A rare event

It is not often that I have much good to say about the show 60 Minutes.  Far too often it has been a willing channel for slanderous hit pieces against all things conservative.

However, their opening segment of last night’s program was a welcome exception.

After a week in which the MSM disgraced itself with blatantly false and libelous accusations that conservatives in general (and Sarah Palin in particular) were responsible for influencing the shooter in the Tucson massacre, 60 Minutes actually presented a reasoned look at how the Secret Service identifies and tracks actual assassins.   The report showed how Jared Loughner’s behavior leading up to the shooting rampage almost perfectly matched the tendencies the Secret Service has found in assassins going back 50 years.  Serious mental illness is a prominent feature in all of these cases, including Loughner.

Nary a mention of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh or any other conservative; maybe the blowback the MSM received during the week finally caused one program to stick to the facts for a change…. at least for one night, anyway!

Who’da thunkit?

Of all places in the world, it appears the Sweden is showing us the way back from the brink of the socialist cliff:

In fact, contemporary Sweden is much less socialist than many Americans realize. Since the early 1990s, when it suffered a painful financial crisis, the Scandinavian country has deregulated key industries (such as airlines, telecommunications, and electricity), lowered its overall tax burden, established universal school vouchers, partially privatized its pension system, abolished certain government monopolies, sold a number of state-owned enterprises (including the parent company of Absolut vodka), and trimmed public spending. Several years ago, it eliminated gift and inheritance taxes. The World Economic Forum now ranks Sweden as the second-most competitive economy on earth, behind only Switzerland. According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (compiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation), Sweden offers greater business freedom, trade freedom, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, freedom from corruption, and property-rights protection than does the United States.     ~ from Sweden’s Quiet Revolution

Next thing you know, France will become a world superpower again!