Sweden: paradise or purgatory? —wonders Megan McArdle. I don’t know how this woman can see through this carefully constructed myth of the Swedish socialist utopia, yet manages to keep her eyes wide shut with respect to Barack Obama’s vacuous personality cult.

Oh well. My mother who works at the Swedish Embassy in Tirana, Albania, should have interesting thoughts regarding this article.

Democrats helping the “working class” — you know, the ones with the beach front properties.

61 years old and too old for heart surgery. Welcome to socialized medicine.

A victory for Hugo Chavez, this one in Paraguay.