse have filed a lawsuit claiming that Starbucks fired her for not wearing a “Pride” shirt while working at her New Jersey store. Fresse, a Christian, believes that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the shirt would go against her Christian