11/22/14 Executive Orders

Presidents have issued executive orders for a long time. That our current President has just issued a controversial one is not surprising. Lots of Executive Orders have been controversial. Perhaps the most controversial thing about executive orders is that Presidents take to them when Congress doesn’t do its job, for few Presidents will issue executive…

2/13/14 President Signs Executive Order Doing Nothing

Yesterday, the President signed an executive order that raises the minimum hourly wage on Federal contracts from $7.35 to $10.10. This makes for good press, but the order effectively does nothing and costs contractors nothing, and will bring benefits to no one but those hoping to get a warm and fuzzy feeling that somehow they…