Bring Back Child Labor

Bring Back Child Labor

It was time for our beach trip, the one I take with my wife and daughter every summer. On a beautiful early morning a month ago, we packed the family car (okay, my wife packed it) and headed from our home in Oxford, Miss., to Florida’s Gulf Coast for a week of fun and sun.

Some call it the Redneck Riviera. This Jersey transplant and his Mississippi girls call it paradise.

It’s the same Gulf Coast, by the way, that the media predicted — even seemed to hope — would be flooded with crude oil and destroyed as...