Fat People Waiting
 In the US, the wait for gastric bypass surgery is six to twelve months.
In Canada - its five to six years:
By the time Luis Couto was turned away from the U.S. border on his way to an appointment to discuss gastric bypass surgery, he had already spent seven hours on a bus, staring at an openly hostile bus driver, and he had already watched as the entire bus was emptied and the passengers rearranged so he could take the two seats his body fills.
"When I finally got there and they told me they weren't going to let me go across, I just lost it," he says.
"There's a five- to six-year wait for this surgery in Canada; in the U.S., it's six months to a year. I don't have a lot of time. Look at me."
However, Michael Moore doesn't need to worry about getting his surgery in the event that the US adopts a Canadian-style socialized health care system - as he advocates. Under the Canadian system, everyone is equal when it comes to waiting for medical care - except for politicians, celebrities and hockey players who usually seem to jump to the head of the health care queue.
Posted by Stuart Browning
29 Apr 2006 @ 9:49am
Quote Of The Day
"When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the 'right' to 'redistribute' the wealth produced by others is claiming the 'right' to treat human beings as chattel."
- Ayn Rand, The Monument Builders, 1962
Posted by Stuart Browning
28 Apr 2006 @ 10:39am
Mexican Narco-State
 Regardless of where one stands on the immigration debate, it shouldn't be hard to find consensus on a US response to the emerging threat of a Mexican narco-state on our southern border:
On the far side of the Rio Grande, a Mexican drug runner raised his AK47 at US lawmen.
The man and five companions were goading the Americans, 100 yards across the border.
"Hey! We're ready to play now," screamed the gunman, who was probably trying to recover the marijuana abandoned on the American side after a chase earlier that day.
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A fire fight across a border, even when provoked by drug runners, would spark an international incident. Yet the bloodshed on Mexico's northern border is now so serious that an international showdown could hardly make matters worse.
The Americans at the sharp end, the lawmen patrolling 2,000 miles of border, are profoundly anxious. With narcotics gangs controlling swathes of northern Mexico and the forces of the state in retreat, they are the next target and some have already been shot.
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Interstate 35, the great highway which runs from Laredo to the Canadian border, is the main artery for South American drugs.
Whoever controls the Mexican side controls the last distribution point before drugs enter the American market.
Across the border lies Nuevo Laredo, described by many as the drug cartels' heart of darkness. The body count this year stands at 88. Officials predict it will hit 300 by the year's end, double last year's figure.
I have to think that Al-Qaeda would be interested in setting up shop in Nuevo Laredo.
Posted by Stuart Browning
28 Apr 2006 @ 8:45am
The Moving Picture Institute
 On The Fence Films is happy to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Moving Picture Institute for the development of our upcoming film Indoctrinate U.
Founded in 2005 by human rights advocate Thor Halvorssen, the Moving Picture Institute is dedicated to promoting the principles of American liberty. MPI nurtures developing filmmakers through a major internship program, provides crucial support to filmmakers with demonstrable capacity to succeed in the entertainment industry, and promotes films (narrative features, documentary features, and shorts) that communicate the principles of freedom. MPI is unique. Not only does it fund films from development through post-production, but it also funds developing filmmakers and serves as a high-level intern placement service.
If you're a filmmaker dedicated to liberty or you wish to donate to their efforts, check them out.
Posted by Stuart Browning
27 Apr 2006 @ 12:51pm
Moral Equivalency Watch at the Associated Press
 This just in from the AP: Palestinian Killed in Israeli Airstrike:
DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two cars in Gaza packed with rockets on Thursday, killing one Islamic Jihad militant and critically wounding another, the Israeli army and Palestinian officials said.
The militants were on their way to fire a barrage of homemade rockets at Israeli targets, the military said. The militants belonged to a cell that was especially active in firing rockets, it added. One of the two cars targeted was hit, the army said.
Pillars of black and white smoke billowed from the destroyed vehicle as rescue workers removed burned and dismembered bodies from the car.
