Month: July 2007

  • Socialist healthcare failing in Canada

    NY Times: Canada remains the only industrialized country that outlaws privately financed purchases of core medical services. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other politicians remain reluctant to openly propose sweeping changes even though costs for the national and provincial governments are exploding and some cancer patients are waiting months for diagnostic tests and treatment.But a…

  • 'Sicko' pictures

    It shouldn’t surprise anyone that non-elite native Cubans don’t exactly receive the same level of treatment as wealthy foreigners, but if your friends have been taken in by ‘Sicko,’ these photos might be a rude awakening.  For more, read my One Minute Case Against Socialized Healthcare

  • "Global Coldening"

    In 2005, Greenpeace rep Steven Guilbeault helpfully explained: “Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that’s what we’re dealing with.”  

  • "Human greed takes lion's share of solar energy"

    You can’t make this stuff up: enviro-wackos are now attacking human civilization for using too much solar energy. The human dominance of this natural resource is affecting other species, reducing the amount of energy available to them by almost 10 per cent, scientists report. Researchers said the findings showed humans were using “a remarkable share”…

  • Can you answer these six basic scientific questions?

    Of the six prominent UK intellectuals, only the scientists had mostly-correct answers.  If you find yourself having similar trouble, Bill Bryson’s book is a good place to start.