DOES CANADA HAVE SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?

As the health care debate heats up in the United States, Canada’s health care system in coming in for a major drubbing especially from pundits and commentatorts on the right.  One TV ad has a Canadian woman claiming s.he would now be dead had she not gone to the United States for health care because [...]

SHOULD THE PRESIDENT APOLOGIZE?

T onight is the Beer Summit at the White House in which President Obama will play host to Professor Gates of Harvard and Sargeant Crowley of the Cambridge police.  Each man will drink the beer of his choice. 
But  this morning  at hSis press conference, Robert Gibbs said the Ptesident  would not be “mediatin g” any  [...]

SHOULD FAT PEOPLE BE TAXED?

New research shows medical spending averages $1400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who is normal weight.  Overall  obesity-related health spending reaches $147  b illion, double what it was a decade ago.  The higher expense reflects the costs of treating diabetes, heart disease  and other ailments far more common for the overweight.. 
Two-thirds [...]

SHOULD SEX ADS BE BANNED ON TV?

A  number of legislators are now taking aim aeet  TV advertisements for prrescription  drugs especially at the 60-second spots that have made viewers familiar with maladies such as urinary urgency and deficient eyelashes — not to mention side-effects like four-hour erections.
Representative James P. Moran, Democrat from Virginia is  sponsoring a house bill that would ban [...]

SHOULD CANADIAN BORDER SECURITY BE BEEFED UP?

American authorities are increasingly concerned about breeches of the Canadian border and drug running. As a result hundreds of new agents are being deployed along the border.  Unmanned U.S.  surveillance aircraft are being tested  for    use over the frontier, and video suveillance towers are going up around Buffalo and Detroit. 
Canada supplies large quantities of marijuana to [...]

IS VIRGINITY WORTH $30,000?

A 28-year-old woman, Evelyn Duenas, living in Spain has been looking after her mother who has Alzeimer’s.  Now the money is running out.  DesperaTE, the yo ung woman has hit upon a novel scheme to raise  funds.
Evelyn will auction off her virginity to the highest bidder.  But there are stricgt conditions.  The man chosen must [...]

SHOULD PRESIDENT OBAMA CALL THE POLICE STUPID?

According to published reports, Professor Henry Gates of Harvard returned from a trip to China and found his front door in an affluent suburb of Boston stuck.  He had to  force his way in and was seen by a white passer-by who reported a potential burgla r ice, describing the suspect as an African-American male.
Presently [...]

IS THE OBAMA HONEYMOON OVER?

Did you watch the Obama press conference last night.  He was surely on top of his brief on health care.  Nobody laid a glove on him.
But a worrisome trend is developing for the White House.  Obama is still popular personally but support for his policies is steadily dropping.  What Americans seem t be concerned  about [...]

WILL THE PRIEST ABUSE SCANDAL EVER END?

Ireland’s Justice M inister, Dermot Ahern, has just received a report on priestly sex abuse in the Archdioces of Dublin .  Mr. Ahern says the report reveals “horrific acts of depravity.”
The report covers the cases of 46 priests implicatd  in harming hundreds of children – and in almost  almost all cases being transferred to new [...]

ARE ALL TAXES BAD?

Shortly after the G8  Economic Summit in Italy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was asked about the role of taxes in a democracy. He replied “I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.”
Writing in the Globe and Mail ADEJeffrey Simpson says this “is one of the most stunning, revealing  and,  frankly ignorant statements ever made [...]