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During more than five years of fighting, Israel has killed dozens of militants in targeted airstrikes. The attacks also have killed or wounded dozens of civilians.
Of course, these 'militants' are intentionally firing missles at the homes of civilians with the intent of killing women and children. Islamic Jihad is classified by the US government as a terrorist organization.
Posted by Stuart Browning
27 Apr 2006 @ 12:21pm
Indoctrination at Slippery Rock University
 Professor of History Alan Levy at Slippery Rock University recently testified before the Pennsylvania House Select Committee on Academic Freedom. His testimony of radical feminism, political correctness and indoctrination at Slippery Rock reads like something out of Soviet Russia:
Perusals of every major textbook in any field and of the topics at every major academic convention all yield the obvious conclusion -- that gender matters are anything but ignored. Many feminists have been unwilling to recognize this, and there is an intolerance that grows with the resistance. Many students thus report that a professor on my campus openly commences her classes with the unashamed statement that she teaches from a feminist perspective and that no other outlooks are welcome before her.
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One of the "courses" in the W.S. [Women's Studies] Program is currently entitled "Feminist Perspectives in the Disciplines." In one semester, the course has purported to give insights into virtually all major fields of the curriculum. In a 15-week term, students are allegedly given "understandings" of economics, biology, chemistry, physics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, art, music, and more. It's a mile wide and an inch deep. But, more importantly, the course simply (and "simply" is indeed the best word here) boils down to discussions about barely-understood academic fields each of which is robotically accused of downgrading and ignoring women. Opinions that women are not victims in a given academic field are not to be considered. Anyone who criticizes any points about "oppression" or "patriarchy" is attacked with McCarthyistic certainty.
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In first-year College Writing classes, some students complain about the fact that the main things they learn in their classes is that it is best to agree with the political views of their teachers and that it is pointless to disagree. Things like grammar and writing style are secondary at best. Elsewhere, others have complained about professors who have openly stated "I hate white people. I am a victim of institutionalized racism, so my hatreds do not matter."
We're betting that Professor Levy has tenure.
Posted by Stuart Browning
27 Apr 2006 @ 6:29am
Intellectual Thug: Professor William Keach of Brown
 Students taking classes from Brown University Professor of English William Keach may wish to test the professor's commitment to intellectual consistency by standing during one of his upcoming lectures on Anglo-American literature, shouting slogans, displaying banners, refusing to be quiet and generally seizing control of the classroom.
Professor Keach should have no objections since he has advocated just this kind of behavior by student anti-war protesters at any forum on the campus of Brown University featuring a speaker that disagrees with him about the war in Iraq. Recently, Hillary Clinton gave a talk at Brown which was disrupted by protesters who were ultimately escorted out of the auditorium by security officers. After the Brown Daily Herald ran an editorial decrying the protester's rude behavior, Keach rose to their defense with a letter to the editor:
The only thing more predictable than The Herald's denunciation of antiwar protesters at Hillary Clinton's speech on April 8 was your editorial's ("A step backward," April 10) silence regarding the actual political substance of what the protesters were doing and saying.
Are there any circumstances in which you would support the disruption of a public appearance by a wealthy, powerful politician who acquiesced to a genocidal war based on lies and imperialist arrogance? Do you have anything at all to say about the content of the heckler's question: "Is it leadership to support the war?" Your claim that the antiwar cause was "severely diminished" simply because a group of activists were willing to interrupt the polite decorum of a campus event and speak truth to power isn't credible to me.
To those who protested last Saturday night, I say "congratulations and solidarity!"
William Keach
Professor of English
April 10
Erin O'Connor, who first wrote of this, frames the issue nicely:
Keach's shameful disregard for a basic issue of expressive freedom should give the Brown administration pause. Shouldn't the faculty at universities that claim to respect free expression--as Brown does--know what free expression is, and isn't? And isn't it the responsibility of the university to ensure that professors who display their ignorance as proudly as Keach does--and who presume on that ignorance to encourage students to become self-appointed censors--are made aware of their mistakes? Keach has been at Brown since 1986. Surely it's time he learned the basics of free speech.
