The latest from a sound-thinking Canadian (not an oxymoron after all!)
By David Warren
The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, September 11, 2005.There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. I'm tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course I am often pleased to discover things we still get right.
The Wall Street Journal Best of the Web Today
By JAMES TARANTO
On Friday, we noted that a score of Ohio University students and others had staged a "die-in" to protest the liberation of Iraq. The Post, the student newspaper, carried a letter from Marc Fencil, a senior who is also a Marine currently stationed in Iraq, that is so excellent we reprint it in full:
Cub Foods on Monday began testing a biometric payment system at its Blaine store that can access checking accounts by scanning a shopper's finger.
Called Pay By Touch, Cub executives said the technology will allow customers to purchase groceries faster and eliminate the need to carry checkbooks or debit cards.
Reading our local paper's article on the marriage rally at our Capital today, I came across this interesting quote.
"I thought the Pledge of Allegiance said 'liberty and justice for all,''' Benjamin said. "I didn't see any parentheses that said, 'except for homosexuals.'''
Who knew. I had no idea that the Pledge of Allegiance was written with marriage in mind.
From now on when the left bitches about the starving children because of Bush's tax cuts, or the starving people in the sub-Saharan African areas, or the children who are starving because of poverty I will remind them of this fact. Starving to death is peaceful.
It astounds me that the Schaivo debate is often framed in the argument that we shouldn't prevent someone from making their own decision about their life. But that's a stupid argument to use in Terri's case, because that's why we're still here after 15 years litigating the case. Unless you've forgotten, or haven't recognised yet, Terri *can't* make a decision.
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In January 1983 the Social Security Administration started to intentionally build up a large surplus in the Trust Fund to provide excess revenue to help pay for the retirement of the babyboomers in the early decades of the 21st century.
I've come to realize that the reason for most of the opposition to Social Security reform is a basic lack of understanding of what the Trust Fund is.
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