The dumbest thing I’ve seen in ages:

Mary Katherine Ham in the Weekly Standard has a comprehensive list of violence and threats, perceived and real, at the healthcare town hall meetings in the USA. I heartily recommend you read it, especially if you’ve been paying any attention to the mainstream media’s disgraceful portrayal of the healthcare debates in the States.
If you look [...]

From my.barackobama.com we find out about a “healthcare organizing event”:

You can sign up at the bottom of the site. A running total of those signed up is at the bottom of the site. So far 39,806,146,877 people have signed up to attend: almost 40 billion people.

The state senators receiving the phone calls in [...]

Having spent the weekend being whipped in the face by horizontal rain on the slopes of Snowdon with spectacular views stretching for tens of metres in the fog, it is time to relax.
First, here’s a nice fisking of the “Why We Need Socialized Medicine” YouTube video:

Secondly we see Hitler’s reaction on finding that Americans [...]

Some in the US are under the delusion that JFK and Bobby Kennedy were “murdered by the right wing” when of course they were not.
Meanwhile, we find out about Ted Kennedy’s love of humour:

Jonah Goldberg writes a decent article which notes that JFK was by no means left-wing and that:

Hence one of the great ironies [...]

Why am I bothering to follow this debate, aside from the fact that I might spend some of my life living in the U.S.? Well, if the USA cannot hold the line against massive government control of the most important growth industry in the developed world, I suspect that no democracy can.
Camille Paglia (hardly [...]

Canada has only 33 sperm donors!
Communist levels of public spending in the UK (good table for comparing regions).
Opportunity to sign petition against totalitarian government efforts to ensure your kids are properly indoctrinated provide edukayshun 4 orl.
Speech code of the month at FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is from Northern Illinois University where they [...]

There are lies, damn lies and statistics…….and there’s lying about statistics.

I copy underneath a letter I wrote to the Times a few days ago which they seem to have decided against publishing.
Dear Sirs,
Anatole Kaletsky reports in his article of June 18th that 47 million US citizens do not have health insurance. This figure was [...]