 While Keach has abandoned even the pretense of respect for free speech, his willingness to subordinate his position as a teacher of literature to the demands of a hardcore leftist ideology is even more contemptible. Keach, who was active in the fringe movement to stay the execution of murderer Tookie Williams by the State of California, reportedly nominated the one time gang leader for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tookie Williams, who killed four innocent people in cold blood, also scratched out some childrens' books from prison which won him the accolades and admiration of the morally-challenged kook left. Although a couple of his books are only 24 pages long, he still required the assistance of co-author Barbara Cottman Becnel - who, by the way, was not nominated by Professor Keach. The notion that Tookie Williams was deserving of a Nobel prize for Literature is unworthy of debate. However, it speaks volumes about the professional integrity of William Keach.
Posted by Stuart Browning
25 Apr 2006 @ 8:58am
Academia and Islam on Free Speech
 Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan on Free Speech:
In February, he told the Detroit Metro Times that the federal government should close the leading cable news channel. "I think it is outrageous that Fox Cable News is allowed to run that operation the way it runs it," he said in summarizing his view that Fox "is polluting the information environment." He went on to claim that "in the 1960s the FCC would have closed it down. It's an index of how corrupt our governmental institutions have become, that the FCC lets this go on."
 Osama Bin Laden on Free Speech:
The leader of the al-Qaeda terror network, Osama bin Laden, has said that people who ridicule the Prophet Mohammed should be killed.
[...]
He defended that freedom of expression has no base when the subject matter is Muslims, and that no apology from the Danish government, no trial for the guilty party responsible for the profane cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and no preventive measure is proof of that.
Posted by Stuart Browning
24 Apr 2006 @ 9:29am
'Excess Whiteness' At American Law Schools
 Following up on yesterday's entry concerning a glut of "whiteness" at Queen's University in Canada, we have one Professor Vernellia Randall of the University of Dayton School of Law who has compiled the 2005 Whitest Law School Report which ranks excess whiteness at American law schools.
According to Professor Randall's report, Pepperdine University suffers from a very high (61.5%) percentage of "excess whiteness" ...
... while Howard University - with an enrollment that is 84% black and 0% white - does not suffer from "excess blackness". According to Randall, it has a negative "excess whiteness" rating!
Posted by Stuart Browning
24 Apr 2006 @ 4:18am
Yasrab the Wanker, Son of Allah
Here's an example of why I love Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs blog: We Got Mail! Apparently, the sons of Allah are selectively pious.
Posted by Stuart Browning
23 Apr 2006 @ 11:51am
Too Much 'Whiteness' at a Canadian University
 In Canada, where 85% of the population is Caucasian, Queen's University is confronting a harmful 'culture of whiteness':
"It can be very frustrating being part of an ethnic minority on campus - you feel as though you're absolutely invisible," said black student Rachel LaTouche, president of the African-Caribbean Students' Association, which represents 50 to 60 students.
"But it's not just a numbers game; not just a matter of getting more visible minority students on campus - Queen's needs to change its whole ideology so there is an underlying understanding of race relations," said the fourth-year sociology major.
One has to wonder if the student quoted above feels just as "invisible" off campus - given the demographic makeup of the country (blacks make up 2.2% of the Canadian population) - and - just what does this have to do with learning? Note also the racist notion that "visiblity" on campus is defined by ethnicity rather than by individuality and accomplishment.
Unfortunately, the same nonsense abounds at American universities.
Posted by Stuart Browning
23 Apr 2006 @ 7:27am
The Road To Victory Goes Through Tehran
 Robert Tracinski at The Intellectual Activist lays out the moral and practical justifications for war against the mad mullahs of Iran:
Iran's global ambitions are as grandiose as anything put forward by Osama bin Laden-but they are backed by control of a country of 70 million people with an army, navy, and air force, a vast network of terrorist organizations across the Middle East, and, very soon, nuclear weapons.
