Notable Quote

From David Warren, columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and contributor to Insidecatholic.com:

...In the middle of this economic mess, the U.S. politicians are debating not one, but two new programs of unprecedented size, without the slightest understanding of the economic consequences. One is a vast new “health care” plan, to be sold almost entirely on emotion, with President Obama’s snake-oil skills. The only thing clear about it, is the intention of the people behind it: to effectively nationalize the U.S. medical system, by making every part of it report to government bureaucracies. This is what we did in Canada in the 1960s, and we’ve spent the decades since trying to persuade ourselves that waiting rooms are natural.

The other is the “cap and trade” legislation. At a time when it has become all but obvious that the “global warming” scare was an imposture, the U.S. government is going to war against carbon fuels, through a program that can only kill jobs, both directly and through outsourcing of American economic activity to places with lower environmental standards; while igniting protectionist trade wars over the latter...