If America's failure to act against the comparatively minor threat from Bin Laden in the 1990s resulted in the horrors of September 11, we can expect far worse if we fail to act against Iran.
A war with Iran must begin with the destruction of its nuclear facilities, but it must not end there. Iran is likely to respond to any American attack by escalating, inciting an uprising in Southern Iraq, unleashing a wave of terrorist attacks, launching missiles against US targets in the Middle East, attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. And even if we neutralize all of these threats, Iran's theocrats will not drop their global ambitions. They will merely wait for our attention to wander and attempt to strike us again. The goal of a war against Iran must be to topple the Iranian regime- and to support the rise of a new government formed by the secularist dissidents who now languish in Iran's prisons.
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There can be no victory in the War on Terrorism until we confront - and defeat - the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the real war, and it's time we started fighting it.
The war currently being fought is a preemptive one by the left and their allies in the media against our government's ability to take the war to our enemies. They must not be allowed to prevail.
Posted by Stuart Browning
20 Apr 2006 @ 8:32am
College Student: 'Kill All Republicans"
A Purdue student has been arrested after posting on a Yahoo finance board his desire to kill all republicans.
A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
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In the various messages posted, Buddhi urged the Web site's readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them, according to court documents. Other messages called for the killing of all Republicans.
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Buddhi allegedly posted his messages on a Yahoo finance board dedicated to Sirius Satellite radio, a site that receives 2 million to 3 million hits a day, Martin said. A concerned citizen contacted the Secret Service office in Dallas to report that a subject was posting threatening messages about Bush, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hammond's federal court and unsealed Monday.
The Yahoo finance board? Doesn't he know that The Huffington Post is the place for the unhinged, homicidal left?
Posted by Stuart Browning
18 Apr 2006 @ 10:10am
Ohio State Clears Librarian
The Ohio State librarian brought up on harassment charges by professors last week for recommending conservative books has been cleared, Inside Higher Ed reports.
While that is a positive development, it still doesn't change the fact that the professors who filed the charges are disturbingly unaware of the principles of free thought that should extend to all corners of a college campus. Perhaps the university should spend a little time educating their employees; the filing of spurious harassment charges is not a benign event, and it is quite possible that such actions would expose the university to legal action.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
18 Apr 2006 @ 8:21am
Idealistic Students "Trying Out New Identities"
Young collectivist Ezra Klein over at his eponymous web site is labeling Michelle Malkin a hate-monger because she has covered - better than anyone else - the thuggish acts of sedition at UC Santa Cruz - and because she has published the phone numbers and email addresses of the organizers.
As this site is dedicated to the reform of the American university and because we hate to see Michelle standing alone, here's the aforementioned contact info for readers of this blog who wish to register their feelings of justifiable contempt.
Sam Aranke 714-458-2471 saranke@ucsc.edu
David Zlutnick 805-698-6228 dzlutnic@ucsc.edu
Janine Carmona 707-496-3530 jgcarmon@ucsc.edu
Oh ... and here's a photo of some of Klein's "idealistic" students "experimenting" and "trying out new identitites".
Posted by Stuart Browning
17 Apr 2006 @ 5:26pm
That's Why Its Called 'Elective' Surgery
 ... they can elect not to perform it:
A MAN had his life-saving heart op cancelled as he lay in theatre on the day a hospital axed 800 jobs.
Ronald James, 67, was waiting in his gown when a consultant said surgery was off because there were not enough nurses.
Mr James, who has not yet been given a new date, said: "It was such a shock and very upsetting."
Posted by Stuart Browning
17 Apr 2006 @ 11:20am
Librarian Charged with Conservatism
A librarian at Ohio State is being charged with harassment for recommending four conservative books:
Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield's First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye'or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
Savage was put under "investigation" by OSU's Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel "unsafe." The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
14 Apr 2006 @ 10:30am
The Pre-Indoctrination Advantage
In todays' Wall Street Journal, an article entitled "Who Got In To College?" (subscription required), surveys the results of an unusually competitive year for university admissions.
Among stories of straight-A students rejected from multiple elite colleges, one lucky student seemed to stand out:
Adam Hoffman, a student at Parkway North High School in St. Louis, was admitted to all eight of the schools to which he applied. Among them were Stanford and Brown.
On Mr. Hoffman's application: A flawless score of 800 on the critical-reading portion of his SAT (and a near-perfect 780 on the math section) and a first-place award in the Greater St. Louis Area Science Fair, on top of awards from myriad math competitions.
But his application showed more than just a math expert. It also made clear his deep interest in animal rights. He wrote a essay about the intolerance he faced as a vegetarian at a New Mexico ranch with his Boy Scout troop. He co-founded a "vegetarian club" at his school and has volunteered with the St. Louis Animal Rights Team.
I wonder if he'll be allowed to bypass freshman orientation as he is already suitably indoctrinated in the language of victimhood.
Posted by Stuart Browning
13 Apr 2006 @ 11:20am
Waiting For MRIs in Canada
We've written here before about the rationing of technology and diagnostic procedures in Canada. By delaying MRI scans to determine if a patient has cancer, the health care system prevents the addition of new patients to politically-sensitive waiting lists for cancer surgery and treatment.
Unfortunately, waiting for diagnostic tests can be very bad for your health:
The 42-year-old older brother of Flyers forward Brian Savage is lying in bed in Room 1111 of Montreal General Hospital.
[...]
Michael Savage is recovering from surgery to remove a tumor on his esophagus and heart. His chemotherapy is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks.
[...]
Michael Savage began having trouble swallowing in December.
Under Canada's system of socialized medicine, the wait for an MRI - which detected the tumor - was six weeks. By then, the cancer had grown and spread to Savage's lymphatic system, and swallowing was almost impossible.
The surgery involved removal of the tumor from the esophagus and heart, plus removal of one-third of his stomach.
Posted by Stuart Browning
11 Apr 2006 @ 8:49am
Socialized Medicine in Great Britain
 These two stories speak volumes.
Doctors opt to have private operations
Dr Sarah Burnett, a consultant radiologist in London who worked in the NHS for 15 years, said she took out private medical insurance while she was employed in the state service because she was unimpressed with the level of care she witnessed first hand.
"NHS treatment is not a pleasant experience in any way - from the standard of the food, to ward cleanliness and the chance of catching MRSA," she said.
Last year Burnett was diagnosed with breast cancer, detected during a private medical screening. Within two hours of her annual check she underwent an ultrasound examination that showed multiple small tumours. An hour after that Burnett was seen by a surgeon who arranged a skin-sparing mastectomy. A few days later she was recovering from surgery.
"I was lucky enough to have exceptionally prompt treatment because I choose to pay for insurance. Under the NHS I would not have been screened until 50 for breast cancer and would not have been able to catch my cancer at such an early stage," said Burnett.
Top surgeon quits NHS over red tape
One of Britain's leading plastic surgeons has quit NHS work because he says red tape is making it impossible for doctors to do their job.
David Gault, a consultant with Great Ormond St Children's Hospital in London, resigned abruptly, saying the system no longer puts patients first. He said his frustrations had mounted as he watched money being poured into developing ever-more layers of management without considering patient welfare.
Mr Gault, a world authority on laser surgery and ear reconstruction, said: "Years ago doctors could prioritise. But now managers control the patient lists. It means everyone has to wait six months regardless of how urgent their case is."
Posted by Stuart Browning
6 Apr 2006 @ 8:50am
Environmental Extremism at University of Texas
 A professor at the University of Texas has apparently been taken out of context:
AUSTIN -- A University of Texas biology professor has been targeted by talk radio, bloggers and vitriolic e-mails _ including a death threat _ after a published report that he advocated death for most of the population as a means of saving the Earth.
But Eric Pianka said Monday his remarks about what he believes is an impending pandemic were taken out of context.
"What we really need to do is start thinking about controlling our population before it's too late," he said. "It's already too late, but we're not even thinking about it. We're just mindlessly rushing ahead breeding our brains out."
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The Gazette-Enterprise quoted Pianka as saying disease "will control the scourge of humanity. We're looking forward to a huge collapse."
Pianka said he was only trying to warn his audience that disease epidemics have happened before and will happen again if the human population growth isn't contained.
He said he believes the Earth would be better off if the human population were smaller because fewer natural resources would be consumed and humans wouldn't continue to destroy animal habitats. But he said that doesn't mean he wants most humans to die.
But Mims, chairman of the academy's environmental science section, told The Associated Press there was no mistaking Pianka's disdain for humans and desire for their elimination.
"He wishes for it. He hopes for it. He laughs about it. He jokes about it," Mims said. "It's got to happen because we are the scourge of humanity."
Posted by Stuart Browning
4 Apr 2006 @ 11:13am
Bush's Fault Again
 First global warming - then Hurricane Katrina. Does George Bush's malevolence know no bounds?
Now this:
... "Basic Instinct 2" limped into 10th place upon its arrival this weekend, grossing just $3.2 million.
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Paul Verhoeven, director of the first "Basic Instinct" (which scored $353 million worldwide) ... attributes the genre's demise to the current American political climate.
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values.
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Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fueled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?"'
Ah yes. McCarthyism.
Posted by Stuart Browning
4 Apr 2006 @ 9:04am
A Letter From Canada
We received this email this morning from Janice Stokes of Saskatchewan:
Hello On the Fence Films,
Congratulations to your company and to authors Browning and Greenberg on bringing some of the harsh realities of Canadian health care to your American audience. I live in Regina, Saskatchewan, and believe that your film represents the experiences and commonly-held views of Canadians on their public health care systems.
In the post-war growth period, publicly-funded health care in Canada was feasible. However, it is no longer affordable because of the demographics of an aging society. Health care currently consumes about 40% of the federal and provincial governments' spending, experiencing around a 7% annual increase. Health departments eat everyone else's lunch - to the detriment of other services such as public housing, highways, and education - areas that we know have an impact on safety, quality of life, and overall health. Industrialized countries are aging, in general, including the U.S., making American governments suspect to some of the budgeting issues that Canadian governments are currently facing.
In Saskatchewan (home of Tommy Douglas, father of medicare and father of Shirley Douglas, and also home to former premier Roy Romanow, coincidentally head of the 2003 federal health care commission), 70% of annual budget increases to health care go to funding wage and benefit increases for unionized health care workers. Shirley Douglas recently came to Canada and supported the public health care system alongside of the left-wing New Democratic Party leader. If it's so great, why doesn't she live here? Romanow's federal health care commission final report was a truly unamazing rubber stamp on the system, despite a fair amount of research feeding into the report that showed that, while Canadians supported a public system, they were inclined to support privately delivered services and even privately funded services if it did not sacrifice the public system to do so. You may be interested in looking at that federal government research and supporting documents if you have not done so already.
Despite the time spent in Canada pondering health care, Canadian politicians have failed citizens by never truly engaging them in a balanced review of health care. It is often painted in black and white terms, with center-left and left-wing rhetoric such as 'paying to get to the head of the line' used to brainwash Canadians into thinking that public is the only way to go.
Posted by Stuart Browning
3 Apr 2006 @ 1:54pm
Ivory Tower Stonewall
Yale University continues to stonewall and hope that everyone will forget about the "interesting" new student they've admitted.
John Fund at the Wall Street Journal is not dropping the matter:
... the university, with the support of the student government, decided to divest from Sudan, whose government condones slavery and has been accused of genocide. But when it comes to harboring a former top official of the Taliban, another murderous regime whose remnants are even now killing Americans, Yale's official silence continues--and speaks volumes.
Posted by Stuart Browning
3 Apr 2006 @ 5:17am
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